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



JOSEFA BÁEZ-RAMOS
Director, Center for Spanish Studies

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-224
Phone: (206) 221-6571
Email: spnrectr@u.washington.edu



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: M,W 10:30-11:20am. T,Th,F by appointment.

Director of the Fall Quarter Oaxaca Program



LEÓN BENSADÓN
Lecturer

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

Office Hours: M,W 11:30-12:20pm. T,Th,F by appointment.



PATRICK BLAINE
Teaching Assistant, Spanish

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-203
Phone: (206) 543-8645
Email: pgblaine@u.washington.edu



AVRAM BLUM
Teaching Assistant, Portuguese/Spanish

In Cadiz for the 2007-08 Academic Year


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



RODNEY V. BODDEN
Emeritus Lecturer



KRISTEE BOEHM
Lecturer/Second-Year Language Coordinator

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-232
Phone: (206) 543-5629
Email: kkboehm@u.washington.edu
Website: http://courses.washington.edu/span200/

Office Hours: M,W,F 12:30-1:20pm. T,Th by appointment.



KLAUS BRANDL
Scandinavian Studies

Email: brandl@u.washington.edu
Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/brandl/vitae.htm

Ph. D., University of Texas at Austin. Applied Linguistics/Foreign Language Education



LUIS CORUJO
Teaching Assistant, Spanish

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-209
Phone: (206) 616-5367
Email: corujo@u.washington.edu

Not teaching Spring Quarter 2008.



ELENA DEEM
Teaching Assistant, Spanish

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-221
Phone: (206) 543-2086
Email: elenad@u.washington.edu

Not teaching Spring Quarter 2008.



TERRI DeYOUNG
Near Eastern Languages & Civilization

Email: tdeyoung@u.washington.edu

Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley). Near Eastern Studies



MARÍA DÍAZ
Lecturer

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

Not teaching Spring Quarter 2008.



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: M 2:00-3:00pm. W 1:00-2:00pm. T,Th,F by appointment.

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



CHRISTOPHER ELDRETT
Teaching Assistant, Spanish

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-221
Phone: (206) 543-2086
Email: cge4@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: W,Th 2:25-3:25pm. M,T,F by appointment.



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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



ALEXANDER FLORES
Teaching Assistant, Spanish

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-217
Phone: (206) 543-2088
Email: amf28@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: W,F 1:30-2:20pm. M,T,Th by appointment.



LAURO FLORES
Professor and Chair, American Ethnic Studies

Email: lflores@u.washington.edu

Professional Biography

Professor and Chair, American Ethnic Studies
Adjunct Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Studies
Adjunct Professor, Latin American Studies - Jackson School of International Studies

Publications:
  • The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998
  • Winner of an American Book Award (1999)
  • Luis Pérez, El Coyote/The Rebel Houston: Arte Público Press, 2000
  • Alfredo Arreguín, Patterns of Dreams and Nature / Diseños, Sueños y Naturaleza Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002
  • Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize Notable Book, 2002
  • Articles and book chapters by Lauro Flores have appeared in many publications in the United States and abroad, among them The Americas Review, Confluencia, Crítica, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos (Spain), De Colores, Hispania, Metamorfosis, The Minnesota Review, La Palabra, The Pawn Review, Plural (Mexico), Revista Chicano-Riqueña, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Visible Language (Canada), and the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Teaching and Research Interests:
Latin-American and Chicano/a narrative (the novel and autobiographical literature), culture, and film

Courses:
CHSTU 330 "Chicano Autobiography"
CHSTU 498 "Special Topics"

Ph. D., California (San Diego). Chicano & Latin American Literature



CARMEN FLORES PLÁ
Director, Aula Cervantes Seattle

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-224
Phone: (206) 616-8464
Email: cfloresp@u.washington.edu



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: T 10:30-11:20am. F 8:30-9:20am. M,W,Th by appointment.



KELLY FOX
Teaching Assistant, Spanish

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-209
Phone: (206) 616-5367
Email: kfox@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: T 2:30-3:20pm. Th 1:30-2:20pm. M,W,F by appointment.



CAMELIA GAVRILA
Teaching Assistant, Spanish

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-209
Phone: (206) 616-5367
Email: cgavrila@u.washington.edu



ANTHONY GEIST
Professor/Chair

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

Office Hours: T 1:00-2:00pm. W 11:00-12:00pm. M,Th,F 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
Assistant Professor

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

Office Hours: F 1:30-3:30pm. M,T,W,Th 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

Office Hours: M 2:30-3:30pm. Th 11:30-12:30pm. T,W,F by appointment.

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: M 11:30-12:30pm. W 10:30-11:30am. T,Th,F by appointment.



EVA MARÍA GÓMEZ GÁRCIA
Teaching Assistant, Spanish

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-212
Phone: (206) 685-1426
Email: evagg@u.washington.edu



JORGE GONZÁLEZ
Lecturer

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

Office Hours: T,Th 12:00-1:00pm. M,W,F by appointment.



MARÍA DEL MAR GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA
Teaching Assistant, Spanish

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-221
Phone: (206) 543-2086
Email: mariaw192@hotmail.com



NATHANIEL GREENBERG
Teaching Assistant, Spanish

Office/Room: ART 345
Phone: (206) 616-4756
Email: nateg@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: M,W 10:30-11:30am. T,Th,F by appointment.



CHRISTINA HEVIA
Teaching Assistant, Spanish

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-218
Phone: (206) 616-7978
Email: chrisls@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: M,W 10:30-11:20am. T,Th,F by appointment.



