Faculty & Staff
For Spanish placement questions, please contact Placement Officer Luis González.
For inquiries about the Salamanca Study Abroad Programs, please contact Rebekah Morris.
For a comprehensive list of Departmental Leadership, please visit this page.
Faculty
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Irma Alarcón, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
alarcoi@wfu.edu
336-758-5194
Greene 519
Second Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Heritage Speakers, TESOL
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Jane Albrecht, Ph.D.
Professor
albrecht@wfu.edu
336-758-4739
Greene 520
16th and 17th Century Spanish Literature
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Alison Atkins, Ph.D.
Assistant Teaching Professor
atkinsah@wfu.edu
336-758-2163
Greene 528A
20th Century Spanish Literature and Culture
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Diego Burgos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
burgosda@wfu.edu
336-758-2175
Greene 525
Translation Studies, Computer-Assisted Translation, Software Localization, Natural Language Processing
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Ana Cecilia Calle Poveda, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
callepac@wfu.edu
336-758-4739
Greene 545
Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies
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Fernando Díaz Gil, M.A.
On-site Cultural Director of the WFU Salamanca Program
diazgif@wfu.edu
WFU Spain
Calle Toro, 84-90, Oficina Izquierda, 37002, Salamanca
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José Dominicci-Buzó, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
dominij@wfu.edu
336-758-5677
Greene 518
Medieval and Early Modern Literature & Theater, Cultural Representation of the Female Body and Marginalized Communities in Art and Cinema, Mikhail Bakhtin and Carnivalesque Theory, Gender, Feminist and Queer Contemporary Theory
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Andrea Echeverría, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
echeveal@wfu.edu
336-758-4702
Greene 523
20th and 21st Century Latin American Literatures and Indigenous Studies
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Margaret Ewalt, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
ewaltmr@wfu.edu
336-758-5807
Greene 522
Enlightenment in Spain and Spanish America, 18th and 19th Century Latin American Literature, and Colonial Spanish Literature
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Sara Fernández Cuenca, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
fernans@wfu.edu
336-758-3734
Greene 547
Instructed Second and Heritage Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, and Spanish of the United States
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Jerid Francom, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
francojc@wfu.edu
336-758-4868
Greene 550
Psycholinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Formal Syntax
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Olgierda Furmanek, Ph.D.
Professor
furmano@wfu.edu
336-758-3924
Greene 544
Interpreting and Translation Studies, Curriculum Design, and Contact Linguistics
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Javier Gª Garrido, M.A.
On-site Director of the WFU Salamanca Program
garrido@wfu.edu
336-758-8725
WFU Spain
Calle Toro, 84-90, Oficina Izquierda, 37002, Salamanca
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Luis González, Ph.D.
Professor
gonzall@wfu.edu
336-758-5428
Greene 534
Syntactic Theory and Spanish Applied Linguistics
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Ryan Goodman, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
goodmanr@wfu.edu
336-758-4702
Greene 523
Modern and Contemporary Iberian Cultural Studies
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César Gutiérrez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
gutiermc@wfu.edu
336-758-4328
Greene 238
Historical Linguistics, Philology, Phonetics, Phonology, and Dialectology
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Anne Hardcastle, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
hardcaae@wfu.edu
336-758-4739
20th Century Spanish Fiction and Film Studies
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Linda Howe, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
howels@wfu.edu
336-758-4905
Greene 508
Latin American Literature and Cultural Production
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Tiffany Judy, Ph.D.
Associate Department Chair and Associate Professor
judyte@wfu.edu
336-758-3937
Greene 527
Second Language Acquisition, Morpho-syntax, Psycholinguistics
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Daniel Jung, Ph.D.
Assistant Teaching Professor
jungd@wfu.edu
336-758-4164
Greene 517
Second Language Acquisition, World Language Pedagogy, and Hispanic Linguistics
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Kathryn M. Mayers, Ph.D.
Department Chair & Associate Professor
mayerskm@wfu.edu
336-758-4739
Greene 325
Renaissance and Baroque Poetry, Literary Historiography
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Liliana Mendoza-Batista, M.A.
Associate Professor of the Practice
mendozil@wfu.edu
336-758-4440
Greene 515
Spanish Language Acquisition
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Lauren Miller, Ph.D.
Assistant Teaching Professor
millerle@wfu.edu
336-758-5156
Greene 528B
Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Spanish in the United States, Heritage Languages and Speakers
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Tamara Morgan, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
morgant@wfu.edu
336-758-4739
Greene 545
South American Literature and Cultural Studies
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Rebekah Morris, M.A.
Professor of the Practice
morrisrl@wfu.edu
336-758-4943
Greene 515
Spanish Language Acquisition
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Samanta Ordóñez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
ordones@wfu.edu
336-758-4572
Greene 524
Film, Media, Literature, and Cultural Studies of Gender, Race, and Coloniality in Mexico and Mexican Diasporas of the 20th and 21st Centuries
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Carmen Perez-Muñoz, Ph.D.
Assistant Teaching Professor
perezmc@wfu.edu
336-758-3953
Greene 532
Medical Spanish
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Daniel Raso-Llarás, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
rasolld@wfu.edu
Greene 518
Spanish & Portuguese, Transatlantic Studies, Jewish Tradition, Latin American Literature and Cultures, Comparative Literature, Visual Studies, Film Studies, Affect Theory, Epistemology, New Media, Deleuze & Guattari Studies
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Teresa Sanhueza, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
sanhuemt@wfu.edu
336-758-5500
Greene 510
Latin American Theater
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Jessica Shade Venegas, Ph.D.
Assistant Teaching Professor
shadejl@wfu.edu
336-758-4205
Greene 551
19th Century Spanish and Spanish-American Narrative
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Encarna Turner, M.A.
Associate Professor of the Practice
turnermm@wfu.edu
336-758-5540
Greene 531
Spanish Language Acquisition, Translation, Linguistics
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Claudia Valdez, Ph.D.
Assistant Teaching Professor
valdezc@wfu.edu
336-758-3961
Greene 535A
Hispanic Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Spanish in Contact, Latino Immigration in the USA
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José Luis Venegas, Ph.D.
Professor
venegajl@wfu.edu
336-758-4805
Greene 540
Transatlantic Studies, Modern and Contemporary Spanish and Spanish-American Narrative
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Nicholas Wolters, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
wolterna@wfu.edu
336-758-3916
Greene 537
18th and 19th Century Iberian Literature and Visual Culture
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Emeriti/Emeritae
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Staff
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