School of International Letters and Cultures at ASU

The Spanish faculty of the School of International Letters and Cultures consists of 12 full-time members. These include Twelve professors, most of whom are regularly involved in graduate teaching, and four lecturers. The strengths of the faculty include several periods and genres of Spanish and Latin American literature (including Mexican American literature and culture).

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PROFESSORS

Acereda, Alberto, Professor (Ph.D. University of Georgia).

Specialization: Latin American Literature, Spanish Peninsular Literature, Poetry, Philological Studies, Textual Criticism, Transatlantic Studies.
Personal WWW Page: http://www.albertoacereda.com
Phone: 480-965-4582
e-mail: acereda@asu.edu

Cashman, Holly, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor).

Specialization: Spanish Sociolinguistics, Spanish of the Southwest, Conversation Analysis.
Phone: 480-965-4565
e-mail: holly.cashman@asu.edu

Foster, David William, Regents' Professor (Ph.D. University of Washington)

Specialization: Latin American narrative, theater, and film; Brazilian culture; urban culture in Latin America, with emphasis on issues of gender construction and sexual identity; Jewish culture; Hispanic bibliography; Spanish linguistics.
Personal WWW Page: www.public.asu.edu/~atdwf/
Phone: 480-965-3752
e-mail: david.foster@asu.edu

García-Fernández, Carmen, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Georgetown University)

Specialization: Spanish pragmatics, conversational analysis, cross cultural communication and foreign language teaching methodology.
Phone :480-727-6587
e-mail: carmen.garcia@asu.edu

García-Fernández, Carlos Javier, Professor (Ph.D. University of California at Davis)

Specialization: 19th and 20-century Spanish narrative, Spanish film studies.
Phone: 480-965-9491
e-mail: carlos.javier@asu.edu

Hernández-Gutiérrez, Manuel de Jesús, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Stanford University)

Specialization: Mexican American literature (novel, short story, theater, essay), Chicano/a narrative, Chicana writing and feminist theory, Chicano/a literary criticism, U.S. Latina/o literature (Neorican, Cuban American, Nica-American), Pan-Latino theory, postcolonial theory.
Phone: 480-965-9573
e-mail: Manuel.Hernandez@asu.edu

Keller, Gary D., Regents' Professor (Ph.D. Columbia University)

Specialization: Chicano Studies, Mexican literature, Latin American film, bilingual education, Spanish linguistics, educational evaluation and assessment, curriculum development through the use of high technology, the study of Hispanics and American Indians in film and television.
Phone: 480-965-3990
e-mail: gary.keller@asu.edu

Lafford, Barbara, Professor (Ph.D. Cornell University)

Specialization: Spanish linguistics, second language acquisition, applied linguistics, computer assisted language learning, sociolinguistics, Hispano-American dialectology.
Phone: 480-965-4648
e-mail: blafford@asu.edu

Sánchez, Ángel, Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Minnesota)

Specialization: Golden Age literature, Picaresque.
Phone: 480-965-4576
e-mail: angel.sanchez@asu.edu

Tompkins, Cynthia Margarita, Associate Professor ( Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University )

Specialization: Contemporary Latin American Women Writers, Feminism and Cultural Production. Critical Theory: Postmodernism, Postcoloniality, Subalternity, Latinamericanism.
Personal WWW Page: http://www.public.asu.edu/~idcmt
Phone: 480-965-6446
e-mail: cynthia.tompkins@asu.edu

Urioste, Carmen de, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Arizona State University)

Specialization: Spanish literature: 20th-century Spanish fiction, popular studies, cultural studies, literary theory.
Personal WWW Page: www.public.asu.edu/~sev1987/
Phone: 480-965-3840
e-mail: carmen.urioste@asu.edu

Volek, Emil, Professor (Ph.D. Charles University, Prague)

Specialization: 20th-century Latin American narrative, poetry and theater; Caribbean, Central-American, and Mexican literature; literary theory; avant-garde and postmodern literature.
Phone: 480-965-7211
e-mail: emil.volek@asu.edu

LECTURERS & INSTRUCTORS

Elorrieta, Jabier, Spanish Lecturer (Ph.D.)

Coordinator, Upper Division Spanish Program.
Phone: 480-727-0236
e-mail: jabier@asu.edu

Martinez, Jeanne, Spanish Lecturer (Ph.D. Indiana University, Bloomington)

Specialization: Applied Linguistics
Phone: 480-965-4645
e-mail: jeanne.martinez@asu.edu

Scales, Carmen, Spanish Lecturer (M.A. Arizona State University)

Phone: 480-727-0336
e-mail: carmen.scales@asu.edu

Walton-Ramírez, Anne, Spanish Lecturer (M.A. Arizona State University)

Specialization: Translation
Phone: 480-965-0378
e-mail: AnneWR@asu.edu