Luz María De la Torre Amaguana is a Kichwa (Quechua) indigenous woman from Ecuador. She joins the Spanish and Portuguese Department at UCLA in 2009. She has been appointed as…
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Literature/Culture
Maarten van Delden
Published: October 20, 2014Teofilo F. Ruiz
Published: October 20, 2014Distinguished Professor of History & Peter H. Reill Term Chair in European History A student of Joseph R. Strayer, Distinguished Professor Teofilo (“Teo”) Ruiz received his Ph.D. from Princeton in…
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Published: October 20, 2014Link to Personal Website Teaching: 2023-2024 Fall Quarter 2023 Spanish 119 Spanish 130 Winter Quarter 2024 Spanish 170 Spanish 221: Libro de buen amor Spring Quarter 2024 Research Quarter
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Published: October 20, 2014Jorge Marturano teaches Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultural studies in the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA. He received his licenciatura en letras from the Universidad de…
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Published: October 17, 2014Professor Jesús Torrecilla specializes in Spanish Literature of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. He studied at the Universidad Complutense (Madrid), and earned his B.A. degree at the Universidad…
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Published: October 17, 2014José Luiz Passos is a Professor of Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Cultures. He received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from UCLA in 1998. Prior to joining the Department of…
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Published: October 16, 2014It is with great sadness that the Department of Spanish and Portuguese announces the passing of Distinguished Professor Efraín Kristal. He died on November 14th, 2025, in Southern California, surrounded…
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