Richard Stroik, Ph.D., came to the University of San Diego in 1991. He currently serves as Chair of the Department of Languages and Literatures. He has previously served as coordinator of the Intensive Language (Dartmouth) Model for first-year language instruction and as a member of the executive committee of the Academic Assembly. He has been active in study abroad during his entire career, serving as chair of the Study Abroad committee and creating a summer program in France. His research interests are in 20th century French poetry and Camus. Stroik is a product of Catholic elementary and secondary education.

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Michael Agnew, Ph.D., came to the University of San Diego in 2007 from Columbia University. He has taught numerous courses on Spanish and Latin American literature and culture, film, comparative literature, and Spanish philology (historical and general linguistics). He also teaches all levels of Spanish language. His research focuses on the late medieval and early modern periods, in particular on the intersections between historiography and ideology and on book history. He is an advisor for the Medieval-Renaissance minor and is also the on-campus academic advisor for the Madrid-Toledo study abroad program.

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Carlos Burgos will teach all levels of Spanish language and Latin American literature, film, and culture courses. His research interests include nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American literature and politics, travel writing, film, histories and theories of globalization, and critical articulations of literature and philosophy.

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Kim Eherenman, Ph.D., has been a member of the faculty since 1990. Her specializations include Latin American poetry, pre-Columbian literatures and cultures, colonial and nineteenth century Latin American literature, and Mexican literature. Her research focus is Latin American poetry and translation. Formerly, she served as coordinator of the Latino Studies Program, executive director of the Guadalajara Summer Program, coordinator of the Spanish Area, and chair of this department. In addition, she has served as an external program reviewer for world language and literature programs at the university level. She is also a bilingual poet whose works have appeared in literary journals nationally and abroad.

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Kevin Guerrieri, Ph.D., teaches courses on Latin American literature and culture and on the Spanish language, from beginning to advanced levels. His research is focused on Latin American literature, specializing in Colombian narrative, with interests in cultural discourses of modernity and national formation, displacement and testimonio, and urban literature and culture. Guerrieri is actively involved in Community-Service Learning, is a former co-chair of USD’s Social Issues Committee, and currently serves on the University Senate.

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Brigette Heimers, Ph.D., teaches elementary and intermediate German as well as upper-division courses in composition, culture and civilization, and literature.

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Rebecca Ingram offers classes in all levels of Spanish language in addition to courses on modern Spanish literature and cultural studies.

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Carl Jubran, Ph.D., teaches elementary language and advanced courses in composition, the cultural history of Spain as well as literature courses. His fields of specialization are peninsular literature, Spanish orientalism and Hispano-Arabism, 19th-20th century. Other interests include Latin American poetry, modernismo and gender studies.

Jubran is in charge of internationalization of the curriculum and international study, serves as the executive director of the Guadalajara Summer Program, and is editor of Praesidium: Interdisciplincary Journal of Latin American and Cross Cultural Studies.

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Beatriz Lado, Ph.D., is language coordinator and teaches courses in Spanish and Spanish linguistics. Her specializations include second language acquisition, second language teaching methodology, cognitive effects of adult language acquisition, and bilingualism.

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Michèle C. Magnin, Ph.D., has been a member of the department of Languages and Literatures since 1990. She is the director of the French section. She offers courses in literature, culture and civilization, women writers, advanced writing, and phonetics. She was director of the Faculty and Curriculum Diversity Program on campus for three years.

A native Parisian, Magnin has established strong links with the French community in San Diego. She was president of the San Diego chapters of the American Association of Teachers of French, and the Alliance Française.

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Alejandro Meter, Ph.D., teaches courses on Latin American literature of the twentieth and twentieth-first centuries. His specializations include dictatorial and post-dictatorial fiction of the Southern Cone, migration and exile, and Latin American Jewish studies. His most recent research focuses on memory, trauma, and reconciliation. He currently directs the intersession Buenos Aires Program. He was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Amanda L. Petersen has been a member of the faculty since 2008. She teaches Spanish language and Latin American literatures and cultures courses. Her areas of expertise include 20th and 21st century Latin American women authors and Latin American literature, with an emphasis on Mexican narrative. Her research interests focus on the literary representations of gender and violence in contemporary Mexican short stories by female authors.

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Sandra Robertson, Ph.D., joined the USD faculty in 1983. She specializes in modern Spain,  has served as coordinator of the Spanish section and was formerly in charge of the lower division language program in Spanish. She regularly teaches courses in Spanish literature of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her research interests include oral traditions in Spain, Spanish cinema and the Spanish Civil War.

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Maria Cecilia Ruiz, Ph.D., has been a member of the faculty since 1990.

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Leonora Simonovis, Ph.D.,  teaches all levels of Spanish language, Latin American and Caribbean literature and culture. Her research focus has been on the relationship between music and literature of the Hispanic Caribbean and the role of popular culture in the construction of cultural identities.

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Teaching experience: Notre Dame, Ohio State, San Diego Community College. At USD since 1978. All levels from lower division language to advanced upper division French literature.

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