Spanish and Spanish for Heritage Speakers
2015-16 General Catalog
Languages and Applied Linguistics
218 Cowell College
(831) 459-2054
http://language.ucsc.edu
Program Statement | Spanish Course Descriptions | Spanish for Heritage Speakers Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Professor
Jorge Aladro Font (Literature)
Spanish mysticism, theory and historical developments of imagery in the Middle Ages to the baroque period, Renaissance and baroque Hispanic literature, Italian ideas in the Spanish Renaissance, Cervantes
Julianne Burton-Carvajal, Emerita (Literature)
Norma Klahn, Emerita (Literature)
Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Latin American and Caribbean literatures; Afro-Latin American literatuers, cultures, and societies; found[n]ational narratives; Brazilian literature; literatuers of Cuba and the Cuban diaspora, cinema and social change in Cuba; critical race theory, queer literature and cinema in Latin America
Juan Poblete (Literature)
Latin(o) American literatures; transnational/global cultures (literature, radio, film); Latin(o) American cultural studies; 19th-century studies; the history of reading practices
Associate Professor
Eve Zyzik
Second language acquisition, heritage languages, Spanish linguistics, cognitive and usage-based theory, language pedagogy, content-based instruction
Assistant Professor
Mark Amengual
Bilingualism and language contact; acoustic phonetics; sociophonetics; L2 acquisition; language variation and change; Spanish and Romance linguistics
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
Byron Barahona
Language acquisition and teaching methodology, Latin American literature and culture
Carlos Calierno
Intercultural communication and languages; Latin American culture; history of the conquest, music, art, and cinematography
Marta Navarro
Spanish language pedagogy for heritage speakers and non-native speakers; theater; Mexican popular culture
Ariel Pérez
Language acquisition and teaching methodology, computer-assisted language learning, teaching language for proficiency, oral proficiency assessment; Latin American current affairs
Alvaro Romero-Marco
Spanish literature of the 19th- and 20th-centuries; film, cultural studies
Revised: 09/01/15
