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Role: spanish

Hugo Salgado

Assistant Professor [WLC]

I am a linguist with broad interdisciplinary interests in Spanish and indigenous languages of Mesoamerica. I work on phonetics and phonology, second-language acquisition, language contact, as well as language documentation and revitalization. In my latest research, I explore how first-language...

Luana Lamberti

Assistant Professor [WLC]

I am a sociolinguist and a creolist. My research focuses on the sociolinguistic aspect of contact-induced features from Portuguese and Spanish. I have carried out long-term research in the Helvécia community from Bahia, Brazil, to document Helvécia Afro-Brazilian Portuguese. I...

Natalia Amorin

Assistant Teaching Professor [WLC]

Xavier Dapena

Assistant Professor [WLC]

Xavier Dapena joined Iowa State’s faculty as an assistant professor in 2021, after receiving his Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies and Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. For the academic year 2019-2020, Dapena was selected as a Mellon...

Megan Myers

Associate Professor [WLC]

I am an Associate Professor of Spanish here at Iowa State. In regards to my current research, I identify broadly as a caribeñista, digital humanist, and engaged scholar. In 2019, I published Mapping Hispaniola: Third Space in Dominican and Haitian...

Elisa Rizo

Associate Professor [WLC]

Elisa Rizo is an Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Iowa State University. Her articles and interviews appear in various academic journals in the United States, Europe and Latin America, as well...

Julie Wilhelm

Associate Teaching Professor [WLC]

Thomas Waldemer

Teaching Professor [WLC]

I teach Spanish, Film and International Studies courses. My research and publications have focused on 20th and 21st Century Latin American historical fiction and Latin American cinema. My most recent publication dealt with Brazilian author Ana Miranda’s historical novel O...

Marta Vessoni de Lence

Associate Teaching Professor [WLC]

Marta Vessoni-Lence is an Associate Teaching Professor of Spanish in the World Languages and Cultures Department at Iowa State University, and a certified ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) Tester. Marta is the Advisor for the Spanish Club, a student-run organization...

Lucía M. Suárez

Associate Professor [WLC]

Lucía M. Suárez has written and taught extensively on the literary production of the Caribbean and its Diaspora authors, claiming their islands and framing their identities through memory and emotion, within a human rights context. Through her research, writing and...

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