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List of Professors
| Name |
Years at Michigan |
Position | |
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Louis Fasquelle |
1846 - 1889 | Professor of Italian & French |
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Edward Payson Evans |
1862 - 1870 | Professor of Modern Languages and LIterature |
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Edward Lorraine Walter |
1868 - 1898 | Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, Romance Languages and Literatures |
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George Sylvester Morris |
1870 - 1889 | Professor of Modern Languages and Literature |
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Paul Rousseau De Pont |
1871 - 1906 | Assistant Professor of French |
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Robert Harbison |
1871 | Instructor in Modern Languages & Literature |
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Alfred Hennequin |
1876 - 1888 | Instructor in French & German |
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Calvin Thomas |
1878 - 1896 | Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature |
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Moritz Levi |
1890 - 1923 | Professor of French |
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Benjamin Parsons Bourland |
1892 - 1901 | Assistant Professor of French |
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Tobias J. C. Diekoff |
1893 - 1916 | Professor of German |
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Hugo Paul Thieme |
1898 - 1940 |
Professor of Romance Languages and Classical Linguistics Chair of Romance Languages 1926-1940 |
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Ewald Augustus Boucke |
1898 - 1918 | Professor of German |
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Arthur Graves Canfield |
1900 - 1929 |
Professor of Romance Languages Chair of Romance Languages 1900-1926 |
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Andre Beziat de Bordes |
1902 - 1908 | Assistant Professor of French |
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Edward Larrabee Adams |
1904 - 1921 | Associate Professor of Romance Languages |
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William Aloysius McLaughlin |
1905 - 1950 | Associate Professor of Romance Languages |
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Herbert Alden Kenyon |
1905 - 1953 |
Associate Professor of Spanish Stage Director of Sarah Caswell Angell Hall |
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William Frederick Hauhart |
1906 - 1920 | Assistant Professor of German |
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Charles Philip Wagner |
1907 - 1947 | |
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Alfred Ouhton Lee |
1908 - 1980 | Professor of Modern Languages, History of Medicine |
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Rene Talamon |
1909 - 1950 | Associate Professor of French |
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Philip Everettte Bursley |
1910 - 1950 |
Assistant Professor of French & Spanish Director of Orientation & Counselor to New Students 1930-1947 |
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Herbert Douglas Austin |
1911 - 1920 | Assistant Professor of Romance Languages |
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Albert Bushnell Johnson |
1916 - 1917 | Acting Associate Professor of Romance Languages |
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Michael S Pargment |
1917 - 1948 | Professor of French |
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Eugene Etienne Rovillain |
1917 - 1946 | Professor of French |
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Joseph Newhall Lincoln |
1919 - 1945 | Associate Professor of Romance Languages |
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Ermelindo Acisch Mercado |
1919 - 1958 | Assistant Professor of Spanish |
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John H. Muyskens |
1920 - 1957 |
Instructor of French Associate Professor of Phonetics |
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Newton Silas Bement |
1920 - 1958 | Professor of French |
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Warner Forrest Patterson |
1920 - 1949 | Associate Professor of French |
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Julio del Toro |
1920 - 1959 | Assistant Professor of Spanish |
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Jose Maria Albaladejo |
1920 - 1954 | Assistant Professor of Spanish |
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Harold Hudson Britton |
1920 - 1930 | Assistant Professor of French |
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Anthony Joseph Jobin |
1920 - 1957 | Associate Professor of French |
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Charles Cestre |
1921 1926 |
Non-resident Lecturer on American Literature |
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Franklin McCown Thompson |
1924 - 1928 1945 - 1950 |
Assistant Professor of Portuguese and Spanish |
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Robert Kilburn Spaulding |
1925 | Assistant Professor of Romance Languages |
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Charles Emile Koella |
1926 - 1957 | Associate Professor of French |
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Roy H. Gearhart |
1928 | Instructor in Spanish |
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Charles Anthony Knudson Jr |
1929 - 1940 | Professor of French |
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Jean E. Ehrhard |
1929 - 1933 | Assistant Professor of French |
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Camillo Pascal Merlino |
1930 - 1937 | Associate Professor of Italian |
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Charles Neff Staubach |
1930 - 1965 |
Professor of Spanish Chair of Romance Languages 1951-1959 |
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James Calvin O’Neill |
1930 - 1980 |
Professor of French Chair of Romance Languages 1959-1973 |
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Marc Denikinger |
1934 - 1966 | Associate Professor of French |
