Edward F. Fischer, Director

Edward F. Fischer is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University. His work focuses on issues of political economy, identity politics, and globalization; he has conducted long-term field work with the Maya of Guatemala and in Germany. His publications include Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala (1996), Cultural Logics and Global Economies: Maya Identity in Thought and Practice (2001), Tecpán Guatemala: A Modern Maya Town in Local and Global Context (2002, with Carol Hendrickson), Broccoli and Desire: Global Connections and Maya Struggles in Postwar Guatemala (2006, with Peter Benson). Most recently he has edited Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neoliberal State in Latin America (2008). His current research focuses on the interplay of moral values and economic rationalities.
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    Helena Simonett, Associate Director

Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies and Adjunct at the Blair School of Music, has taken on an appointment as Associate Director of CLAS. Helena will oversee our FLAS, Graduate Certificate, language evaluation, and summer grants programs. Originally from Switzerland, Helena received her PhD in Ethnomusicology from UCLA. Her research on Mexican popular music and its transnational diffusion resulted in the publication of a number of articles and two books, Banda: Mexican Musical Life across Borders and En Sinaloa nací: Historia de la música de banda. She is currently doing research on the musical life of an indigenous community in Sinaloa, northwestern Mexico.
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    Frank Robinson, Associate Director for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies

Frank Robinson is a historian of Latin America and the Caribbean with interests in twentieth century political and social movements, nationalism and populism, and Caribbean Diaspora communities. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University, with a primary focus on the history of the Caribbean. At the graduate level at the University of Florida (M.A.) and at Auburn University (Ph.D.), he specialized in African Area Studies and Latin American history. Professor Robinson teaches courses in the Atlantic World and Latin American and Caribbean history that cover both the colonial and national periods including the history of the Iberian Atlantic empires, modern Latin America, Central America, and the contemporary Caribbean.
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    Avery Dickins de Girón, Assistant Director

Avery earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Vanderbilt in 2008. Her research examines international development programs in Q’eqchi’ Maya villages as well as the security guard industry in Guatemala. She teaches VISAGE Guatemala, and her duties at CLAS include grant writing, reporting, budget oversight and faculty relations. She enjoys swimming, cooking, and spending time with her husband Carlos and daughter Lucia.
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    Norma Antillón, Program Manager

Originally from Guatemala, she worked at the Instituto de Nutrición de Centro América y Panamá (INCAP) for five years; she married Oscar Pineda who worked at INCAP and together came to Vanderbilt where he pursued a Ph.D. in biochemistry. During this time Norma worked at the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Medical School. Went back to Guatemala, and 22 years later she decided to return to Nashville. She applied for a job at Vanderbilt and was hired to work for International Programs, mainly for the Center for Latin American Studies. In that position, she has been able to apply her native Spanish language and her knowledge of Latin American culture. Norma loves working with students, staff and faculty. She enjoys the university environment, its challenges, and the opportunity to participate of many interesting projects, visiting speakers, etc. Norma has been fortunate to work for several directors; they are outstanding scholars but also wonderful human beings that care for people. Norma is very thankful for her three grown children and ten grandchildren who keep her in young spirit.
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    Paula Covington, Bilbiographer

    Claire González, Outreach Coordinator

Claire received her BA in French and Spanish from Earlham College and her MEd from David Lipscomb University. A Spanish and French teacher for 16 years, as well as native Nashvillian, Claire has travelled extensively in Spain, Mexico, and throughout Latin America. She will be organizing the teacher workshops and summer institutes offered by CLAS as well as strengthening business and community outreach. Claire will also edit the newsletter and website. Claire enjoys hiking, reading, and laughing with her husband José and children Eduardo and Ana Claire.
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BETH CONKLIN 
Associate Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D., University of California). Medical anthropology, sociocultural anthropology.

ARTHUR A. DEMAREST 
Ingram Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D., Harvard). Archaeology and ethno-history of Latin America (Inca, Aztec, Maya, Olmec).

