Faculty

Natalia Brizuela

Natalia's work focuses on photography, film and contemporary art, critical theory and aesthetics of both Spanish America and Brazil. She is the author of two books on photography. The first, Fotografia e Império. Paisagens para um Brasil Moderno (Cia das Letras, 2012) is a study of 19th Century photography in Brasil in its relationship to modern state formation, nationalism, modernization and race. The second, ...

Tanya Varela

Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

B.A. in Spanish & Political Science from UC Davis

M.A. in Spanish Literature from the New York University in Spain Program.

Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages & Literatures from UC Berkeley.

Academic interests: Spanish language instruction, Modern Latin American novel and short story, Latin-American avant-garde, women writers, gender representation in literature and film, cultural studies, instructional technology, translation.

Recent...

Ana Redondo Campillos

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

Román Luján

Lecturer 5212 Dwinelle Hall romanlujan@berkeley.edu Office Hours: T, Th 12-1 pm, or by appointment

Ivonne del Valle

Associate Professor of Colonial Studies. She received her Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 2004, and before returning to the Bay Area in 2009, she taught at the University of Michigan. Her research and teaching make connections between the past and the present which try to show the relevance of the colonial period for an understanding of contemporary times. She was co-director of the Berkeley research group “Mexico and the Rule of Law.” She has written a book and a series of articles on the Jesuits (José de Acosta and Loyola, and Jesuits in the northern borderlands of New Spain) as a...

Oscar Perea Rodriguez

Lecturer 5212 Dwinelle Hall opr@berkeley.edu Office Hours: M 10-11, W 11-12 pm

Jose Rabasa

Professor Emeritus jrabasa@berkeley.edu

Arthur Askins

Professor Emeritus alfa@berkeley.edu

Candace Slater

Ph. D., Stanford University, 1975. (Professor) Research interests: Brazilian Literature and Culture; Latin American folk and popular traditions.

Julio Ramos

Professor Emeritus ramosj@berkeley.edu