Spanish/Faculty and Staff

Jorge Abril Sánchez

Lecturer

317 Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3129
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: jorge.abril.sanchez@unh.edu

Education:
B.A., Universidad de Oviedo, Spain, 2001
M.A., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2004

Courses Taught:
SPAN 503: Intermediate Spanish I
SPAN 504: Intermediate Spanish II

Eliani Benaion Basile

Lecturer

317 Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3129
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: eliani.benaion@unh.edu

Education:
B.A., Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 1982
M.A., Boston University, 1984
Ph.D., Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 1994

Courses Taught:
SPAN 503: Intermediate Spanish I
PORT 401: Elementary Portuguese I
PORT 402: Elementary Portuguese II

Holly R. Cashman

Associate Professor of Spanish

210G Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-4123
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: holly.cashman@unh.edu

website

Education:
B.A., Hood College, 1994
M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1997
Ph.D., ibid., 2001

Courses Taught:
SPAN 632: Advanced Conversation and Composition
SPAN 997: Seminar/Struc. Applied Linguistics

Fields of Research: 
codeswitching, impoliteness, and identity in bilingual interaction

Susana Castillo-Rodriguez

Lecturer

320 Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-0581
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: susana.castillo-rodriguez@unh.edu

Education:
B.A., Complutense University, 1992
Ph.D., ibid., 2000
M. Phil, CUNY, 2012

Courses Taught:
SPAN 401: Elementary Spanish I
SPAN 402: Elementary Spanish II
SPAN 503: Intermediate Spanish I

John Chaston

Associate Professor of Spanish

317 Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3129
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: john.chaston@unh.edu

Education:
B.A., Brigham Young University, 1980
M.A., ibid., 1982
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1987

Courses Taught:
SPAN 525: Spanish Civilization and Culture
SPAN 601: Phonetics
SPAN 632: Advanced Conversation and Composition
SPAN 733/833: History of the Spanish Language
SPAN 798/898F: Special Study/Mood, Pronouns, Modif.

Fields of Research: 
Spanish grammar and usage

Marco Dorfsman

Associate Professor of Spanish 

G10B Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3448
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: marcod@cisunix.unh.edu

Education:
B.A., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1985
M.A., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1988
Ph.D., ibid., 1992

Courses Taught:
ECS 550: Critical Methods in Cultural Studies
SPAN 631: Advanced Conversation and Composition
SPAN 653: Intro Latin American Literature and Thought
SPAN 797/897Q: Latin America
SPAN 997: Graduate Seminar/The Baroque

Fields of Research: 
Latin American civilization and culture

Janet Gold

Professor of Spanish 

210D Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1875
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: jng@unh.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education:
B.A., Albertus Magnus College, 1971
M.A., Worcester State College, 1981
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1990

Courses Taught:
SPAN 526: Latin American Civilization and Culture
SPAN 632: Advanced Conversation and Composition
SPAN 648: Reading Current Periodicals
SPAN 650: Intro to Critical Analysis
SPAN 797/897Z: Special Study/Latin American Civilization and Culture
SPAN 901: Bibliography and Research
SPAN 997: Seminar/Afro Caribbean Literature

Fields of Research: 
Latin American and Caribbean literature and culture

Sarah Hirsch

Lecturer

321 Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1336
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: shirsch@unh.edu

Education:
B.A., University of Massachusetts, Boston, 1982
M.S.T., University of New Hampshire, 1992
M.A., ibid., 2004

Courses Taught:
SPAN 403: Review of Spanish
SPAN 503/504: Intermediate Spanish
SPAN 631: Advanced Conversation and Composition

Lori Hopkins

Associate Professor of Spanish

G10C Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3122
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: lhopkins@cisunix.unh.edu

Education:
B.A., University of Virginia, 1984
M.A., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1987
Ph.D., ibid., 1993

