Faculty and Staff

Isabel Cuñado

Associate Professor of Spanish
Ph.D. Cornell University

Isabel Cuñado specializes in the literature, culture and intellectual history of 20th and 21st century Spain. Professor Cuñado teaches courses on the history of Spanish literature, representations of the Spanish Civil War and contemporary women writers. She has published articles on different aspects of the fantastic, memory studies and ethics in contemporary Spanish narrative. She is the author of the book El espectro de la herencia: la narrativa de Javier Marías (Rodopi 2004).
(570) 577-3976
icunado@bucknell.edu

Manuel Delgado

Professor of Spanish
Program Director, Bucknell en España
Ph.D. Texas at Austin

Focuses on the drama and prose of the Golden Age and of the 20th century in Spain. He teaches courses dealing with Spanish civilization, Cervantes, and a course on the three contemporaries, Lorca, Dalí, and Buñuel. His Spanish drama workshop is designed to enhance students' oral proficiency in the language.
(570) 577-1510
delgado@bucknell.edu

Melvin González-Rivera

Assistant Professor of Spanish
Ph.D. Ohio State University

Melvin González-Rivera specializes in syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and their interface in grammar, with an emphasis on Caribbean Spanish. Recent articles include: On the Internal Structure of Spanish Attributive Qualitative Binominal Constructions (2011); Negation, Modification, and the Syntax of PR Spanish (2011, with J. Gutiérrez-Rexach); Is Preposition-stranding under Sluicing Possible in Puerto Rican Spanish (2011, with R. Padilla-Reyes & J. Rueda); and Negative Quantification and Degree Restriction(2012, with J. Gutiérrez-Rexach). He teaches Spanish language at all levels as well as course on Hispanic Linguistics.
(570) 577-3979
mgr010@bucknell.edu

Elisabeth Guerrero

Associate Professor of Spanish
Ph.D. Texas at Austin

Her research and teaching focus on nineteenth and twentieth century Spanish-American narrative and cultural studies, with a particular emphasis on Mexican literature and culture. She teaches Spanish language at all levels as well as course on U.S. Latino/Latina literature. She has a strong interest in intellectual history and literary theory.
(570) 577-1745
eguerrer@bucknell.edu

Jason McCloskey

Assistant Professor of Spanish
Ph.D. Indiana University

Jason teaches courses on language, literature and culture. His research examines poetry of the 16th- and 17th-century Spanish Empire from a transatlantic perspective. He is especially interested in epic poetry and its relations to historiography, classical mythology, and Renaissance artwork.
(570) 577-2079
jam080@bucknell.edu

Collin McKinney

Assistant Professor of Spanish
Ph.D. University of Cambridge

Teaches courses in Spanish literature and culture, with special emphasis on the nineteenth century. Course topics include Spanish realism, science and literature, and gender. His research interests include the novels of Benito Pérez Galdós, as well as masculinity studies.
(570) 577-1675
cm038@bucknell.edu

Ana Mercedes Patiño

Associate Professor of Spanish
Ph.D. University of California at Riverside

Specializes in 20th century Latin American narrative, and teaches a course on Spanish-American civilization, as well as an advanced course in the short story. Her research interests include the Latin American avant-garde, recent Andean narrative and relations among Latin America, Europe and the United States.
(570) 577-1749
apatino@bucknell.edu

Alice J. Poust

Department Chair, Associate Professor of Spanish
Ph.D. Texas at Austin

Teaches courses in Spanish-American literature as well as topics relating to both Spain and Spanish-America. Her teaching interests include Spanish-American women writers, the works of Hispanic Nobel laureates viewed from interdisciplinary perspectives, magical realism and fantastic literature. Her scholarly work deals primarily with 20th-century poetry in Spain and Spanish America.
(570) 577-1456
poust@bucknell.edu

Pamela Glass

Academic Assistant
(570) 577-1353
pglass@bucknell.edu