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Regular Faculty

Professor Mike Shelton

Michael Shelton, Chair

Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.S., St. Cloud State University; M.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Michael Shelton is a linguist, specializing in phonology and psycholinguistics.
Professor Mariska Bolyanatz

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 (IPA: [məˈɾiʃkə boʊliˈɑnɪts bɹɑʊn]) is a linguist whose work focuses on socially conditioned variation in speech production and perception in Spanish.

Manuela Borzone

Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A. Universidad de Málaga; M.A. Nottingham University; M.A., Ph.D University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Professor Salvador Fernández

Salvador Fernández

National Endowment for the Humanities Professorship
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
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.
Professor Alberto Lopez Martin

Alberto López Martín

Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain; B.A., M.A. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain; M.A.T. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; Ph.D. Florida State University
PhD in Spanish | Florida State University, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics. Dissertation Title: "Poéticas indignadas. Una aproximación afectiva a la poesía peninsular en el panorama de…

Non-Tenure Track Faculty

Alicia Gonzalez

Resident Senior Instructor, Spanish and French Studies
A.B., Stanford University; M.A., UCLA

Karina Rincon

Resident Instructor, Spanish and French Studies
A.B., Occidental College; M.A., UCLA

Penelope Rosenstock-Murav

Visiting Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A. University of Chicago; M1 Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle; Ph.D. Cornell University
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M. Gabriela Venegas

Visiting Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A, Universidad Católica Santiago de Guayaquil; M.A., Florida State University; P.h.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Emeriti/ae Faculty

Norman Bridge Distinguished Professor of Spanish, Spanish and French Studies, Emeritus (1984-2021)
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