James Crapotta

James Crapotta is Language Coordinator and Senior Lecturer. He received his Ph.D in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University in 1979 and has taught in the Department since 1975. He is the author of Kingship and Tyranny in the Theater of Guillén de Castro and co-author of Facetas: Conversación y redacción. He has also written articles on Golden Age theater and language pedagogy. He writes monthly video-viewing materials for Spanish TV-Magazine and is the video/film review editor for the Northeast Conference Newsletter. Besides coordinating the basic language sequence, he also teaches "Advanced Oral and Written Spanish," "An Introduction to Spanish Theater," "Special Issues in Contemporary Spain," and two courses --one in Spanish and one in English -- on gay and lesbian representations in Hispanic literature and film. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. His current work consists of preparing Web-based communciative materials for the teaching of Spanish.

Isabel Estrada

Isabel Estrada is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures at Barnard College in New York. She received her B.A. from the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, an M.A. in Romance Languages and Literature from the University of Michigan, and her Ph.D. in Modern Peninsular Literature from Columbia University in 1999. She is currently working on a book on the pull for teleology and modernity, and the push for the nostalgia and tradition in the Spanish cultural production since 1975. She has published in journals such as Hispanic Review, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, España Contemporánea, Revista Hispánica Moderna and Letras Femeninas.

Alfred Mac Adam

Alfred Mac Adam's area of specialization is Latin American literature of the 20th century. His most recent book, Textual Confrontations: Comparative Readings in Latin American Literature (University of Chicago Press, 1986) brings together writing from the Spanish-speaking and English-speaking worlds in order to discover common denominators and cultural divergences.
Professor Mac Adam is the editor of Review: Latin American Literature and Arts, a publication of the Americas Society. He is also a translator of contemporary Spanish American fiction, especially of Carlos Fuentes.

Agueda Pizarro Rayo

Carlos Riobo

Wadda C. Ríos-Font

Wadda C. Ríos-Font, Professor, received her B.A. in Spanish Studies and English from The Johns Hopkins University in 1985, and her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University in 1991. Her specialization is modern and contemporary Peninsular literature and culture (from 1800 to the present), with interests in cultural theory, gender issues, and transatlantic exchanges. She taught in the Department of Hispanic Studies at Brown University between 1996 and 2005, and was previously Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester. She has held visiting appointments at the University of California Berkeley, UCLA, and Rutgers University, among others. Her most recent book, The Canon and the Archive: Configuring Literature in Modern Spain (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, and London: Associate University Presses, 2004) queries the formation and constantly renegotiated definition of the concept of literature in modern Spain. She previously published Rewriting Melodrama: The Hidden Paradigm in Modern Spanish Theatre (Bucknell, 1997), which chronicles the evolution of this dramatic genre from the early 1800s through the 1920s. Her work has also appeared in many journals, including Hispanic Review, Hispania, MLN, and Revista de Estudios Hispánicos; as well as in volumes such as the Cambridge History of Spanish Literature (Ed. David T. Gies. Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Lorena Rodas

Flora H. Schiminovich

Flora H.Schiminovich, Senior Lecturer is the author of Macedonio Fernández: una lectura surrealista (Madrid: Pliegos, 1986) and of La pluma mágica (Boston: Heinle & Heinle), 1994. She has written numerous articles and essays about women writers and poets, politics, cinema,theatre, fantastic and detective fiction in Latin America. Her most recent contributions include studies for the volume: Jewish Writers of Latin America: A Dictionary. (New York & London: Garland Press, 1997) and in: Antologia del teatro breve hispanoamericano (Medellin: Universidad de Antioquia, 1997) She is on the editorial board of Inti and Revista Hispanicá Moderna. At Barnard she is also an advisor for the First Year and Sophomore class.

Michael Schuessler

Michael K. Schuessler received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he specialized in the literature and arts of colonial Latin America. He is the author of various articles devoted to the interpretation of Latin-American literature and culture, as well as two books: La undécima musa: Guadalupe Amor (1995) and Elenísima: ingenio y figura de Elena Poniatowska (2003), both published in Mexico by Editorial Diana. The latter will be published in English translation by the University of Arizona Press in 2005. He has also co-edited an anthology of the poetry of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: El universo de sor Juana (1995). In 2005 his edition and critical study of Alma Reed’s memoirs entitled Mexico’s “Peregrina:” The Autobiography of Alma M. Reed will be published by the University of Texas Press. Currently he is completing the revision of his doctoral dissertation, which will be published by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) under the title: Una literatura de fundación: teatro misionero y pintura mural en el México colonial. At Barnard he has taught many courses on Latin American literature and culture as well as a First Year Seminar dedicated to “Literature and Testimony in the Americas,” which explores the relationship between testimonial accounts of the colonial period to the region’s modern literary production. At Columbia University he has taught a graduate seminar on the literature of Mexico’s Tenth Muse, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Professor Schuessler received a Fulbright García-Robles fellowship on two occasions for research in Mexico (1994, 2003), an Andrew W. Mellon post-doctoral fellowship (1999), as well as a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2003).

Jesús Suárez García

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