Graduate Bulletin

HISPANIC AND ITALIAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT FACULTY

Professors

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