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.
Lorena Albert Ferrando Assistant Professor of Spanish LinguisticsView ProfileSamuel Amago William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Spanish & Department ChairView ProfileSarah Annunziato Director of Undergraduate Program in Italian, Director of Italian Language Program (1000-2000), and Associate Professor of Italian, General FacultyView ProfileGermain Badang Lecturer in SpanishView ProfileJennifer Barlow Lecturer in SpanishView ProfileLisa Blackmore Professor of SpanishView ProfileNicole Bonino Assistant Professor of Spanish and Italian, General FacultyView ProfileFrancesca Calamita Associate Professor, General Faculty, Director of UVa in Siena and FlorenceView ProfileEli Carter Director of Undergraduate Program in Portuguese, Associate Professor of Brazilian film and televisionView ProfileEnrico Cesaretti Professor of ItalianView ProfileErica Cobb Lecturer in SpanishView ProfileDaniel E. Colón Lecturer in SpanishView ProfilePamela DeVries Rini Lecturer of Spanish, Placement CoordinatorView ProfileMaría Esparza Rodríguez Assistant Professor of Spanish, General FacultyView ProfileLilian P.W. Feitosa Associate Professor of Portuguese, General FacultyView ProfileFrancesco Fiumara Lecturer of ItalianView ProfileDavid Florez-Murillo Senior Lecturer of SpanishView ProfileNieves García Prados Senior LecturerView ProfileEsperanza Górriz Jarque Senior Lecturer of SpanishView ProfileTammy Hertel Professor of Spanish, General FacultyView ProfileJennifer Hogg Senior Lecturer of SpanishView ProfileJesús Fernández Játiva Professor of SpanishView ProfileAlicia López-Operé Associate Chair, Associate Professor, General FacultyView ProfileAnne Garland Mahler Associate Professor of SpanishView ProfileStella Mattioli Senior Lecturer of ItalianView ProfileLauren Mehfoud Postdoctoral Research Associate and LecturerView ProfileKelly Moore Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Spanish Literature and CultureView ProfileKate Neff Senior Lecturer of Spanish and Spanish Language Program Director (1010-2020)View ProfileFernando Operé Professor of SpanishView ProfileRicardo Padrón Director of Undergraduate Program and Professor of SpanishView ProfileAna Píriz Moguel Assistant Professor of Spanish, General FacultyView ProfileEsther Poveda Moreno Distinguished Lecturer of SpanishView ProfileJoel Rini Professor of SpanishView ProfileFernando Riva Associate Professor of SpanishView ProfileCharlotte Rogers Associate Professor of SpanishView ProfileMatthew Street Senior Lecturer of SpanishView ProfileFernando Valverde Associate Professor of Spanish and PoetryView ProfileOmar Velázquez-Mendoza Professor of Hispanic LinguisticsView ProfileSara Young Senior Lecturer of SpanishView Profile