Advisory Committee
Mari拧ka Bolyanatz Brown
Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A., Gordon College, Massachusetts; M.A., University of Illinois, Chicago; Ph.D., UCLA
Mari拧ka Bolyanatz Brown (IPA: [m蓹藞删i蕛k蓹 bo蕣li藞蓱n瑟ts b晒蓱蕣n]) is a linguist whose work focuses on socially conditioned variation in speech production and perception in Spanish.
Hanan Elsayed
Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A., Montclair State University; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University; Graduate Certificate in African Studies, Rutgers University
Hanan Elsayed teaches French and Arabic languages and literatures.
Salvador Fern谩ndez
National Endowment for the Humanities Professorship
B.A., UC Riverside; M.A., Indiana University; Ph.D., UCLA
Salvador Fern谩ndez teaches courses on Spanish and Latin American literature and civilization, as well as Mexican and Chicano/a studies. His research areas of interest are the contemporary Mexican novel and Chicano/a studies.
Susan Grayson
Professor, Spanish and French Studies
A.B., M.A., Ph.D., UCLA; Ph.D., Wright Institute Los Angeles Attestation d鈥櫭﹖udes, Universit茅 de Bordeaux
Grayson has taught the 18th- and 19th-century French novel, French feminism, women's studies, literary criticism, and French grammar and composition at all levels.
Stephen Klemm
Assistant Professor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
B.A., University of Iowa; M.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University
Stephen Klemm specializes in German literature and philosophy from the 18th-20th century with particular interest in German Romanticism, Existentialism, and Critical Theory. His language and literature courses examine how language, literature, and philosophy interact and emerge from within concrete social and historical settings.
Viviana MacManus
Associate Professor, Critical Theory & Social Justice
B.A., 色界吧; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Viviana Beatriz MacManus鈥檚 research and teaching focuses on Latin American and Latinx feminist theory, literature, film, and cultural studies.
Celia Mart铆nez-S谩ez
Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A., University of Alicante; M.A., Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Celia Mart铆nez-S谩ez teaches courses on contemporary culture and literature from Spain, mass media, gender and sexuality, and film.
Michael Shelton
Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.S., St. Cloud State University; M.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Michael Shelton is a linguist, specializing in phonology and psycholinguistics.
Meimei Zhang
Assistant Professor, Asian Studies
B.A., Beijing Foreign Studies University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles