Hispanic Studies Full Directory

Picture	Name	Contact
	José Aguilar Student Teaching Assistant Second Language Acquisition , Sociology/Criminology , Latin America , Political Economy and Globalization in Latin America	jose.aguilar@uky.edu 1106 Patterson Office Tower (POT)
	Noemí Alonso Nicolás	nal300@uky.edu POT 1118
	Daniel Batten PhD Candidate Spanish Instructor Assistant Director, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference Spanish Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Phonetics and Phonology, Colonial and Contemporary Spanish American Literature	daniel.batten@uky.edu 1122 Patterson Office Tower
	Ruth Brown Assistant Professor Director of Elementary Language Instruction Latinx populations in the U.S., Instructional Technology, Service-learning, Second Language Acquisition, Language in Kentucky, 19th-21st century Latin American Latinx and US culture	ruth.brown@uky.edu 1137 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-7102
	Alan V. Brown Professor of Spanish Applied Linguistics Director of Graduate Studies Spanish Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, L2 Pedagogy and Assessment	alan.brown@uky.edu 1127 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-7093
	Daniela Calvache-Garcia Latin America, Disability Studies, Madness, Women and Gender Studies, Critical Social Theory	dca348@uky.edu 1106 Patterson Office Tower
	Heather Campbell-Speltz Assistant Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies Coordinator of Translation Studies 20th Century Peninsular Theatre, Gender Performance, Feminist Theatre, translation studies	heather.campbellspeltz@uky.edu 1161 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-5763
	Moisés R. Castillo Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Early Modern and Colonial Studies, Spanish Golden Age Theater, Cervantes Studies	moises.castillo@uky.edu 1163 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-5772
	Irene Chico-Wyatt Professor Emerita Spanish Language, Literature & Culture, Contemporary Poetry, Spanish Peninsular Theater, Golden Age Poetry and Drama, Phonetics	iochic1@uky.edu 1121 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-2711
	Lilia Malavé Conley Ph. D. Candidate (ABD) & Spanish Instructor Research Assistant at UK College of Nursing Sociolinguistics, Multimodal Discourse, Religion and Political Discourse, Demagoguery and Populism, Political Rhetoric	lilia@uky.edu 1122 Patterson Office Tower
	Darryl Dedelow Jr. Ph.D. Candidate (ABD) Spanish Instructor Early Modern Literature, Spanish Civil War and Historical Memory	dedelowjr@uky.edu 1118 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-2127
	Mónica Díaz Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and History Chair of Hispanic Studies Marie Rich Endowed Professor Indigenous peoples and religion, Race, Coloniality, Visual studies, Women's writings, Gender and ethnic identity, Cultural studies, Catholic studies	monica.diaz@uky.edu 1105 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-7091
	Diego Puente second language acquisition, Translation and Interpretation Studies, Second Language Acquisition Sociolinguistics First and Second Language Variation Applied Linguistics, Spanish Language, Literature & Culture, Computer-assisted Language Learning	diego.puente@uky.edyu 1102 Patterson Office Tower
	Juan Fernandez-Cantero Lecturer Transatlantic Studies, Coloniality, Hispanic Heritage and Critical Preservation, Urban Studies, History of Education, Inclusive Pedagogies	juan.fernandez@uky.edu 1141 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-4640
	Fabiola Fernandez-Doig Lecturer Spanish as a Heritage Language, Linguistic Antropology/Sociolinguistics, Discurse analysis	fabiola.fernandez@uky.edu 1149 Patterson Office Tower
	Esperanza A. B. Hillary Seyram PhD Student Instructor second language acquisition	hillaryesperanza99@gmail.com 1118 Patterson Office Tower 0264151302, 8596931024
	Hayden Holman Teaching Assistant	hho251@uky.edu POT 1122
	John Giblin Post-Doctoral Scholar and the Coordinator of Elementary Language Instruction	john.giblin@uky.edu 1131 Patterson Office Tower
	Xander Johnson Teaching Assistant Sociolinguistics, Language Contact, Latin America, Computational Methods, Geospatial Data Science	xander.johnson@uky.edu 1622 Patterson Office Tower
