Faculty members of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures are very active in the profession. They have authored numerous books on literary criticism, annotated critical editions, translations, and edited collections of essays. Dr. Trujillo has published several books of  poetry.

Mercedes Juliá, Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1987.
Silvia Nagy-Zekmi, Ph.D., Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, 1981.
Estrella Ogden, Ph.D. Temple University,1981.	Gaetano Pastore, Ph.D. Rutgers University, 1979.	Carmen Peraita, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, 1991.
Salvatore Poeta, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1982.	Inna Rayevsky, Ph.D. Rutgers University, 1996.	Jan Rigaud, Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1981.
Carlos Trujillo, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1993.
Beatrice Waggaman, Ph.D. University of California San Diego, 1984.
Seth Whidden, Ph.D. Brown University, 2000.