Spanish and Spanish for Spanish Speakers
2011-12 General Catalog
Language Program
218 Cowell College
(831) 459-2054
http://language.ucsc.edu
Program Description | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Professor
Jorge Aladro Font (Literature)
Spanish mysticism, theory and historicaldevelopments of imagery in the Middle Ages to the baroque period, Renaissanceand baroque Hispanic literature, Italian ideas in the Spanish Renaissance,Cervantes
Julianne Burton-Carvajal (Literature)
Twentieth- and 21st-century Latin(o) Americanvisual media, particularly film; melodrama as a transnational form; genderand authorship; history, cultures, and representations of California, particularlythe Central Coast
Norma Klahn (Literature)
Latin American literary and cultural studies(specialization: Mexico), Chicano/Latino literature and culture from a cross-borderperspective, modernity/postmodernity, poetics and politics, genre theory (novel,poetry, autobiography), contemporary critical theories (i.e., border, ethnic,feminist, transnational/global)
Associate Professor
Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal (Literature)
Latin American and Caribbean literatures;Afro-Latin American literatures, cultures, and societies; found[n]ational narratives;Brazilian literature; literatures of Cuba and the Cuban diaspora; criticalrace theory
Juan Poblete (Literature)
Latin(o) American literatures; transnational/globalcultures (literature, radio, film); Latin(o) American cultural studies; 19th-centurystudies; the history of reading practices
Assistant Professor
Eve Zyzik
Spanish linguistics, second language acquisition,cognitive linguistics, language pedagogy and curriculum design
Senior Lecturer
Maria Victoria González-Pagani
Language teaching methodology; Spanish syntax;computer-assisted foreign language learning; Latin American cultural studies,especially women's contributions
Lecturer
Ignacio Aznar, Emeritus
Brenda Barceló
Medical and professional Spanish, languageinstruction technology, Latin American culture, Latin dance expressions, Spanish/English/Spanishtranslation and interpretation, Hispanic linguistics, Romance languages
Carlos Calierno
Bilingualism and intercultural communication;Latin American culture; history of the conquest, music, art, and cinematography
María Morris
Language learning styles and strategies,culture and technology in language training
Marta Navarro
Latin American literature, Mexican/Chicanoculture, Latina/Chicana issues
Ariel Pérez
Language acquisition and teaching methodology,computer-assisted language learning, teaching language for proficiency, oralproficiency assessment; Latin American current affairs
Alvaro Romero-Marco
Spanish literature of the 19th- and 20th-centuries;film, cultural studies
Revised: 8/13/12