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WENDY KEMPSELL
Teaching Assistant, Spanish

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-218
Phone: (206) 616-7978
Email: kempsell@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: T 10:00-12:00pm. M,W,Th,F by appointment.



DONALLY KENNEDY
Lecturer

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

Office Hours: M,Th 12:30-1:20pm. T,W,F by appointment.



CECILE KUMMERER
Senior Computer Specialist

Office/Room: Padelford C-201
Phone: (206) 685-4726
Email: cecile@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: M-F 1:00-5:00pm.



TRAVIS LANDRY
Teaching Assistant, Spanish

Office/Room: ART 345
Phone: (206) 616-4756
Email: tcl@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: M 9:30-11:20am. T,W,Th,F by appointment.



VICTORIA LAWSON
Thomas and Margo Wyckoff Faculty Fellow
Dept. of Geography


Email: lawson@u.washington.edu
Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/lawson/pages/cv.html

Ph.D., The Ohio State University. Geography



MARÍA LEDEZMA
Teaching Assistant, Spanish

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-217
Phone: (206) 543-2088
Email: ledezm@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: M,W 11:00-12:00pm. T,Th,F by appointment.



CASCADE LINEBACK
Teaching Assistant, Spanish

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-218
Phone: (206) 616-7978
Email: cbl3@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: T,Th 2:30-3:20pm. M,W,F by appointment.



PHILLIP MARKLEY
Teaching Associate

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

Office Hours: T,Th 10:30-11:20am. M,W,F by appointment.



SUZANNA MARTÍNEZ
Academic Counselor

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-104F
Phone: (206) 543-2075
Email: spsadv@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: Please sign up for an appointment on her office door.

Questions on 300 & 400 level classes, Spanish major, minor, study abroad and graduate advising.



MEGHAN McMACKIN
Teaching Assistant, Spanish

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-212
Phone: (206) 685-1426
Email: mcmackin@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: M,Th 1:00-2:00pm. T,W,F by appointment.



MARÍA LUISA MEDIAVILLA
Teaching Associate

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

Office Hours: M,W 9:30-10:30am. T,Th,F by appointment.



LEIGH MERCER
Assistant Professor

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-219
Phone: (206) 543-5629
Email: lmercer@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: M,W 12:30-1:20pm. T,Th,F 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



DAVID MILES
Administrator

Office/Room: Padelford C-104
Phone: (206) 616-5302
Email: dmiles@u.washington.edu
Website: http://staff.washington.edu/dmiles/

Office Hours: M,W,F 8:00-12:00pm & 1:00-5:00pm. T,Th 8:00-12:00pm.



NATALIA MORALES CARMONA
Teaching Associate

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

Office Hours: T,Th 2:30-4:30pm. M,W,F by appointment.



ADAM MORRIS
Teaching Assistant, Spanish

Office/Room: ART 345
Phone: (206) 616-4756
Email: ajmorris@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: T,Th 11:30-12:20pm. M,W,F by appointment.



CARLOS NYE
Teaching Assistant, Spanish

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-203
Phone: (206) 543-8645
Email: sapofrog@u.washington.edu



EDGAR O'HARA
Professor

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

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: F 1:00-3:20pm. M,T,W,Th 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



LANI PHILLIPS
Adviser

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-106
Phone: (206) 616-9579
Email: spanport@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: M-F 8:15-11:45am.

Questions on 100 & 200 level Spanish/Portuguese, and study abroad.



GABRIELA PIRRALHO
Senior Secretary

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-104
Phone: (206) 543-2020
Email: spsuw@u.washington.edu



LAETITIA PLOMTEUX
Teaching Assistant, Spanish

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-217
Phone: (206) 543-2088
Email: plomteux@u.washington.edu



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: T,Th 10:30-11:30am. M,W,F by appointment.



ALBERTO REQUEJO
Teaching Associate

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



JEFF RIDENOUR
Teaching Assistant, Spanish

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-218
Phone: (206) 616-7978
Email: jmr42@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: T,F 8:30-9:30am. M,W,Th by appointment.



JUANA RÍOS
Teaching Assistant, Spanish

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-217
Phone: (206) 543-2088
Email: riosj@u.washington.edu



JUAN PABLO RODRÍGUEZ DE ARGENTE DE CASTILLO
Teaching Assistant, Spanish

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-209
Phone: (206) 616-5367
Email: jpzxcv@yahoo.com

Office Hours: W,Th 1:30-2:20pm. M,T,F by appointment.



JAVIER RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ
Teaching Assistant, Spanish

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) C-212
Phone: (206) 685-1426
Email: jrodfer@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: T,Th 1:30-2:30pm. M,W,F 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



SABRINA SPANNAGEL
Teaching Associate

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

Office Hours: T,Th 3:30-4:00pm. M,W,F by appointment.



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CARLOS VARÓN GONZÁLEZ
Teaching Assistant, Spanish

Office/Room: Padelford (PDL) B-221
Phone: (206) 543-2086
Email: cvg821@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: Th 1:30-2:20pm. F 11:30-12:20pm. M,T,W by appointment.



ESTEFANÍA YANCI
Teaching Associate

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

Office Hours: M,Th 2:30-3:30pm. T,W,F by appointment.



KAREN ZAGONA
Professor, Linguistics

Email: zagona@u.washington.edu

Ph.D., The University of Washington



CHRISTINA ZUBELLI
Teaching Associate

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



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