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; Advisory Committee, Group Languages
B.A., Gordon College, Massachusetts; M.A., University of Illinois, Chicago; Ph.D., UCLA
Mariška Bolyanatz is a Hispanic Linguist whose work focuses on socially conditioned variation in speech production and perception in Spanish. Read her Oxy Story profile.
Robert Ellis
Norman Bridge Distinguished Professor of Spanish, Spanish and French Studies; Affiliated Faculty, Latino/a and Latin American Studies; Advisory Committee, Group Language
B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., UCLA
Robert Ellis teaches courses in Spanish and in modern Spanish literature and civilization.
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.
Felisa Guillén
Professor, Spanish and French Studies; Affiliated Faculty, Latino/a and Latin American Studies; Advisory Committee, Group Language
B.A., M.A., University of Madrid; Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara
Felisa Guillén teaches courses in Spanish and in medieval, Renaissance, and baroque Spanish literature.
Adelaida López
Professor, Spanish and French Studies; Advisory Committee, Latino/a and Latin American Studies; Advisory Committee, Group Language
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
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.
Arthur Saint-Aubin
Professor, Spanish and French Studies; Advisory Committee, Group Language
B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
In addition to the Francophone literature of West Africa and the Caribbean, Arthur Saint-Aubin teaches seminars in French literature before the 19th century with a particular interest in classical French literature of the 17th century.
Michael Shelton
Associate 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
Maria Castro
Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Spanish & French Studies
B.A, Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; M.A, George Washington University; M.A,; Ph.D University of Washington
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
