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SPANISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY
GUSTAVO FARES | PATRICIA VILCHES | ROSA TAPIA (CHAIR) | MADERA ALLAN | JAVIER GUERRERO | ESTHER PALOMINO
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 GUSTAVO FARES
Professor
of Spanish
Main Hall
(920) 832-6691
faresg@lawrence.edu
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Gustavo
Fares is a native of Argentina. He holds a Ph.D. in Latin American
Literature from the University of Pittsburgh, a Master in Foreign
Languages, a Master in Painting and Lithography from West Virginia
University, and a J.D.Law Degree from the
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Prof.
Fares teaches all levels of the Spanish language and courses on Latin
American literature and culture. His research
interests include the work of the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo,
Mexican literature and culture, contemporary Argentinean women writers,
Latin American culture, and cultural and border
studies.
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 PATRICIA VILCHES
Associate
Professor of Spanish & Italian
Fulbright Campus Advisor
Main Hall
(920) 832-7286
patricia.vilches@lawrence.edu
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Patricia Vilches is a native of Viña del Mar, Chile. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in
Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Chicago, with a
dissertation emphasis on Spanish Golden Age and Italian Renaissance, and
other work related to Latin American literature.
Prof. Vilches
also works on Italian Renaissance literature, especially the works of Niccolò Machiavelli. She has produced a volume of short
stories about Chile, entitled Karma desde el
Mar ( Ediciones Documentas, 1992). Vilches teaches Latin American
literature and culture and Italian language courses.
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ROSA TAPIA
Department
Chair
Associate Professor of Spanish
Main Hall
tapiar@lawrence.edu
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 Rosa Tapia is a native of Spain. She
holds a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from Penn State University, a M.A. in
Spanish and Foreign Language Pedagogy from the University of Delaware, and a
B.A. in English Philology from the University of Granada (Spain). Tapia
teaches Spanish language, culture, literature and film. She received the
Lawrence University's Young
Teacher Award in 2005.
Tapia’s research focuses on Spanish and Latin American fiction and cinema. Her
scholarship includes a book on contemporary Spanish narrative, as well as
journal articles and conference presentations on topics related to national
identities, historical memory, gender studies and film.
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MADERA ALLAN
Assistant
Professor of Spanish
Main Hall
(920) 832-6690
madera.allan@lawrence.edu
Madera Allan holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Spanish from the
University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Spanish from Reed College. She has
also studied at the Insituto Oriente
in Mexico, the Université de Rennes II in France
and the Torre del libro in Cuba.
Her research
focuses on late medieval and early modern Spain, viewed through the lenses
of: cultural studies, imperium
studies, postcolonial theory, material culture, and ethics. She teaches
Spanish language and culture courses, as well as Freshman Studies.
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Javier Guerrero
Postdoctoral
Fellow in Spanish and Alfieri Fellow in Spanish
Main Hall
(920) 832-7211
javier.guerrero@lawrence.edu
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ESTHER PALOMINO
Instructor of
Spanish
Main Hall
(920) 832-7483
esther.palomino@lawrence.edu
Esther Palomino
holds a Licenciatura en Filosofía
y Letras from the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) and she did graduate work at
Purdue University
The topics of
her research have ranged from the literature of exhaustion in Borges and
Barthes, semiotic theory applied to Chilean drama, self-referentiality
in Albee's plays, and Chicana lesbianism, to the
religious problem in Marlow and Calderón. She has
also presented papers at professional meetings on topics ranging from
Caribbean literature, Existentialisms, Kafka, Social Realism, and
Hardboiled fiction to Foreign Language pedagogy. She has published several
articles on Peninsular Spanish and Hispanic American literature, as well as
on British and US literatures.
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 CECILIA HERRERA
Instructor of
Spanish
Main Hall
(920)
832-7143
Cecilia Herrera is a native of Viña
del Mar, Chile. She holds a B.A. in English and a M.A. in Spanish from the
Universidad de Playa Ancha (Chile). Herrera
teaches Spanish language courses at Lawrence and she has extensive
experience working with immersion programs in the United States and abroad.
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DEPARTMENT'S MAILING ADDRESS:
SPANISH DEPARTMENT
LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY
711 East Boldt Way,
Appleton, WI 54911-5626
(USA)
PHONE: (920) 832-6647
FAX: (920) 832 6944
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