Manuel Alvar, Doctor en Filosofia y Letras University of Madrid, Member of the Real Academia Española
Associate Professors
Olimpia Pelosi, Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Italian renaissance and baroque, modern comparative literature (Italian, French, and Spanish).
Joana Sabadell-Nieto, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Contemporary Spanish literature (poetry, narrative, film) feminism and gender studies.
Maurice Westmoreland, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Historical linguistics, romance linguistics, morphology.
Assistant Professors
Adam Lifshey, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Latin American literature, Inter-American and transatlantic studies.
Luis Paris, Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
Linguistic theory, semantics, pragmatics, translation theory.
Lotfi Sayahi, Ph.D., Universidad Complutense, Madrid
Bilingualism, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition.
Assistant Professor (Visiting)
Denise Smith, Ph.D., University at Albany
Dialectology (geolinguistics), translation theory, foreign language pedagogy.
Lecturers
Maria Keyes, M.A., University at Albany
Italian cinema, Italian-American culture.
Aida Torres-Horwitt, Ph.D., University at Albany
Golden Age Spanish literature, Latin American (particularly Puerto Rican) literature and culture.
Professor Emerita
Armand F. Baker, Ph.D., University of Iowa