Faculty

Javier Patiño Loira

Published: August 2, 2017

Javier Patiño Loira joined the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA in 2017, after receiving his PhD from Princeton University. He has published articles and book chapters on a…

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Carla Suhr

Published: September 23, 2016

Dr. Carla Suhr joined the Spanish and Portuguese Department at UCLA in 2016 after finishing her PhD at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Professor Suhr focuses her academic work on…

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Ji Young Kim

Published: July 29, 2016

Ji Young Kim joined the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA in 2016 after completing her Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She specializes…

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Patricia Arroyo Calderon

Published: July 15, 2015

  Patricia Arroyo Calderón joined the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA after completing her Ph.D. in Latin American Literatures and Cultures at The Ohio State University (2015). Prior…

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Stephen “Kip” Tobin

Published: July 15, 2015

Stephen “Kip” Tobin received his doctorate in Latin American Literatures and Cultures from The Ohio State University in 2015. His research interests include fantastic literature,science fiction, posthumanism, and speculative ecocriticism…

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Greg Cohen

Published: December 16, 2014

Greg Cohen is an artist, curator, and scholar of visual culture with a particular focus on moving-image and photographic media. His diverse research interests, both academic and artistic, include experimental…

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Maite Zubiaurre

Published: October 22, 2014

Professor Maite Zubiaurre initiated her career as literary translator from novels in German into Spanish for the publisher Alfaguara. She holds a degree in Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and taught…

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Jimena Rodriguez

Published: October 20, 2014

Jimena N. Rodríguez joined the Department of Spanish and Portuguese in 2012, after being a Nominee for the UCLA Chancellor’s Awards for Postdoctoral Research. She is the author of Conexiones…

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Luz Maria de la Torre

Published: October 20, 2014

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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