Latin American Studies

Michael Birenbaum Quintero

Assistant Professor of Music
Interests: Afro-Colombian Musics; Pacific coast, music and political movements; Ethnomusicology

Nadia V. Celis  

Assistant Professor of Romance Languages
Interests: 20th and 21st century Latin American, Hispanic Caribbean and Latino Literature; feminist theories and criticism

Elena M. Cueto-Asin   

Associate Professor of Romance Languages; Chair of Romance Languages Department
Interests: Spanish film; Spanish Civil War; Spain-Latin America relationships; Narratives of travel and urban spaces; Modern theater 

Julian P. Diaz  

Assistant Professor of Economics
Interests: International trade and international finance; Latin American economics

Gustavo Faveron-Patriau (on leave of absence for the 2012-13 academic year)

Associate Professor of Romance Languages
Interests: 19th and 20th century Andean and Southern Cone literature; early postcolonial and 20th century Latin American political/intellectual history

Matthew Klingle (on leave of absence for the spring semester of the 2012-13 academic year)

Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies
Interests: Connections between environmental change, cultural ideas, social inequality, and urban development

Stephen J. Meardon 

Assistant Professor of Economics
Interests: International finance, Latin American economics 

Laura Premack

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies and Latin American Studies

Elizabeth Shesko

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in History and Latin American Studies

Krista E. Van Vleet  

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Director of Latin American Studies Program
Interests: Gender, family in Latin America; religion and globalization; narrative, performance and identity; state and family violence; Andean region

Hanétha Vété-Congolo 

Associate Professor of Romance Languages
Interests: Psychoanalytic approaches to literature, literature and philosophy, Francophone Women’s literature from West Africa and the Caribbean

Susan E. Wegner (on leave of absence for the spring semestser of the 2012-13 academic year)

Associate Professor of Art History
Italian Renaissance and Baroque, Pre-Columbian
Interests: Domestic and political imagery, art in Peru, images of Saints

Allen Wells (on leave of absence for the 2013-13 academic year)

Roger Howell, Jr. Professor of History
Latin America, Caribbean
Interests: Modern Mexico; history of commodities; colonial and modern Latin America; Jewish Studies 

Eugenia Wheelwright

Senior Lecturer in Romance Languages
Interests: Spanish pedagogy, Modern Latin American history and politics 

Nathaniel T. Wheelwright

Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Natural Sciences
Interests: Savannah Sparrow ecology, plant-animal interactions, tropical ecology and conservation, Boreal Island biology 

Carolyn Wolfenzon

Assistant Professor of Romance Languages
Interests: Historical novels in Latin America, dictatorship and political violence in Latin America, Mexican literature and film

Enrique Yepes (on leave of absence for the 2012-13 academic year)

Associate Professor of Romance Languages
Interests: Contemporary Latin American poetry; literature ethics; ecocriticism; ekphrasis; Latin American history of ideas

Department Coordinator

Jean M. Harrison
Department Phone: (207)325-3217
Department Fax: (207) 798-7031

Research Associate

Janice Jaffe

Research Associate in Latin American Studies
Interests: Translation and translation studies; Latino immigrants to US; medical interpretation for Partners for Rural Health in the Dominican Republic; Community-based teaching and research