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SPANISH FACULTY

	Debra Ames, Ph.D., U. of Virginia Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures Email Professor Ames (On sabbatical 2009 - 2010) Professor Ames, Associate Professor, is head of the Spanish section and academic advisor to Spanish majors and minors. Her areas of interest include Peninsular (Spanish) literature in general, Golden Age theater, and the role of women in Hispanic literature and society. She received her doctorate from the University of Virginia and has been at VU since 1987.
	Professor Sarah Fields, Ph.D., Columbia U. Part-time Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures Meier 114 • 219.464.5404 Email Professor Fields
	Professor Cynthia Grindlay, M.S. Adjunct Instructor of Foreign Languages and Literatures Meier 106 • 219.464.5765 Email Professor Grindlay
	Professor Stacy Hoult-Saros, Ph.D., U. of Chicago Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures Meier 107 • 219.464.5120 Email Professor Hoult-Saros More about Professor Hoult-Saros Professor Hoult-Saros joins us from the University of Chicago where she completed a Ph.D. focusing on the works of Norah Lange and the development of her feminine poetic voice. Her interest in Lange continues as she collaborates with a colleague on a critical edition of her poetry in English translation.
	Professor Carlos Miguel-Pueyo, Ph.D., U. of Illinois at Chicago Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures Meier 109 • 219.464.5398 Email Professor Miguel-Pueyo More about Professor Miguel-Pueyo Professor Miguel-Pueyo joined VU in 2005. He is from Spain, from a little thousand-year-old village called Alfajarín (Zaragoza). He studied his B.A. at the University of Zaragoza, after which he completed the Doctorate program at the same university (ABD), focusing on Spanish Golden Age and Modern literatures. At the University of Illinois-Chicago, he gained his Ph.D. in summer 2006, and his dissertation title was: “Insufficient language, sufficient colors: bluecolorin Bécquer and Novalis”. He is interested in European Modern literature, particularly 19th-century literatures, and specifically in the relationship between fine arts –literature, painting, music- in Romantic European writers. He has also worked on El Quijote, unknown Lorca’s works like his screenplay “Viaje a la Luna”, the influence between Paul Verlaine, Rubén Darío and Valle-Inclán, or antique religions in Lorca’s Bodas de sangre.
	Professor Sally Ochoa, M.A., U. of Michigan Adjunct Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures (Fall only) Meier 147 • 219.464.6771 Email Professor Ochoa Professor Ochoa, part-time Assistant Professor, brings to the classroom such diverse qualifications as an MA in Linguistics from the University of Michigan and an undergraduate degree from VU in French and Spanish as well as the experience of some 20 years in Mexico teaching at the American School of Puebla. She has written English as a Second Language materials, served as translator and interpreter, and done research on the pre-Columbian history of Mexico.
	Professor Rachel Rivers-Parroquin, Ph.D., Loyola U. Instructor in Foreign Languages and Literatures Meier 114 • 219.464.5404 Email Professor Rivers-Parroquin More about Professor Rivers-Parroquin
	Professor Nelly Zamora-Breckenridge, Ph.D., U. of Colorado Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures Chair, Spanish Section Meier 123 • 219.464.5283 Email Professor Zamora-Breckenridge More about Professor Zamora-Breckenridge Professor Zamora-Breckenridge, Associate professor, joined the Foreign Language faculty in 1997. A native of Bogota, Columbia, she brings to the classroom the expertise gained from a Master's degree in Hispanic Linguistics at the Instituto Caro y Cuervo in Bogota, studies in Spanish language and literature at the Instituto de Cooperacion Iberoamericana in Madrid, Spain and doctoral work at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her dissertation focuses on the contemporary Columbian novel. Her other areas of interest and research include contemporary Spanish American literature, Hispanic linguistics and phonetics.