Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty in Spanish

	Amy Austin, Assistant Professor (Medieval and Early Modern Peninsular Literature)
	Jinny Choi, Associate Professor (Historical Linguistics, Dialectology, Sociolinguistics)
	Christopher Conway, Associate Professor & Spanish Section Head (Colonial and Modern Latin American Literature)
	Raymond Elliott, Associate Professor and Chair of Modern Languages (Applied Linguistics, 2nd Language Acquisition)
	Sonia Kania, Assistant Professor (Historical Linguistics)
	Alicia Rueda Acedo, Assistant Professor (Translation Studies and Literature)
	Ignacio Ruiz Pérez, Assistant Professor (Mexican and Chicano Literature)
	Georgia Seminet, Assistant Professor (Modern Latin American Literature)
	Sonja Watson, Assistant Professor (Hispanic Caribbean Literature and Afro-Hispanic Studies)

Professor Bertie Acker is the English translator of Teresa de la Parra's Ifigenia (University of Texas Press) and currently lives in Arlington.

Professor María Capote is the author of El Modernista y su Isla (Ediciones Universal, Florida 1990), several articles on Caribbean poetry, as well as a book of poems, Remembranzas

Professor Carlos Nogueira-Martins is a dedicated scholar of the Portuguese language, literatures and cultures who also collaborated on UTA's Hoja Gaucha (1976-77).

Professor Elizabeth Ordoñez is the author of numerous articles on nineteenth and twentieth century Spanish narrative. literary theory and Chicano literature. Professor Ordoñez's book on contemporary Spanish women's writing, titled Voices of Their Own: Contemporary Spanish Narrative by Women, was published by Bucknell University Press in 1991. Professor Ordoñez also served as Head of the Spanish section for many years and also as chair of the Department of Modern Languages.

Professor Viña worked as the undergraduate advisor for the Modern Languages department for several years, earning the Outstanding Advisor Award in 2001. He is the coauthor of Communicating in Spanish: Workbook (1984, 2nd. ed.), and of Don Quijote (1894–1970): A Selective Annotated Bibliography (1984), as well as the main editor of Don Quijote: meditaciones hispanoamericanas (1988)

Professor José Sánchez authored several articles on Spanish-American drama and taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in language and literature. Dr. Sánchez was also the Director the Study Abroad Program in México for many years until he retired in the spring of 2001. He continues to teach courses and assist us with our study abroad program in Mexico.

Professor Emeritus Lenard Studerus is the author of Temas Gramaticales (University Press of America) and the author of a book about Spanish in New Mexico.

In Memoriam:

Professor Bart Lewis was Associate Professor of Spanish between 2000 and 2004, when he passed away. Dr. Lewis was the author of The Miraculous Lie: Lope de Aguirre and the Search for El Dorado in the Latin American Historical Novel, as well as numerous articles and was beloved by colleagues and students alike.