Meet our Graduate Faculty
Graduate Faculty
Carmen Benito-Vessels
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Professor Emerita, Spanish and Portuguese
2215A Jiménez Hall
College Park
MD,
20742
Laura Demaría
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Affiliate Faculty, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center
2215B Jiménez Hall
College Park
MD,
20742
Elisa Gironzetti
Associate Director for Undergraduate Academic Affairs, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Member, Maryland Language Science Center
2204 Jiménez Hall
College Park
MD,
20742
Manel Lacorte
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Professor and Program Head, Spanish and Portuguese
Affiliate Faculty, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center
Member, Maryland Language Science Center
2215D Jiménez Hall
College Park
MD,
20742
Thayse Lima
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Associate Professor and Advisor, Spanish and Portuguese
Affiliate Faculty, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center
Equity Partner for Faculty Searches, College of Arts and Humanities
2210 Jiménez Hall
College Park
MD,
20742
Ryan Long
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Director and Affiliate Faculty, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center
2215C Jiménez Hall
College Park
MD,
20742
Eyda Merediz
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Affiliate Faculty, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center
2215H Jiménez Hall
College Park
MD,
20742
José María Naharro-Calderón
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Professor Emeritus, Spanish and Portuguese
2102 Jiménez Hall
College Park
MD,
20742
Mehl Penrose
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Affiliate Associate Professor, Classics
Affiliate Associate Professor, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
3123 Jiménez Hall
College Park
MD,
20742
Juan Carlos Quintero Herencia
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Professor of Caribbean and Latin American Literature, Spanish and Portuguese
Affiliate Faculty, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center
2215IJiménez Hall
College Park
MD,
20742
Ana Patricia Rodríguez
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Affiliate Professor, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Affiliate Professor, American Studies
2215E Jiménez Hall
College Park
MD,
20742
Saúl Sosnowski
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Affiliate Faculty, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center
4202 Jiménez Hall
College Park
MD,
20742
Juan Uriagereka
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Professor, Linguistics
Member, Maryland Language Science Center
4225 Jiménez Hall
College Park
MD,
20742
Miguel Valerio
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
2215G Jiménez Hall
College Park
MD,
20742
Research Highlights
Imágenes refractadas. Las Islas Canarias a través de la lente del Nuevo Mundo.
Merediz repositions the Canary Islands as a critical yet overlooked hub in the early modern Atlantic, revealing how they shaped the ideological exchanges at the heart of colonial networks.
Author/Lead: Eyda M. MeredizNon-ARHU Contributor(s): Edited by Paula Fernández Hernández. Translated byXiomara Ñúñez Rodríguez
Merediz conducts a meticulous analysis of key texts from the early modern period, focusing on their ideological dimension through a rarely considered lens: the Canary Islands as a central node around which a series of back-and-forth negotiations within the colonial Atlantic network pivot.
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Academic Writing Demystified: Publish and Thrive
The book walks through the full arc of academic publishing, from drafting an article, chapter, or book, to practical topics
Author/Lead: Elisa GironzettiNon-ARHU Contributor(s): Salvatore Attardo, Texas A & M University, Hilal Ergül, University of Northern Iowa, Heather Jerónimo, University of Northern Iowa
Navigating the world of academic writing and publishing can be overwhelming. This book provides the antidote. Written by a team of authors who are at different stages of their careers, this book provides hands-on advice and strategies to turn academic writing from a daunting experience to a joyful journey. It gives a complete overview of the publishing process, from how to write an academic paper, chapter or book, to areas that are often overlooked, such as indexing a book, working with images and copyright, dealing with advertising and disseminating the book, ethical issues, open access, predatory publishing, and much more. The chapters are short and clearly labelled, with questions for reflection and discussion at the end of chapters, making them a handy reference for readers to dip in and out of. Demystifying aspects of academic writing, academic writers will come away with the confidence and knowledge to 'publish and thrive.'
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Avocado Dreams Remaking Salvadoran Life and Art in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area
Ana Patricia Rodríguez latest book, "Avocado Dreams Remaking Salvadoran Life and Art in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area," has just been published by The University of Arizona Press.
Author/Lead: Ana Patricia Rodríguez
For more than four generations, Salvadorans have made themselves at home in the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and have transformed the region, contributing their labor, ingenuity, and culture to the making of a thriving but highly neglected and overlooked community.
In Avocado Dreams, Ana Patricia Rodríguez draws from her own positionality as a Salvadoran transplant to examine the construction of the unique Salvadoran cultural imaginary made in the greater D.C. area. Through a careful reading of the creative works of local writers, performers, artists, and artivists, Rodríguez demonstrates how the people have remade themselves in relation to the cultural, ethnoracial, and sociolinguistic diversity of the area. She discusses how Salvadoran people have developed unique, intergenerational Salvadoreñidades, manifested in particular speech and symbolic acts, ethnoracial embodiments, and local identity formations in relation to the diverse communities, most notably Black Washingtonians, who co-inhabit the region.
This timely and relevant work not only enriches our understanding of Salvadoran diasporic experiences but also contributes significantly to broader discussions on migration, identity, and cultural production in the United States.