Director
Rubén Medina
Position title: Professor, Spanish & Portuguese and Chican@ & Latin@ Studies
Email: rmedina@wisc.edu
Rubén Medina is a poet, translator, and scholar. He is also one of the founders of Infrarealism. His research and teaching center on Mexican and US Latinx literature and culture, continental connections, countercultural formations and practices, film studies, Neo-avant-garde poetic movements, and Mexican migration to the United States. In the area of research, he has published: Autor, autoridad y autorización: Escritura y poética de Octavio Paz (Colegio de México, 1999), Genealogías del presente y del pasado: Literatura y cine meXicanos (Lima-Berkeley, 2010), and articles in journals and books on masculinity, violence, hybridity, global melodrama, Chicana literature, and Infrarealism. In poetry he has published, Báilame este viento, Mariana (1980), “Amor de Lejos . . . Fools’ Love” (1986), four editions of Nomadic Nation / Nación nómada (2010, 2011, 2015, 2017), and Aquel Quetzalcoatl se fue pal’ norte (2018). He has received the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry (1981), and other poetry awards. His poems have been included in poetry anthologies in Mexico, Latin American, Spain, and the US. In collaboration with John Burns, he published a major anthology of Beat poetry translated into Spanish, Una tribu de salvajes improvisando a las puertas del infierno (Mexico: Aldvs, 2012). He recently edited a critical edition of Mario Santiago Papasquiaro’s long poem, Consejos de 1 discípulo de Marx a 1 fanático de Heidegger (2016), and Perros habitados por las voces del desierto: poesía infrarrealista entre dos siglos (an anthology published in Mexico, Peru and Chile). For more information, see his website.
Faculty
Theresa Delgadillo
Position title: Professor, English and Chican@ & Latin@ Studies
Email: tdelgadillo@wisc.edu
Armando Ibarra
Position title: Professor, School for Workers, UW-Madison
Email: aibarra@wisc.edu
Phone: 608 262-9545
Kathryn Kirchgasler
Position title: Assistant Professor, Curriculum & Instruction
Email: katie.kirchgasler@wisc.edu
Edna Ledesma
Position title: Assistant Professor, Planning & Landscape Architecture
Email: eledesma@wisc.edu
Michael Light
Position title: Associate Professor, Sociology and Chican@ & Latin@ Studies
Email: mlight@ssc.wisc.edu
Almita Miranda
Position title: Assistant Professor, Geography and Chican@ & Latin@ Studies
Email: aamiranda@wisc.edu
Alfonso Morales
Position title: Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, Planning & Landscape Architecture
Email: morales1@wisc.edu
Mariana Pacheco
Position title: Associate Professor, Curriculum & Instruction
Email: mariana.pacheco@wisc.edu
Marla Ramírez
Position title: Assistant Professor, History and Chican@ & Latin@ Studies
Email: ramireztahua@wisc.edu
Sarah Rios
Position title: Assistant Professor, Community and Environmental Sociology
Email: smrios@wisc.edu
Diana Rodríguez-Gómez
Position title: Assistant Professor, Educational Policy Studies
Email: drodriguezgo@wisc.edu
Diego Román
Position title: Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction
Email: diego.roman@wisc.edu
Carolina Sarmiento
Position title: Assistant Professor, Civil Society & Community Studies, School of Human Ecology
Email: carolina.sarmiento@wisc.edu
Revel Sims
Position title: Assistant Professor, Planning and Landscape Architecture and Chican@ & Latin@ Studies
Email: revel.sims@wisc.edu
Kate Vieira
Position title: Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, Susan J. Cellmer Distinguished Chair in Literacy
Email: kevieira@wisc.edu
Instructors
Erin Barbato
Position title: Clinical Associate Professor of Law. Director, Immigrant Justice Clinic
Email: ekmurphy@wisc.edu
Alyssa Ramírez Stege
Position title: Clinical Assistant Professor, Counseling Psychology
Email: ramirezstege@wisc.edu
Emeriti
Andrea-Teresa Arenas
Position title: Director, Office of Service Learning & Community Based Research
Consuelo López Springfield
Position title: Assistant Dean Emerita, Student Academic Affairs, College of Letters & Science
