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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Literature/Culture
Roberta L Johnson
Published: October 20, 2014Roberta 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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Published: October 20, 2014Luz 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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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, 2014Efraín Kristal is Distinguished Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at UCLA. He is a specialist of Latin American literature in comparative contexts, and of translation studies. He has published several single author…
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