Spanish

This is a category that describes the language expertise of each faculty member: Spanish

José Manuel Batista

Associate Professor of Spanish
Mebane Hall 405

Coordinator of the Undergraduate Certificate Hispanic Literary Studies Fall 2025 Office Hours: In Person Only: Thursday 4-7PM and online by appointment José Manuel Batista is an Associate Professor of Spanish, and an affiliate of the Latin American Studies Program. From 2011 to 2013, he directed the Spanish MA Program.  Dr. Batista’s areas of specialization are […]

Jenn Burke

MA Fellow in Spanish
Mebane Hall 409A

Fall 2025 Office Hours: In Person Only: TR 4PM-6PM Jenn Burke is an MA Fellow in Spanish. She holds an MA in Spanish, which she obtained here at Charlotte. She worked in the department as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for two years and has been studying the Spanish language for 14. She has a special […]

Zela Chia

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Mebane 420

Susana Cisneros

Senior Lecturer of Spanish
Mebane Hall 463

Susana Cisneros (she, her and ella)  Fall 2025 Office Hours: In Person Only: TR 8AM-10AM and by appointment 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 also leads […]

Carlos M. Coria-Sánchez

Professor of Spanish
Mebane Hall 423

Director of the Business Spanish Certificate (Graduate and Undergraduate) Fall 2025 Office Hours: 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 1999-2001 Director Latin American Studies […]

D J S Cross

Assistant Professor of Translation

Fall 2025 Office Hours: Both In Person and Online: Wednesday 5:30PM-7:30PM 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 […]

David Dalton

Professor of Spanish & Director of Latin American Studies

Director of Latin American Studies Fall 2025 Office Hours: In Person Only: Monday 10AM-11AM 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, Associate Professor of Spanish in 2021 and Professor in 2025. His teaching and research focuses […]

Jessica Day

Instructor of Spanish

Fall 2025 Office Hours: In Person Only: MW 1:30PM-2PM & TR 1PM-2PM Education:  M.A. In Spanish from the University of North Carolina Wilmington – 2025 Graduate Certificate in Speech Language Pathology from the University of Georgia – 2021 B.A. Modern Languages, Minor in Journalism from Georgia Southern University – 2012 Research and academic areas of interest: Hispanic Linguistics Second […]

María Lorena Delgadillo Latorre

Senior Lecturer of Spanish
Mebane Hall 444B

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, Summer Coordinator of Elementary Spanish, Visiting Lecturer, Interim […]

Paloma Fernández Sánchez

Teaching Professor of Spanish
Mebane Hall 459A

Fall 2025 Office Hours: In Person: Monday 9AM-10AM, Online Thursday 8:30AM-10AM 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 Ph.D. in […]