Literature/Culture

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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José Luiz Passos

Published: October 17, 2014

José 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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Efraín Kristal

Published: October 16, 2014

Efraín 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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Barbara Fuchs

Published: October 14, 2014

Joint Appointment, Department of English Trained as a comparatist (English, Spanish, French, Italian), Professor Fuchs works on European cultural production from the late fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries, with a special…

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