Spanish Faculty – World Languages and Cultures

Judith Downing

Assistant Teaching Professor and Coordinator of Elementary Spanish Program
M.A., University Of Pennsylvania
judithd@camden.rutgers.edu

Próspero N. García, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Spanish Applied Linguistics
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
pg289@camden.rutgers.edu

Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning, Spanish Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy, Second Language Evaluation and Assessment, Technology Enhanced Language Learning.

Carla Giaudrone, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Spanish
Latin American and Latinx Studies Program Director
cgiaudro@camden.rutgers.edu

Research areas include: Hispanic modernismo, queer and gender studies, visual culture, memory and commemoration, affect theory, and landscape and geographical imagination

Eveling Hondros

Assistant Teaching Professor and Coordinator of Spanish for Health Professions
M.A., Rutgers University
emh160@camden.rutgers.edu

Ana Laguna, Ph.D.

Professor and Director of Spanish for Health Professions
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Purdue University
alaguna@camden.rutgers.edu

Associate Editor of the Bulletin of Cervantes, Executive Member for the Cervantes Society of America, Creator and Director of MAT (Masters in Teaching Spanish) Program (2012-17), Co-Convener “Race and the Renaissance” Seminar at Center for Cultural Analysis (Rutgers-New Brunswick) 2017-18.Ph.D., Purdue University.

Research Areas include: Early Modern Literature and Culture, Applied Humanism, Material Culture, Cultural Literacy, Visual Studies, Study Abroad

Silvia Perez-Cortes, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., Rutgers University, New Brunswick
sp1019@camden.rutgers.edu

Heritage and Second Language Acquisition, Spanish-English bilinguals, child and adult language development, Language attrition, Bilingual education, English Language Learners (ELLs).

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