People Type: Faculty

Hutchinson, Steven

Fall 2026 Office Hours Mondays 2:15-3:15 and by appointment. 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 …

Medina, Rubén

Fall 2026 Office Hours Tuesdays 11am, 1140 Van Hise Thursdays 11am, 3259 Levy Hall 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 …

Pellegrini, Marcelo

Fall 2026 Office Hours Tuesdays 1–3 PM 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 …

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 …

Sanchez, Kathryn

Fall 2026 Office Hours TBD

Stafford, Catherine

Fall 2026 Office Hours Mondays, 1:30-2:30pm; Thursdays, 12-1pm (or by appointment) 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 …

Tejedo-Herrero, Fernando

Fall 2026 Office Hours Thursday, 4:00-5:00 and by appointment Education PhD, University of Wisconsin–Madison