Maria Carreira
Associate Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., University of Illinois/Urbana
e-mail: carreira@csulb.edu

Prof. Maria Carreira received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her current research focuses on Spanish as a world language, Spanish in the U.S. and teaching Spanish to native speakers (SNS). Maria Carreira lives with her husband and four children in Manhattan Beach, California.

Prof. Carreira’s scholarship for 2004-2005 includes:
Publications: 3 refereed journal articles, one book review, and one radio script

Alicia del Campo
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Assistant Director, Latin American Studies Program
Ph.D., University of Califorina, Irvine, 1998; MA, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1989; MA,University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, 1984
Email: delcampo@uci.edu
(562) 985-5138
Email: delcampo@csulb.edu

Areas of interest: Latin American Literature and Culture, Latin American Theater, Cultural Studies in Latin America, Literature and Human Rights, Memory, Politics and Theatre. She is the author of: Teatralidades de la memoria en el Chile de la transición. Santiago: Mosquito Comunicaciones, Forthcoming; and co-editor of Discursos Teatrales en los albores del siglo XXI . Irvine: Ediciones de Gestos, 2001.

She has been Assistant Editor de Revista GESTO
(Irvine, USA) since 1995 and is Participating Editor of Latin American Perspectives (Riverside, USA).

She is the author of several articles on Latin American literature and theatre published in the US, Chile, Germany and Spain. Her research deals with the broadening of theoretical and methodological approaches to theatre to include the study of social and political theatricalities, theatricalities of the women's movement in Latin America , and the staging of historic memory and national identities in contemporary Latin America.

She is currently co-editing a book devoted to Women and Theater in Spain and Latin America and co-editing a special issue on Memory and Popular Culture for Latin American Perspectives . Long Beach, 2003

Bonnie Gasior
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Undergraduate Spanish Advisor
Ph.D., Purdue University, 2001; MA, Purdue, 1995
e-mail: bgasior@csulb.edu

Areas of interest: Spanish Golden Age literature, particularly theater; Colonial Spanish-American Narrative; Women writers of seventeenth century Spanin and Spanish-America; Gender Studies; Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Travel Narratives; Transatlantic studies; Spanish Baroque poetry; Marginalization (sex, class, race) in Literature.
She currently has a book, Crosscurrents: Transatlantic Perspectives on Early Modern Hispanic Theater, under review. She has also published or has had articles and book reviews related to her research interests accepted for publication in journals such as Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Hispánicos y Lingüística, Bulletin of the Comediantes, and Geneologias Imaginarias. She has presented her research findings at national and international conferences in such cities as El Paso, Texas; Portland, Oregon; Boca Raton, Florida; Mexico City, Mexico; and Prague, Czech Republic. Her next major project involves a reexamination of her doctoral dissertation that deals with the female corpus and discourses related to monstrosity.

Professor Claire Emilie Martin has been teaching at CSULB since 1988 a wide range of courses from composition and Spanish for heritage speakers to colonial literature, Latin American civilization and Twentieth-century Spanish American narrative. In the fall of 2004, she began teaching a new course, “ Nation Building and Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America”.

She has published: Alejo Carpentier y las crónicas de Indias : orígenes de una escritura americana . Hanover , N.H. : Ediciones del Norte, 1995, and more recently she co-authored (with Cristina Arambel Guiñazú) a two-volume work on nineteenth-century Spanish American women writers, Las mujeres toman la palabra: escritura femenina hispanoamericana del siglo XIX . Volumen I and Antología de escritoras hispanoamericanas del siglo XIX . Vol II. Frankfurt-Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2001.

Since 1996, she has been contributing editor of "20th Century Prose Fiction in Argentina " in the Handbook of Latin American Studies, Volumes 56, 58, 60, 62 for the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.

Markus Muller
Language Coordinator
Ph.D.,
e-mail: memuller@csulb.edu

Markus E. Muller received his Ph.D. in French (1998) from UCLA. He taught French and German languages and literatures at Missouri Southern State University from 1998 to 2001 before accepting the position of language coordinator for French, German, and Spanish at CSULB. Every Fall, he teaches the Teaching Methodology course which goes hand in hand with the training of the department?s new and returning Teaching Associates. He also teaches Second Language Acquisition and French language courses. Occasionally, he offers a seminar in French literature whose focus is primarily on French 19th -century literature and the fantastic. He has published and presented papers on the fantastic, pedagogy, and technology in the language classroom.

