Our Department Welcomes Four New Faculty Members in Fall 2022
The Department of Spanish welcomes four new faculty members in Fall 2022.
Ana Cecilia Calle Poveda, Ph.D., joins the Department as an Assistant Professor. Ryan Goodman, Ph.D., Patrick Kozey, Ph.D., and Tamara Morgan, Ph.D., join the Department as Visiting Assistant Professors.
Ana Cecilia Calle Poveda, Ph.D., holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Literatures and Cultures from The University of Texas at Austin, specializing in African and African American Diasporas, and Sound Studies. She is interested in the ways in which certain tropes of the “tropics” travel through popular music, discography, literature, and performance.
Ryan Goodman, Ph.D., holds a Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese from Princeton University. His primary field of specialization is Modern and Contemporary Iberian Cultural Studies with research interests that include poetry, religion, memory studies, and social movements, as well as the cultural history of archaeology, ethnography, and tourism. His research examines Spanish and Galician cultural production through a global and transhistorical lens.
Patrick Kozey, Ph.D., received his PhD and MA in Hispanic Literature from the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University and has taught all levels of Spanish language, culture, and literature. Dr. Kozey’s research interests include medieval and early modern Iberia and the Mediterranean, and the relationship between administrative and literary practice. He is currently working on two book projects: one, By Song or by Rhyme, places the Occitan lyric of the troubadours in the literary system of medieval Iberia; the other looks at how fama [reputation] can help us understand the relationship between language and violence, both in premodern Iberia and today. Dr. Kozey received his BA in Spanish from Stanford University and has lived in Ciudad Real, as well as in Madrid and Barcelona.
Tamara Morgan, Ph.D., received her Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Her research examines the search for identity and belonging in the globalized world, specifically how the juxtaposition of time and space affects human connection with surrounding people and places. Her work focuses on 20th- and 21st-century Argentine narrative with an array of interests including space, subjectivity, ecocriticism, flânerie, phantasmagoria, and the fantastic.