TOM D. DILLEHAY 
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin). Archaeology: Change and development of prehistoric complex societies, particularly Peru and Chile. South America, prehistory, colonialism, and ethnography. Ethnohistory and ethnography: South America.

MARKUS EBERL   
Associate Professor of Anthropology.  (PhD. Tulane). Communities, settlement patterns and elite commoner relations in ancient Maya society, and Maya epigraphy.

EDWARD F. FISCHER 
Director for the Center for Latin American Studies, Professor of Anthropology, (PhD. 1996, Tulane).   Mayan ethnic movements,   the political economy of Guatemala, and the impacts of globalization.  He is the author of Cultural Logics and Global Economies, Broccoli and Desire, as well as a number of edited volumes and journal articles. 

WILLIAM R. FOWLER, Jr.
Associate Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D., Calgary). Mesoamerican archaeology and ethnohistory.

LESLEY GILL     
Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D. Columbia University). Cultural anthropology; political violence, human rights, global economic restructuring, the state, transformations in class, gender, and ethnic relations in Bolivia, Columbia, and elsewhere in Latin America.  

THOMAS A. GREGOR 
Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D., Columbia). Ethnology, native peoples of Brazil, psychological anthropology, conflict and violence.

JOHN W. JANUSEK 
Associate Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D., University of Chicago). Development of complex societies in the South American Andes.

SEAN MITCHELL      
Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D., University of Chicago).  Ethnicity, inequality, citizenship, violence, human-nature relations, science studies, Brazil, Peru.

SERGIO F. ROMERO 
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, (Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, 2006), Language variation and change, sociolinguistics, the interface between language and culture, Mayan languages and Nahuatl.

NORBERT O. ROSS               
Associate Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D., University of Freiburg, Germany). Maya groups in Chiapas, Yucatán (Mexico) and Petén (Guatemala). Issues of culture and cognition, children's acquisition of cultural knowledge, cultural change.

MAREIKE SATTLER             
(M.A. University of Hamburg, University of Bonn) Geographic representations from the perspective of historical linguistics.

MIRIAM SHAKOW             
Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D. Harvard). Sociocultural anthropology; state transformations in Bolivia, and connections between indigenous middle class identities and large-scale political change; teenagers and youth as objects of fear in Latin America.

TIFFINY A. TUNG                  
Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Ph. D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). Bioarchaeology; Peruvian Andes; skeletal biology and paleopathology; health consequences of imperialism; body as social artifact.

STEVEN A. WERNKE 
Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Madison). Archaeology and ethnohistory of the Andean region; colonialism and culture change, missionary encounters, community and land-use organization, GIS and spatial analysis.

LAWRENCE BORDEN 
Associate Professor of Trombone, Blair School of Music (B.M., Northwestern) Additional studies: Indiana University. Student of Frank Crisafulli, Ardash Marderosian, Louis van Haney, and Arnold Jacobs. Principal trombone: Xalapa Symphony Orchestra (Mexico), 1976-81; Philharmonic Orchestra of the University of Mexico, 1981/82; Nashville Symphony Orchestra since 1982. Performances with New York Philharmonic, 1981, 1983. Soloist and clinician throughout the Southeast and Mexico. Member of faculty: University of Veracruz, 1978-81; Sewanee Summer Music Center, 1985/86; Governor's School for the Arts, 1986/87. Compositions premiered in 1985, 1987, and 1988. Member of Blair Brass Quintet. Blair School since 1988.

JOHN JOHNS
Associate Professor of Guitar, Blair School of Music (Peabody Conservatory of Music). Brazilian guitar. Brazilian guitar music of Villa-Lobos.

HELENA SIMONETT
Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies  (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles). Associate Director, Center for Latin American Studies,  Latin American Music, Banda Music, Mexico. The current field project focuses on the role of religious ceremonies and music to defy the ongoing mestizoization of the Indian way of life, in particular, the national incorporation of the indigenous into modern Mexico.

