Faculty

Frederick Aldama

Professor of English and Associate Faculty of Comparative Studies, Aldama uses the tools of narrative theory and cognitive science in his teaching and scholarship on US Latino and Mexican Cinema. His regularly taught film courses include, “Mexico in Cinema” and "Greed, Vengeance, and Love in Ethnic Technicolor", among others. Author and editor of seven books and is currently completing, Mexico in Cinema. He has published essays on films such as Robert Rodriguez’s El Mariachi, Edward James Olmos’s American Me as well as on topics more generally that cover isssues of race, cognition, and emotion in film adaptation. He is series co-editor of "Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture" (University of Texas Press) and sits on the editorial boards of Narrative, Journal of Narrative Theory, and Narrative & Image.

Ignacio Corona

260 Hagerty
614-292-8617
corona.7@osu.edu

Born in Guadalajara, México, Ignacio Corona is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. His research interests include Mexican literature and culture, Latino/a culture in the U.S., contemporary Latin American literature and cultural studies, discourse analysis, and semiotics. He received his M.A. in Spanish literature and linguistics at New Mexico State University (1988) and his PhD in Spanish literature, with specialization in contemporary Latin American literature, from Stanford University (1996). He was a visiting professor at the University of Oregon (1994-95) and Assistant Professor at California State University-San Marcos (1995-96). He has published articles, reviews and translations in Mexico, Spain, and the U.S. He is the author of Después de Tlatelolco: las narrativas políticas en México (1976-1990) Un estudio de sus estrategias retóricas y representacionales (2001), and co-editor of The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle: Theoretical Perspectives on the Liminal Genre (2002).

Theresa Delgadillo

473 Hagerty
614-688-0121
delgadillo.3@osu.edu

Raquel Diaz-Sprague

106 Atwell Hal
614-268-1488
diaz-sprague.1@osu.edu

Originally from Trujillo, Peru, the land of "la marinera y la eterna primavera" Raquel Diaz-Sprague is a Lecturer in the School of Allied Medical Professions of the College of Medicine & Public Health. She is the Founding Chair of the Latino Health Alliance and Director of La Clinica Latina since 1999. She has taught intercultural medical communication since 1991, first as an instructor of the Medical Humanities Program of the College of Medicine, later as a Lecturer in the Spanish & Portuguese Department, and now in the School of Allied Medical Professions. She has studied and teaches courses on "Medical Communication with Latino Patients." A former Fulbright scholar, Diaz-Sprague is interested in interdisciplinary and intercultural communication and gender and race-related ethical issues in science, technology, and medicine.

Patricia Enciso

242 Arps
614-688-4288
enciso.4@osu.edu

Patricia Enciso is an associate professor in the School of Education. She teaches courses related to diversity and equity in reading education, multicultural education, classroom-based inquiry, and the selection and use of multicultural literature in the classroom. Her research examines the cognitive, imaginative, sociocultural, and political nature of children's and teachers' interpretations of literature and reading education. She completed her BS degree at The Ohio State University in 1979 and continued her education, in 1984, at The University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, where she received a Masters of Education degree after studying with the renowned educator, Dorothy Heathcote. Her doctorate was directed by Dr. Robert J. Tierney at The Ohio State University and completed in 1990.

Marcia Farr

216A Ramseyer
614-292-0095
farr.18@osu.edu

Lilia Fernandez

224 Dulles
614-292-7884
fernandez.96@osu.edu

Lilia Fernández received her Ph.D. from the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California, San Diego. She completed her B.A. at Harvard University and an M.A. in educational policy studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign before pursuing her doctoral degree. Her book manuscript, currently entitled, “Latina/o Migration and Community Formation in Postwar Chicago: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Gender, and Politics, 1945-1975,” traces the parallel labor migrations of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans to Chicago during World War II and after, and examines the activism of these communities in the 1960s and 1970s. Trained in the broad interdisciplinary field of Ethnic Studies, Fernández’s research draws specifically on the subject areas of Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Women’s History, as well as the history of race and ethnicity. She has published several articles, including, “From the Near West Side to 18th Street: Mexican Community Formation and Activism in Mid-Twen
tieth Century Chicago,” which appears in the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. Fernández has held various fellowships including among others the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, and the Chancellor’s Fellowship in Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Guisela Latorre

286 U Hall
614-247-7720
latorre.13@osu.edu

Manuel Martinez

453 Denney Hall
688-4475
martinez.202@osu.edu

Ileana Rodriguez

244 Hagerty
614-292-8858
rodriguez.89@osu.edu

Born in Nicaragua, Ileana Rodriguez is a professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures at the Ohio State University. She has authored several books including Women Guerrillas, and Love: Understanding War in Central America (U of Minnesota P, 1999); House, Garden, Nation: Space, Gender, and Ethnicity in Post-Colonial Latin American Literatures by Women. (Duke UP, 1999); Registradas en la Historia: 10 años de quehacer feminista en Nicaragua (CIAM: Nicaragua, 1990); Primer Inventario del Invasor (Editorial Nueva Nicaragua, 1984). Her last two volumes are readers on Subaltern Studies. One of them is Convergencia de Tiempos: Estudios Subalternos, Contextos Latinoamericanos: Estado, Cultura, Subalternidad (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002); and The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader (Durham, London: Duke UP, 2002).

Ruby Tapia

Hagerty
614-292-9939
tapia.14@osu.edu

Ruby C. Tapia is an Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at OSU. Her research and teaching focuses on women in/and visual culture, engaging in a sustained way the experiences, representations, and cultural production of women of color, as well as the theoretical formulations of critical race feminism and feminist media studies. She teaches courses such as "Race, Memory, and Motherhood in Visual Culture" and "Women and Visual Culture," in which students examine how the discursive technologies of race, sexuality, gender, and class produce not only images but visualities . . . ways of seeing. Her current project is a book manuscript entitled Conceiving Images: Racialized Visions of the Maternal, which focuses on how popular representations and institutional practices produce maternal bodies through visual and narrative codes of race. Latinas are central to her research in visual culture and to her specific engagements with the maternal experiences of women of color. She received her PhD in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, San Diego and her B.A. in Literature and Africana Studies from Cornell University.

Fernando Unzueta

298G Hagerty
614-292-4958
unzueta.1@osu.edu

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