Spanish and Portuguese Studies - University of Washington
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FARRIS ANDERSON*
Emeritus Professor

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-232
Phone: (206) 543-2059
Email: furman@u.washington.edu

Professional Biography
Professor of Spanish

B.A., Duke University, 1960.
M.A., Duke University, 1962.
PhD , University of Wisconsin, 1968.

University of Washington faculty, 1967- present (Chair 1995-99).

Research and teaching fields:
  • Modern Spanish literature and civilization
  • The literature and history of Madrid
  • Advanced Spanish grammar
  • Translation
  • Study-abroad programs in Spain.
Numerous publications in these fields, and in the contemporary Spanish theatre.

Ph. D., Wisconsin. Modern Spanish Literature (Prose, Drama) & Civilization, Advanced Spanish Grammar



GANESH BASDEO
Senior Lecturer

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-202
Phone: (206) 543-6642
Email: bas@u.washington.edu
Website: http://courses.washington.edu/dibas

Office Hours: By appointment.

Director of the Fall Quarter Oaxaca Program



LEÓN BENSADON
Lecturer

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-204
Phone: (206) 543-2068
Email: lbm@u.washington.edu
Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/lbm

Office Hours: By appointment.



RODNEY V. BODDEN
Emeritus Lecturer



PABLO CARRIEDO
Visiting Lecturer

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-224
Phone: (206) 616-5367
Email: pcarried@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: By appointment.



MARÍA DÍAZ
Lecturer

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-230
Phone: (206) 543-7973
Email: mdp@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: By appointment.



KEVIN DONNELLY*
Assistant Professor

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-233
Phone: (206) 543-2049
Email: kdonn@u.washington.edu
Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/kdonn/

Office Hours: By appointment.

Professional Biography
Ph. D., 2006, New York University. Colonial Spanish American Literature



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ANA FERNÁNDEZ DOBAO*
Assistant Professor/Language Program Director

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-205
Phone: (206) 543-2058
Email: anadobao@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: By appointment.



ALEXANDER FLORES
Teaching Associate, Spanish

Office/Room: n/a
Phone: n/a
Email: amf28@u.washington.edu

***In Cádiz, Spain 2009-10.***



JOAN FOX
Lecturer/First-Year Language Coordinator

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-222
Phone: (206) 543-7943
Email: jfox@u.washington.edu
Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/jfox

Office Hours: By appointment.



ANTHONY GEIST*
Professor/Chair

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-104
Phone: (206) 543-2022
Email: tgeist@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: By appointment.

Professional Biography
Anthony Geist is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978, and taught at Princeton University, the University of Texas, San Antonio, and Dartmouth College before coming to the University of Washington in 1987.

His publications center largely on issues of modernism and postmodernism in twentieth-century peninsular poetry and include La poética de la generación del 27 y las revistas literarias: De la vanguardia al compromiso, Modernism and its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America, Jorge Guillén: The Poetry and the Poet, and the edition of the Obra poética de Julio Vélez.

Geist's other main field of research concerns art and literature of the Spanish Civil War. He published a photoessay on Seattle-area Lincoln Brigade veterans, coauthored with the Spanish photojournalist José Moreno: Passing the Torch: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade and its Legacy of Hope / Otra cara de América: Los brigadistas y su legado de esperanza. He has also curated a traveling exhibit of children's drawings from the Spanish Civil War, which toured the country for two years. The accompanying book, They Still Draw Pictures: Children's Art in Wartime from the Spanish Civil War to Kosovo, was published in 2002.

Geist is Vice Chair of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives and has been a journeyman carpenter for 30 years.

In addition to modern Spanish literature, he also teaches Spanish cinema.

Interview with KCTS Channel 9
Ph. D., California (Berkeley). 20th Century Spanish Literature, Surrealism



DONALD GILBERT-SANTAMARÍA*
Associate Professor

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-233
Phone: (206) 616-6239
Email: donalgs@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: By appointment.

Professional Biography
Donald Gilbert-Santamaría completed his degree in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley in 1997 with a dissertation on the poetics of the Spanish picaresque novel. More recently, Gilbert has been revising a manuscript entitled Writers on the Market: Consuming Literature in Early Seventeenth-Century Spain. This book project examines the rise of consumerism and its impact on the poetics of the novel and theater in Early Modern Spain. Gilbert has also published articles on the work of Spanish historian José Antonio Maravall and Lope de Vega's Arte nuevo de hacer comedias en este tiempo. His next major project is a comparative study of the concept of virtue in Shakespeare and Cervantes.

Ph. D., California (Berkeley).



MARÍA GILLMAN
Senior Lecturer/Third-Year Language Coordinator

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-229
Phone: (206) 543-6208
Email: mgill@u.washington.edu
Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/mgill

***In Oaxaca, Mexico Fall 2009.***

Recipient of Distinguished Contributions to Lifelong Learning Award, 2005



FRANCES GILROY
Teaching Associate

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-220
Phone: (206) 543-4138
Email: francesg@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: By appointment.



JORGE GONZÁLEZ
Lecturer

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-214
Phone: (206) 685-1999
Email: panta@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: By appointment.



