Camila Nuñez-Bergsneider is a Historian with a master's in Art History. Her main interest is comics studies, focussing on comic books or graphic novels that propose an alternative approach to History, Memory and the construction of individual and collective identities. Currently she's a T.A. at the Spanish and Portuguese Department and a Spanish Literatures PhD Student.

Arturo Camacho is a teaching assistant who is passionate about literature, Spanish, creative writing, fiction and pedagogy.

PhD Student, Teaching Assistant in Spanish

PhD Student, Teaching Assistant in Spanish

MFA in Spanish Creative Writing Student, Teaching Assistant in Spanish

Lara Dopazo Ruibal is a journalist and writer. She studies the MFA in creative writing

PhD Student, Teaching Assistant in Spanish

MFA in Spanish Creative Writing Student, Teaching Assistant in Spanish.

PhD Student, Teaching Assistant in Spanish

PhD Student, Teaching Assistant in Spanish

PhD Student, Teaching Assistant in Spanish

Linguistics Student, Teaching Assistant in Spanish

PhD Student, Teaching Assistant in Spanish

PhD Student, Teaching Assistant in Spanish

PhD Student, Teaching Assistant in Spanish

PhD Student, Teaching Assistant in Spanish

María José Plata Flórez is a Colombian writer and is currently in her first semester at the MFA Creative writing in Spanish. She was one of the 35 winners of the 2014 edition of the National Short Story Contest at Colombia and she also won second place at the National Short Story Contest Caro y Cuervo. During her undergraduate at the University of Los Andes she co-founded Pigasus, a creative writing workshop that got to publish a short story collection in 2018 with an independent Colombian publishing house called Escarabajo Editorial. She has also been a popular educator and a human rights defender.

Mexican writer and playwright whose plays have been staged and published in Mexico, Great Britain, Spain, Malawi, Argentina and the United States, and have been translated into English and Portuguese. She is also passionate about languages, cultures and teaching. Her work focuses mainly on women, gender, identity and youth.

Bethanny was born in Jogjakarta, Indonesia. She speaks Indonesian, English, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese. She holds a MA in Spanish from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and a BA in Spanish from Wenzao University of Languages, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Currently, she is pursuing her PhD in Spanish Literature at the University of Iowa. Her main research area is Hispanofilipina and Peninsular literature and culture. Through her research, Bethanny hopes to enrich scholarship regarding past histories between Spain, the Philippines and Latin America.

MA in Spanish Student, Teaching Assistant in Spanish