UMass Boston

Faculty & Staff

Nayelli Maria Castro-Ramirez
Chairperson: Associate Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Latin American & Iberian Studies
617-287-7550
nayelli.castro@umb.edu
Expertise: Translation Studies

Dora Alvarez
Senior Lecturer, College of Liberal Arts, Latin American & Iberian Studies
617-287-7550
dora.alvarez@umb.edu
Expertise: Spanish grammar, Foreign Language Teaching, content producer of Spanish textbooks

Patricia Anderson
Senior Lecturer II, College of Liberal Arts, Latin American & Iberian Studies 
617.287.7550
Patti.Anderson@umb.edu
Expertise: Medieval Castilian Literature; ideological and social complexities of the vox feminae

Juliana Berte
Senior Lecturer, College of Liberal Arts, Latin American & Iberian Studies
617-287-7550
Juliana.Berte@umb.edu
Expertise: Hispanic Linguistics

Patricia Chouinard
Senior Lecturer II, College of Liberal Arts, Latin American & Iberian Studies
617.287.7550
Patty.Chouinard@umb.edu

María Inés Cisterna Gold
Associate Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Latin American & Iberian Studies 
617-287-7550
Maria.Cisterna@umb.edu

Reyes Coll-Tellechea
Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Latin American & Iberian Studies
617.287.7550
Reyes.Coll-Tellechea@umb.edu
Expertise: Literature & Society, 16th Century Spain, Literary History, History of the Book, Bibliography

Simone deLemos
Director: Portuguese and Spanish Language Programs, College of Liberal Arts, Latin American & Iberian Studies 
617-287-7550
simone.delemos@umb.edu
Expertise: General Linguistics, Phonology and Phonetics, Computational Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Pedagogy, Romance Languages and Linguistics, Indigenous languages of Brazil, Machine Learning and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Cognitive Science, Latin American Studies.

Susana Domingo Amestoy
Assistant Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Latin American & Iberian Studies
617-287-7550
susana.domingo@umb.edu
Expertise: Latin American and Spanish cinema and literature, transatlantic studies, cultural studies, aesthetics, ethics, memory studies, and critical theory.

Susan Gauss
Interim Dean, Honors College and Associate Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Latin American & Iberian Studies 
617.287.5521
Susan.Gauss@umb.edu
Expertise: Modern Mexican History

Isabel Gómez
Assistant Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Latin American & Iberian Studies 
617.287.7550
Isabel.Gomez@umb.edu
Expertise: Translation studies, translation theories, Latin American poetics, comparative literatures Mexican and Brazilian vanguards and contemporary literatures, transhistorical baroque

Benjamin Juarez Echenique
Associate Lecturer, College of Liberal Arts, Latin American & Iberian studies.
benjamin.juarez@umb.edu
Expertise: Latin American Studies, Leadership studies,Mexican Cultural History, Mexican Music

Nino Kebadze
Associate Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Latin American & Iberian Studies
617.287.7550
Nino.Kebadze@umb.edu
Expertise: 20th-century Spanish literature, post-war romance fiction, film, writing of memory and exile

Diego Mansilla
Senior Lecturer, College of Liberal Arts, Latin American & Iberian Studies
617-287-7550
Diego.Mansilla@umb.edu
Expertise: Translation Teaching, Online Education, Professional Translation, Translation Quality Assessment

Albert Mogavero
Associate Lecturer, College of Liberal Arts, Latin American & Iberian Studies
617-287-7550

Susan Mraz
Senior Lecturer III, College of Liberal Arts, Latin American & Iberian Studies
617-287-7550
susan.mraz@umb.edu
Expertise: Foreign Language Pedagogy / Technology in the Classroom

Adjunct Faculty, College of Liberal Arts, Latin American & Iberian Studies
617-287-3815
Expertise: Portuguese as a foreign and second language; Portuguese for heritage speakers; Portuguese for Spanish speakers. All levels of Portuguese Language and Literature. Lusophone Cinema and Literatures, differentiated instruction in Lusophone languages and literatures, student-centered learning in a multicultural environment, bilingual and bicultural proficiency, cooperative learning.

Mark Schafer
Senior Lecturer, College of Liberal Arts, Latin American & Iberian Studies 
617-287-7550
Mark.Schafer@umb.edu
Expertise: Spanish, Language Instruction, Literary Translation, Translation Studies

Emeritus Faculty

Clara Estow
Professor Emerita, College of Liberal Arts, Latin American & Iberian Studies

Esther Torrego
Professor Emerita, College of Liberal Arts, Latin American & Iberian Studies