One of our nationally recognized strengths is our focus on the study of Hispanic Literature in the United States. Courses offered in this discipline profit from solid theory that allows comparison of the various Hispanic ethno-nationality groups that have produced literate and oral expressive culture in what became the United States, from the period of Spanish exploration and colonization to the present. In contrast to the Chicano or Cuban American or Puerto Rican expressive culture of the last forty some years, mostly articulated in English or in documents of code-switching, our program studies the expressive culture from the first Hispano-Amerindian encounters of the sixteenth century to the present, in which more than ninety percent has been articulated in Spanish. In addition, courses are offered in the transcultural/transnational context of the Caribbean/U.S. interrelationship and the U.S./Mexico border.

The U.S. Hispanic Literature focus is developed by the following faculty: