Spanish Faculty
Priscilla Chen
Courses: Intermediate Spanish, Advanced Intermediate Spanish
B.A., State University of New York-Stony Brook. M.A., Queens College. Currently completing a doctorate in Spanish literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; special interests includes Golden Age peninsular literature, Latin American literature and culture in general and fiction. SLC, 2004-
Isabel de Sena
Courses: Borrachita me voy: Mexico at the Crossroads, Defiant Acts: Trends and Singularity in Latin American Theatre, Defiant Acts: Trends and Singularity in Latin American Theatre, Basic Spanish
M.A., University of California-Berkeley. Ph.D., University of California-Santa Barbara. Special interests include medieval Peninsular literature, Latin American literature in general and fiction in particular, and Luso-Brazilian literature and culture; translations include Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts. SLC, 1997-
Esther Fernández
B.A., Wheaton College. M.A., Ph.D., University of California-Davis. Areas of specialization: seventeen-century Spanish drama; Spanish drama from all periods, erotic literature, performance studies, and Cervantes. Publications: “Los corrales de comedias españoles en el siglo XVII: espacios de sensualidad clandestina”; “Jugando con Eros: El erotismo metadramático en la Llamada de Lauren de Paloma Pedrero”; “En busca de un teatro comprometido: La entretenida de Miguel de Cervantes bajo el nuevo prisma de la CNTC”; “El coto privado de Diana: El perro del hortelano, de un texto sexual a un sexo visual”; “Mirar y desear: la construcción del personaje femenino en El perro del hortelano de Lope de Vega y de Pilar Miró.” Co-authored with Cristina Martínez-Carazo, “La risa erótica de Sor Juana en Los empeños de una casa.” SLC, 2008-
Eduardo Lago
M.A., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Ph.D., Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Special interests in translation theory, the aesthetics of the Baroque and the connections among contemporary U.S. Latino, Iberian, Spanish American, and Luso-Brazilian fiction writers. Author of numerous articles and translations (Charles Brockden-Brown, Hamlin Garland, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Sylvia Plath, Christopher Isherwood, Junot Díaz, and John Barth, among others). Recipient of the 2002 Bartolomé March Award for Excellence in Literary Criticism. Author of Cuentos dispersos (Scattered Tales, 2000), a collection of short stories, and Cuaderno de Méjico (Mexican Notebook, 2000), the memoir of a trip to Chiapas. First novel, Llámame Brooklyn (Call Me Brooklyn, 2006), won the Nadal Prize, the oldest literary award in Spain, as well as the City of Barcelona Award, for best novel of the year; the Fundación Lara Award, for the novel with best critical reception; and the National Critics Award. Also chosen as best novel of the year in Spain by the daily El Mundo and has been translated to ten languages (English not one of them). Author of Ladrón de mapas (Map Thief), a collection of short stories published in September 2007. Currently director of Instituto Cervantes of New York. SLC, 1994-
Maria Negroni
Courses: Madness and Marginality in Latin American Literature, Obsession, Thought, and Form in Latin American Poetry: Reading, Writing, and Translating
B.A., Universidad de Buenos Aires. M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University. Poet, novelist, and translator; author of books and articles on Latin American literature. Recipient of several fellowships in poetry: the Guggenheim Foundation (1994), the Rockefeller Foundation (1997), the Ministère de la Culture de France (1999), the Fundación Octavio Paz (2001), the New York Foundation for the Arts (2003), and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation (2007). Received a National Book Award in Argentina and book Islandia received the PEN Award for best book of poetry in translation, New York (2001). SLC, 1999-
Miguel Perdomo
Courses: Advanced Beginning Spanish
B.A., Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. M.A., University of Illinois-Chicago. Ph.D., Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Specializations: Gabriel García Márquez’s narrative; Caribbean culture and literature; Hispanic literature and culture; Dominican literature, culture, and history. Recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship as a scholar and Spanish consultant. Publications: Cuatro esquinas tiene el viento, Los pasos en la esfera, El inquilino y sus fantasmas; La colina del gato (National Prize of Poetry, 2005); La cultura del Caribe en la narrativa de Gabriel García Márquez (National Prize of Essay, 2006); La estación de los pavos reales (National Prize of Short Story, 2007). SLC, 1998-