FACULTY
M. Soledad Caballero
Professor of English and WGSS
Travel writing, cognitive humanities; poetry and craft; Latinx/e literatures; Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; British Romanticism(s)
Thomas Conners
Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies and World Languages & Cultures
Latinx, Ethnic, and Latin American Studies; queer, affect, and critical race theories
Kalé Haywood
Associate Professor of History
Latin America; colonialism and the era of independence; Mexican history; ecclesiastical and institutional history
Wilfredo Hernández
Professor of Spanish
Contemporary Latin American production; Venezuelan literature; Gender and Transgender Studies; Hispanic cinema; and the culture of illicit drugs in the Americas
Shannan Mattiace
Professor of Political Science and International Studies
Criminal violence in Mexico; ethnic politics and social movements in Mexico and Latin America; immigration to the U.S.; U.S.-Mexico border issues
Barbara Riess
Professor of Spanish; Chair of World Languages and Cultures
20th-century Latin American culture; literature of the Cuban Revolution; Latin American women’s literature; translation studies; feminist and postmodern debates
