Diana Aramburu, Ph.D. University of Chicago
Fields of Interest: Contemporary Iberian and Caribbean Crime Fiction, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Intersectionality and Transnational Feminisms, Graphic Narratives of the Spanish-speaking World, Maternity Studies, Illness Studies, and Decolonial Studies.
Leopoldo M. Bernucci, Ph.D., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Fields of Interest: Colonial and 19th-Century Latin American Literature; Amazonian Studies; Hispanic and Brazilian Epic; Euclides da Cunha; José Eustasio Rivera; Mario Vargas Llosa.
Travis G. Bradley, Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
Fields of Interest: Hispanic linguistics, Judeo-Spanish phonetics and phonology, historical phonology.
Agustina Carando, Ph.D., City University of New York
Fields of Interest: Spanish in the U.S., Bilingualism and Language Change, Heritage Language Education, Writing Development.
Daniela Gutiérrez-Flores, Ph.D., University of Chicago
Fields of Interest: Food in the Early Modern Hispanic World; Early Modern Spanish and Colonial Latin American Studies; Gender and Sexuality; Food Studies; Hunger Studies; Transoceanic Studies.
Robert McKee Irwin, Ph.D., New York University
Fields of Interest: Migrations and Borders; Masculinities and Sexualities; Mexican and Mexican Culture; Digital Storytelling and Community Engagement; Research Methods in Cultural Studies.Principal Investigator: Humanizando la Deportación/Humanizando el Asilo
Michael J. Lazzara, Ph.D., Princeton University
Fields of Interest: Human Rights and Memory in Latin America, Literature and Culture of the Southern Cone, Film and Documentary Studies, Testimonial Genres
Cristina Martínez Carazo, Ph.D., UC Davis
Fields of Interest: Historical memory in Spain; Transnational cinema; Nineteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Spanish novel: Realism and visuality in literary texts. Photography related to the Spanish Civil War. Hungarian photographer, Kati Horna, who was exiled in Mexico. Spanish film (film and immigration), transnational film, contemporary novel, and historical memory related to Spain.
Robert Patrick Newcomb, Ph.D., Brown University
Fields of Interest: Comparative Luso-Hispanic literature; transnationalism and displacement; Iberianism and Iberian studies; the fin de siècle; Gibraltar and Gibraltarian literature; the essay, theory, and criticism; translation and translation studies; theory and methodology of comparative literature.
Ana Peluffo, Ph.D., New York University
Fields of Interest: Affect and Emotions in Latin America; Andean and Nineteenth-century Studies; Intersectionality and Transnational Feminisms; Gender and Sexuality; Childhood Studies.
Claudia Sánchez Gutiérrez, Ph.D., University of Salamanca
Fields of Interest: Second Language Acquisition , Second Language Pedagogy, Vocabulary Learning/Teaching, Language Teachers' beliefs.
Emily Vazquez Enriquez, Ph.D., Cornell University
Fields of Interest: 20th/21st-Century Mexican, Central American, and Latinx Literatures and Cultures; Border and Migration Studies; Environmental Humanities: Ecocriticism and Animal Studies; Critical Race Theory; Sound Studies; Visual Culture