Spanish and Spanish for Heritage Speakers
2018-19 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, Emerita (Latin American and Latino Studies)
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
Eve Zyzik
Second language acquisition, heritage languages, Spanish linguistics, cognitive and usage-based theory, language pedagogy, content-based instruction
Associate Professor
Mark Amengual
Bilingualism, acoustic phonetics, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, Spanish and Romance linguistics
Assistant Professor
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
Lecturer
Ignacio Aznar, Emeritus
Byron Barahona
Language acquisition and teaching methodology, Latin American literature and culture
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
Revised: 07/15/18
