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Susanna Alles Torrent

Susanna Alles Torrent

Associate Professor
Associate Chair

(305) 284-9275
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Bridget Christine Arce

Bridget Christine Arce

Associate Professor

(305) 284-5585
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B. Christine Arce is Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami and Director of the American Studies Program. She served from 2018 to 2022  as Director of Graduate Studies for the Doctorate in Comparative Cultural & Linguistic Studies. Dr. Arce received a doctoral degree from...
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Steven Fred Butterman

Steven Fred Butterman

Professor

(305) 284-4858
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Christina Civantos

Christina Civantos

Professor

(305) 284-4858 x7265
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Logan Connors

Logan Connors

Professor
CHAIR, MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Faculty Director, UParis

(305) 284-5585
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Logan J. Connors is Professor and Chair of Modern Languages and Literatures. He researches French literature and theatrical performance from 1650 to 1815 as well as topics in theatre and performance studies, the history of the emotions, colonial Caribbean studies, and comparative revolution studies. He teaches French and Francophone Literatures...
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Tracy Devine Guzmán

Tracy Devine Guzmán

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-5585
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Tracy Devine Guzmán teaches in Latin American Studies and Global Indigenous Studies with an emphasis on Brazil, the Andes, and South-South relations. Her research and teaching interests include cultural and intellectual history, social and political theory, and cultural production, especially as these fields intersect with questions of...
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Viviana Diaz Balsera

Viviana Diaz Balsera

Professor

(305) 284-4858 x7222
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Rebecca Doran

Rebecca Doran

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-5585
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Ager Gondra

Ager Gondra

Assistant Professor

(305) 284-5585
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Elena Grau-Lleveria

Elena Grau-Lleveria

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-4858 x7241
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Cae Joseph-Massena

Cae Joseph-Massena

Asst. Professor

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Andrew Lynch

Andrew Lynch

Professor
Associate Dean for Program Development

(305) 284-3229
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Andrew Lynch is a sociolinguist whose scholarship focuses on Spanish language in society; language variability; heritage language studies; and the situation of Spanish in the United States. He is author of Spanish in Miami: Sociolinguistic Dimensions of Postmodernity (Routledge, 2022); editor of Spanish in the...
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Lillian Manzor

Lillian Manzor

Professor
Faculty Director of UParis

(305) 284-5585
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Yolanda M. Martinez-San Miguel

Yolanda M. Martinez-San Miguel, Ph.D.

Professor

(305) 284-5585
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Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel specializes in colonial, postcolonial Latin American, and Caribbean literature. She teaches courses on critical theory, comparative coloniality, gender and sexuality studies, and Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean studies. She has taught at Princeton University (1997-2000), Rutgers, the State University of...
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Thomas Matusiak

Thomas Matusiak

Asst. Professor

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Ludovic Vetea Mompelat

Ludovic Vetea Mompelat

Asst. Professor

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Ludovic Vetea Mompelat is a Research Assistant Professor of French Linguistics, Creolistics and Computational Linguistics. His research lies at the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning, Corpus Linguistics, Syntax, Semantics, and Sociolinguistics. His training in formal Linguistics with a focus on French and...
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Patoimbasba Nikiema

Patoimbasba Nikiema

Asst. Professor

(305) 284-7227
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Patoimbasba Nikiema is an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies / Global Black and Afropean Studies. His research focuses on Postcolonial Studies with a particular interest in Afropean, Sub-Saharan, and Caribbean literatures and cultures around questions of migration, diaspora, race, gender, and transnationalism. He is currently...
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Gema Pilar Perez Sanchez

Gema Pilar Perez Sanchez

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-4858 x7313
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Gema Pérez-Sánchez is Associate Professor of Spanish at the Modern Languages and Literatures Department of the University of Miami (UM). She holds a Ph.D. in Romance Studies from Cornell University (1998) and an M.A. in English Literature from Bucknell University (1992). She researches contemporary Spanish narrative and film;...
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Suja Sawafta

Suja Sawafta

Asst. Professor

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Suja Sawafta is an Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami.  Her research focuses on exile and ecocriticism at the Franco-Arab intersection.  She is currently working on her first book project which examines the impact of exile, intellectual...
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Allison M Schifani

Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies

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Maria Galli Stampino

Maria Galli Stampino

Dean of Undergraduate Affairs

(305) 284-2006
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Dr. Maria Galli Stampino holds a Laurea degree in modern foreign languages from the Catholic University of Milan, an MA in American Studies from the University of Kansas, and a PhD in Italian and Comparative Literature from Stanford University.She joined UM in 1996 as an Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate with tenure in 2003 and to...
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Omar Vargas

Omar Vargas

Assoc. Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies in Spanish

(305) 284-4854 x7261
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