ANA REGINA ANDRADE
Senior Lecturer in Economics, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University & Research Associate, Center for Evaluation and Program Improvement, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University). Labor economics, econometrics; Latin American economic development.

ANDREA MANESCHI
Professor of Economics (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins). International trade and economic development.

SUHAS KETKAR      
Professor of Economics (Ph.D., Vanderbilt).  Money & finance, applied econometrics.

BEN ZISSIMOS
Assistant Professor of Economics, (Ph.D., Warwick University). Issues of international economic policy conflict and cooperation, nature of these conflicts and possible solutions.

ISLEIDE ZISSIMOS
Lecturer in Latin American Studies and in Economics (Ph.D. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro). Productive synergies of small lingerie firms around Rio.

ROBERT BARSKY 
Professor, Dept. of English; French and Italian; Comparative Literature (Ph.D. McGill, post-doc Université libre de Bruxelles). Field work and research for books and papers on Convention refugees, homelessness in Quebec and incarcerated migrants in the South. Courses on Language theory, postcolonial literature and displacement.

VERA M. KUTZINSKI 
 Martha Rivers Ingram Professor, Department of English (Ph.D., Yale University; M.A., Yale) Vera Kutzinski is a literary scholar and cultural historian whose research has focused on the U.S., the Caribbean, and Latin America during the 19th and 20th centuries. Her current research focuses on Latin American translations of 20th century U.S. poetry.

LORRAINE M. LOPEZ
Assistant Professor of English (Ph.D., University of Georgia; M.A., University of Georgia, B.A. California State University, Northridge). Latino literature.

IFEOMA NWANKWO  
Associate Professor of English (Ph.D., Duke).  Nineteenth and twentieth century US African American and Caribbean literature and culture.

RICHARD BLACKETT
Andrew Jackson Professor of History (Manchester) US and Caribbean history, particularly of the transatlantic movements that worked to abolish slavery.

CELSO CASTILHO 
Research Assistant Professor of History (Ph.D. U.C. Berkeley; M.A. in Latin American Studies U.C.L.A). Modern Latin America, with emphasis on Brazil; comparative slavery and abolitionism; nineteenth-century political and social history.

MARK DALHOUSE 
Director, Office of Active Citizenship and Service, Department of History, Student Life (Ph.D., Miami University; M.A. Indiana State University). Directs Vanderbilt Internship Experience in Washington (VIEW) program, outreach activities. Service/outreach in Guatemala.

MARSHALL C. EAKIN
Professor of History; Executive Director, Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles). Nineteenth- and twentieth- century Latin America, Brazil, and Central America.

JANE G. LANDERS 
Associate Professor of History (Ph.D., Florida). Latin American colonial history, Atlantic World history, the history of gender in colonial Latin America, and comparative slavery and resistance. Her research focuses on the colonial circum-Caribbean and on the ethnohistory of Africans in colonial Latin America.

W. FRANK ROBINSON
Assistant Professor of History and Associate Director, CLAS, (Ph.D., Auburn University).  Colonial and modern Latin America and the Caribbean, twentieth century social and political movements, nationalism and populism.

DAVID WASSERSTEIN
Professor of History and Jewish Studies (D. Phil., Oxford University). Islam in Iberia (al-Andalus in Arabic), with a particular emphasis on the 7th-12th centuries, and interest in minorities (Jews and Christians), language, inter-cultural relations, institutions, textual history, and numismatics.

EDWARD WRIGHT-RIOS
Assistant Professor of History (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2004). Specializes in the cultural history of Modern Mexico. He is almost finished with Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism: Vision, Shrine, and Society in Oaxaca, 1887-1934, a book tracing priestly efforts to reform popular religious practice, two female-led visionary movements, and the complexities of Catholic resurgence during this period.

PAULA COVINGTON 
Latin American Bibliographer, Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies (M.L.S., Peabody; M.A. History, Vanderbilt). 19th-century travel to Mexico and Latin America. Recent travel and projects: Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala, Cuba. Interdisciplinary research methods.

