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Lena Burgos Lafuente

LENA BURGOS-LAFUENTE

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 2011, New York University
 Caribbean and Latin American literatures, Poetry, Modern transatlantic literatures, Poetics and Literary Politics
lena.burgos-lafuente@stonybrook.edu


Jose Chueca

JOSÉ CHUECA

Lecturer
PhD 2020, Stony Brook University
Contemprary Latin American literature and visual studies

Aura Colón

AURA COLON

Lecturer
M.A. Universidad de Puerto Rico / Stony Brook University
Caribbean and Latin American Literature, Transatlantic Studies and Migration
aura.colon@stonybrook.edu

Zaida Corneil

ZAIDA CORNIEL

Lecturer
Ph.D. 2015, Stony Brook University
Caribbean literature and culture. Theater.
zaida.corniel@stonybrook.edu


Elena Davidiak

ELENA DAVIDIAK

Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Iowa
Linguistics, language acquisition,  bilingualism and multilingualism

Paul Firbas

PAUL FIRBAS

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 2001, Princeton University
Colonial Latin American Literature, Textual Criticism, Modernity in the Andes
paul.firbas@stonybrook.edu


Daniela Flesler

DANIELA FLESLER

Professor
Ph.D. 2001, Tulane University
Contemporary Spanish Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Migration
daniela.flesler@stonybrook.edu


Patricia Gamboa

PATRICIA MARÍA GAMBOA


Lecturer
Ph.D. 2022, University of Kentucky
19 th and 20 th centuries Peninsular Literature, Philosophy, Gender Studies, Queer
Theory, Fantastic Literature, Experiential Learning.

Fernando Loffredo

FERNANDO LOFFREDO

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2010, University of Naples Federico II
Mediterranean and Colonial Latin American Visual Culture, Sculpture and Urban Space, Art and Poetry in the Early Modern World
fernando.loffredo@stonybrook.edu

Sebastian Lopez Vergara

SEBASTIÁN LÓPEZ VERGARA

Post-Doc IDEA Fellow 
PhD 2023 , University of Washington.
Latinx and Indigenous Diaspora Studies
 

Pablo Garcia Gamez

PABLO GARCÍA GÁMEZ


Lecturer
PhD 2019, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Latin American Theater

Joseph Pierce

JOSEPH M. PIERCE

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 2013, The University of Texas at Austin
Contemporary Southern Cone and Latin American Literatures, Narrative, Autobiographical Writing, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Kinship Studies
joseph.pierce@stonybrook.edu

Luis Chavez

LUIS RODRÍGUEZ CHAVES


Lecturer
PhD 2021, Stony Brook University
20th Century Post-War Spanish Narrative

luis.rodriguezchaves@stonybrook.edu


Victor Roncero

VICTORIANO RONCERO-LÓPEZ

Professor
Ph.D. 1987, Universidad Complutense
Ph.D. 1988, University of Illinois

Picaresque Literature, Quevedian Studies, Humanism
Victoriano.Roncero-Lopez@stonybrook.edu


Lillia Ruiz Debbe

LILIA DELFINA RUIZ-DEBBE

Director of Spanish Language Program
Ph.D. 1996, University of Geneva
Applied Linguistics, Teaching Methodology


lilia.ruiz-debbe@stonybrook.edu


Javier Uriarte

JAVIER URIARTE

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
19th and 20th centuries Southern Cone and Brazilian literatures and cultures, travel writing, war and modernization, spatial imagination in Latin America, the Amazon.
Javier.Uriarte@stonybrook.edu


Katy Vernon

KATHLEEN M. VERNON

Professor
Ph.D. 1982, University of Chicago
Spanish and Latin American cinema, popular and material culture; gender studies; literary and cultural studies.
kathleen.vernon@stonybrook.edu


Áurelie Vialette

AURELIE VIALETTE

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 2009, Univerity of California, Berkeley.
19th century Iberian Cultures, Working class Culture, Catalan Studies, Gender Studies, Transatlantic Studies (Mexico).
aurelie.vialette@stonybrook.edu


AFFILIATED FACULTY

Nancy Hiestra

NANCY HIEMSTRA

Associate Professor

Dept of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Political, cultural, and feminist geography; migration, immigration, gender, race, Latin America, and feminist epistemology and methodologies.
nancy.hiemstra@stonybrook.edu 


VISITING FACULTY

Monica P Vincentini
Visiting Faculty in Portuguese.
Ph.D. State University of Campinas (São Paulo, Brazil)
Portuguese language, Applied Linguistics and Brazilian Culture.


Emeriti Faculty

LOU CHARNON-DEUTSCH

Professor
Ph.D. 1978, University of Chicago
Nineteenth-century Fiction, Spanish Women's Fiction, 19th and 20th century, Feminist Theory
lou.deutsch@stonybrook.edu

ROMÁN DE LA CAMPA

Professor
1976 Ph.D. University of Minnesota.
Literary theory and Latin American cultural studies. He is currently Professor at UPenn.
rdlcampa@sas.upenn.edu

PEDRO LASTRA

Professor
Universidad de Chile
Poesía latinoamericana y literatura colonial. He is currently director of de Anales de literatura chilena
analesdeliteratura@uc.cl

MALCOM K READ

Professor
Ph.D. 1976, University of Wales
Golden Age Literature, Marxist Criticism, Psychoanalysis
malcolm.read@stonybrook.edu


IN MEMORIAM
 

ADRIÁN PÉREZ-MELGOSA

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1995, University of Rochester
Cinema and Literature of the Americas, Cultural Studies
Link to Obituary