Fräncille Bergquist. Ph.D. Texas Tech University (1977). Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Science, Associate Professor of Spanish. Linguistics, Foreign language teaching methodology. (615) 322-2844francille.bergquist@vanderbilt.edu
Susan Berk-Seligson. Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Arizona (1978). Sociolinguistics,pragmatics, discourse analysis, language in institutional settings (particularly, language and the law), language and gender. (615) 292-1428. susan.berk-seligson@vanderbilt.edu
Victoria A. Burrus. Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison (1985). Acting Chair. Associate Professor of Spanish, Director of Undergraduate Studies. Medieval Spanish Studies, fifteenth-century topics, La Celestina, Cancionero poetry, Hispanic philology. (615) 322-6860 victoria.a.burrus@vanderbilt.edu
Earl E. Fitz. Ph.D. CUNY (1977). Professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and Comparative Literature. Director of the Comparative Literature program. Brazilian narrative and poetry, comparative studies between Brazil and Spanish-America, inter-American literature; ambiguity and gender in the New Novel of Latin America, Modernism in the Americas; colonial literature. (615) 322-6861 earl.e.fitz@vanderbilt.edu
Edward H. Friedman. Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University (1974). Chancellor's Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature. Early modern Spanish literature, comparative studies in narrative and drama, theory. (615) 322-6929 edward.h.friedman@vanderbilt.edu
Carlos Jáuregui. Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh (2001). Associate Professor of Spanish and Anthropology. Colonial and Transatlantic studies; cultural studies; 19th-century Latin American literature; postcolonial theory; 19th-and-20th-century essay; and cultural history (Spanish America and Brazil). Ph: (615) 322-6856. carlos.a.jauregui@vanderbilt.edu
Cathy L. Jrade. Ph.D. Brown University (1974). Chancellor's Professor of Spanish, Chair of the Department. Fin de siglo, Modernismo, Modernity, Rubén Darío, José Martí, twentieth century poetry, contemporary narrative and poetry, gender studies. Ph: (615) 322-6930. cathy.l.jrade@vanderbilt.edu
William Luis. Ph.D. Cornell University (1980). Chancellor's Professor of Spanish, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American literature, Contemporary Spanish American narrative, politics of identity and race in the Caribbean; Afro-Hispanic and Latino literatures; autobiography. (615) 322-6862 william.luis@vanderbilt.edu
René Prieto. Ph.D. Stanford University (1980). Professor of Spanish. Guggenheim Fellow (2003-2004). Twentieth century Latin American narrative; body, sex, gender and sexuality; literary theory. (615) 322-6920 r.prieto@vanderbilt.edu
Philip D. Rasico. Ph.D. Indiana University, Bloomington (1981). Professor of Catalan language, linguistics, and culture. Spanish linguistics (Phonology, Dialectology, Morphology and Syntax, History of the Spanish Language, Languages of Spain), Ibero-Romance Philology. (615) 322-6859 philip.d.rasico@vanderbilt.edu
BenignoTrigo. Ph.D. Yale University (1992). Associate Professor of Spanish. Nineteenth-Century Spanish American Literature, Literary Theory, Modernism, and Psychoanalysis. (615) 343-4347 benigno.trigo@vanderbilt.edu
Andrés Zamora. Ph.D. University of Southern California (1992). Director of Vanderbilt in Spain 2009-2010 Associate Professor of Spanish. Nineteenth and twentieth-century Spanish Peninsular literature, realist novel, contemporary literary theory, narrative, ideological discourse, history and aesthetics of Spanish cinema, poetics and politics of the body and transatlantic cultural formation. (615) 322-6858 andres.zamora@vanderbilt.edu
Emeriti Professors
John Crispin. Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison (1967). Professor of Spanish. Generation of '98, Spanish Vanguard, Residencia de Estudiantes, contemporary Peninsular Spanish Literature. john.crispin@vanderbilt.edu
Russell G. Hamilton. Ph.D. Yale Univesity (1965). Professor of Portuguese, Brazilian and Lusophone African Literatures. Brazilian and Lusophone African literatures, Afro-Bahian cultural expressions, Afro-Portuguese Literature (Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé e Príncipe), and postcolonial theory. russell.hamilton@vanderbilt.edu
Enrique Pupo-Walker. Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1967). Centennial Professor Emeritus of Spanish. Spanish and Spanish American literature (colonial, nineteenth century, and contemporary).
Francisco Ruiz Ramón. Ph.D. Complutense-Madrid (1962). Centennial Professor of Spanish. Spanish Theatre.
