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Portuguese Faculty

The Portuguese Program at Ohio State draws on a diverse faculty base that shares an enthusiasm for scholarly work that explores connections among the languages, literatures, and cultures of the Portuguese- Galician-, and Spanish-speaking worlds.

Core Faculty

Literatures and Cultures

• Lúcia Costigan
  Luso-Brazilian Language, Literatures and Cultures. Colonial Literatures and Cultures.
• Richard A. Gordon
  Brazilian and Spanish American Film and Colonial Literature. Comparative Studies of Latin American Literature and Culture. Historiography.
• Pedro S. Pereira
  Portuguese, Brazilian and Lusophone African Literatures and Cultures. Iberian literary relations.
• Lisa Beth Voigt
  Literatures and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Empires; Colonial, Transatlantic, Transnational and Hemispheric American Studies.

Linguistics

• Wayne Redenbarger
  Morphology and Phonology of Portuguese, Latin, and Romance.
• Scott Schwenter
  Sociolinguistics. Discourse Analysis. Pragmatics.

Visiting Scholars

Associated Faculty

Hispanic Linguistics:

• Fernando Martínez-Gil
  Hispanic Linguistics, Spanish and Galician phonology and dialectology, Spanish and Ibero-Romance historical phonology.
• Terrell A. Morgan
  Phonology. Dialectology. Materials for Teaching Hispanic Linguistics.
• Dieter Wanner
  Historical (morpho)syntax. Comparative Romance linguistics.

Peninsular Literatures and Cultures:

• Salvador García
  Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Prose, Poetry, and Theater. Populal Literature and Culture.
• Eugenia Romero
  Twentieth-Century Literature. Peripheral Nationalisms. Galician Culture. Emigration, Immigration, and Exile.

Latin American Literatures and Cultures:

• Ignacio Corona
  Contemporary Mexican Literature and Culture. Latino/a Literatures in the U.S. Semiotics.
• Ana del Sarto
  Latin American Cultural Studies.
• Laura Podalsky
  Cultural Studies: Film, Literature, and History.
• Ted Riedinger
  Brazilian History and Cultural Studies.
• Ileana Rodríguez
  Caribbean Literature. Women's Studies. Narrative and Poetry. Subaltern Studies.
• Abril Trigo
  Nineteenth-Century Literature. Río de la Plata Literatures and Cultures. Popular Culture and Cultural Studies. Film.