Truman Dean of the School of Arts and Letters
Office of the Dean
Michael J. Horswell, PhD
is Dean of the Dorothy F. Schmidt Higher of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic University. The College of Arts and Letters houses 16 academic programs which offer 22 bachelor'southward degrees, 17 minors, 12 certificate programs and xix graduate degree including a PhD in Comparative Studies, with more 4000 majors and 400 graduate students enrolled. The Higher features accolade winning authors, Guggenheim Fellows, Lannan Foundation Fellows, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Accolade winners, O. Henry and Pushcart award receipts, Fulbright scholars, Purple Historical Order Fellows, Woodrow Wilson Social club Fellows, Grammy award nominations, and critically acclaimed artists and performers.
Dr. Horswell earned his Ph.D. in Latin American literature at the University of Maryland, Higher Park. He besides holds a MA in Spanish from Middlebury College in Vermont, and a BA in Castilian and Business Economic science from Wofford College in his native South Carolina. Dr. Horswell specializes in the literature and civilisation of the colonial period as well as indigenous literatures of the Andes. In addition to pursuing graduate studies in Espana and Argentine republic, he studied Andean culture and the Quechua linguistic communication for two summers at the Bartolomé de las Casas Research Heart in Cuzco, Republic of peru (1995-1996) and has spent seven summers doing express fieldwork with native Quichua speakers in Ecuador (2001- 2007, 2010). Before condign the Dean of the College, Dr. Horswell served as Associate Dean for Enquiry and Graduate Studies (2012-2017) and Chair of the Section of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature (2008-2012).
His first volume, Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005), focused on indigenous gender and sexuality as tropes used in the representation of the conquest and colonization of the Americas. His interest in the confluence of sexuality and culture in the Hispanic world has led to two recent collections of essays co-edited with Dr. Nuria Godón, Sexualidades Periféricas. Consolidaciones literarias y fílmicas en la España de fin de siglo Nineteen y fin de milenio (Madrid: Fund amentos, 2016) and the special issue of the Journal of Language and Sexuality on the theme of "Transnational Discourses of Peripheral Sexualities in the Hispanic World" (Vol. 5, no. 2: 2016). Dr. Horswell has also 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 recent volumes, one co-edited with Luis Duno-Gottberg, Sumergido-Submerged: Culling Cuban Picture palace (Houston: Literal Publishing, 2013) and Bizarre Projections: Images and Texts in Dialogue with the Early on Modernistic World , co-edited with Frederic Conrod. (Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2016). His recent article in Romanic Review, "Negotiating Betrayment in Vilcabamba: Titu Cusi Yupanqui Writes from the Chaupi" (2012) is related to his new book project on Andean ethnic 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 every bit Music Section Chair from 2011-2020, and was appointed as Associate Dean of Faculty, Enrollment Direction and Logistics in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Messages 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 besides performed in numerous recitals at Florida Atlantic University, including every bit a member of the FAU Chamber Soloists, and has appeared as a soloist with the FAU University Symphony. She teaches applied violin and viola, too every bit string pedagogy and methods for music education majors. She received a Primary of Music with Stardom from Indiana Academy, 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 College of Arts and Letters. Previously, he served equally the Director for the Middle for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Managing director of Writing Programs for the department of English. He received his PhD from Rutgers, the Country Academy of New Bailiwick of jersey, where he likewise helped to direct the writing program. His inquiry focuses on writing program administration, digital media, pedagogy, and computers and limerick and he is the author of the freshman composition readerEmerging: Contemporary Readings for Writers (Bedford / St. Martin's, 2013). Equally an Associate Dean for Arts and Letters, he manages the college's certificate programs and interdisciplinary majors, oversees Student Bookish Services, and coordinates the college's assessment and credentialing endeavors.
Eric Berlatsky, PhD
is Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Managing 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 language for 6.5 years. He is the author of The Real, The True, and The Told: Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ideals of Representation (Ohio Country UP. 2011) and the editor of Alan Moore: Conversations (Upwards of Mississippi, 2012). He has published articles 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. Curiosity/Kamala Khan, Black Lightning, Moon Girl, and Spider-Human with Sika Dagbovie-Mullins. Their co-edited collection, Mixed-Race Superheroes, is forthcoming from Rutgers UP. He lives at home with his wife, two daughters, 2 cats, guinea pig and hermit crab. He likewise 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 Academy of Miami in 2001. She was formerly the Associate Managing director of the Miami European Union Eye, serving as well equally an editor, research associate, and program consultant. Dr. Arias' interests include comparative politics and international relations, particularly in the areas of Europe and Latin America. She has published several works including "European union External Relations with the Andean Community: A Governance Approach," in Joaquín Roy and Roberto Domínguez (eds.), The European Marriage 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, " Spain and Portugal : Partners in Evolution and Democracy," in Eleanor E. Zeff and Ellen B. Pirro (eds.), The European Wedlock and the Member States: Cooperation, Coordination and Compromise (Lynne Rienner, 2001); and España y Portugal en la Unión Europea (México: UNAM, 2001).
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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 Assistant 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
Associate Dean
Aimee Arias, Associate Professor, Political Scientific discipline
Boca Campus, AH 214D, 561-297-3211
akanner2@fau.edu
Associate Dean
Barclay Barrios, Associate Professor, English
Boca Campus, AH 214B, 561-297-4573
bbarrios@fau.edu
Associate Dean
Eric Berlatsky, Professor, English
Boca Campus, AH 211A, 561-297-0928
eberlats@fau.edu
Coordinator, Academic Support Services
Gabrielle Denier
Boca Raton Campus, AH 211B, 561-297-0155
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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
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Development Office
Senior Director of Development 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 organization Office
Director, Business organization & Fiscal Operations
Kathleen DiMaggio
Boca Raton Campus, AH 215A, 561-297-3300
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Upkeep Coordinator
Janice Cunningham
Boca Raton Campus, AH 215, 561-297-2949
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Administrative Paraprofessional, Business concern Office
Donna Bryan
Boca Raton Campus, AH 215D, 561-297-2513
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Coordinator, Academic Support Services
Marilza Lopes
Boca Raton Campus, AH 215C, 561-297-0 852
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Communications Part
Managing director, University Relations & Public Diplomacy
Polly Burks
Boca Raton Campus, AH 108, 561-297-2595
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Coordinator, Visual Communications
Nicole Jacobsen
Boca Raton Campus, AH 108, 561-297-2848
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Coordinator, Academy Relations & Public Affairs
Mayra Villacrez
Boca Raton Campus, AH 108, 561-297-2258
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