Spanish Faculty

Vicente Cabrera Funes

Professor

• Ph.D., University of Massachusetts
• M.A., University of Massachusetts
• B.A., Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito

• Morris Faculty Distinguished Research Award
  Author of five books of Literary Studies.
  Author of five novels.

Areas of Expertise

• Spanish Language
• Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Novel
• Contemporary Hispanic Cinema

James Wojtaszek

Associate Professor

• Ph.D., Rutgers University
• M.A., Kent State University
• B.A., Kent State University

Areas of Expertise

• Spanish Language
• 19th and Early 20th Century Spanish Peninsular Literature
• Role of Modernity in Spain’s “Generation of 1898”
• Anarchism
• Marxism and Utopianism in 19th Century Spain
• Spanish Romanticism
• The Practice and Theory of Translation

Stacy Aronson

Associate Professor

• Ph.D., University of Minnesota
• M.A., University of Kansas
• B.A., Ohio Wesleyan University

Areas of Expertise

• Spanish Language
• Brazilian Portuguese Language
• 16-17th Century Peninsular Spanish Literature, Particularly by Women Authors
• Literary Representations of Sexual Violence
• Muslim and Jewish Literature of Spain

Windy González Roberts

Teaching Specialist

• M.Ed., Concordia College
• B.S., Lesley University

• UMM César Chávez Award
• Faculty-Staff Community Service Award

Areas of Expertise

• Spanish language
• Methods of Teaching Foreign Language
• Instructional Technologies in Language Instruction and Methodology
• Latino community issues

Tom Genova

Assistant Professor

• Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz
• M.A., UC Santa Cruz
• D.E.A., Universidad de Salamanca
• B.A., Georgetown University

Areas of Expertise

• 19th and 20th-century Spanish American literature
• Hemispheric studies
• The historical novel
• Race in the Americas
• Afro-latinidades