HUMANITIES

Department of Hispanic Studies

Address : Box 23351, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931-3351

Telephone : (787) 764-0000, exts. 2486, 3705

Fax : (787) 764-0000 xt. 3662

E-mail : esthisp@rrpac.upr.clu.edu

DEGREE OFFERED

PhD in Hispanic Studies with specialty in Hispanic Studies.

FACULTY

Federico Acevedo , Doctorate, Université de Paris, 1976, Professor.
Sociology of literature; Spanish American literature.

Ramón Luis Acevedo , PhD, University of Puerto Rico, 1978, Professor.
Central American and Caribbean literature.

Matilde Albert-Robatto , PhD, University of Puerto Rico, 1976, Professor.
Spanish and Galician literature; writing and style .

Iris B. Alemán , PhD, Cornell University, 1987, Professor.
Linguistics

Rafael Bernabe , PhD, State University of New York, Binghamton, 1989, Researcher.
Sociology and Puerto Rican literature.

Sunny Cabrera Salcedo , Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1999, Associate Professor.
Hispanic Lisnguistic.

Sofía Cardona-Colom , PhD, University of Massachusetts, 1988, Professor.
Contemporary Spanish literature .

María Inés Castro , Ph .D., Universidad de Puerto Rico 2002, Assistant Professor. Hispanic Linguistic.

Félix Córdova-Iturregui , PhD, Princeton University, 1979, Professor.
Spanish and Puerto Rican literature .

Luis Felipe Díaz , PhD, University of Minnesota, 1984, Professor.
Spanish and Puerto Rican literature .

Edith Faría , PhD, University of Puerto Rico, 1978, Associate Professor.
Spanish American and Puerto Rican literature .

Fernando Feliú Matilla, University of California Davis 1994, Assistant Professor,     Puerto Rican Literature 19th and 20th Century.

Eduardo Forastieri , PhD, University of Puerto Rico, 1975, Professor.
Golden Age Spanish literature; semiotics .

Juan Gelpí , PhD, Princeton University, 1983, Professor.
Spanish American and Puerto Rican literature; literary theory .

Carmen N. Hernández Torres , Ph.D., University of Puerto Rico 1994, Professor,
Hispanic Linguistic.

Aurora Lauzardo , PhD, Princeton University, 1990, Professor.
Golden Age and Medieval Spanish literature .

Luis López Alvarez , Ph.D., Université de Paris III Sorbonne 1985, Professor.
Spanish and Spanish American Literature. Academic liaison between Hispanic Studies Department and Juan Ramon Zenobia Study Hall.

Luce López-Baralt , PhD, Harvard University, 1974, Professor.
Spanish and Moorish-Spanish Golden Age literature.

Mercedes López-Baralt , PhD, Cornell University, 1980, Professor.
Literary anthropology; Pre-Colombian and Colonial literature .

María Luisa Lugo , Ph.D., University of Puerto Rico , 1995, Assistant Professor.    Spanish Literature.

Miguel Ángel Náter Maldonado, Ph.D., University of Puerto Rico 2002, Assistant Profesor.
Spanish American Literature and Spanish American Theatre.

María Teresa Narváez , Ph.D., University of Puerto Rico 1988, Profesor.
Spanish Literatura and Moorish-Spanish Golden Age literature

Luis A. Ortiz López , Ph.D., University of New Mexico 1996, Professor.
Hispanic Linguistic and Hispanic Dialectology.

Juan Otero Garabís , Ph.D., Harvard University 1998, Associate Profesor.
Caribbean Literature.

Melanie Pérez Ortiz, Ph.D., Stanford University 1999, Associate Professor.
Spanish American and Puerto Rican Literature.

Carmen I. Pérez-Marín , PhD, Harvard University, 1990, Professor.
Contemporary Spanish American literature .

Pamela Phillips, Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis 1997, Assistant Professor,
Spanish Literature of 18th Century.

Mayra Santos , PhD, Cornell University, 1991, Professor.
African and Caribbean literature; feminist literature .

José Luis Vega , PhD, University of Puerto Rico, 1982, Professor.
Spanish American and Puerto Rican literature .

DOCTORAL PROGRAM IN HISPANIC STUDIES

The Doctoral Program is offered with specialization in Spanish Literature, Spanish American Literature, Puerto Rican Literature, and Hispanic Linguistics.

Requirements for Admission

Besides the general requirements for admission to graduate studies at the Río Piedras Campus, applicants must satisfy the following requirements:

Requirements for Graduation

Candidates must satisfy the requirements for graduation from the Río Piedras Campus.

Program of Study

Description of Courses (PDF)