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Michael J. Horswell, PhD

is Dean of the Dorothy F. Schmidt Higher of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic Academy. The College of Arts and Messages houses 16 academic programs which offer 22 available's degrees, 17 minors, 12 document programs and nineteen graduate caste including a PhD in Comparative Studies, with more than 4000 majors and 400 graduate students enrolled. The Higher features award winning authors, Guggenheim Fellows, Lannan Foundation Fellows, Kingsley Tufts Verse Award winners, O. Henry and Pushcart award receipts, Fulbright scholars, Royal Historical Society Fellows, Woodrow Wilson Social club Fellows, Grammy honor nominations, and critically acclaimed artists and performers.

Dr. Horswell earned his Ph.D. in Latin American literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. He also holds a MA in Spanish from Middlebury College in Vermont, and a BA in Spanish and Business Economics from Wofford College in his native South Carolina. Dr. Horswell specializes in the literature and civilisation of the colonial period as well as ethnic literatures of the Andes. In addition to pursuing graduate studies in Spain and Argentina, he studied Andean culture and the Quechua language for two summers at the Bartolomé de las Casas Research Eye in Cuzco, Peru (1995-1996) and has spent seven summers doing express fieldwork with native Quichua speakers in Ecuador (2001-  2007, 2010). Earlier condign the Dean of the College, Dr. Horswell served equally Associate Dean for Inquiry and Graduate Studies (2012-2017) and Chair of the Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature (2008-2012).

His first volume, Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Civilisation (Austin: University of Texas Printing, 2005), focused on indigenous gender and sexuality equally tropes used in the representation of the conquest and colonization of the Americas. His involvement in the confluence of sexuality and culture in the Hispanic earth has led to two contempo collections of essays co-edited with Dr. Nuria Godón, Sexualidades Periféricas. Consolidaciones literarias y fílmicas en la España de fin de siglo XIX y fin de milenio (Madrid: Fund amentos, 2016) and the special issue of the  Periodical of Linguistic communication and Sexuality on the theme of "Transnational Discourses of Peripheral Sexualities in the Hispanic World" (Vol. 5, no. 2: 2016).  Dr. Horswell has likewise published manufactures and book chapters on of import literary figures such as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala and el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Latin American cinema and the Baroque in the Americas, including two contempo volumes, ane co-edited with  Luis Duno-Gottberg, Sumergido-Submerged: Culling Cuban Picture palace (Houston: Literal Publishing, 2013) and Baroque Projections: Images and Texts in Dialogue with the Early Modernistic World , co-edited with Frederic Conrod. (Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2016). His recent article in Romanic Review, "Negotiating Apostasy in Vilcabamba: Titu Cusi Yupanqui Writes from the Chaupi" (2012) is related to his new volume projection on Andean indigenous and mestizo writers from the colonial period tentatively titled, Desiring Pizarros and Incas: Comparative Andean Affects and the Writing of Conquest.

Rebecca Lautar, MM

is an Associate Dean for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters. Rebecca Lautar, Professor of Music, joined the Music Department at Florida Atlantic University in 1989. She served as Music Department Chair from 2011-2020, and was appointed every bit Associate Dean of Faculty, Enrollment Management and Logistics in the Dorothy F. Schmidt Higher of Arts and Letters in 2020. She is an active concert violinist, and performed as a tenured member of the Palm Beach Opera Orchestra from 2000-2020. She has also performed in numerous recitals at Florida Atlantic University, including every bit a member of the FAU Bedroom Soloists, and has appeared as a soloist with the FAU University Symphony. She teaches applied violin and viola, too equally string pedagogy and methods for music education majors. She received a Chief of Music with Stardom from Indiana University, where her teachers included Mimi Zweig and Franco Gulli.

Barclay Barrios, PhD

is an Associate Professor of English, is an Associate Dean for the Dorothy F. Schmidt Higher of Arts and Letters. Previously, he served equally the Director for the Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Director of Writing Programs for the department of English. He received his PhD from Rutgers, the State Academy of New Jersey, where he also helped to straight the writing plan. His inquiry focuses on writing plan administration, digital media, education, and computers and limerick and he is the author of the freshman composition readerEmerging: Contemporary Readings for Writers (Bedford / St. Martin's, 2013).  As an Associate Dean for Arts and Messages, he manages the college'southward certificate programs and interdisciplinary majors, oversees Student Academic Services, and coordinates the higher's cess and credentialing endeavors.

