Faculty

Regular Faculty

Michael Shelton, Chair

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.

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Mariška Bolyanatz Brown

Associate Professor, Spanish and French Studies

B.A., Gordon College, Massachusetts; M.A., University of Illinois, Chicago; Ph.D., UCLA

Mariška Bolyanatz Brown (IPA: [məˈɾiʃkə boʊliˈɑnɪts bɹɑʊn]) is a linguist whose work focuses on socially conditioned variation in speech production and perception in Spanish.

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Manuela Borzone

Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies

B.A. Universidad de Málaga; M.A. Nottingham University; M.A., Ph.D University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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Salvador Fernández

National Endowment for the Humanities Professorship

B.A., UC Riverside; M.A., Indiana University; Ph.D., UCLA

Salvador Fernández 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.

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Susan Grayson

Professor, Spanish and French Studies

A.B., M.A., Ph.D., UCLA; Ph.D., Wright Institute Los Angeles Attestation d’études, Université 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.

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Alberto López Martín

Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies

B.A. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain; B.A., M.A. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain; M.A.T. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; Ph.D. Florida State University

Alberto Lopez Martin specializes in 20th and 21st century Spanish cultural production, with a focus on contemporary poetry, comic, and graphic novels.

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