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Nelson Winfred Eddy |
1939 - 1972 | Associate Professor of Spanish |
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Hayward Keniston |
1940 - 1953 |
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento University Professor of Romance Languages Chair of Romance Languages 1940-1945 Dean Literature Science and the Arts 1945-1951 |
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Edward Billings Ham |
1941 - 1963 | Professor of French |
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Irving A. Leonard |
1942 - 1966 |
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento University Professor of Spanish-American History and Literature Chair of Romance Languages 1945-1951 |
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Raul Benedicto |
1943 - 1944 | Instructor in Spanish |
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William George Merhab |
1946 - 1979 | Professor of Romance Languages, Education |
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Paul M. Spurlin |
1946 - 1970 | Professor of Eighteenth Century French Literature |
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Federico Sanchez y Escribano |
1946 - 1959 | Professor of Spanish |
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Lawrence Bayard Kiddle |
1947 - 1978 | Professor of Spanish & Spanish Linguistics |
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Enrique Imbert-Anderson |
1947 - 1965 | Professor of Spanish |
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Ernst Pulgram |
1948 - 1986 |
Professor of Romance Languages and Classical Linguistics Hayward Keniston Professor of Romance Languages |
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Robert Judson Niess |
1949 - 1972 | Professor of French |
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Benjamin Bart |
1950 - 1956 | Assistant Professor of French |
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Jean Rene Carduner |
1954 - 1990 |
Professor of French Chair of Romance Languages 1985-1987 |
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Robert L. Politzer |
1955 - 1963 | Professor of French and Romance Linguistics |
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Floyd F. Gray |
1956 - 1999 | Professor of French |
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Michel Benamou |
1956 - 1959 1963 - 1969 |
Associate Professor of French |
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Roy J. Nelson |
1957 - 1994 | Professor of French Literature |
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William McCrary |
1957 - 1963 | Assistant Professor of Spanish |
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F. Rand Morton |
1958 - 1964 | Associate Professor of Spanish |
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Paul Ilie |
1959 - 1983 | Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature |
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Edward Glaser |
1959 - 1972 | Professor of Spanish |
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Monroe Z. Hafter |
1960 - 1996 | Professor of Spanish-American Literature |
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David L. Wolfe |
1960 - 1992 | Associate Professor of Spanish |
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Kenneth S White |
1960 - 1965 | Assistant Professor of French |
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Michio P. Hagiwara |
1961 - 1995 | Associate Professor of French |
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Ilene T. Olken |
1962 - 1993 | Professor of Italian |
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Oscar Budel |
1965 - 1987 | Professor of Italian |
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Charles F. Fraker Jr. |
1965 - 1992 | Professor of Romance Languages and Literature |
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Guy R. Mermier |
1965 - 1998 | Professor of French Literature |
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Raleigh Morgan Jr |
1965 - 1987 | Professor of Romance Linguistics |
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Marcel N. Muller |
1966 - 1995 | Professor of French Literature |
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Karina H. Niemeyer |
1966 - 1969 | Assistant Professor of French |
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Brian Dendle |
1966 - 1972 | Assistant Professor of Spanish |
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Carlos Feal-Deibe |
1966 - 1969 | Assistant Professor of Spanish |
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William Cressey |
1967 - 1971 | Assistant Professor of Spanish |
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Clifford S. Leonard Jr. |
1969 - 1994 | Associate Professor of Romance Linguistics |
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Brian N. Morton |
1969 - 1988 | Associate Professor of French |
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John R. O’Connor |
1969 - 1984 | Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literature |
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Frank Paul Casa |
1969 - 2010 |
Professor of Spanish Chair of Romance Languages 1973-1983 |
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Guy Capelle |
1969 - 1971 | Professor of French |
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H. Douglas Brown |
1970 - 1978 |
Associate Professor of Education Associate Professor of Linguistics Visiting Professor English Language Institute 1970 Summer Term |
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Jose Durand |
1970 - 1975 | Professor of Spanish |
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Servio T. Becerra-Coy |
1971 - 1981 | Assistant Professor of Spanish |
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Mireille Raymonde Carroll |
1974 - 1977 | Assistant Professor of French |
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Ralph Albanese Jr |
1974 - 1977 | Associate Professor of Spanish |
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L. Ross Chambers |
1975 - 2002 | Marvin Felheim Distinguished University Professor of French and Comparative Literature |
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Luisa Lopez-Grigera |
