Faculty and Staff

Spanish Department - - Bucknell University

 

José Cárdenas Bunsen
Assistant Professor of Spanish
(Licenciatura, Universidad Catolica del Peru; Ph.D. Yale University)

Teaches Spanish American Literature with special emphasis on the Colonial period. His research focuses on the legal thinking of Bartolomé de las Casas in relation to the historical and ethnographic writings of Indian and mestizo authors.
(570) 577-2376
jacb001@bucknell.edu

 

Isabel Cuñado
Assistant Professor of Spanish
( Licenciatura, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain; M.A. West Virginia University; M.A. and Ph.D. Cornell University)

Professor Cuñado teaches History of Spanish Literature, a variety of courses on twentieth century Spanish and film, as well as language at all levels. Her research interests include Spanish post-civil war literature and culture, literature of the fantastic, film and visual arts, and comparative literature.
(570) 577-3976
icunado@bucknell.edu

 

Manuel Delgado
Professor of Spanish
(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

 

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

 

Linda Kander
Lecturer in Spanish

(570) 577-3312
linda.kander@bucknell.edu

 

Jason McCloskey
Assistant Professor of Spanish
(M.A. Miami University; 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, masculinity studies and cultural studies.
(570) 577-1675
cm038@bucknell.edu

 

Ana Mercedes Patiño
Associate Professor of Spanish
(Ph.D. Univesity 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

 

Ruth Robenolt
Academic Assistant
(570) 577-1353
robenolt@bucknell.edu