Faculty

Susana Cisneros
Susana Cisneros (she, her and ella) Spring 2025 Office Hours: In Person Only: Tuesday & Wednesday 1-2PM and R 2-4PM She is a Senior Lecturer of Spanish and Affiliate Faculty of Latin American Studies. She teaches elementary, intermediate and advanced Spanish courses, she is currently serving as an advisor for the Spanish Club C.E.P.A. and […]

Carlos M. Coria-Sánchez
Director of the Business Spanish Certificate (Graduate and Undergraduate) Spring 2025 Office Hours: In Person TR 10-11AM and by appointment Professor Coria-Sanchez is Professor of Spanish. Education Ph.D., Romance Languages, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. MA. Spanish, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. BA. Spanish, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Appointments UNC Charlotte 2001-Present Clemson University […]

D J S Cross
Spring 2025 Office Hours:In Person Monday 4-5PM, Online Monday 5-6PM D. J. S. Cross (Don) works on theories and practices of translation, comparative literature, andcontinental philosophy in Europe and the Americas. After earning his PhD in ComparativeLiterature from the University at Buffalo (2017), he spent three years as a FONDECYTPostdoctoral Fellow with the Instituto de […]

Daniela Cunico Dal Pra
Interim Director of Film Studies Advisor Minor ItalianAdvisor Minor Film StudiesCoordinator Italian Spring 2025 Office Hours:Both In Person & Online: TR 8:30-11:15AM by appointment (via email or Connect) Daniela Cunico Dal Pra is a Teaching Professor in Italian. Currently she is the coordinator and advisor of the Italian Program and Film Studies at UNC Charlotte. […]

David Dalton
Director of Latin American Studies Spring 2025 Office Hours:In Person Only: Monday 11AM-12PM Dr. Dalton joined the faculty as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish in August 2016, and he was promoted to Assistant Professor of Spanish in 2017 and Associate Professor of Spanish in 2021. His teaching and research focuses primarily on Mexican and […]

Kallie De La Cruz
Spring 2025 Office Hours:In Person TR 11:30AM-12:30PM, 4-5PM by appointment and Online by appointment ¡Saludos! My name is Kalavik De La Cruz and I am delighted to teach elementary and share my love for the Spanish language and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world with my students. I hold a BA and MA in Spanish and […]

María Lorena Delgadillo Latorre
Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 – On Leave María Lorena Delgadillo Latorre joined the UNC Charlotte faculty in 2008 after receiving her M.A. in Spanish from this same institution. Since coming to UNC Charlotte in 2005, she has held different positions within the Department of Languages, Cultures and Translation including Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish Instructor, […]

Paloma Fernández Sánchez
Spring 2025 Office Hours:In Person W 9-9:45AM, Online R 8:30-10AM and by appointment Dr. Paloma Fernández Sánchez is a Teaching Professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Translation and serves as an Undergraduate Language Advisor (Spanish). Dr. Fernández Sánchez is an affiliate faculty for the Latin American Studies program. She holds a […]

Rongbo Fu
I’m Rongbo Fu, a researcher and teacher in the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Ningbo University in China. I hold a PhD in Interpreting Studies from Xiamen University and worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Beijing Foreign Studies University from 2019 to 2021. My research interests include corpus-based interpreting studies and cognitive processes in translation […]

Javier García León
Spring 2025 Office Hours:In Person Tuesday 2:15-3:15PM or by appt., Online Monday 9-10AM or by appointment Dr. Javier García León is an Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the Department of Languages, Cultures and Translation. He is associate editor of the Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics and has been conducting interdisciplinary research in language, power, […]