Faculty & Staff

Juan Carlos Toledano

Associate Professor, Spanish Section Head
Director of Latin American Studies
Spanish Language & Literature
Box: 30
Phone: (503)768-7425
E-mail: toledano@lclark.edu

The fantastic in Latin America; Contemporary Cuban and Caribbean Studies, and Critical Theory. Juan Carlos is a native of Spain.

Matthieu P. Raillard

Assistant Professor of Spanish
Spanish Language and Literature
Box: 30
Phone:(503)768-7418
E-mail:raillard@lclark.edu

www.lclark.edu/~raillard

Spanish Enlightenment and Romanticism; Contemporary Spanish Literature; Literary theory; History of intellectual thought and epistemology; Theories of authorship and authority.

Freddy O. Vilches

Assistant Professor of Spanish
Spanish Language and Literature
Box: 30
Phone: (503)768-7431
E-mail: vilches@lclark.edu

Contemporary Spanish-American literature, poetry and song, Latin American Cultural Studies. Prof. Vilches is a native of Chile.

Wendy Woodrich

Senior Lecturer
Spanish Language & Literature
Box: 30
Phone: (503)768-7428
E-mail: woodrich@lclark.edu

Latin American testimonial literature, Latin American twentieth century narrative, Hispanic feminist literature, Hispanics in the United States, Spanish language pedagogy. Wendy is a native Oregonian.

Cecilia Benenati

Instructor of Spanish
Box: 30
Phone: (503)768-7432
E-mail: benenati@lclark.edu

Cecilia is a native of Argentina.

Marisela Nyoka

Instructor of Spanish
Box: 30Phone: (503)768-7439
E-mail: nyoka@lclark.edu

Marisela is a native of Mexico and has lived in the States for over thirty years. She has a MA in Foreign Languages with emphasis in linguistics, and has taught at Lewis & Clark College for ten years. She previously taught language and literature at PSU, PCC Rock Creek, as well as Mt. Hood Community College.

Megan McDonald

Instructor of Spanish
Box: 30
Phone: (503)768-7350
Email:mmcdonald@lclark.edu

Megan is a native Oregonian with over 10 years teaching experience at the University of Oregon and the University of Washington. She has lived and travelled extensively in Latin America and Spain.

Charlotte Boeschen

Instructor of Spanish

Charlotte is a native Oregonian who has lived for over 5 years in Costa Rica, Venezuela and Spain and has travelled extensively in Central America, Mexico and Cuba.  Charma completed her MA in Spanish and MA in TESOL/Applied Linguistics at Portland State University.  Charlotte has teaching experience at Portland Community College and Portland State University.  She has also taught English as a Foreign Language at the Universidad de Cantabria in Santander, Spain.

Carolina Mirallas

Spanish Language Assistant
Box: 30
Phone:  (503) 768-7351
E-mail:cmirallas@lclark.edu

Carolina is our Spanish Fulbright Teaching Assistant for the academic year 2009-10.  She graduated from the University of Cuyo with a degree in teaching English as a foreign language.