University of Wisconsin–Madison

People Type: Faculty

Hutchinson, Steven

Fall 2026 Office Hours TBD Biography Steven Hutchinson received his doctorate in Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago, and works primarily on early modern Spain, the Mediterranean, and Africa. He is author of Cervantine Journeys, which delves into the relations between narrative and travel, and Economía ética en Cervantes, which posits the notion of ethical economy …

Medina, Rubén

Fall 2026 Office Hours TBD Biography Rubén Medina is a poet, translator and scholar. He is also one of the founders of Infrarealism. His research and teaching center on Mexican and US Latinx literature and culture, continental connections, film studies, Neo-avant-garde movements, and Mexican migration to the United States. In the area of research, he …

Pellegrini, Marcelo

Fall 2026 Office Hours TBD Biography Marcelo Pellegrini’s research focuses on poetry and poetics as privileged sites for thinking about the history of ideas in Latin America, with particular attention to how poetic form both reflects and produces intellectual debates. He also has a keen interest in the theory and the practice of translation, which …

Rao, Rajiv

Fall 2026 Office Hours TBD Biography What factors affect the way we sound when we speak a language? Rajiv Rao is interested in providing some answers to this question, namely for Spanish, at the level of both prosody (i.e., intonation, stress, rhythm) and individual sounds. He has looked at effects on the sound system of …

Rodríguez-Guridi, Bárbara

Fall 2026 Office Hours TBD Biography Bárbara Rodríguez-Guridi has taught a variety of literature, culture, conversation, language and composition courses. Her study navigates the social and literary spheres of early modern Spain, with a focus on picaresque narratives, the portrayals of women in 16th and 17th century peninsular literature, and the intersections between theories of …

Sanchez, Kathryn

Fall 2026 Office Hours TBD

Stafford, Catherine

Fall 2026 Office Hours TBD Biography Cathy Stafford is an associate professor of Hispanic Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. She is also a core faculty member of UW-Madison’s Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Her scholarly interests encompass various approaches to studying bilingual phenomena related to post-adolescent/adult SLA and the development and maintenance of Spanish …

Tejedo-Herrero, Fernando

Fall 2026 Office Hours TBD Education PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison