UCI Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Graduate Students
 
 


Raul Aleman 

Roberto Ayala 
AyalaB.A. Spanish and Latin American Studies, California State University, Fullerton

Areas of Interest: 20th Century Latin American Theater and Narrative

Analaura Brophy 

Fabio Chee 
Chee
B.A. Spanish, University of California, Irvine
M.A Spanish, University Texas, Austin

Areas of Interest: Latin American Literature, Chicano Literature, and Critical Theory

Benjamin Cluff 
Cluff
B.A. Latin American Studies/Spanish, Brigham Young University
M.A. Latin American Literature, Brigham Young University

Areas of Interest: 20th Century Latin American Literature, Contemporary Spanish Literature, Hispanic Cinema, Critical Theory

Emily Colbert 
Colbert
B.A. Mathematics and Spanish, Hamilton College
M.A. Spanish, University of California, Irvine

Areas of Interest: Transatlantic studies and the Jewish diaspora and film.

David Contreras 
Contreras
B.A. Spanish, University of California, San Diego
M.A. Latin American Literature, San Diego State University

Areas of Interest: 19th- Contemporary Latin American Literature, specifically, Mexican narratives. My scholastic interest includes the Poetic functions of the Ghost, Subalternity, Narco-texts, Peasant/Rebel Subjectivity and experimental short film and documentary.

Bibiana Diaz Rodriguez 
Diaz Rodriguez
B.A. Journalism, la Universidad de la Sabana, Colombia
M.A. Spanish, Latinoamerican Literature and Linguistics, California State University, Long Beach

Areas of Research: 220th and 21st Century Latin American Narrative and Theater, with an emphasis in Gender Studies and Violence

Nydia Durazo 

Josephine Dwyer 

Cristina Fuentes 

Kevin Garcia-Cruz 
Garcia-Cruz
B.A. Spanish, University of California, Riverside

Areas of Interest: 20th Century and Contemporary Latin American Literature.

Diego Gomez 

B.A. English, University of California, Los Angeles
M.A Spanish Linguistics, California State Los Angeles

Areas of Research: Latin American Literature

Nalei Adriana Guzman Lopez Aguado 
Guzman Lopez Aguado
B.A Spanish and Liberal Studies, University of California, Riverside
M.A. Spanish, University of California, Irvine

Area of Interest: Contemporary Latin American Literature. I am interested in issues concerning identity, diaspora, and migration as well as the subaltern focusing on the representation of women.

Marion Hart 
Hart
B.A. Spanish, Wheaton College
M.A. Spanish, University of California, Irvine

Areas of Research: Chicana Studies

Celina Hernandez-Garcia 
Hernandez-Garcia

James Hirsch 
Hirsch
B.A. Spanish, Hunter College

Areas of Interest: Gender studies, Latin American gay/subaltern discourse, New historicism

Samuel Jaffee 
Jaffee
B.A. Spanish, Kenyon College
M.A. Spanish, Washington University in St. Louis

Areas of interests: Latin American literature, Cuba, Mexico, history and literature, colonization, and the Jewish experience.

Paul Johnson 
Johnson
B.A. Romance Languages, DePauw University
M.A. Spanish, Middlebury College

Areas of Research: Golden Age Literature, Critical Theory

Ann Kalscheur 
Kalscheur
B.A. Spanish & Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
M.A. Hispanic Literature, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Area of interest: 20th Century Latin American Narrative

Paul Kasper 

B.A. English Literature, Texas A & M University
M.A. Hispanic Studies, Rice University

Areas of Research: Identity/diaspora in Latin American Prose

Emmi Kohout 
Kohout
B.A. Spanish, University of California, Irvine

Area of Interest: Peninsular Literature

Alberto Landaveri 
Landaveri
B.A. Spanish, University of California, Irvine
M.A. Spanish, University of California, Irvine

