July 2018

Gretchen Sunderman is a professor of Spanish and linguistics and associate chair for Undergraduate Studies.

Professor Reglero (Ph.D., University of Connecticut) specializes in syntax. Her research focuses on interrogative clauses, their interaction with discourse-related notions such as focus and topic, and the adjacency requirement between the interrogative word and the verb. The languages she has studied in more depth are Spanish and Basque, but she has drawn numerous cross-linguistic comparisons using other languages, such as English, French, and a variety of Slavic languages.

Delia Poey is a specialist in U.S. Latina/o literatures and cultures. She has published numerous anthologies of Latino literatures and Latin American women's fiction as well as two scholarly books: Cuban Women and Salsa: To the Beat of Their Own Drum (Palgrave 2014) and Latino American Literature in the Classroom: The Politics of Transformation (University Press of Florida 2002).

Coordinator of Linguistics and Computational Linguistics
Affiliate faculty, Native American and Indigenous Studies Center
Affiliated member, Heritage Linguistics Lab, Leiden University, the Netherlands

Michael Leeser (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is professor of Spanish and linguistics. He also serves as the program coordinator for Spanish. His research focuses on second language acquisition and bilingualism, and he has directed over 15 dissertations in these areas. He has been nominated for undergraduate and graduate teaching awards, and he is the recipient of a Graduate Faculty Mentor Award. In his free time, he is an avid swimmer and cyclist.

Alejandra Gutierrez is an instructor of Spanish. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Virginia in 2011. She specializes in contemporary Hispanic literature from the 20th and 21st centuries. She also studied theater in Venezuela and is interested in translation. She is the founder and director of Tallahassee Hispanic Theater.

Professor González (Ph.D., linguistics, University of Southern California), professor of Spanish and linguistics, specializes in phonetics and phonology. Her research focuses on Spanish consonantal phenomena, Spanish intonation, prosody-conditioned alternations in Panoan languages (spoken in Peru, Bolivia and Brazil), and language invention.

Professor Jose Gomariz has published widely on modern Spanish American literature.

Matthew Goldmark (Ph.D. in Hispanic studies, University of Pennsylvania) is an associate professor of Spanish, specializing in Latin American studies. His recent book, "Forms of Relation: Composition and Kinship in Colonial Spanish America" (University of Virginia Press, 2023), studies conceptions of family in Latin America and Spain.

Professor Juan Carlos Galeano received his Ph.D. from University of Kentucky in 1991. He is a poet and translator and teaches Spanish American poetry, the environmental imagination in Spanish American literature, and cultures of Amazonia.