Eric Berlatsky, PhD

is Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Director of the Comparative Studies Ph. D. Program and Professor of English.  Previous to his current position, he was Chair of the Department of English for 6.5 years.  He is the author of  The Real, The True, and The Told: Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation (Ohio State UP. 2011) and the editor of Alan Moore: Conversations (UP of Mississippi, 2012).  He has published manufactures on the fiction or comics of Charles Dickens, Joe Siegel and Jerry Shuster, Virginia Woolf, Milan Kundera, Paul Auster, Graham Swift, Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Hanif Kureishi, and Posy Simmonds.  He has co-published work on race and the superheroes Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan, Black Lightning, Moon Girl, and Spider-Man with Sika Dagbovie-Mullins.  Their co-edited collection, Mixed-Race Superheroes, is forthcoming from Rutgers UP.  He lives at dwelling with his wife, two daughters, two cats, guinea pig and hermit crab.  He too likes the Mets.

Aimee Arias, PhD

is an Associate Dean for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters. Dr. Arias received her Ph.D. in International Studies from the University of Miami in 2001. She was formerly the Acquaintance Managing director of the Miami Eu Center, serving also every bit an editor, research associate, and program consultant. Dr. Arias' interests include comparative politics and international relations, specially in the areas of Europe and Latin America. She has published several works including "European Wedlock External Relations with the Andean Customs: A Governance Approach," in Joaquín Roy and Roberto Domínguez (eds.), The European Union and Regional Integration: A Comparative Perspective and Lessons for the Americas (U of Miami, 2005); "La Convención Europea: ¿Una Constitución para Europa?" in Alejandro Chanona, Roberto Domínguez, and Joaquín Roy (coordinators), La Unión Europea y el TLCAN (México: UNAM, 2003); "La institucionalidad del MERCOSUR," in Roberto Domínguez Rivera, Joaquín Roy, and Rafael Velázquez Flores, Retos e Interrelaciones de la integración regional: Europa y América (México: Plaza y Valdés, 2003); and with Joaquín Roy, " Espana and Portugal : Partners in Evolution and Commonwealth," in Eleanor Eastward. Zeff and Ellen B. Pirro (eds.), The European Union and the Fellow member States: Cooperation, Coordination and Compromise (Lynne Rienner, 2001); and España y Portugal en la Unión Europea (México: UNAM, 2001).

Contact Us

Dean

Michael J. Horswell, Professor, Castilian and Latin American Literature
Boca Raton Campus, AH 217, 561-297-3803
Davie Campus, DW 303, 954-236-1106
horswell@fau.edu

Executive Banana to the Dean & Coordinator, Administrative Services

Taina Teran-Campbell
Boca Raton Campus, AH 217, 561-297-3803
tteran@fau.edu

Associate Dean
Rebecca Lautar, Professor, Music
Boca Campus, Boca Campus, AH 214C, 561-297-3863
rlautar@fau.edu

Acquaintance Dean
Aimee Arias, Associate Professor, Political Science
Boca Campus, AH 214D, 561-297-3211
akanner2@fau.edu

Acquaintance Dean

Barclay Barrios, Associate Professor, English language
Boca Campus, AH 214B, 561-297-4573
bbarrios@fau.edu

Associate Dean

Eric Berlatsky, Professor, English language
Boca Campus, AH 211A, 561-297-0928
eberlats@fau.edu

Coordinator, Academic Support Services
Gabrielle Denier
Boca Raton Campus, AH 211B, 561-297-0155
gdenier@fau.edu 

Program Assistant
Hope Maginley
Boca Raton Campus, AH 214, 561-297-4225
hmaginley@fau.edu

Coordinator, Admiistrative Services , Ft. Lauderdale-Tower
Adrienne Gionta
Ft. Lauderdale Campus, HEC 1008B, 954-236-1106
agionta@fau.edu

Development Office

Senior Director of Evolution and Outreach
Laurie Carney
Boca Raton Campus, AH 210, 561-297-3606
lcarney@fau.edu

Development and Outreach Coordinator
Gail Vorsas
Boca Raton Campus, AH 210, 561-297-2337
gvorsas@fau.edu

Business Office

Director, Business & Financial Operations
Kathleen DiMaggio
Boca Raton Campus, AH 215A, 561-297-3300
dimaggio@fau.edu

Budget Coordinator
Janice Cunningham
Boca Raton Campus, AH 215, 561-297-2949
jjcunnin@fau.edu

Authoritative Paraprofessional, Business concern Office
Donna Bryan
Boca Raton Campus, AH 215D, 561-297-2513
dbryan@fau.edu

Coordinator, Academic Support Services
Marilza Lopes
Boca Raton Campus, AH 215C, 561-297-0 852
bsavag1@fau.edu

Communications Office

Director, University Relations & Public Affairs
Polly Burks
Boca Raton Campus, AH 108, 561-297-2595
pburks@fau.edu

Coordinator, Visual Communications
Nicole Jacobsen
Boca Raton Campus, AH 108, 561-297-2848
jacobsen@fau.edu

Coordinator, Academy Relations & Public Affairs
Mayra Villacrez
Boca Raton Campus, AH 108, 561-297-2258
mvillacrezsa2016@fau.edu

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