W. FRANK ROBINSON
Assistant Professor of History and Associate Director, CLAS, (Ph.D., Auburn University).  Colonial and modern Latin America and the Caribbean, twentieth century social and political movements, nationalism and populism.

BEVERLY L. MORAN
Professor of Law; Professor of Sociology (LL.M., New York University; J.D., University of Pennsylvania). Law and development, interdisciplinary scholarship and comparative law.

YOLANDA REDERO
Assistant Professor of the Practice of Law (J.D., University of Minnesota).

JEFFREY SCHOENBLUM
Centennial Professor of Law, Law School (J.D., Johns Hopkins University). International estate taxation, wealth transfer.

DAVID A. OWENS
Professor of Management (Clinical), Owen Graduate School of Management. (Ph.D., Stanford University; M.S., Stanford University).

HERMANO ROCHA
Director, Vanderbilt Executive Development Institute, Owen Graduate School of Management (M.B.A., Vanderbilt University; B.A., Chemical Engineering, Universidade Mackenzie, São Paulo, Brazil). Native Brazilian; current interests: Brazil and Spanish America. 

DAVID DICKINSON
Professor of Education (Ed.D., Harvard Graduate School of Education).  Early literacy development, professional development.

JIM FRASER 
Associate Professor of Human and Organizational Development (Ph.D. University of Georgia). Urban environment, expressions of community, social inequality, and poverty.

STEPHEN P. HEYNEMAN 
Professor of International Education Policy, Dept. of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations, Peabody College (Ph.D., University of Chicago). Has led Education Sector policy and operations for 23 years. Among the 60 countries of education policy work experience include Brazil, El Salvador, Chile, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Guatemala.

ROBERT T. JIMENEZ
Professor of Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Peabody College (Ph.D., 1992, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Academic achievement of Latino students and their transnational language and literacy practices. 

JONATHAN T. HISKEY
Associate Professor of Political Science, (Ph.D. 1999, University of Pittsburgh). Political economy of local development in Mexico, development implications of political transitions taking place across Latin America. Currently completing a book manuscript on the development consequences of Mexico’s recent political transition. EFREN PEREZ
Assistant Professor of Political Science.

MITCHELL A. SELIGSON 
Centennial Professor of Political Science (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh); Fellow, Center for the Americas and Director Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP). Democratization, Latin American politics, political economy of development, peasant politics, land tenure.

ELIZABETH ZECHMEISTER       
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Assistant Director of LAPOP (Ph.D. Duke University). Comparative political participation and voting behavior in Mexico, Peru and throughout Latin America; the significance of "left" and "right" in Latin America; the use of experiments in political science research.

FERNANDO F. SEGOVIA
Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, Divinity School (Ph.D. Notre Dame; B.A., Pontifical College Josephinum). Latin American and Latino/a religion and theology. Postcolonial and Minority Studies.

EDSEL DANIEL 
Research Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University; M.Sc., Hull University; Industrial Engineering, New Mexico State University). Has worked with Mitchell Seligson (Vanderbilt) in the presentation of findings, LAPOP (Latin American Public Opinion Project) and Procesos joint effort on Support for Democracy in Central America, Mexico, Colombia, and Costa Rica.

ADRIANA BIALOSTOZKY        
Instructor, Division of General Pediatrics, Pediatric Acute Care Clinic (M.D., UNAM)

HOLLY CASSELL    
Senior Program Manager, Institute for Global Health

CAROL ETHERINGTON
Assistant Professor, Nursing School (M.S.N.) Past President, USA Board of Doctors Without Borders. Etherington joined Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in 1996. Her focus is psychosocial care in war-torn and natural disaster situations. She has conducted assessment missions and devised training programs for MSF projects in Bosnia, Poland, Angola, Sierra Leone, Tajikistan, Kosovo, and Honduras. Currently, Etherington is an Assistant Professor in Community Health at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing in Nashville, where she has served on faculty since 1981. She graduated with a bachelor degree from Catherine Spalding College, holds a Masters Degree of Science in Nursing from Vanderbilt University and received an honorary doctorate from University of New Hampshire in 2004. Etherington was awarded the prestigious Florence Nightingale medal by International Red Cross in 1997. Serving on the Board of Directors of MSF USA since 1998, she became the President in 2002. Etherington served two terms on the Board, with the last one ending June 2004.

