ACADEMIC YEAR 2023-2024
 

CHAIR

   Esther Brown

ASSOCIATE CHAIR GRADUATE STUDIES

Juan Herrero-Senés

ASSOCIATE CHAIR UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

Javier Rivas
 

Executive Committee

Anne Becher

Juan Herrero-Senés

Andrés Prieto

Coordinated Course Committee

Anne Becher
Tania Martuscelli
Javier Rivas
Emmy Herland
Elizabeth Huard
Susan Hallstead
Mary Long

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

Javier Rivas (Chair)
Yohainna Abdala-Mesa
Elizabeth Huard
Javier Krauel
Andrés Prieto
 

Grade Appeals Committee

Javier Rivas (Chair)
Cristina Piras
Vivian Elmore
Mary Long
 

Graduate Committee

Juan Herrero-Senés (Chair)
Peter Elmore
Javier Rivas
Tracy Quan
Núria Silleras-Fernández
 

Graduate Student Advisors to the Chair

Madison Elson (M.A.)
 (Ph.D.)
Antonio Berbel-Víudez (M.A.)

Graduate Teaching Program Leads

 

Reappointment Committee (PUEC)

Emmy Herland: Susan Hallstead (Chair), Anne Becher
Susan Hallstead (expedited): Tracy Quan (Chair), Marcelo Schincariol

Elizabeth Brower Gift Fund Committee

Anne Becher (Chair)
Vivian Elmore
Cristina Piras

Study Abroad Committee

Javier Rivas (Chair)
TBD
 

Teaching Excellence Committee

TBD
 

Quality Teaching Initiative:

Mary Long

Assessment: TBD

Internal Colloquia:

Élika Ortega-Guzmán
Javier Krauel
Peter Elmore
 

1010/1150-Level Coordinator: Anne Becher

1020 Coordinator: Emmy Herland

2000-Level Coordinator: Susan Hallstead

3000/3002 Coordinator: Mary Long

Modified Spanish Coordinator: Elizabeth Huard

A&S Council: 

A&S Executive Committee: 

A&S Personnel Committee: 

Boulder Faculty Assembly: Andrés Prieto (SP24)

Honors Council Departmental Representative:  Javier Rivas

Library Liaison:  Kathia Ibacache

Portuguese Table Supervisor:  Marcelo Schincariol

Service Learning Sponsor: Karen Malcolm

Sigma Delta Pi Advisor: Emmy Herland

Spanish for the Professions Director: Mary Long

Study Abroad Advisors: Javier Rivas, TBD

Student Teaching & Certificate Advisor: Anne Becher

Student Teaching Supervisor: Anne Becher

Spanish Table Supervisor: Javier Rivas

DEI/JEDI: Emmy Herland (Chair), Yohainna Abdala-Mesa

External to the Department and not included above:

Susan Hallstead: Education Abroad Committee (Office of International Education)

Elizabeth Huard: Honor Code Advisory Board

Mary Long: A & S Instructor Task Force

Núria Silleras-Fernández: Student Affairs Committee (BFA), Boulder Faculty Assembly

Núria Silleras-Fernández: Provost’s Achievement Awards Committee

Núria Silleras-Fernández: CU Art Museum, Curricular Engagement Committee

Núria Silleras-Fernández: Board member, CU Boulder Mediterranean Studies Group

Staff Reporting Structure: 

  • The office student employee(s) reports to Shannon Markusen. 

Staff do not report to the faculty, associate chairs, graduate students, or undergraduate students in the department, although they may work in partnership with any of the aforementioned at the discretion of the department chair.

 Staff Roles and Responsibilities: 

  • Ask Department Staff for Spanish and Portuguese if you have questions regarding
    • Fall and Spring curriculum scheduling 
      • The department staff may direct your inquiry to the Chair, Associate Chairs of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies, and/or Course Coordinators. 
    • Finance and accounting, including faculty research accounts, travel, conference memberships/registrations and reimbursements 
    • Payroll 
    • Faculty contracts 
    • Faculty personnel processes, such as promotion and tenure, post-tenure review, Instructor and Senior Instructor reappointment, etc. 
      • Department staff may direct your inquiry to the relevant committee. 
    • FMLA, sabbaticals, etc., in conversation with the Chair 
    • Graduate student financial actions, such as payroll and scholarship/fellowship processing 
    • University Catalog Updates/Course Updates
    • McKenna building maintenance and security - Shannon Markusen (303-492-7308) is serving as McKenna’s interim/alternate building proctor.
    • Office Telephone 
    • Parking Liaison 
    • Faculty Computer Purchase Program (FCPP)
  • Shannon Markusen is the Graduate & Undergraduate Program Coordinator for Spanish and Portuguese. Ask Shannon if you have questions regarding: 
    • Summer curriculum scheduling 
      • Shannon may direct your inquiry to the Chair, Associate Chairs of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies, and/or Course Coordinators 
    • Graduate Studies, in collaboration with Professor Javier Krauel, Associate Chair of Graduate Studies:
      • Assisting prospective graduate students and faculty with the application process 
      • Graduate student office keys, desk keys, and name plates 
      • Graduate student degree tracking 
      • Graduate student defense/comps scheduling (PhD and MA) 
      • Graduate student contracts 
      • Graduate scholarship applications 
        • Shannon will direct financial questions related to graduate students, such as payroll or scholarship payment, to Department staff. 
    • Enrollment, in collaboration with Professor Esther Brown, Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies
    • Office-related inquiries, including general inquiries, copier, mailboxes, McKenna 103, etc. 
    • Department calendar (NOT individual calendars) 
    • Requests for website edits 
      • If you are requesting edits to your profile on the website, you must submit your edits exactly as you wish for them to appear. 
    • Office Keys 
    • Booking an event room, but only if event is approved by department chair/associate chairs and the room request is submitted to Shannon at least 3 weeks in advance of the event
    • Requests you may have for assistance from the student employee (when we have one).

 Staff members and the student employee (when we have one) are NOT responsible for doing the following: 

  • Duties that are not within the scope of their responsibilities. Staff members may direct your inquiry to another party as needed. If a staff member directs you to speak with someone else, it is your responsibility to do so. 
  • Making copies or scans of any of your materials. This includes both course materials and official materials (ex: evaluation materials, etc.). This is in effect even when you are running late. 
  • Ordering desk copies. Please order these on your own using your own funding.
  • Proctoring exams. 
  • Keeping schedules for any faculty or staff member (including the Chair). 
  • Doing your research. If it is your explicit responsibility to fulfill a duty, it is your job to do the research to figure out how to do it. Staff can answer questions as you go along, within reason. 
  • Dropping their projects/current work to deal with your emergency. Staff may ask for you to arrange a meeting to address your inquiry. As has been communicated by the department chair, staff may need 48 business hours to respond to your email or in-person inquiry. 
  • Running errands. 
  • Administration for any unit other than the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. 
  • Any other request you may make of them that is determined to be outside of the scope of their responsibilities by their direct supervisor.