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Regular Faculty

Professor Mike Shelton

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.
Professor Mariska Bolyanatz

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.
Professor Hanan Elsayad

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.
Professor Salvador Fern谩ndez

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.

Non-Tenure Track Faculty

Marta Llorente Bravo

Visiting Instructor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A., M.A., Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Ph.D., University of California, Davis (in progress)

Luz D. Forero

Specialist for Language Education; Visiting Instructor, Spanish & French Studies
B.A., 海角社区; M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara

Alicia Gonzalez

Resident Senior Instructor, Spanish and French Studies
A.B., Stanford University; M.A., UCLA
Professor Gloria Orozco Allan

Gloria Orozco

Visiting Associate Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., UCLA

Karina Rincon

Resident Instructor, Spanish and French Studies
A.B., 海角社区; M.A., UCLA

Penelope Rosenstock-Murav

Visiting Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A. University of Chicago; M1 Universit茅 Sorbonne-Nouvelle; Ph.D. Cornell University
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M. Gabriela Venegas

Visiting Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A, Universidad Cat贸lica Santiago de Guayaquil; M.A., Florida State University; P.h.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Emeriti/ae Faculty

Norman Bridge Distinguished Professor of Spanish, Spanish and French Studies; Emeritus (1984-2021)
Spanish & French Studies

Robert Ellis teaches courses in Spanish and in modern Spanish literature and civilization.

Professor, Spanish and French Studies, Emerita (1989-2020)
Spanish & French Studies

Adelaida L贸pez teaches the literature of magical realism (Borges, Cort谩zar, and M谩rquez) as well as women's literature of Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina. Her research interests include psychoanalysis.

Contact Spanish & French Studies
Johnson Hall 402