Faculty
Meet the Spanish Faculty
Jessie D. Dixon
Associate Professor of Modern Language-Spanish, On-Site Director, Besançon
Program
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1998
Timothy J. Foster
Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures-Spanish
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1994
"One of my greatest satisfactions as a teacher is empowering my students to speak with reasoned authority."
Jerome MinerAssociate Professor of Spanish, Director, Dorothy Johnson '39 and Richard Burkhardt '39 Language 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 of Modern Languages and Literature-Spanish, On-site Director, Barcelona Program
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
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."
Claudia FernándezAssistant Professor of Modern Languages-Spanish
Ph.D., University of Illinois-Chicago, 2005
"In particular, I investigate how adults learn the morphology and syntax (i.e., grammar) of a second language in the classroom."
Julio NoriegaVisiting Associate Professor of Modern Languages-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."
Novia PagoneVisiting Assistant Professor of Modern Languages-Spanish
Ph.D., candidate, University of Chicago
"My current research focuses on the intersections of literature and journalism in contemporary Spain."
Antonio PradoVisiting Assistant Professor of Modern Languages-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
... I find that surrounding myself with people who are as committed to service as I am helps me to live my ideals. I am Anna, Junior, and...
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