Faculty
Overview of Research by Current Faculty
These are the main areas of specialization of our active Faculty. Click on the faculty member's name to view his or her personal webpage. (Faculty web pages currently under construction.)
MILTON M. AZEVEDO, Ph. D., Cornell University, 1973. (Professor) Teaching and research areas: Hispanic linguistics, applied linguistics, literary linguistics, and translations issues. Publications: Books: Vozes em Branco e Preto. A representação literária da fala não-padrão (U of São Paulo Press, 2003), Portuguese: A Linguistic Introduction (Cambridge U Press, 2005), Introducción a la lingüística española (Prentice Hall, 2nd ed. 2005, 3rd ed. 2009). Articles on literary linguistics: "A representação da fala em literatura como processo mimético," Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens 36 (2005), 31-44; "A Fala Popular em D. Guidinha do Poço, by Oliveira Paiva," Revista de Letras (U of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro), Série II: 4 (2005), 69-78, ":O vernáculo na fala dos escravos em Rei Negro, de Coelho Neto," Tradições Portuguesas / Portuguese Traditions: In Honor of Claude L. Hulet. Ed. by F. C. Fagundes and I. M. F. Blayer. San Jose, CA: Portuguese Heritage Publications of California, 2007, 433-447; "An Alien Rumble: Language Simulation in Two Novels by Arturo Pérez Reverte," Hispania 90: 3 (2007), 453-461; "Point of view in Pérez-Reverte's Alatriste stories," Revista de Letras (Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal), number 6, series II (December 2007),10-25; "The Caipira Variety of Vernacular Brazilian Portuguese in Valdomiro Silveira's Leréias," Journal of the Research Institute for World Languages, number 1 (Osaka University, Japan), 3-17. Articles on translation issues: "Shadows of a Literary Dialect: For Whom the Bell Tolls in Five Romance Languages," The Hemingway Review, 20:1 (Fall 2000), 30-48; "Sobre Cinco Traduções de Grande Sertão: Veredas," Revista Portuguesa de Humanidades, 6 (2001), 23-42, "Addio, Adieu, Adiós: A Farewell to Arms in Three Romance Languages," The Hemingway Review, 25:1 (Fall 2005), 22-42; "Translation Strategies: The Fifth Column in French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish," The Hemingway Review (Fall 2007), 107-128; "Safado cavaleiro, va-t'en ben in malora: A fala do escudeiro biscainho, de don Quijote, em francês, italiano e português," Revista Portuguesa de Humanidades 12:1 (2008), 159-172; "Get thee away, knight, be gone, cavalier: English Translations of the Biscayan Squire Episode in Don Quixote de la Mancha," Hispania 92:2 (2009), 193-200.
EMILIE L. BERGMANN, Ph. D., Johns Hopkins University, 1974. (Professor) Areas of teaching and research: Gender, sexualities, and visual culture in early modern Spanish and Colonial Latin American literature; 20th C. Castilian and Catalonian women writers. Recent essays on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and/in music, film and opera, early modern representations of motherhood, and the mother-daughter relationship in twentieth-century writing by Castilian and Catalan women writers. Member of the Designated Emphasis on Women, Gender and Sexuality.
NATALIA BRIZUELA, Ph.D. New York University, 2003. (Assistant Professor) 19th and 20th century Latin American literature.
ANTHONY J. CASCARDI, Ph. D., Harvard University, 1980. (Professor) Cervantes and theatre; the Spanish Baroque; the modern novel and theory of the novel; philosophy and literature; Goya; literary theory; aesthetics.
JERRY R. CRADDOCK, Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley, 1967. (Professor Emeritus) Spanish Philology and Literature of the Middle Ages; Documents of the Spanish Southwest; Romance Philology: Philological Study of the Hispanic Southwest
IVONNE DEL VALLE, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2004. (Assistant Professor) Colonial Studies: Literature, History and Culture, especially in México. Baroque and Enlightenment in colonial settings. Relationships between religion and technology, economy, and environment. Subaltern Studies.
AGNES DIMITRIOU, Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley. Director of Summer Sessions.
DRU DOUGHERTY, Ph. D., Harvard University, 1972. (Professor) Modern Spanish Literature: Ramón del Valle-Inclán; Spanish Poetry and Poetics from Bécquer to Aleixandre; Modernity on stage, 1900 to 1936. Professor Dougherty regularly teaches courses on the Spanish avant-garde, lyric poetry, and the theater of Valle-Inclán and Lorca.
CHARLES B. FAULHABER, Ph. D., Yale University, 1969. (Professor) Medieval Spanish and Catalan Literature; Paleography and Codicology; computer-assisted research techniques. James D. Hart Director, The Bancroft Library.
MICHAEL IAROCCI, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1994. (Associate Professor) Modern Spanish Literature and Culture (18th-21st centuries); Comparative and Transatlantic Hispanic studies; literature and geopolitics; aesthetics and ideology. His most recent book is Properties of Modernity: Romantic Spain, Modern Europe and the Legacies of Empire (Vanderbildt University Press, 2006).
ANA MARIA MARTINHO, Ph.D., Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1998. (Assistant Professor) Portuguese Studies with emphasis on African literature.
FRANCINE MASIELLO, Ph. D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1975. (Professor) Spanish American Literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, especially prose and poetry in Argentina and Chile; North/South comparative studies; literary theory, theories of translation; gender studies.
IGNACIO NAVARRETE, Ph. D., Indiana University, 1985. (Associate Professor) Spanish Golden Age Literature, especially poetry, poetics, and historiography; Literary Theory. My research has focused on Italo-Iberian cultural relations, and on a series of phenomena (Petrarchism, courtiership, narrative theory) that can be seen as metalanguages of an early modern culture that cut across national boundaries. That said, I am also interested in specifically Iberian literary and cultural issues: lyric poetry and poetics (special attention to Garcilaso, Fray Luis de León, Herrera, and Góngora, and topics such as visualization, eroticism, metaphor); national identity and transnational empire (translation and transculturation); print culture and the rise of the novel (hagiography, historiography, verisimilitude theory); etc. I am particularly interested in all sorts of formalist approaches to both poetry and narrative.
JULIO RAMOS, Ph. D., Princeton University, 1986. Nineteenth and twentieth-century Spanish American literatures, and cultural theory. Regularly teaches classes on Latin American film.
CANDACE SLATER, Ph. D., Stanford University, 1975. (Professor) Research interests: Brazilian Literature and Culture; Latin American folk and popular traditions.
ESTELLE TARICA, Ph. D., Cornell University, 2000. (Associate Professor) Twentieth-century Latin American literature and culture, especially Mexico and the Andes; French Caribbean literature; post-colonial theories.
Professors Emeriti
ARTHUR L-F ASKINS, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Portuguese Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; Spanish Ballad of the 15th and 16th Centuries; Techniques of Literary Scholarship.
JERRY CRADDOCK, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Historical Romance Linguistics
LOUIS A. MURILLO, Ph.D., Harvard University. Spanish Golden Age prose.
JOHN H. R. POLT, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Modern Spanish literature.
JOSÉ RABASA, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz. Colonial Spanish American Literature