Master of Arts in Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures (FLCL)
Graduate Faculty in Spanish
Elisabeth Austin, Assistant Professor. PhD, University of Pennsylvania. Specialist in nineteenth-century Latin American narrative and culture. Has most recently published on Cuban literature.
Jacqueline Bixler, Alumni Distinguished Professor. PhD, University of Kansas. Specialist in contemporary Mexican theater. Author of three books on Mexican theater, and numerous published articles. Winner of major university teaching awards.
Antonio Fernández, Associate Professor. PhD, University of Kentucky. Specialist in Latin American literature. Certified national oral proficiency examiner for the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Author of two books on Cuban exile literature and articles on Spanish American Literature. Winner of major university teaching awards.
Jessica A. Folkart, Associate Professor. PhD, University of Kansas. Specialist in contemporary Spanish literature and culture. Author of a book, Angles on Otherness in Post-Franco Spain: The Fiction of Cristina Fernández Cubas, and articles on contemporary Spanish literature.
Aarnes Gudmestad, Assistant Professor. PhD, Indianna University. Specialist in second language acquisition and sociolinguistics. Her recent publications have focused on the variable use of morphosyntactic structures among native- and non-native speakers of Spanish.
Moses E. Panford, Jr., Associate Professor. Licenciatura, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, PhD, Temple University. Specialist in Spanish Golden Age literature. Editor of a critical edition of Manuel Vicente Guerrero, El negro valiente en Flandes, and author of several articles on Blacks and other minorities in Early Modern Spanish literature.
Judith L. Shrum, Professor. PhD, Ohio State University. Specialist in Second Language Education. Co-author of Teachers' Handbook: Contextualized Language Instruction , and of two Spanish textbooks. Author of numerous articles on language learning in classrooms. Winner of major university teaching awards.
Sarah Sierra, Assistant Professor. PhD, Boston University. Specialist in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Spanish Literature. Has published articles on Benito Pérez Galdós and the influence of folklore on literature.
Justo C. Ulloa, Professor. PhD, University of Kentucky. Specialist in Spanish-American narrative. Editor of the Cuban section for the Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies. Co-author of two literary readers, and numerous articles of literary criticism. Winner of major university teaching awards.