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
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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
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Wayne Redenbarger
Morphology and Phonology of Portuguese, Latin, and Romance. - Scott Schwenter
Sociolinguistics. Discourse Analysis. Pragmatics.
Visiting Scholars
Dr. Sandra S.F. Erickson (March 2008- March 2009; Brazilian and Comparative Literature; Professor Adjunto IV, Departamento de Letras, UFRN); Clara Maria Abreu Rowland (Summer 2008; Comparative Literature, Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon); Cristiano Cezar Gomes da Silva (Autumn 2008; Brazilian literature, culture, and history; Centro de Ciências Humanas Letras e Artes, UFPB).Associated Faculty
Hispanic Linguistics:
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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:
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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:
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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.
Department of Spanish and Portuguese