	Kenneth Sandoval Student Teaching Assistant	kgsa223@uky.edu 1102 Patterson Office Tower
	Taylor Leigh Hispanic Studies & Political Science Librarian	taylor.c.leigh@uky.edu 2-5 Young Library
	Matt Losada Associate Professor Latin American Cultural History, Argentine film, 20th and 21st-Century Latin American literature, Spanish experimental film, Women Filmmakers, Brazilian film,	mattlosada@uky.edu 1133 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-5793
	Lydia Carrascal Cuadrado	lydia.carrascal@uky.edu 1102 Patterson Office Tower 2575122
	Miguel Angel Martos Maldonado Graduate Student	miguelangelmartos@uky.edu 1106 Patterson Office Tower
	Georgie Medina Senior Lecturer of Spanish Faculty Adviser for Sigma Delta Pi Honor Society Faculty Adviser for Phi Sigma Iota International Foreign Language Honor Society SPA 310 Coordinator Afro-Hispanic Literature, Latin American Theater, Identity and Race Relations in Latin America, Latin American Culture and Civilization, Spanish Caribbean History	Georgie.Medina@uky.edu #1139 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-7097
	Meimalin Rivas Second Language Acquisition Sociolinguistics First and Second Language Variation Applied Linguistics	meimalin.rivas@uky.edu 1102 Patterson Office Tower
	Sofia Mena Molina subaltern studies, Hybridity and Mestizo Studies, Border Studies;, borderland cultures, Latin American Cinema	sofia.mena-molina@uky.edu 1102
	Carmen Moreno-Nuño Professor of Hispanic Studies Contemporary Spanish Peninsular Cultural Studies	morenonuno@uky.edu 1125 Patterson Office Tower (859)-257-7092
	Yanira Paz Professor of Spanish Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Oral Traditions	yanira.paz@uky.edu 1123 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-7100
	Rebeca Ponce Ochoa Teaching Assistant	rpo231@uky.edu 1118
	Jesús Ponte Bernal Contemporary Spanish Peninsular Cultural Studies, Second Language Acquisition	jpo289@uky.edu 1122 Patterson Office Tower
	Dierdra Reber Associate Professor of Latin American Culture 19th-21st century Latin American Latinx and US culture, film and media studies, cultural and critical theory, affect studies and theory, biopolitics and power, neoliberalism, ecocriticism and sustainability studies, Latin American post/coloniality, postcolonial studies and theory, gender women's sexuality studies	dierdra.reber@uky.edu 1135 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-1569
	Ana Rueda Professor of Spanish Literature & Culture William T. Bryan Endowed Chair Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor Modern and Contemporary Spanish Studies, Short Fiction, Writing the Self, Transnational Topics, Gender Studies and Women's Writing, Writing War, Colonial/Neocolonial Studies (Spain & Morocco), Interdisciplinary Studies, Critical Theory and Intellectual History	rueda@uky.edu 1153 Patterson Office Tower (859)-257-1565, (859)-257-7095
	Paula Ruiz Santamaría 20th and 21st Century Latin American literature, Poetry written by women, Women and Gender Studies, Critical Social Theory, Colonialism	Paularuiz@uky.edu 1106 Patterson Office Tower
	Ana Sánchez Sánchez Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Contemporary Peninsular Studies , Latin American Studies	ana.sanchez@uky.edu 1106 Patterson Office Tower
	Haralambos Symeonidis (Χαράλαμπος Συμεωνίδης) Professor of Spanish Linguistics Co-Director of ALGR (Atlas Lingüístico Guaraní-Románico) https://algr.createuky.net/ Professor at Middlebury Language School Summer 2010 Professor at Middlebury Language School (Buenos Aires) Summer 2012-today Invited scholar at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (March 2017) Invited scholar at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Executive Director of KFLC Hispanic Linguistics, Spanish and Portuguese in South America (Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil), Judaeo-Spanish, Language Contact, Eurovision Song Contest and Language Use	haralambos.symeonidis@uky.edu 1129 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-2629, https://algr.createuky.net/
	Alira Vargas Graduate Student- Teaching Assistant	alira.vargasortiz@uky.edu 1118 Patterson Office Tower

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