Faculty

Regular Faculty

Professor Mike Shelton

Michael Shelton, Chair

Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.S., St. Cloud State University; M.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Michael Shelton is a linguist, specializing in phonology and psycholinguistics.
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Professor Mariska Bolyanatz

Mariška Bolyanatz Brown

Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A., Gordon College, Massachusetts; M.A., University of Illinois, Chicago; Ph.D., UCLA
Mariška Bolyanatz Brown (IPA: [məˈɾiʃkə boʊliˈɑnɪts bɹɑʊn]) is a linguist whose work focuses on socially conditioned variation in speech production and perception in Spanish.
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Professor Hanan Elsayad

Hanan Elsayed

Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A., Montclair State University; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University; Graduate Certificate in African Studies, Rutgers University
Hanan Elsayed teaches French and Arabic languages and literatures.
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Professor Salvador Fernández

Salvador Fernández

National Endowment for the Humanities Professorship
B.A., UC Riverside; M.A., Indiana University; Ph.D., UCLA
Salvador Fernández teaches courses on Spanish and Latin American literature and civilization, as well as Mexican and Chicano/a studies. His research areas of interest are the contemporary Mexican novel and Chicano/a studies.
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Susan Grayson

Professor, Spanish and French Studies
A.B., M.A., Ph.D., UCLA; Ph.D., Wright Institute Los Angeles Attestation d’études, Université de Bordeaux
Grayson has taught the 18th- and 19th-century French novel, French feminism, women's studies, literary criticism, and French grammar and composition at all levels.
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Non-Tenure Track Faculty

Marta Llorente Bravo

Visiting Instructor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A., M.A., Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Ph.D., University of California, Davis (in progress)
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Luz D. Forero

Specialist for Language Education; Visiting Instructor, Spanish & French Studies
B.A., Occidental College; M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara
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Alicia Gonzalez

Resident Senior Instructor, Spanish and French Studies
A.B., Stanford University; M.A., UCLA
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Professor Gloria Orozco Allan

Gloria Orozco

Visiting Associate Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., UCLA
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Karina Rincon

Resident Instructor, Spanish and French Studies
A.B., Occidental College; M.A., UCLA
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Penelope Rosenstock-Murav

Visiting Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A. University of Chicago; M1 Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle; Ph.D. Cornell University
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M. Gabriela Venegas

Visiting Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A, Universidad Católica Santiago de Guayaquil; M.A., Florida State University; P.h.D., University of California, Los Angeles
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Emeriti/ae Faculty

Professor Robert Ellis
Robert Ellis
Norman Bridge Distinguished Professor of Spanish, Spanish and French Studies; Emeritus (1984-2021)
Spanish & French Studies
(323) 259-2841
rrellis@oxy.edu

Robert Ellis teaches courses in Spanish and in modern Spanish literature and civilization.

Adelaida López
Professor, Spanish and French Studies, Emerita (1989-2020)
Spanish & French Studies
adela@oxy.edu

Adelaida López teaches the literature of magical realism (Borges, Cortázar, and Márquez) as well as women's literature of Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina. Her research interests include psychoanalysis.

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