Courses Taught:
SPAN 632: Advanced Conversation and Composition
SPAN 650: Intro to Critical Analysis
SPAN 771: Latin American Drama
SPAN 797/897K: Special Study/Latin American Literature 20th Century
SPAN 901: Bibliography Methods Research
SPAN 997: Seminar/Latin American Literature and the Border

Fields of Research: 
Latin American literature

Lina Lee

Professor of Spanish and Interim Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

210A Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3123
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: llee@cisunix.unh.edu

website

Education:
B.A., Fu Jen Catholic University, 1979
M.A., North Texas State University, 1986
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1992

Courses Taught:
SPAN 632: Advanced Composition and Conversation
SPAN 645: Intro to Spanish Linguistics
LLC 791/891: Methods of Foreign Language Teaching
SPAN 797/897N: Special Study/Intro to Second Language Acquisition
SPAN 903: Applied Linguistics

Fields of Research: 
Linguistics, second language acquisition, applied linguistics and computer assisted language learning   

Leticia Mantilla-Clavijo

Lecturer

315 Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1034
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: leticia.mantilla@unh.edu

Education:
B.A., Universidad Veracruzana, 1998
M.A., University of New Hampshire, 2010

Courses Taught:
SPAN 403: Review of Spanish
SPAN 503: Intermediate Spanish I
SPAN 631: Advanced Conversation and Composition I

Jaume Marti-Olivella

Associate Professor of Spanish and Coordinator of the Spanish Program

G10K Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3768
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: olivella@unh.edu

Education:
Licenciatura, Universidad de Barcelona, Spain, 1976
M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1978
Ph.D., ibid., 1988

Courses Taught:
SPAN 651-652: Intro Spanish Literature and Thought
SPAN 631-632: Advanced Conversation and Composition
SPAN 798/898C: Special Study/Spanish Cinema: Great Directors
SPAN 901: Bibliography Methods Research
SPAN 997: Seminar/Cultures of Spain: Basque

Fields of Research: 
Spanish cinema

Carmen García de la Rasilla

Associate Professor of Spanish

G10D Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3126
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: crasilla@cisunix.unh.edu

Education:
Licenciatura, Universidad de Valledelid, Spain, 1985
Ph.D., ibid., 1990
M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1991
Ph.D., ibid., 1996

Courses Taught:
SPAN 504: Intermediate Spanish
SPAN 631: Advanced Conversation and Composition
SPAN 650: Introduction to Critical Analysis
SPAN 652: Introduction to Spanish Literature and Thought
SPAN 654: Introduction to Latin American Literature and Thought
SPAN 756/856: Modern Spanish Poetry
SPAN 797/897: Special Study/Spanish Literature of the 20th Century

Fields of Research: 
20th Century Spanish literature

Maria Rossi

Lecturer

315 Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1034
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: mil3@cisunix.unh.edu

Education:
B.A., Universidad de Costa Rica, 1976
M.A., University of New Hampshire, 2007

Courses Taught:
SPAN 503: Intermediate Spanish I
SPAN 504: Intermediate Spanish II
SPAN 631: Advanced Conversation and Composition I
SPAN 632: Advanced Conversation and Composition II

Linda Thomsen

Senior Lecturer

210K Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-4128
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail:linda.thomsen@unh.edu

Education:
B.A., University of Connecticut, 1975
M.A., University of New Hampshire, 1988

Courses Taught:
SPAN 503: Intermediate Spanish
SPAN 631: Advanced Conversation and Composition

Scott E. Weintraub

Assistant Professor of Spanish

210F Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3098
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: scott.weintraub@unh.edu

website

Education:
A.B., Dartmouth College, 2001
Ph.D., Emory University, 2006

Courses Taught:
SPAN 631/632: Advanced Conversation and Composition
SPAN 647: Hispanic Cultural Studies
SPAN 797/897: Topics in Hispanic Literary and Cultural Studies: Latin American and Spanish Cyber Literature

Fields of Research: 
20th and 21st century Spanish and Latin American literature; critical theory and cultural studies; poetry; cyberliterature and cyberculture; the relationship between literature, philosophy, science, and technology