Faculty and Staff
Program Head
Seth Michelson
Associate Professor of Spanish, Head of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Tucker Hall, Room 322
540-458-8818
michelsons@wlu.edu
Poetry, Aesthetics, Translation Theory, Feminist Poetics, State Violence, Colonialism, Neoliberalism
Core Faculty
Jeff Barnett
S. Blount Mason Jr. Professor of Spanish
Tucker Hall, Room 304
540-458-8950
barnettj@wlu.edu
Latin American Narrative and Cultural Studies, with regional emphasis on Mexican, Central American, and Pan-Caribbean cultures.
Mónica Botta
Professor of Spanish, Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Tucker Hall, Room 313
540-458-8297
bottam@wlu.edu
Latin American Theater, emphasis on the transmission of history and memory in the theater of the Southern Cone. Human rights and post-dictatorial literatures and, Staging in the Academe.
Andrea Lepage
Pamela H. Simpson Professor of Art History
Wilson 3014
540-458-8305
lepagea@wlu.edu
Ellen Mayock
Ernest Williams II Professor of Spanish
Tucker Hall, Room 305
540-458-8816
mayocke@wlu.edu
The Novel in Spain and Latin America; Literary Naturalism: Women Writers of Spain, Latin America, and the U.S.; Feminist Theory; Immigrant Populations in the U.S.
Affiliate Faculty
David Baluarte
Associate Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Immigrant Rights Clinic
248 Lewis Hall
baluarted@wlu.edu
Jonathan Eastwood
Professor of Sociology and Department Chair, Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Newcomb Hall 104
540-458-8777
eastwoodj@wlu.edu
Romina Green
Assistant Professor of History
Newcomb Hall 205
540-458-8094
rgreen@wlu.edu
Jim Kahn
Emeritus Professor of Economics and Professor of Environmental Studies
kahnj@wlu.edu
Mohamed Kamara
Department Chair, Professor of French
Tucker Hall, Room 306
540-458-8475
kamaram@wlu.edu
Marcos Perez
Associate Professor of Sociology
Newcomb Hall 225
540-458-8793
mperez@wlu.edu
Staff
Alex Williams
Administrative Assistant II
Tucker Hall, Room 308
540-458-8821
awilliams@wlu.edu