Meet Our Faculty and Staff

Meet Our Faculty and Staff

Department Chair; Director, Translation Studies Program; Certificate Adviser

Ricardo Vasconcelos
Office: AL-117 | Phone: (619) 594-6583
Email: [email protected]

Undergraduate Adviser

Paola Martinez
Email: [email protected]
See the advising page for more information.

Graduate Adviser

Lauren Schmidt
Office: AL 119 | Phone: (619) 594-1245
Email: lschmid[email protected]

Admin. Support Coordinator

Janette Noriega
Office: AL 134 | Phone: (619) 594-6589
Email: [email protected]

Admin. Support Assistant II

Vacant Position
Office: AL 134 | Phone: (619) 594-6588

Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty

SDSU Campus

Rosalva Alamillo
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Email: [email protected]
Office: AL-111 | Phone: (619) 594-8828
Specialization: Spanish as a heritage language

Daniel Ares-López
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Email: [email protected]
Office: AL-113 | Phone: (619) 594-1678
Specialization: Iberian cultural studies, environmental cultural studies

Matías Beverinotti
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Email: [email protected]
Office: AL-153 | Phone: (619) 594-0531
Specialization: South American Literature and Film, Cultural and Political Theory

Juan Godoy
Professor of Spanish
Email: [email protected]
Office: AL-115 | Phone: (619) 594-6387
Specialization: Modern Peninsular Literature

José Mario Martín-Flores
Professor of Spanish
Email: [email protected]
Office: AL-129 | Phone: (619) 594-4796
Specialization: Latin American literature, Mexican literature, Baja/Border literature

Lauren B. Schmidt
Graduate Adviser, Associate Professor of Spanish
Email: [email protected]
Office: AL-119 | Phone: (619) 594-1245
Specialization: Spanish second language acquisition, phonology, and sociolinguistics

Alfredo Urzúa Beltran
Associate Professor of Spanish
Email: [email protected]
Office: AL-125 | Phone: (619) 594-5758
Specialization: Discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, bilingualism, and teacher identity

Ricardo Vasconcelos
Professor of Portuguese
Email: [email protected]
Office: AL-117 | Phone: (619) 594-6583
Specialization: 19th to 21st-century Luso-Brazilian poetry and prose; representations of national identity in Luso-Brazilian cinema and music