Spanish Faculty
Diane Chaffee-Sorace - Head, Spanish Section
and Director, Comparative Cultures & Literary Studies (Fall 2011)
M.A., Ph.D. Duke University
Maryland Hall 448
410-617-2813
dchaffee@loyola.edu
Areas of study: Golden Age Literature; Spanish Poetry
José Alfredo Contreras
M.A. California State University Fullerton
Maryland Hall 351L
410.617.2594
jacontreras@loyola.edu
Suzanne Crouse
M.A. West Virginia University
Maryland Hall 351E
410.617.2520
secrouse@loyola.edu
Ramón Espejo-Saavedra
M.A., Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Maryland Hall 465
410-617-2610
respejo@loyola.edu
Areas of study: Modern Spanish Peninsular Literature; History and Literature
Lloyd Frias
M.A. Marquette University
Maryland Hall 351K
410.617.2652
ljfrias@loyola.edu
Ana Gómez-Pérez
M.A. University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Maryland Hall 351B
410-617-2775
agp@loyola.edu
Areas of study: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spanish Peninsular Literature
Margarita Jacome - On Sabbatical Spring 2012
Ph.D. The University of Iowa
Maryland Hall 351J
410-617-2364
mjacome@loyola.edu
Area of study: Latin American Literature
Tasha Lewis
Ph.D. University of California, Davis
M.A. California State University, Long Beach
Maryland Hall 460
410-617-5603
tnlewis@loyola.edu
Areas of Study: Spanish Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition
Catherine Meisel-Valdez
M.A. Middlebury College
Maryland Hall 351K
410-617-2507
cmeiselvaldez@loyola.edu
Betty Mitchell
M.A. University of Louisville
Maryland Hall 351F
410-617-2924
bgmitchell@loyola.edu
Area of study: Spanish Literature
Marie Murphy
M.A., Ph.D. University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Maryland Hall 462
410-617-2511
mmurphy@loyola.edu
Areas of study: Twentieth Century Hispanic Literature; Women Writers
Mary Ann Peterson
M.A. (equivalent) Universidad Nacional Mayor de San marcos, Lima, Peru
Maryland Hall 460
410.617.5374
mspeterson@loyola.edu
Ursula Sayers-Ward
M.A. The Catholic University of America
Maryland Hall 351F
410-617-2931
ucsayersward@loyola.edu
Holly Schneider
M.A., The University of Delaware
Maryland Hall 443
410.617.5230
huschneider@loyola.edu
Language Learning Center Director
Sarah Tyler
M.A., University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Maryland Hall 351L
410.617.2105
sgtyler@loyola.edu
Sarah Vitale
M.A. Louisiana State University A & M
Maryland Hall 351K
410.617.2974
sjvitale@loyola.edu
Thomas Ward - Director, Latin American and Latino Studies
M.A., Ph.D. The University of Connecticut
Maryland Hall 351 I
410-617-2370
tward@loyola.edu
Areas of study: Colonial and 19th-Century Latin American Literature
Melva Zamora
M.A. Javeriana University
Maryland Hall 351K
410.617.2305
mzamora@loyola.edu