Leslie Nord
Full-Time Lecturer; Graduate Spanish Advisor
Ph.D., Yale University, 1989; MA, University of California, Los Angeles, 1979; BA, University of California, Los Angeles, 1973
e-mail: lnord@csulb.edu

Alex Rainof
Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1969; MA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1965; BA, Boston University, 1963
e-mail: arainof@csulb.edu

He is a certified Interpreter for the Federal Courts and the California Courts and State Agencies, one of the five Directors of NAJIT (National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators) Board of Directors, the Vice-President of SSTI (the Society for the Study of Translation and Interpretation), and the Chair of the Los Angeles Chapter of CCIA (California Court Interpreters Association). Doctor Rainof is an internationally known scholar who has published extensively in the areas of literature, linguistics, translation, and interpretation. He has lectured at numerous professional meetings and universities both in Europe and North America and has taught literature, languages (French, Spanish), translation, and interpretation courses at various universities in the United States. He is an Associate Professor in the Romance, German and Russian Languages and Literatures Department at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) where he just launched the first Bachelor of Arts in Translation and Interpretation Studies English/Spanish degree in the United States.

Lisa Vollendorf
Associate Professor of Spanish; Graduate Spanish Advisor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
e-mail: lvollend@csulb.edu

Lisa Vollendorf is the author of The Lives of Women: A New History of Inquisitional Spain and Reclaiming the Body: María de Zayas's Early Modern Feminism. She has edited Recovering Spain's Feminist Tradition and a revised, updated Spanish language version of that book entitled Literatura y feminismo en España (siglos XV-XXI). Professor Vollendorf teaches courses on cultural studies and film in twentieth-century Spain, and has a special interest in courses on gender, minorities, immigration, and religious conflict in Spanish history. Her current research projects include essays on Cervantes and his women readers, history and memory in contemporary Spanish women’s narrative, and a book length project on sexual and domestic violence tentatively titled Sex and the Law in the Hispanic World: 1,000 Years of Violence

Part Time Lecturers

Patricia Amezcua

Part-Time Lecturer of Spanish

email: pamezcua@csulb.edu

Patricia Arteaga
Part-Time Lecturer of Spanish
MA, California State University, Long Beach, 2002; BA, California State University, Long Beach, 1995.
email: parteaga@csulb.edu

Angel Ho
Part-Time Lecturere of Spanish
email: toohearts@yahoo.com

Alicia Machado
Part-Time Lecturer of Spanish
email: amachado@csulb.edu

Maria Theresa Nunez
Part-Time Lecturer of Spanish
Ph.D., University of California , Los Angeles , 1995; MA, California State University, Long Beach, 1991; BA California State University, Long Beach , 1988
email: mnunez@csulb.edu

Maria Theresa Nunez has been part of the department for over five years in which she has taught Spanish 312/313(Advanced Grammar and Composition), 314, 322 (Bilingual Teacher); and 250, 312/313 for Native Speakers. She participates in the Pen Project (Professional Enhancement Network), "Writing Across the Curriculum", created to promote writing and to ensure individualized feedback to students in upper-division courses.
She is also active in the Student Transition and Retention Services, she was a guest speaker during the workshops offered to Latino parents and freshman. She has talked at the International Program Orientation for students studying abroad and interviewed students for the International Program. She has also been working on her dissertation: The Representation in Literature of the Economic, Cultural and Socio-Political Space of the Indigenous Communities of Chiapas and Yucatan during the Twentieth Century(University of California, Los Angeles).

Tri C. Tran
Part-Time Lecturer of Spanish and French
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles,1999; MA, University of California, Los Angeles, 1996; BA, Univeristy of California, Irvine, 1993
email: ttran29@csulb.edu

Dr. Tran has been teaching at CSULB since 1999. He has taught a wide variety of linguistics courses in Spanish and French, including a course in Romance Linguistics. In Spring 2007, Dr. Tran proposed and taught the pilot course French 101A, French for Spanish Speakers. His research interests include theoretical linguistics, comparative linguistics, and second language acquisition. Dr. Tran is the author of a new book entitled Bilingual Dictionary for Students of Linguistics—Diccionario bilingüe para estudiantes de lingüística.

Teaching Associates

Miguel Alferez

Teaching Assosicate of Spanish

email: zerefla@yahoo.com

Nanci Buiza

Teaching Associate of Spanish

e-mail: nbuiza@csulb.edu

Erika Chavez
Teaching Associate of Spanish
e-mail: glazedrain@hotmail.com

Nelly Goswitz
Teaching Associate of Spanish
email: manellgoswitz@yahoo.com

Irma Hernandez
Teaching Associate of Spanish
email: ihernan3@csulb.edu

Ricardo López

Teaching Associate of Spanish

e-mail: rlopez11@csulb.edu

Francisca Mejia

Teaching Associate of Spanish

e-mail: fm54820@yahoo.com

Conchi Moreno Perez

Teaching Associate of Spanish

email: mmorenop@csulb.edu

Susan Olivieri

Teaching Associate of Spanish

email: solivieri@csulb.edu

Teaching Associate of Spanish

e-mail: rose_phillips86@hotmail.com

Mitch Swenson
Teaching Associate of Spanish
e-mail: mitch.swenson@sbcglobal.net

Maureen Zuniga

Teaching Associate of Spanish

email: mzuniga4@csulb.edu