Lori Catanzaro. Senior Lecturer and Pre-Major Advisor, Spanish and Portuguese and Assistant Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, has taught a range of courses including the service-learning based Spanish for the Medical Professions, Spanish for Business, and Spanish through Film. (615)343-7855. lori.catanzaro@vanderbilt.edu
Sarah Delassus. Coordinator of Spanish Oral Communication through Cultural Topics 202(615)322-2009. sarah.s.delassus@vanderbilt.edu
Chalene Helmuth. Coordinator of Spanish 103. Ph.D. University of Kentucky (1991). Contemporary Latin American literature; identity and narrative; U.S. Latina cultural production; incarceration and U.S. immigrant communities. (615) 343-2506. chalene.helmuth@vanderbilt.edu
Clint Hendrix. Coordinator of Intermediate Spanish 104.M.A. Miami University (2001). Lecturer. Spanish American vanguardism, literary theory, travel literature, and hybridity as related to genre and gender. (615)343-7841 clint.hendrix@vanderbilt.edu
Patrick Murphy. Pre-Major Advisor. Graduated with a BA from MaryvilleCollege in Maryville, Tennessee in 1996. I graduated with an MA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1999. I have taught as a Lecture in Spanish at MaryvilleCollege, The University of Tennessee, and Vanderbilt for 9 years combined. This is my 3rd year at Vanderbilt. (615)322-1757 patrick.r.murphy@vanderbilt.edu
Carolina Palacios Diazceballos. Coordinator of Spanish for True Beginners 100 and Elementary Spanish I 101.Ph.D. University of Tennessee (2007) Modern Foreign Languages with concentration in Spanish and Portuguese. Born in Minatitlan, Veracruz (Mexico). Area of interest: Twentieth Century Latin American Theater. (615)343-7840 carolina.palacios@vanderbilt.edu
Raquel Rincón is a Senior Lecturer in the Department and has been at Vanderbilt since 1998. She completed the BA degree in Sociology at Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia and received her Master of Arts (MA) degree in Romance Languages – Spanish at the University of Oregon. Currently, she is coordinator of the undergraduate Spanish Composition Course 104. Special research grants have been awarded to her by the University to develop and evaluate new methodologies including integrating popular contemporary Spanish music for enhancing learning in the classroom.(615)343-7841 raquel.rincon@vanderbilt.edu
Cynthia Wasick. Director of Undergradute Students. Senior Lecturer and Pre-major advisor. She came to Vanderbilt in 1993 after completing doctoral course work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Hispanic Philology. For several years, she served as Resident Director of the Vanderbilt-in-Spain program in Madrid She has taught all levels of Spanish language courses in the Department in addition to teaching introductory and advanced Special Topics literature classes, Spanish civilization and culture and Spanish linguistics. She designed and taught the service-learning course Spanish for Legal Professions since 2004. During 2006-2007, she served as a Faculty VUceptor for Vanderbilt Visions as well as Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. In 2003 she was appointed to and continues to serve on the Study Abroad Committee in the College of Arts & Science. (615)343-7842 cynthia.m.wasick@vanderbilt.edu
Paul B. Miller. Ph.D. Emory University (1999). Comparative Literature and interdisciplinary approaches to Latin American literature (Hispanic, Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean). Enlightenment in the modern Caribbean historical imagination, cultural identity politics. (615)322-6906 paul.b.miller@vanderbilt.edu
Elena Olazagasti-Segoviaearned her PhD at the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.Her main fields of research and publication are contemporary Spanish women novelists, Latina writers, and Puerto Rican women writers in Puerto Rico and in the USA. She teaches advanced Spanish language and literature courses, women=s studies, film studies and cultural studies. She has presented papers on those subjects at national and international conferences, and published articles in professional journals such as Hispania, Letras Femeninas, Latino Research Review, Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea, and Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. She is the literary translator of Latina author, Judith Ortiz Cofer. She has translated five of her books: her memoir, one of her novels, and three collections of poetry, essays, and short stories. In 1997 she won the Harriet S. Gilliam Excellence in Teaching Award, and in 2007 she won the Ellen Gregg Ingals Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching. Since 2001 she has developed three academic service-learning courses where she integrates working with the Latino population as part of the course work instead of doing some of the traditional second-language acquisition tasks. (615) 322-6916 elena.o.segovia@vanderbilt.edu
Waldir Sepúlveda. He has been a Senior Lecturer of Spanish at VanderbiltUniversity since the year 2001. While at Vanderbilt, he has cooperated with various departments of the University such as the Office of Student Life as a Mentor for several groups of students attending Vanderbilt on academic scholarships, and more recently with the Vanderbilt Initiative for Scholarship and Global Engagement (VISAGE) as the site director for one of their groups. Previous to that he worked in Medellín, Colombia, at a Binational Cultural and Language Center where he engaged in several activities such as teaching English as a foreign language to children as well as adults, serving as an adviser in the study-abroad office, and as a member of the curriculum design and implementation committee. (615)322-1709. waldir.sepulveda@vanderbilt.edu
Victoria Cardeñosa Gardner. Senior Lecturer. MA University of Hawaii at Manoa. Ph.D. Boston College. Areas of Interest: Masculinity Studies, Hegemonic Masculinities in Imperial Spain. Baroque studies. Culture and Imperial Power relationship. (615)343-7853 victoria.gardner@vanderbilt.edu
Todd Hughes. Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (1993). Director of the Language (Multimedia) Center. Technology on second language acquisition. todd.hughes@vanderbilt.edu
