Faculty

LENA BURGOS-LAFUENTE

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 2011, New York University
Caribbean and Latin American literatures, Poetry, Modern transatlantic literatures, Poetics and Literary Politics.
lena.burgos-lafuente@stonybrook.edu

JOSÉ CHUECA

Lecturer

PhD 2020, Stony Brook University

Contemprary Latin American literature and visual studies

jose.chueca@stonybrook.edu

AURA COLON

Lecturer

M.A. Universidad de Puerto Rico / Stony Brook University

Caribbean and Latin American Literature, Transatlantic Studies and Migration
aura.colon@stonybrook.edu

ZAIDA CORNIEL

Lecturer
Ph.D. 2015, Stony Brook University
Caribbean literature and culture. Theater.
zaida.corniel@stonybrook.edu

ELENA DAVIDIAK

Lecturer

Ph.D., University of Iowa

Linguistics, language acquisition, bilingualism and multilingualism

elena.davidiak@stonybrook.edu

PAUL FIRBAS

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 2001, Princeton University
Colonial Latin American literature and historiography, the colonial city, textual scholarship, history of the book and media, modernity in the Andes
paul.firbas@stonybrook.edu

DANIELA FLESLER

Professor
Ph.D. 2001, Tulane University
Contemporary Spanish Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Migration
daniela.flesler@stonybrook.edu

PATRICIA MARÍA GAMBOA

Lecturer
Ph.D. 2022, University of Kentucky
19 th and 20 th centuries Peninsular Literature, Philosophy, Gender Studies, Queer
Theory, Fantastic Literature, Experiential Learning.

patricia.mariagamboa@stonybrook.edu

FERNANDO LOFFREDO

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2010, University of Naples Federico II
Mediterranean and Colonial Latin American Visual Culture, Sculpture and Urban Space, Art and Poetry in the Early Modern World
fernando.loffredo@stonybrook.edu

SEBASTIÁN LÓPEZ VERGARA

Post-Doc IDEA Fellow

PhD 2023 , University of Washington.

Latinx and Indigenous Diaspora Studies

sebastian.lopezvergara@stonybrook.edu

PABLO GARCÍA GÁMEZ

Lecturer

PhD 2019, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Latin American Theater

pablo.garciagamez@stonybrook.edu

JOSEPH M. PIERCE

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 2013, The University of Texas at Austin
Contemporary Southern Cone and Latin American Literatures, Narrative, Autobiographical Writing, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Kinship Studies
joseph.pierce@stonybrook.edu

LUIS RODRÍGUEZ CHAVES

Lecturer
PhD 2021, Stony Brook University
20th Century Post-War Spanish Narrative

luis.rodriguezchaves@stonybrook.edu

VICTORIANO RONCERO-LÓPEZ

Professor
Ph.D. 1987, Universidad Complutense
Ph.D. 1988, University of Illinois
Picaresque Literature, Quevedian Studies, Humanism
Victoriano.Roncero-Lopez@stonybrook.edu

LILIA DELFINA RUIZ-DEBBE

Director of Spanish Language Program
Ph.D. 1996, University of Geneva
Applied Linguistics, Teaching Methodology

lilia.ruiz-debbe@stonybrook.edu

JAVIER URIARTE

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
19th and 20th centuries Southern Cone and Brazilian literatures and cultures, travel writing, war and modernization, spatial imagination in Latin America, the Amazon.
Javier.Uriarte@stonybrook.edu

KATHLEEN M. VERNON

Professor
Ph.D. 1982, University of Chicago
Spanish and Latin American cinema, popular and material culture; gender studies; literary and cultural studies.
kathleen.vernon@stonybrook.edu

AFFILIATED FACULTY

NANCY HIEMSTRA

Associate Professor

Dept of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Political, cultural, and feminist geography; migration, immigration, gender, race, Latin America, and feminist epistemology and methodologies.
nancy.hiemstra@stonybrook.edu

VISITING FACULTY

RODRIGO VIQUEIRA

Visiting Assistant Professor (Fall 24 and Spring 25)
Ph.D. 2024, Washington Univerity in St. Louis

Modern and contemporary literature and cultures of the Southern Cone and Brazil, sound studies, media theory, race, Latin American cinema, and popular culture.

rodrigo.viqueira@stonybrook.edu

MONICA P. VICENTINI

Visiting Faculty in Portuguese

Ph.D. State University of Campinas (São Paulo, Brazil)

Portuguese language, Applied Linguistics and Brazilian Culture.

monica.panigassivicentini@stonybrook.edu

Courtesy Appointment

AURELIE VIALETTE

Visiting Associate Professor (courtesy appointment F24-S27)
Ph.D. 2009, Univerity of California, Berkeley.
19th century Iberian Cultures, Working class Culture, Catalan Studies, Gender Studies, Transatlantic Studies (Mexico).
Email: see Yale Univ web page

Emeriti Faculty

LOU CHARNON-DEUTSCH

Professor
Ph.D. 1978, University of Chicago
Nineteenth-century Fiction, Spanish Women's Fiction, 19th and 20th century, Feminist Theory
lou.deutsch@stonybrook.edu

ROMÁN DE LA CAMPA

Professor
1976 Ph.D. University of Minnesota.
Literary theory and Latin American cultural studies. He is currently Professor at UPenn.
rdlcampa@sas.upenn.edu

PEDRO LASTRA

Professor
Universidad de Chile
Poesía latinoamericana y literatura colonial. He is currently director of de Anales de literatura chilena
analesdeliteratura@uc.cl

MALCOM K READ

Professor
Ph.D. 1976, University of Wales
Golden Age Literature, Marxist Criticism, Psychoanalysis
malcolm.read@stonybrook.edu

IN MEMORIAM

ADRIÁN PÉREZ-MELGOSA

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1995, University of Rochester
Cinema and Literature of the Americas, Cultural Studies
Link to Obituary