1975 - 1999 | Professor of Spanish |
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Walter D. Mignolo |
1975 - 1993 | Professor of Latin American Literature and Literary Theory |
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Jose M. Sobre |
1975 - 1979 | Assistant Professor of Spanish |
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Monique Bilezikian |
1975 - 1982 | |
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Cedomil Goic |
1976 - 1997 | Professor of Spanish-American Literature |
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Helene Neu |
1976 - 2013 |
Lecturer IV in French Lecturer IV Emerita |
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Carl Arthur Brakel |
1977 - 1985 | Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese |
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Maureen F. O’Meara |
1977 - 1983 | Assistant Professor of French |
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David Richard Marsh |
1978 - 1984 | Assistant Professor of Italian |
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Jonathan Ngate |
1980 - 1986 | Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literature |
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Trisha Robin Dvorak |
1980 - 1986 | Assistant Professor of Spanish |
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Michael J. Pierssens |
1981 - 1984 | Associate Professor of French |
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Frances Z. Wyers |
1981 | Professor of Romance Languages and Classical Linguistics |
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Domna C. Stanton |
1982 - 2003 |
Elizabeth M. Douvan Collegiate Professor Professor of Romance Languages and Women's Studies |
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Mercedes Vaquero |
1983 - 1989 | Assistant Professor of Spanish |
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Andrew A. Anderson |
1984 - 2001 | Professor of Spanish |
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Kathryn Gravdal |
1984 - 1986 | Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literature |
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Romana Capek-Habekovic |
1984 - 2022 |
Senior Lecturer & Lecturer IV in Italian Senior Lecturer and lecturer IV Emerita in Italian |
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Noel Maureen Ritter Valis |
1986 - 1991 | Professor of Spanish |
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Alina M. Clej |
1986 - 2016 |
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature Associate Profesor of French |
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William R. Paulson |
1986 - 2021 | Professor of Romance Languages |
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Rolena Adorno |
1987 - 1990 | Professor of Latin American Literature |
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Thomas M. Kavanagh |
1987 - 1993 |
Professor of French Literature Chair of Romance Languages 1987-1990, 1991-1992 |
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Maria T. Wolff |
1987 - 1988 | Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Litratures |
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Gregory L. Lucente |
1988 - 1997 | Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature |
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Frances R. Aparicio |
1990 - 2000 | Professor of Spanish and American Culture |
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Enylton Jose de sa Rego |
1990 - 1991 | Assistant Professor of Portuguese |
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Laura E. Perez |
1990 - 1993 | Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese |
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Patrice M. Some |
1990 - 1993 | Assistant Professor of French |
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Mireille Rosello |
1991 - 1995 | Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literature |
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John M. Graham |
1993 - 1996 | Assistant Professor of French |
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Juli Highfill |
1993 - 2023 | Professor of Spanish |
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Jose M. Rabasa |
1994 - 1998 |
Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature Chair Department of Romance Languages |
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Marie-Helene Huet |
1995 - 1999 | Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of French |
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Carina Yervasi |
1995 - 2001 | Assistant Professor of French |
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Alison Cornish |
1995 - 2018 | Professor of Italian |
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Lynn Carbon-Gorell |
1996 | Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese |
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Jarrod L. Hayes |
1996 - 2018 | Professor of French |
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Jossianna Arroyo |
1998 - 2004 | Associate Professor of Spanish |
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Lucia M. Suarez |
1998 - 2006 | Assistant Professor of Spanish |
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Javier Sanjinés |
1998 - 2023 | Professor of Spanish |
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Sergio H. Moreno |
2001 - 2006 | Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures |
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Katherine M. Ibbett |
2003 - 2009 | Assistant Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures |
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Alain Michel Mabanckou |
2004 - 2006 |
Assistant Professor of Afroamerican & African Studies Assistant Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures |
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Ivonne Del Valle |
2005 - 2009 | Assistant Professor of Spanish |
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Daniel Noemi |
2006 - 2012 | Associate Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures |
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Jaime Rodriguez-Matos |
2007 - 2016 | Assistant Professor Romance Languages & Literature |