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Faculty
Our faculty members specialize in diverse historical moments, world regions, and thematic and methodological areas in the Spanish-, Italian-, and Portuguese-speaking worlds. To learn more about our expertise in languages, literary cultures, and linguistics, please select from the drop-down menus below.
Contact information for department officers (Director of Graduate Study, Director of Undergraduate Study, etc.) is available here. Faculty who are available to work with graduate students are listed here.
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Lorena Albert Ferrando
Assistant Professor of Spanish LinguisticsView Profile -
Samuel Amago
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Spanish & Department ChairView Profile -
Sarah Annunziato
Director of Undergraduate Program in Italian, Director of Italian Language Program (1000-2000), and Associate Professor of Italian, General FacultyView Profile -
Germain Badang
Lecturer in SpanishView Profile -
Jennifer Barlow
Lecturer in SpanishView Profile -
Lisa Blackmore
Professor of SpanishView Profile -
Nicole Bonino
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Italian, General FacultyView Profile -
Francesca Calamita
Associate Professor, General Faculty, Director of UVa in Siena and FlorenceView Profile -
Eli Carter
Director of Undergraduate Program in Portuguese, Associate Professor of Brazilian film and televisionView Profile -
Enrico Cesaretti
Professor of ItalianView Profile -
Erica Cobb
Lecturer in SpanishView Profile -
Daniel E. Colón
Lecturer in SpanishView Profile -
Pamela DeVries Rini
Lecturer of Spanish, Placement CoordinatorView Profile -
María Esparza Rodríguez
Assistant Professor of Spanish, General FacultyView Profile -
Lilian P.W. Feitosa
Associate Professor of Portuguese, General FacultyView Profile -
Francesco Fiumara
Lecturer of ItalianView Profile -
David Florez-Murillo
Senior Lecturer of SpanishView Profile -
Nieves García Prados
Senior LecturerView Profile -
Esperanza Górriz Jarque
Senior Lecturer of SpanishView Profile -
Tammy Hertel
Professor of Spanish, General FacultyView Profile -
Jennifer Hogg
Senior Lecturer of SpanishView Profile -
Jesús Fernández Játiva
Assistant Professor of Spanish, General FacultyView Profile -
Alicia López-Operé
Associate Chair, Associate Professor, General FacultyView Profile -
Anne Garland Mahler
Associate Professor of SpanishView Profile -
Stella Mattioli
Senior Lecturer of ItalianView Profile -
Lauren Mehfoud
Postdoctoral Research Associate and LecturerView Profile -
Kelly Moore
Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Spanish Literature and CultureView Profile -
Kate Neff
Senior Lecturer of Spanish and Spanish Language Program Director (1010-2020)View Profile -
Fernando Operé
Professor of SpanishView Profile -
Ricardo Padrón
Director of Undergraduate Program and Professor of SpanishView Profile -
Ana Píriz Moguel
Assistant Professor of Spanish, General FacultyView Profile -
Esther Poveda Moreno
Distinguished Lecturer of SpanishView Profile -
Joel Rini
Professor of SpanishView Profile -
Fernando Riva
Associate Professor of SpanishView Profile -
Charlotte Rogers
Associate Professor of SpanishView Profile -
Matthew Street
Senior Lecturer of SpanishView Profile -
Fernando Valverde
Associate Professor of Spanish and PoetryView Profile -
Omar Velázquez-Mendoza
Professor of Hispanic LinguisticsView Profile -
Sara Young
Senior Lecturer of SpanishView Profile