University of Wisconsin - Madison
Fall 2026 Office Hours TBD Biography Mercedes Alcalá Galán is a professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research is oriented primarily toward topics in poetics and gender studies with special emphasis on visual studies. She is the author of “Con esta carga nacemos las mujeres”: Discursos sobre el cuerpo femenino en la …
Fall 2026 Office Hours Tuesdays and Thursdays 11am-12pm (or by appointment) Biography Grant Armstrong’s research centers on the description and analysis of the grammar of different varieties of Spanish and Mayan languages. His focus is on applying generative theories of morphosyntax to Spanish and Mayan languages in addition to language description and documentation. Education PhD, …
Fall 2026 Office Hours TBD Biography Kata Beilin is a professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, and affiliated with the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies (LACIS) program, the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, the Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE), and the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies at the …
Fall 2026 Office Hours Thursdays 1:45-2:25 in person (or by appointment through zoom) Biography Ksenija Bilbija specializes in cultural studies, gender criticism, and post-traumatic memory, with interest in Spanish American Literatures. Most recently, in 2022, she authored Ni perversas ni traidoras: Ficciones de colaboración femenina en las dictaduras de Argentina y Chile, Santiago: Cuarto Propio, …
Spring 2026 Office Hours Online and in person, by appointment Education PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Biography Associate Professor Alicia Cerezo specializes in modern Spanish literature and culture. Her research explores how interactions between text and image, as well as technology and art, shape ideas of creativity and humanness, particularly in multimedia environments such as …
Fall 2026 Office Hours Thursdays 12:30-2:30 and by appointment Biography Glen Close teaches courses in Spanish American literature, culture and film. He is the author of La imprenta enterrada. Arlt, Baroja y el imaginario anarquista (Beatriz Viterbo, 2000), Contemporary Hispanic Crime Fiction. A Transatlantic Discourse on Urban Violence (Palgrave Macmillan 2008), Female Corpses in Crime …
Fall 2026 Office Hours By appointment Biography Guillermina De Ferrari is Halls-Bascom Professor of Caribbean Literatures and Visual Cultures in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and an affiliate in the Department of Art History. She is the author of Vulnerable States: Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction (Virginia 2007), and Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba (Routledge …
Fall 2026 Office Hours Monday (in person) 11:30-12:30, or by appointment Biography Juan F. Egea (Alicante, 1963) is a professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he has taught since 1999. His primary area of research is Modern and Contemporary Spanish literature and culture. His academic interests include …
Fall 2026 Office Hours Wednesdays 2-4pm, 209 Ingraham Biography Víctor Goldgel Carballo is Professor of Latin American cultures and the incoming Faculty Director of the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program. He is also an affiliate at the Program in Chicanx/e Latinx/e Studies and the Center for Visual Culture and Performance Studies. His current teaching and …
Fall 2026 Office Hours TBD Biography Paola S. Hernández specializes in contemporary Latin American theatre, performance, and Latinx Studies. She has published numerous articles on Southern Cone theatre, performance and memory politics, sites of memory, human rights, and documentary theatre. She is the author of Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies-Objects-Archives (Northwestern University Press, 2021); El …