Faculty
Meet the Spanish Faculty
Jessie D. Dixon
Associate Professor of Modern Language-Spanish
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1998
Timothy J. Foster
Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures-Spanish, Campus Director, Barcelona Program
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1994
"By teaching a foreign language, I can provide students both with a knowledge of those unlike themselves and the power to speak to, understand and access areas of knowledge unavailable to
monolinguals.
Jerome MinerAssociate Professor of Spanish, Director, Language Learning Center
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1995
"My current research is in computer-assisted instruction, translation, and 20th-century Latin American narrative."
Robin RaganAssociate Professor in Modern Languages and Literature-Spanish
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2001
"I am particularly intrigued with the way 19th century medical discourse portrays illness as a natural state in women."
Fernando GomezAssistant Professor of Modern Languages-Spanish, On-Site Director, Barcelona Program
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007
"In my research I enjoy investigating the diverse ways authors have depicted the human experience over the centuries."
Julio NoriegaVisiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., Latin American and Peninsular Literature, University of Pittsburgh, 1993
"My interests lie in Spanish-American Migrant Literature within the context of colonial-postcolonial, transatlantic and cultural studies theories in Latin America as well as Indigenous Cultures of America in modernization."
Antonio PradoVisiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., University of Illinois-Urbana, 2006
"I am interested in grass roots producers that focus on positive representations of women in the popular resistance and class struggle against the Argentine capitalist State at a local level and neo-liberal globalization as a world system."
Emeritus faculty
Isabel C. Livosky
Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages
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