΢ƽ

Spanish Faculty

Chair
Photo of John Petrus
Associate Professor
John Petrus received his PhD from Ohio State University in 2015. His research is centered around questions of sexual and racial difference in Latinx and Latin American audio-visual media and life narratives. His primary focus is US Latine/x creative works on experiences of the HIV/AIDS crisis. His...
Yvette Aparicio
Professor
At ΢ƽ, Yvette Aparicio is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies. She teaches contemporary Latin American literature and cultures, Latin American Studies and Spanish. Her course offerings include Introduction to Latin American Studies (taught in English) and Latin American Food &...
Valerie Benoist
Professor
Valérie Benoist is a professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies specializing in colonial literature. She teaches for the Spanish Department as well as for the Latin American Studies Concentration. Her course offerings include Introduction to Latin American Studies (in English) as well as...
Professor Núñez in a tweed suit, standing in front of a gray metal wall
Assistant Professor
Sophia Blea Núñez has research interests in literature and cultural history of the early modern Hispanic world, book history, early modern race and religion, and gender and sexuality studies. They earned their PhD in Spanish and Portuguese from Princeton University and have since held a postdoctoral...
Mirzam Perez
Professor
Professor Pérez hails from San Pedro Sula, Honduras via New Orleans, La. She loves introducing students to early modern texts and integrating digital humanities assignments in her courses. In her free time Professor Pérez paints and spends time with her family. She is proud to call ΢ƽ...
Professor Emeritus
Nick Phillips
Associate Professor

Associate Dean of Curriculum and Academic Programs

Nick Phillips received his PhD from Indiana University in 2014. His dissertation, titled “Space and the City: Peripheral Communities of Madrid and Barcelona”, focused on the production and representation of suburban spaces in contemporary Spanish detective fiction. His research and scholarly...

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