Advisory Committee
Mari拧ka Bolyanatz Brown
Associate Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A., Gordon College, Massachusetts; M.A., University of Illinois, Chicago; Ph.D., UCLA
Mari拧ka Bolyanatz Brown (IPA: [m蓹藞删i蕛k蓹 bo蕣li藞蓱n瑟ts b晒蓱蕣n]) is a linguist whose work focuses on socially conditioned variation in speech production and perception in Spanish.
Salvador Fern谩ndez
National Endowment for the Humanities Professorship
B.A., UC Riverside; M.A., Indiana University; Ph.D., UCLA
Salvador Fern谩ndez teaches courses on Spanish and Latin American literature and civilization, as well as Mexican and Chicano/a studies. His research areas of interest are the contemporary Mexican novel and Chicano/a studies.
Susan Grayson
Professor, Spanish and French Studies
A.B., M.A., Ph.D., UCLA; Ph.D., Wright Institute Los Angeles Attestation d鈥櫭﹖udes, Universit茅 de Bordeaux
Grayson has taught the 18th- and 19th-century French novel, French feminism, women's studies, literary criticism, and French grammar and composition at all levels.
Stephen Klemm
Assistant Professor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
B.A., University of Iowa; M.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University
Stephen Klemm specializes in German literature and philosophy from the 18th-20th century with particular interest in German Romanticism, Existentialism, and Critical Theory. His language and literature courses examine how language, literature, and philosophy interact and emerge from within concrete social and historical settings.
Jingyi Li
Assistant Professor, Asian Studies
B.A., East China Normal University; M.A., Kyushu University; Ph.D., University of Arizona
Prof. Jingyi Li is a historian of early modern Japanese literature and culture.
Alberto L贸pez Mart铆n
Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; M.A. Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Ph.D. Florida State University
Alberto L贸pez Mart铆n specializes in 20th- and 21st-century Spanish cultural production, with a focus on contemporary poetry, comic, and graphic novels.
Michael Shelton
Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.S., St. Cloud State University; M.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Michael Shelton is a linguist, specializing in phonology and psycholinguistics.
Meimei Zhang
Assistant Professor, Asian Studies
B.A., Beijing Foreign Studies University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles