Members of the Department

Professors

María Cristina Quintero (Ph.D. Stanford University), Senior Major Adviser (on leave semester I)
Thomas Hall 144
mquinter@brynmawr.edu

Enrique Sacerio-Gari (Ph.D. Yale University), Chair
Thomas Hall 140
esacerio@brynmawr.edu

Associate Professors

Lázaro Lima (Ph.D. University of Maryland), Major Adviser
Thomas Hall 127
llima@brynmawr.edu
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H. Rosi Song (Ph.D. Brown University), Major Adviser
Thomas Hall 143
hsong@brynmawr.edu

Senior Lecturer

Inés Arribas (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) (on leave semester II)
Thomas Hall 141
iarribas@brynmawr.edu
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Lecturer

Kaylea Mayer (Ph.D., Georgetown University)
Thomas Hall 125
kmayer@brynmawr.edu

Instructors

Dina Breña (Ph.D. candidate; Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima; and Latin American Studies, Université de Paris III-La Sorbonne, Paris, France)
Thomas Hall 154
dbrena@brynmawr.edu

Elisa Rooney (MA, Villanova University)
Thomas Hall 106
erooney@brynmawr.edu

Asima Saad-Maura (PhD, University of Pennsylvania)
Thomas Hall 106
asaadmaura@brynmawr.edu

Office: Thomas 141
Phone: 610-526-5090
Email: iarribas@brynmawr.edu

Inés Arribas (Senior Lecturer; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) taught at Bryn Mawr in 1997-1998 and rejoined the department in Fall 2001. Her field of research embraces several facets of Spanish Cultural Studies. She is the author of La literatura de humor en la España democrática (1997) and of several articles about humoristic literature - an important popular genre for understanding the socio-political context of post-Franco Spain. Her more recent research encompasses cultural representations of Spanish gypsies in Spanish literature (18th and 20th centuries), and film (1940-present). She teaches language courses at the introductory and advanced levels, as well as culture and literature courses.

Dina Breña (Instructor; Ph.D. candidate; Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima; and Latin American Studies, Université de Paris III-La Sorbonne, Paris, France), joined Bryn Mawr in 1998. She teaches language and culture at beginning and intermediate levels. In the past, she has taught Quechua, French and Spanish in Peru, France, and the US. Her scholarly interests include Andean civilizations, French culture and Latin American literature through film.

Office: Thomas 127
Phone: 610-526-5082
Email: llima@brynmawr.edu

Lázaro Lima (Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Maryland) specializes in Latina/o literary and visual studies, postcolonial studies, gender studies and critical race theory, and African American and Latina/o relations. He is the author of The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory (NYU Press, 2007), and a forthcoming anthology of LGBTQ Latina/o narrative he is co-editing with Violet Quill co-founder Felice Picano. His current book project, Boricua Insurgencies: Puerto Rico, Colonial Nationalism, and Counterhegemony, studies the clandestine contraceptive pill trials conducted in Puerto Rico during the 1950s and its relation to the discourse of U.S. empire building in the Americas and first-world feminisms. The research for Boricua Insurgencies forms the basis of his documentary film, Imperial Science: ‘Testimonios’ from The Puerto Rican Contraceptive Pill Trials. His website can be found at www.lazarolima.com.

Kaylea Mayer (Lecturer; Ph.D., Georgetown University) specializes in applied Spanish linguistics and has recently defended her dissertation which used the Competition Model to investigate the facilitative effects of the acquisition of one linguistic structure on a second. Her most current research project will convert her dissertation study from the written to the computerized mode. At Georgetown she taught introductory and intermediate Spanish from 2001-2008. The courses included: Spanish for Beginners, Introductory Spanish I, Introductory Spanish II, Intensive Basic Spanish, and Intermediate Spanish I. Prior to graduate school, she managed a food pantry for the Salvation Army in a Spanish-speaking area on the west side of Buffalo, New York. She will be joining the department in the fall and coordinating our intermediate Spanish program.

María Cristina Quintero (Professor; Ph.D., Stanford University) has been teaching at Bryn Mawr since 1993. She is the author of Poetry As Play: Gongorismo and the Comedia, a book that explores the intertextual relationship of poetry and theater during early modern Spain. She has published numerous reviews and articles on various aspects of sixteenth and seventeenth-century literature including Renaissance theories of translation, gender and lyric poetry, and the politics of the comedia in Hapsburg Spain. Her articles have appeared in MLN, Hispanic Review, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies and Cervantes, among others. She teaches courses on Cervantes, the picaresque, the development of the lyric in Renaissance Spain and Italy, Spanish drama, and the representation of women in Spanish literature.

Office: Thomas 140
Phone: 610-526-5081
Email: esacerio@brynmawr.edu

Enrique Sacerio-Garí (Professor; Ph.D., Yale University, Chair) is the Dorothy Nepper Marshall Professor of Hispanic and Hispanic-American Studies at Bryn Mawr College, where he has taught since 1977. He is known especially for his work on Jorge Luis Borges, and for his poetry. His poetic works include:  Comunión (a concrete poem) and Poemas interreales (Pennsylvania, 1981; Madrid, 1999; La Habana, 2004). Read interview after the presentation of this book in La Habana: 
http://www.lajiribilla.cu/2005/n197_02/197_14.html His poetry has been included in journals and anthologies in the United States, Spain and Cuba. He prepared for the Heath Anthology of American Literature a translation, introduction, notes and study guide to José Martí's "Nuestra América". He is also the translator of Pablo Neruda's Ode to Typography. He introduced and edited a selection of Jorge Luis Borges' early articles in the volume Textos cautivos, Ensayos y reseñas en El Hogar. He edited and translated Enrique Sosa Rodríguez's Ten Ways to Reach Cuba: Essays On Cuban Culture.

Professor Sacerio-Garí has also written on Rosario Castellanos, Gabriel García Márquez, José Lezama Lima, Brazilian concrete poetry, and Cuban detective fiction. He has been a contributing editor to the Library of Congress' Handbook of Latin American Studies. In January 1985, he led a fact-finding Peace Studies mission to Nicaragua and Costa Rica. In 1997, he taught a tri-college Peace Studies seminar, which included trips to Washington, Miami, and Cuba. He teaches Latin American literature and comparative literature courses on topics such as: Spanish-American short story, contemporary Spanish-American poetry, Borges, Ariel/Caliban, literary analysis and Cuban history, literature and culture.

Office: Thomas 143
Phone: 610-526-5079
Email: hsong@brynmawr.edu

H. Rosi Song (Associate Professor, Ph.D. Brown University) specializes in the literature, intellectual history, and film of contemporary Spain. She is the co-editor of a special volume of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies on the aesthetics and politics of camp, published in 2004. She is also the co-editor of a collection of criticial essays entitled "Traces of Contamination: Unearthing the Francoist Legacy in Contemporary Spanish Discourse", published by Bucknell UP in 2004. She is currently working on a book manuscript on the political commitment in contemporay Spanish narrative.