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DONALLY KENNEDY
Lecturer

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-227
Phone: (206) 543-6200
Email: donally@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: By appointment.




PHILLIP MARKLEY
Teaching Associate/Second-Year Language Coordinator

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-232
Phone: (206) 543-5629
Email: phillipm@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: By appointment.



MARÍA LUISA MEDIAVILLA
Teaching Associate

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-230
Phone: (206) 543-7973
Email: marilism@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: By appointment.



LEIGH MERCER*
Assistant Professor

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-219
Phone: (206) 543-2059
Email: lmercer@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: By appointment.

Professional Biography
Leigh Mercer completed her degree in Hispanic Studies at Brown University in 2004, with a dissertation on the role of public space in the development of the Spanish bourgeoisie, as seen in the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century novel. She has published articles on the function of the museum in the production of femininity in nineteenth-century Spain, as well as on the anxiety of gender fluidity in Leopoldo Alas's Su único hijo. In addition to revising a book manuscript on urban space in the modern Spanish novel, Prof. Mercer is in the early stages of a project on the interplay of technology and fear in early Spanish film.

Ph. D., Brown University. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Spanish Literature



MARÍA MUÑOZ RUIZ
Visiting Lecturer

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-224
Phone: (206) 616-5367
Email: mariamu@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: By appointment.



EDGAR O'HARA*
Professor

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-231
Phone: (206) 543-2057
Email: eog@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: By appointment.

Professional Biography
Edgar O'Hara studied literature at the Universidad Católica del Perú, at Washington University (St. Louis) and at the University of Texas at Austin. Since 1989 he has taught Latin American literature and Spanish composition at the University of Washington. His fields of particular academic interest are Latin American poetry and essay. He has written for and organized several literary journals and published numerous critical works, as well as his own original poetry. He has received numerous prizes for his poetry.

Ph. D., Texas. Latin American Literature, Modern & Contemporary Poetry



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SUZANNE PETERSEN*
Associate Professor

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-216
Phone (206) 543-6611
Email: petersen@u.washington.edu
Web Site: http://faculty.washington.edu/petersen/

Office Hours: By appointment.

Professional Biography
Suzanne Petersen, Associate Professor of Spanish, completed her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1976. Her primary research interests include the Pan-Hispanic Traditional Ballad (Romancero) and the poetics of orally transmitted poetry. She has used computers since the early seventies to edit and analyse portions of this vast body of poetry and is currently in the process of publishing on-line her latest work in this area: an updated Bibliography of the Pan-Hispanic Romancero as well as a textual database that initially includes some 7000 versions of romances collected from around the world from the 15th century to the present and an audio archive of recordings of some 250 ballad versions collected in the field since 1950. The bibliography, text, and music archives, all regularly updated, are currently available on-line at http://depts.washington.edu/hisprom/. Those who publish in the area of Hispanic and Pan-European Balladry are invited to submit descriptions of their publications directly from the project web site (http://depts.washington.edu/hisprom/biblio/index.php). Professor Petersen is currently working to achieve better representation for the Portuguese and Catalan traditions in the ballad archive and to implement interactive querying capabilities that will perform statistical analysis of primary and secondary ballad data and provide cartographic display of their results.

Ph. D. Wisconsin. Medieval Spanish Literature, Romancero pan-hispánico



INMACULADA RANEDA-CUARTERO
Lecturer

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-220
Phone: (206) 543-4138
Email: inma@u.washington.edu
Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/inma

Office Hours: By appointment.



ALBERTO REQUEJO
Teaching Associate

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-202
Phone: (206) 543-6642
Email: albertoa@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: By appointment.



GEORGE SHIPLEY*
Emeritus Associate Professor

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-233
Phone: (206) 543-2049
Email: gshipley@u.washington.edu

Professional Biography
George Shipley, Associate Professor of Spanish, received his Ph. D. degree from Harvard University in 1968. His teaching and scholarship center on innovations in fictional form, often in relation to social-historical circumstances, from the last decades of the fifteenth century through the first decades of the seventeenth. His several studies of Fernando de Rojas's La Celestina (1499) examine the undermining of literary conventions and subversion of social authority in that work. In a series of studies of Lazarillo de Tormes Shipley recovers lost and silenced meanings of that text, especially those that allude to the marginalizing of the "New Christians" (those of Jewish and Moorish origins) and to tabood erotic experience. In another series of interrelated articles, Shipley is studying the tense friendship of Sancho Panza and Don Quixote by focusing on Sancho's disguised aggressive hostility towards his esteemed master, first expressed in chapter twenty of Part I of Don Quixote and then danced out in related forms on later occasions. He also is preparing studies of several of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares.

Ph. D., Harvard. Golden Age Spanish Literature, Picaresque, Cervantes



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ESTEFANÍA YANCI
Lecturer

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-227
Phone: (206) 543-6200
Email: yanci@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: By appointment.



CHRISTINA ZUBELLI
Teaching Associate

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-214
Phone: (206) 685-1999, (206) 525-5666
Email: zubelli@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: By appointment.




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