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."
Fernando GomezAssociate 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."
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."
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."
Antonio PradoAssistant 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."
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."
María Barros GarcíaVisiting Assistant Professor of Modern Languages-Spanish
Ph.D., Spanish Linguistics, University of Granada, Spain, 2011
"My ultimate goal is to apply the research findings to the design of pedagogical materials focused on the improvement of the communicative and intercultural competences of Spanish learners."
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."
Emeritus faculty
Isabel C. Livosky
Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages