Spanish Studies
2016-17 General Catalog
Languages and Applied Linguistics
218 Cowell College
(831) 459-2054
http://language.ucsc.edu
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
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; second-language acquisition; language variation and change; Spanish and Romance linguistics
Amanda Smith (Literature)
Contemporary Latin American literatures; indigeneity and shamanism; ecocritical theory; geocriticism; space and mapping
Zac Zimmer (Literature)
Contemporary and comparative colonial-contemporary Latin American literatures and cultural studies; science and technology in society; politics, aesthetics and technology; new media; science fiction
Teaching Professor
Maria Victoria González-Pagani
Language teaching methodology; Spanish syntax; computer-assisted foreign language learning; Latin American cultural studies, especially women's contributions
Revised: 09/01/16