PAUL HAIN  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; Director of Pediatric Hospitalist Program (M.D., Vanderbilt, B.S. Rice).

ELIZABETH HEITMAN
Associate Professor of Medical Ethics

PETER R. MARTIN
Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology; Director, Addiction Center; Director, Division of Addiction Medicine; Director, Institute for Coffee Studies, Medical School (M.D., McGill, M.Sc, Toronto).

DANIEL MASYS
Professor and Chair, Biomedical Informatics; Director, Caribbean Central and South American network for HIV research THOMAS MORGAN  
Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics.

LINDA D. NORMAN
Professor of Nursing; Senior Associate Dean for Academics, School of Nursing (D.S.N., University of Alabama, Birmingham; M.S.N., University of Virginia; B.S.N., University of Virginia.) Developing intercultural competence in a multicultural healthcare workforce.

CYNTHIA PASCHAL 
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering (Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University). MRI techniques; service-learning courses in Guatemala.

GINA M. PEREZ
Research Projects Manager, Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR), Vanderbilt University Medical Center. (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University; B.S., Middle Tennessee State University). Current interests: Immigrant community in health care and clinical research, from Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern European populations.

MARIO A. ROJAS, M.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Neonatology, Vanderbilt Medical School (MD - School of Medicine, Bogotá, Colombia, Juan N. Corpas). Global health research. Helped organize the first randomized, controlled multi-center studies aimed at improving the care of sick newborns in Colombia.

ALFREDO VERGARA 
Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Deputy Director of the Institute for Global Health.

STEN VERMUND
Director, VU Institute for Global Health; Amos Christie Chair in Global Health; Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Medicine. Medical School (M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Ph.D., Columbia University). As director of the Institute for Global Health, Vermund's work will go beyond the Medical Center as he leads trans-institutional effort to address international health concerns. He will do collaborative research, teaching and service activities in the developing world, expanding opportunities for everyone in the Vanderbilt-Meharry community who cares about diseases of poverty, tropical climes and health disparities.

PETER F. WRIGHT
Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics; Professor of Microbiology and Immunology; Professor of Pathology; Director, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Department of Pediatrics (M.D., Harvard; Post Graduate training: Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston Patient Care). Emphasis: Viral and bacterial infections, new vaccines, pediatric HIV infections, international medicine and immunodeficiency status. AIDS research in Haiti; Co-principal investigator of the Vanderbilt HIV Vaccine Program

ELLEN WRIGHT CLAYTON
Rosalind E. Franklin Professor of Genetics and Health Policy, Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Law, The Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society (M.D. Harvard; J.D. Yale). Ten percent of her research is devoted to Latin America.

TONY BROWN   
Associate Professor of Sociology (Ph.D., Michigan) Racial and Ethnic Relations, Social Psychology, Sociology of Mental Health, Brazil

DANIEL CORNFIELD 
Professor of Sociology (Ph.D. University of Chicago) Principal Investigator for Immigrant Community Assessment of Nashville,Tennessee commissioned by the Mayor of Nashville. Includes a study of Nashville's large and growing community of Latin American immigrants, $350,000 grant.

KATHARINE M. DONATO
Professor of Sociology (Ph.D. 1988, SUNY--Stony Brook). Fellow at the Center for Nashville Studies and the Center for the Americas.  International migration between Mexico and the United States, social determinants of health, immigrants in the U.S. economy, ethic and gender stratification .

