Professors
Faculty
LENA BURGOS-LAFUENTE
Associate Professor
Ph.D. 2011, New York University
Modern and Contemporary Caribbean and Latin American literatures, Poetry, Modern transatlantic
literatures, Poetics and Literary Politics
lena.burgos-lafuente@stonybrook.edu
AURA COLON
Lecturer M.A. Universidad de Puerto Rico / Stony Brook University
Caribbean and Latin American Literature, Transatlantic Studies, Migration
aura.colon@stonybrook.edu
ZAIDA CORNIEL
Lecturer
Ph.D. 2015, Stony Brook University
Caribbean literature and culture. Theater.
zaida.corniel@stonybrook.edu
ELENA DAVIDIAK
Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Iowa
Spanish Linguistics, language acquisition, multilingualism, sociolinguistics, child
language, translation and interpretation
Elena.Davidiak@stonybrook.edu
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
Professor
Ph.D. 2001, Tulane University
Contemporary Spanish Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Migration
daniela.flesler@stonybrook.edu
FERNANDO LOFFREDO
Assistant ProfessorPh.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
ADRIÁN PÉREZ-MELGOSA
Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1995, University of Rochester
Cinema and Literature of the Americas, Cultural Studies
adrian.perezmelgosa@stonybrook.edu
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
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
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
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
KATHLEEN M. VERNON
Professor and Chair
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.edu
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
VISITING FACULTY
MONICA PANIGASSI VICENTINI
Visiting Faculty in Portuguese
Ph.D. State University of Campinas (São Paulo, Brazil)
Portuguese language, Applied Linguistics and Brazilian Culture
monica.panigassivicentini@stonybrook.edu
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