Languages, Literatures and Cultures Faculty
The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures is home to highly renowned faculty dedicated to advancing scholarship and inspiring students through global perspectives. You can view their faculty profiles below and explore their recent publications.
| Chair | 
|   Gregory HelmickAssociate Professor of Spanish
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| Full-Time Faculty | 
|   Johana BarreroAssociate Instructor of Spanish and Language Coordinator
                                                                                                                       María Ángeles Fernández CifuentesAssociate Professor of Spanish
                                                                                                                       Andrea Gaytán CuestaAssistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies
                                                                                                                       Patricia GeeseyProfessor of French
                                                                                                                       Nuria Ibáñez QuintanaProfessor of Spanish
                                                                                                                       Constanza López BaqueroAssociate Professor of Spanish
                                                                                                                       Clayton McCarlProfessor of Spanish and Digital Humanities
                                                                                                                       Agnès SchaffauserAssistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
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| Part-Time Faculty | 
|   Marina Alonso de GalloPart-Time Professor of Spanish
                                                                                                                       Natalie AvilésPart-Time Professor of Spanish
                                                                                                                       Martha GarcíaPart-Time Professor of Spanish
                                                                                                                       Daniel HollowayPart-Time Professor of German
                                                                                                                       Mei Lian LuPart-Time Professor of Chinese
                                                                                                                       Hortensia SalcedoPart-Time Professor of Spanish
                                                                                                                       Joanne TaylorPart-Time Professor of French
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| Emeritus Faculty | 
|   Jorge FeblesProfessor Emeritus of Spanish
                                                                                                                       Shira Schwam-BairdProfessor of Emeritus of French
                                                                                                                       Renée ScottProfessor Emeritus of Spanish
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Recent Faculty Publications
Fernández Cifuentes, Ángeles. “Calderón reloaded: El gran mercado del mundo para niños.” Comedia Performance, vol.16, no. 1, 2019, pp. 14-27.
Helmick, Gregory. "The Specular Continuity of Antonio Benítez Rojo’s Mujer en traje de batalla in the Post- Exile of Roberto G. Fernández’s El príncipe y la bella cubana." Nachexil/Post-Exile, edited by Bettina Bannasch and Katja Sarkowsky. De Gruyter, 2020, pp. 354-369, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110688030.
Ibáñez Quintana, Nuria. “Expresiones de la memoria: creación dramática en la clase como puente entre pasado, presente y futuro”. Contextos. Estudios de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, vol. 49, 2021, http://revistas.umce.cl/index.php/contextos/article/view/1656.
———. "En busca de la utopía desde el espacio de la memoria. Música para expresar lo indecible en La armonía del silencio de Lola Blasco." Escenarios de utopía, distopia y miopía en el teatro contemporáneo de España del siglo XXI, edited by Albert David Hitchcook and Candyce Crew Leonard. University of Southern Indiana, 2019, pp. 233-244.
López Baquero, Constanza. Reterritorializing the Spaces of Violence in Colombia: Collective Efforts. Routledge, 2024.
“Wounds and Monsters: Representations of Gender-Based Violence and Feminicide in the Aftermath of the Colombian Armed Conflict.” Human Rights in Colombian Literature & Cultural Production: Embodied Enactments, edited by Kevin Guerrieri and Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo. Routledge, 2022.
McCarl, Clayton. “'Enemigos encubiertos': A Colonial Latin American Perspective on the Buccaneer Era in the Writings of Francisco de Seyxas y Lovera.” Relating Continents. Coloniality and Global Encounters in Romance Literary and Cultural History, edited by Romana Radlwimmer, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2023, pp. 49–70, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110796308-003.
McCarl, Clayton, and Lindsay Van Tine. “Colonial Bibliography and the Indigenous Text.” Latin American Literature in Transition: Pre-1491–1800, edited by Amber Brian and Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. 258–272.
Schaffauser, Agnès. “The Wretched of the Sea: Clandestine Immigration and Graphic Artistry in Bessora and Barroux’s Alpha: Abidjan to Gare du Nord.” Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, special issue on “Migration in 21st-Century Documentary Comics,” vol. 5, no. 1, 2021, pp. 100-118.
———, director. Salim Bachi, L’Harmattan, 2019. Collection Autour des écrivains maghrébins.