Lecturers

Jhonni Carr

Dr. Jhonni Carr holds a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles. She teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley. Specializing in Spanish Sociolinguistics, she investigates linguistic social justice and the power dynamics of displayed languages in the public space of California, Mexico, and Brazil. She uses interdisciplinary methods to explore these areas’ signage (linguistic landscape) and residents’ attitudes toward the presence and absence of different languages. Dr. Carr has also published work related...

Jhonni Carr receives The Arts & Humanities Teaching Award

May 15, 2025

The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is pleased to announce that Dr. Jhonni Carr has been awarded The Arts & Humanities Teaching Award in recognition of her extraordinary dedication to undergraduate student teaching.

Dr. Jhonni Carr holds a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles. She teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley. Specializing in Spanish Sociolinguistics, she investigates linguistic social justice and the power dynamics of displayed languages in the public space of...

Adam Mahler

Lecturer of Ladino email: amahl@berkeley.edu Office Hours: Tu, Th 12:45-1:45 pm via Zoom (appointments at https://calendly.com/amahler-g/berkeley-span109a-jwst102-office-hours-with-adam-mahler)

Román Luján

Lecturer 5212 Dwinelle Hall romanlujan@berkeley.edu Office Hours: M, W 1-2 pm

Victoria Robertson

Lecturer 5231 Dwinelle Hall vikaus@berkeley.edu Office Hours: W, Th 12-1 pm or by apptm.

Ana Redondo Campillos

Lecturer 5231 Dwinelle Hall redondo.campillos@berkeley.edu Office Hours: M W 11-12 pm and by appointment

Oscar Perea Rodriguez

Lecturer 5212 Dwinelle Hall opr@berkeley.edu Office Hours: M 10-11 am, F 1-2 pm

Clélia Donovan

Senior Lecturer Director of the Portuguese Language Program 5220 Dwinelle Hall cleliadonovan@berkeley.edu Office Hours: W 2:30-3:30 pm, F 9-10 am or by apptm.

Donna A. Southard

Lecturer and Assistant Director of Language Instruction. She holds a PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from UC Berkeley (2012) and a teaching degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She teaches and coordinates Spanish 3 and 4, while also occasionally teaching upper division literature courses. As a BLC Fellow, she has developed film modules for the language curriculum. Her research focuses on the interactions between graphic art and textual expression in pre-Civil War Spain. She is currently working on the Spanish translation of her dissertation, Francisco Rivero Gil: A...

Miriam Hernandez Rodriguez

Dr. Hernández-Rodríguez received her M.A. in Hispanic Studies with a concentration in applied linguistics from the University of Illinois at Chicago where she was a recipient of two teaching awards. She obtained her Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics with a designated emphasis in Second Language Acquisition from the University of California, Davis (2011). Throughout her career, she has worked with Chicago’s Heritage Language Teacher CORPS teaching, training, and evaluating graduate student teachers. She has collaborated in the design and implementation of the bilingual teacher preparation...