Executive Board

The Hemispheric Institute has an Executive Board comprised by one member from each of our member institutions as well as an NYU Steering Committee comprised of New York University Faculty.


Lourdes Arizpe

Director
Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias (CRIM)

Gisela Cánepa-Koch

Associate Professor and Coordinator of Anthropology Major
Department of Social Sciences
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Sue-Ellen Case

Professor and Chair, Critical Studies
Department of Theater
School of Theater, Film and Television
University of California at Los Angeles

Ricardo Domínguez

Electronic Disturbance Theater
Department of Visual Arts
University of California at San Diego

Soledad Falabella

Associate Professor
Department of Literature
Universidad Diego Portales

Susanna Friedmann

Associate Professor
Institute of Aesthetic Research
Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Paula Hernández

Assistant Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jorge Hernández Esguep

Director
School of Visual Arts
Universidad Austral de Chile

Marianne Hirsch

Professor
Departments of English and Comparative Literature
Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender
Columbia University


Peter Kulchyski

Professor
Department of Native Studies
University of Manitoba

Esther Gabara

Associate Professor
Departments of Romance Studies and
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Duke University

Jill Lane

Associate Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Deputy Director, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
New York University

Zeca Ligiéro

Professor
Center of Arts and Literature
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Teatro
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Agnes Lugo-Ortiz

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
University of Chicago

Alejandro L. Madrid

Assistant Professor
Latin American and Latino Studies Program
University of Illinois at Chicago

Leda Martins

Professor
Department of Literature
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Lorie Novak

Professor
Department of Photography and Imaging
New York University

Francisca Oseguera-Cruz

President
Fortaleza de La Mujer Maya (FOMMA)

Luis Peirano

Professor
School of Arts and Sciences
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú


Antonio Prieto-Stambaugh

Professor
Department of Theater
Universidad Veracruzana

Milla C. Riggio

Professor
Department of English
Trinity College

Javier Serna

Lecturer
School of Theater
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León

Doris Sommer

Professor
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Harvard University

Silvia Spitta

Associate Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Dartmouth College

Camilla Stevens

Associate Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Rutgers University

Diana Taylor

University Professor
Departments of Performance Studies and Spanish and Portuguese
Founding Director, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
New York University

Tamara Underiner

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Schools of Theater and Film
Arizona State University

Patricia Ybarra

Assistant Professor
Department of Theatre, Speech & Dance
Brown University

Brenda Werth

Assistant Professor
Department of Language and Foreign Studies
American University