Meet Our Faculty and Staff
Department Chair; Director, Translation Studies Program; Certificate Adviser
Ricardo Vasconcelos
Office: AL-134B | Phone: (619) 594-5156
Email: [email protected]
Undergraduate Adviser
Paola Martinez
Email: [email protected]
See the advising page for more information.
Graduate Adviser
José Mario Martín-Flores
Office: AL-129 | Phone: (619) 594-4796
Email: [email protected]
Admin. Support Coordinator
Juliana Eaton
Office: AL 134A | Phone: (619) 594-6589
Email: [email protected]
Admin. Support Assistant II
Nancy Gutierrez
Office: AL 134 | Phone: (619) 594-6588
Email: [email protected]
SDSU Campus
Rosalva Alamillo
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Email: [email protected]
Office: AL-111 | Phone: (619) 594-8828
Specialization: Spanish as a heritage language, Spanish in the US, and Sociolinguistics
Daniel Ares-López
Associate Professor of Spanish
Email: [email protected]
Office: AL-113 | Phone: (619) 594-1678
Specialization: Iberian cultural studies, environmental cultural studies
Matías Beverinotti
Associate 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 & Graduate Adviser
Email: [email protected]
Office: AL-129 | Phone: (619) 594-4796
Specialization: Latin American literature, Mexican literature, Baja/Border literature
Erika Rodriguez
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Email: [email protected]
Office: AL-123
Specialization: Critical disability studies, gender studies, literary studies, anti-carceral
feminisms and abolition, labor studies and postwork imaginaries
Lauren B. Schmidt
Associate Professor of Spanish (On Sabbatical Fall 2024)
Email: [email protected]
Office: AL-119 | Phone: (619) 594-1245
Specialization: Spanish second language acquisition, phonology, and sociolinguistics
Alfredo Urzúa Beltran
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-134B | Phone: (619) 594-5156
Specialization: 19th to 21st-century Luso-Brazilian poetry and prose; representations
of national identity in Luso-Brazilian cinema and music
Imperial Valley Campus
Magdalena Altamirano
Professor of Spanish
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (760) 768-5614
Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta
Professor of Spanish
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (760) 768-5613
Lauren Applegate
Email: [email protected]
Denise Anguiano
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María Dolores Bolívar
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Esther Castro
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Cassia De Abreu
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Julissa Gilbert
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María Gonzalez
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Joseph Kelliher
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Rosalinda Nericcio
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Edgar Olozagaste
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Xinia Sánchez
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Guadalupe Parras-Serradilla
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Anabel Soto
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Gisselle Velarde
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Lorena Verduzco
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Claudia Woodard
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Elizabeth Berry
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Sandra Garcia Cervantes
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Isabella Gonzales
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Rita Manzanarez
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Alan Minjares
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Jaquelin Morales Correo
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Erik Muro
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Esbeyda Ortiz
Email: [email protected]
Paulina Perez Alvarez
Email: [email protected]
Lucia Polanco Cruz
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Evelyn Rivera Melendez
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Lilia Ruvalcaba
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Patricia Sanchez Palafox
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Angelelli, Claudia V.
2001-2014
Blanco, Alda
2008-2018
Case, Thomas E.
1961-1998
Castro (Castillo), Susana D.
1985-1994
Robinson, Gail L.
1989-2011
Hidalgo, Margarita G.
1987-2008
Jiménez-Vera, Arturo
1970-1992
Kish, Kathleen V.
1999-2004
Lemus, George
1960-1991
O'Brien, Mary E.
1966-2000
Segade, Gustavo V.
1967-2000
Strejilevich, Nora
2000-2007
Talamantes, Florence W.
1962-1992
Varela-Ibarra, José L.
1976-1991
Wilson, Carlos G.
1992-2006
Young, Ronald R.
1971-2003