Regular Faculty
Hanan Elsayed, Chair
Associate Professor, Spanish and French Studies; Advisory Committee, Group Language
B.A., Montclair State University; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University; Graduate Certificate in African Studies, Rutgers University
Hanan Elsayed teaches French and Arabic languages and literatures. Read her Oxy Story profile.
Mariška Bolyanatz Brown
Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A., Gordon College, Massachusetts; M.A., University of Illinois, Chicago; Ph.D., UCLA
Mariška Bolyanatz Brown is a linguist whose work focuses on socially conditioned variation in speech production and perception in Spanish. Read her Oxy Story profile.
Salvador Fernández
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs; Professor, Spanish and French Studies; Affiliated Faculty, Latino/a and Latin American Studies; Advisory Committee, Group Language
B.A., UC Riverside; M.A., Indiana University; Ph.D., UCLA
Salvador Fernández teaches courses on Spanish and Latin American literature and civilization, as well as Mexican and Chicano/a studies. His research areas of interest are the contemporary Mexican novel and Chicano/a studies.
Susan Grayson
Professor, Spanish and French Studies; Advisory Committee, Group Language
A.B., M.A., Ph.D., UCLA; Ph.D., Wright Institute Los Angeles Attestation d’études, Université de Bordeaux
Grayson has taught the 18th- and 19th-century French novel, French feminism, women's studies, literary criticism, and French grammar and composition at all levels.
Viviana MacManus
Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A., Occidental College; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Viviana Beatriz MacManus’s research and teaching focuses on Latin American and Latinx feminist theory, literature, film, and cultural studies.
Celia Martínez-Sáez
Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A., University of Alicante; M.A., Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Celia Martínez-Sáez teaches courses on contemporary culture and literature from Spain, mass media, gender and sexuality, and film.
Her research interests include Spanish national identity in the...
Arthur Saint-Aubin
Professor, Spanish and French Studies; Affiliated Faculty, Black Studies; Advisory Committee, Group Language
B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
While his earlier teaching and research centered on the Francophone literatures of the Caribbean and West Africa, Arthur Saint-Aubin currently teaches courses in the theory and practice of translation.
Michael Shelton
Professor, Spanish and French Studies; Cognitive Science; Affiliated Faculty, Linguistics; Affiliated Faculty, Latino/a and Latin American Studies; Advisory Committee, Group Language
B.S., St. Cloud State University; M.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Michael Shelton is a linguist, specializing in phonology and psycholinguistics.
On Special Appointment
Alejandra Castellanos
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A., Cal State University, Channel Islands, M.A., University of California, Irvine; P.h.D., University of California, Irvine (in progress)
Alicia Gonzalez
Non-Tenure Track Senior Instructor, Spanish and French Studies
A.B., Stanford University; M.A., UCLA
Gloria Orozco
Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., UCLA
Karina Rincon
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Spanish and French Studies
A.B., Occidental College; M.A., UCLA
Emeriti/ae Faculty
Robert Ellis
Norman Bridge Distinguished Professor of Spanish, Spanish and French Studies; Emeritus (1984-2021)
(323) 259-2841
Robert Ellis teaches courses in Spanish and in modern Spanish literature and civilization.
Adelaida López
Professor, Spanish and French Studies, Emerita (1989-2020)
Adelaida López teaches the literature of magical realism (Borges, Cortázar, and Márquez) as well as women's literature of Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina. Her research interests include psychoanalysis.
