BELL, STEVEN
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(B.A., University of Kansas, 1977; M.A., University of Kentucky, 1979; Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1984), joined the University of Arkansas in 1992 and is currently an Associate Professor of Spanish. Professor Bell works primarily in the area of modern Spanish American Literature and specializes in the Latin American Novel, Mexican literature, and Critical Theory. Professor Bell has presented many conference papers on these subjects, and he has published numerous articles and reviews in national and international journals, including an extensive entry on "Mexico" in the Handbook of Latin American Literature, 1992. He also co-authored and edited the volume entitled Critical Theory, Cultural Politics, and Latin American Narrative, 1993.

PEREA-RODRÍGUEZ, ÓSCAR
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(B.A., Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), 1996; M.A. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2000; Ph.D. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2004) joined the University of Arkansas in 2007 and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish. His primary research area is medieval Spanish literature and culture, with special emphasis on cancionero poetry. Other interests include literature of the Spanish conversos, patronage networks in medieval and early modern Spain, computerization of scholarly methodology, and textual criticism. He is coeditor of PhiloBiblon, the world’s largest data base of primary sources of medieval Spanish literature. He previously taught at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), University of San Francisco, and University of California at Berkeley.

PRITCHETT, KAY
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(B.A., Millsaps College, 1968; M.A., University of North Carolina, 1973; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1979) joined the University of Arkansas
faculty in 1982 and is currently a Professor of Spanish. As a recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to Spain, she began her research into recent poetry which has continued to be her primary interest. She has authored five books, with a sixth book-length manuscript, In Pursuit of Poem Shadows: The Second Poetics of Pureza Canelo, under review. She has published articles on contemporary poetry and narrative and has presented many papers at national and regional meetings. Other interests include psychoanalytic theory and feminism.

RESTREPO, LUIS FERNANDO
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(B.A. Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellin, Colombia, 1988; M.A. University of Maryland, 1992; Ph.D. University of Maryland, 1996), joined the Department in the Fall of1995 and has provided much additional expertise in Spanish American Literature and Culture to our expanding B.A. and M.A. programs. His specialization is in Colonial Latin American Literature, and he has a special interest in film and interdisciplinary studies. In the Spring of 2000, he was a visiting professor at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia, with a Fulbright Scholar Award. He has served in the executive committe of the MLA's Division of Colonial Spanish American Literature and in the Fulbright Senior Scholar Peer Review committee of Andean Countries. In 2005 and 2006, he was a visiting professor at the Universidad de Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia. He serves in the editorial boards of Confluencia (Colorado), Revista Estudios de Literatura Colombiana (Universidad de Antioquia) and Cuadernos de Literatura (Universidad Javeriana). His current research project is on the Muisca and the ethnopolitics of memory in Colombia. Since 2004, he has been directing the graduate program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies.

RUIZ, M. REINA
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(B.A. University of León Spain, 1989; M.A. Kansas State University, 1993; Ph.D. Washington University 2002) joined the University of Arkansas in 2001 as Assistant Professor of Spanish. Her primary research area is Golden Age literature with special emphasis on 17th-century female playwrights. Other interests include Spanish-American drama, literature and the visual arts. She has presented papers at international, national and regional conferences. She previously taught at Southwest Missouri State University and with Washington Universityís Madrid Summer Institute. She is currently advisor for the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society (Sigma Delta Pi).

TURNER, JOAN
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(B.A., Brown University, 1967; M.A.T. Brown University, 1969; Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 1988) joined the University of Arkansas in 1994 and is currently Assistant Professor of Spanish and coordinator of the first two-years of the Spanish language program. She is also the Spanish TA supervisor. She has written articles and presented papers at national and regional conferences on her research interests: TA training/supervision and language learning disabilities, teaching the short story, Latino culture, and nontraditional students. She is the co-author of the reader, Tapices literarios and has begun work on a 4th semester textbook based on Latino culture. She is a member of the MLA grant team working on the high school to college articulation project.

VILLALOBOS, SERGIO
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(B.A., Universidad ARCIS, Chile; M.A. and Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh) joined the Department of Foreign Languages in the fall of 2005. He has since taught classes on Latin American Culture and Literatures, special topics concerning Latin America today and graduate seminars on Latin American XIX century literature. He also participates in the MA in Cultural Studies, Universidad ARCIS, as a visiting professor and is an active researcher and translator. His field focuses in literary and cultural studies, and he is finishing two manuscripts-- one related to postdictatorship in the Southern Cone and the exhasution of politics, and another related to War and Society in Latin America in the XIX century. He also serves as an undergraduate adviser for our Spanish Program.