Areas of Research: Latin American Culture, Politics,and Globalization

Victoria Lau 
Lau
B.A. Spanish & Political Science, Loyola Marymount University

Area of Interest: 20th century Latin American Literature

Lili Lebenzon 
Lebenzon
B.A. Political Science (focus: Latin America), University of California, Irvine
M.A. Spanish, University of California, Irvine

Areas of Interest: Narratives, memoirs and autobiographies of the Caribbean Diaspora

Andrea Lee 
Lee
B.A. Spanish, University of California, Los Angeles
M.A. Spanish, University of California, Irvine

Area of Interest: Golden Age Literature

Maria Leon 

Micah Martin 
Martin
B.A. Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara
M.A. Spanish, Indiana State University

Areas of interest: Latin American Literature and Culture, Literary Theory, Moorish Spain

Jesus Miguel-Saldana 
Miguel-SaldanaB.A./Licenciatura English/American Literature & Linguistics, University of Valladolid, Spain
M.A. Spanish Literature & Linguistics, California State University, San Marcos

Areas of interest: Golden Age Literature

Jorge Mondragon Sanchez 
Mondragon Sanchez
B.A. Latin American Literature, University of California, Berkeley

Area of Interest: 20th Century Latin American literature and social movements, particularly the “Onda” movement and its possible relationship with the events of 1968 in Mexico

Lucy Morris 
Morris
B.A. Spanish, Brigham Young University
M.A. Spanish, University of Utah

Areas of Research: Historical Novel 20th Century

Thania Munoz 
Munoz
B.A. Spanish, California State University, Los Angeles

Areas of interest: contemporary Mexican literature, Latin American detective fiction, and critical theory

Colby Nixon 

B.A, Spanish and History, Utah State University
M.A. Spanish, University of California, Davis

Areas of Interest: 20th & 21st Century Peninsular Literature & Spanish Film

Itzel Olivares 
Olivares
B.A. CSU, Dominguez Hills

Areas of Interest: Latin America Contemporary and Feminist Literature

Ana Maria Palomar 
Palomar
B.A. California State University, Dominguez Hills
M.A. California State University, Fullerton

Areas of Interest: 19th & 20th Century Peninsular Literature and Women's Studies

Rose Phillips 

Veronica Quezada 
Quezada
B.A. Spanish, University of California, Irvine
M.A. Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Irvine

Areas of Research: Chicano/U.S. Latino Literature

Cynthia Quintero 
Quintero
B.A. University of California, Irvine
M.A. California State University, Long Beach

Areas of Research: 20th Century Latin American Literature, Chicano &
Latino literature focusing on the representation of Women

Lourdes Reyes 
Reyes
B.A. Spanish, University of California, Los Angeles
M.A. Spanish, University of California, Irvine

Areas of Interest: 20th Century Latin American Literature and Culture, and
Chicana/o Literature and Culture

Eric Rojas 
Rojas

Marcela Rojas 

Raquel Roman 


M.A. Spanish, University of California, Irvine


Juan Guillermo Urbina 
Urbina
BA, Spanish and Economics, Trinity University
MA, Hispanic Literature, University of Texas, San Antonio

20th century Latin American Literature, emphasis in Mexican and Cuban Literature

Martin Valle 
Valle
B.A. Modern Languages and Liberal Studies, St. Mary's College of California

Areas of Research: Latin American 19th and 20th Century narrative. Critical theory, The representation of the Asian in Latin American literature and art.

Carlos Vargas-Lara 
Vargas-LaraB.A. Spanish Language and Literature, California State University, San Bernardino
M.A. Hispanic Literature, Linguistics and Civilization, California State University, San Bernardino

Areas of Research: Global political behavior; Modern and Contemporary Latin America; Central American Federalism; the study and depiction of urban space in literature and film; violence in general and postwar social phenomena in particular; technology transfer as a resource to social and educational development.

Brennan Vettes 

Jared White 
White
B.A. Spanish and Humanities, Brigham Young University
M.A. Spanish (Peninsular Literature), Brigham Young University

Areas of Research: Siglo de oro, La comedia

Aileen Zamoyoa 

 

 
 
   
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