Literature/Culture

Greg Cohen

Published: December 16, 2014

Greg Cohen is an artist, curator, and scholar of visual culture specializing in the moving image, photographic media, and multi-media installation. His diverse research interests, both academic and artistic, include…

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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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Roberta L Johnson

Published: October 20, 2014

Roberta Johnson is Professor Emerita at the University of Kansas, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA. She has authored the following books: Carmen Laforet…

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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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Teofilo F. Ruiz

Published: October 20, 2014

Distinguished 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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John Dagenais

Published: October 20, 2014

Link 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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Jorge Marturano

Published: October 20, 2014

Jorge 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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Jesús Torrecilla

Published: October 17, 2014

Professor 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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