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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Erin Bolívar teaches courses in Spanish. Her specializations are Romance Languages and Latin American literature.

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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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Maricarmen Cedillo has been an adjunct member of the faculty since Fall 2008. She teaches core-curriculum Spanish courses at USD and undergraduate levels of Spanish at other community colleges in the San Diego area as well as French and English as a second language.

Cedillo is a San Diego Professional Tour Guide Association (SDPTGA)  tour guide and interpreter in San Diego county and Tijuana. She has worked as an interpreter and translator for the International Olympic Committee, sport events, businesses and educational associations. Cedillohas a license as a Notary Public (Loan Specialist). She worked in a hospital in Mexico, three years as head of Public Relations and later as the Hopital Administrator. She also taught the staff classes in both business and medical English.

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Margaret Martínez-Don, Ph.D., teaches lower-division Spanish courses. Her specializations include the appropriate use of technology in foreign language instruction and her research focus has been on Spanish online instruction.

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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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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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José L. Mendoza has been teaching in the Department of Languages and Literatures since 1994. He teaches the basic courses of beginning and intermediate Spanish and he is currently a coordinator of all the Spanish 102 classes. In the past, Professor Mendoza has taught both at USD and at other academic institutions a variety of Spanish courses.

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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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Professor Moya  teaches elementary and intermediate language classes at USD, UCSD, Miramar College, Southwestern College and Grossmont College.

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Martha T Oregel has been a member of the faculty since 1999. She teaches lower division Spanish courses, including a specialized “bridge” course which begins with a review of first semester Spanish and then moves on to complete the second semester.

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Yadira Ortega-Ocádiz has been a Spanish Instructor at USD since fall 1998. She teaches lower division courses introducing new vocabulary and grammar concepts emphasizing oral proficiency using a variety of methods. Yadira also supervises the third level of Spanish for non-natives visiting her colleagues’ classes and participating in the development of exams, quizzes and syllabus. She also chooses readings according to the topic or grammar of the chapter for all third semester sections. Attend to regular meetings with all Spanish lower division supervisors to keep syllabi, workload and homework uniform.

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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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Professor Ramos has been a member of the faculty in 2001. She participated as an instructor for the San Diego Police Department Spanish Program as well as Spanish for Educators. To remain current, she attends workshops in and out of San Diego.

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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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Prof. Velázquez has been teaching beginning and intermediate Spanish at USD since 2000.

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Alex Villalobos joined our faculty in 1998 and over the past 10 years, he has taught all elementary and intermediate language courses. Recently he enjoyed teaching advanced conversation, which offers non-native speakers an opportunity to put their years of book studies to practical use.

He also teaches full time in the Invention & Design Educational Academy at Crawford High School, where his teaching assignment includes Advanced Placement Spanish Language. As a Director of Student Activities, he is responsible for the organization of student dances, school festivals, and support for all school-wide clubs. He serves on the Area G Council for the California Directors of Activities promoting Student Activities in Middle and High School in California.

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Simi Windward has been with the University of San Diego since 1993 teaching Spanish 101, 102 and 201, both on campus and at the program in Guadalajara, Mexico.  In addition to her studies in languages and language teaching, Professor Windward is trained in Spanish interpretation and translation; worked as a fund raiser for a variety of international charities and Public Television in New York City.

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Víctor Zambrano joined the faculty in 1988 and has taught both the Core Curriculum course and upper-division classes in conversation and Spanish for business. He is the past coordinator of both Spanish 201 and the Spanish Intensive Language Model program.

He has a solid theoretical and practical background in curriculum design and evaluation and is currently studying how information and communication technologies are incorporated into the teaching/learning processes. Professor Zambrano also teaches Spanish for Professional Proficiency in the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is an ACTFL-trained Oral Proficiency Interviewer.

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