MARIANO SANA
Associate Professor of Sociology.  (LSU). Current work in the Dominican Republic looks at the effects of personal connections (friendship and acquaintanceship) between interviewer and subject on the reliability of survey data

FRÄNCILLE BERGQUIST 
Assistant Professor of Spanish (Ph.D., Texas Tech). Associate Dean, College of Arts and Science. Historical Romance linguistics.

JASON BORGE 
Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature. (Ph.D.University of California, Berkeley). Fiction and essay, film studies, popular culture (Hispanic America and Brazil), North-South issues, cultural studies, Avant-garde literature

MARCIO BAHIA
(University of Ottowa) Film, Memory and notions of Americanidad.

VICTORIA BURRUS 
Associate Professor of Spanish (Ph.D., Wisconsin). Medieval Spanish literature.

LORI CATANZARO 
Senior Lecturer in Spanish (M.A. University of Florida). Spanish for medical professions and service learning.

EARL E. FITZ 
Professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and Comparative Literature (Ph.D., City University of New York). Luso-Brazilian literature, Spanish American literature, Inter-American literature, comparative literature.

EDWARD H. FRIEDMAN 
Chancellor's Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins). Golden Age Literature, Comparative Literature.

CHALENE HELMUTH. Senior Lecturer in Spanish;  Coordinator of Spanish for True Beginners  (Ph.D. University of Kentucky). Contemporary Latin American literature, identity and narrative, U.S. Latina cultural production, incarceration and U.S. immigrant communities. MARIO HIGA 
Lecturer in Portuguese. Originally from Brazil, Mario is completing his dissertation at the University of Texas on modern Latin American literature.

TODD F. HUGHES 
Director of the Language Center (Ph.D., Pennsylvania; M.A., University of South Florida). Dr. Hughes has had field research experience in Colombia and Spain. His current regional interests are: Quebec, Latin America.

CARLOS JÁUREGUI 
Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Anthropology (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh). Colonial and transatlantic studies, cultural studies, nineteenth century Latin American literature.

CATHY L. JRADE 
Chancellor's Professor of Spanish; Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese (Ph.D., Brown). Latin American poetry, modernism. Awarded NEH Faculty Fellowship for Delmira Agustini: A Modernista on her Own Terms.

CHRISTINA KARAGEORGOU-BASTEA 
Associate Professor of Spanish (Ph.D., El Colegio de Mexico). Spanish avant-garde, Federico García Lorca, twentieth century Mexican and Latin American poetry and visual arts.

WILLIAM LUIS 
Chancellor's Professor of Spanish (Ph.D., Cornell); Editor Afro-Hispanic Review. Latin American literature and Caribbean studies. The Afro-Hispanic Review is the leading interdisciplinary journal featuring issues of race in Spanish America, Prof. Luis brought it to Vanderbilt University where it will be edited and published.

PAUL MILLER 
Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Portuguese (Ph.D., Emory University). Comparative Literature and interdisciplinary approaches to Latin American Literature (Hispanic, Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean).

ELENA OLAZAGASTI-SEGOVIA
Senior Lecturer in Spanish (Ph.D., Universidad de Puerto Rico). Contemporary Latin American literature and film, twentieth century peninsular women novelists, Caribbean and Puerto Rican literature and culture. Service-learning.

EMANUELLE OLIVEIRA 
Associate Professor of Portuguese(Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles). Brazilian literature and cinema and Afro-Brazilian literature.

RENE PRIETO
Professor of Spanish (Ph.D. Stanford). Twentieth century Latin American narrative; body, sex, gender and sexuality, literary theory.

PHILIP D. RASICO 
Professor of Spanish (Ph.D., Indiana). Spanish and Romance linguistics. Catalan language and history.

BENIGNO TRIGO
Associate Professor of Spanish and Director of Graduate Studies. (Ph.D., Yale University). Nineteenth-century Spanish American literature; literary theory; modernism, and psychoanalysis.

ANDRÉS ZAMORA 
Associate Professor of Spanish; (Ph.D. University of Southern California). Eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century Spanish literature and Cervantes.Director of Vanderbilt-in-Spain 2009-2010