Judy Cervantes

Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures

B.A., University of California, Riverside
M.A., University of California, Riverside
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

Programs: Spanish

Judy Cervantes is associate professor of Spanish and advisor of the Spanish Club at St. Norbert College. She was raised and educated in both México and the U.S. She teaches language and culture course for the Spanish program. Professor Cervantes specializes in 20th and 21st Latin American literature.

Her scholarship focuses on violence, trauma and memory in recent contemporary narrative of the twenty-first century in Latin American. Her research offers a psychoanalytical approach to the representation of historical events in Latin America with a specific focus on Mexico.

Courses
SPAN 101 Elementary Spanish I
SPAN 102 Elementary Spanish II
SPAN 203 Intermediate Spanish I
SPAN 204 Intermediate Spanish II
SPAN 300 Making Connections: Conversation, Composition and Culture
SPAN 301 Introduction to Spanish and Spanish-American Literature I
SPAN 365 Latin American Civilization: South America and the Caribbean
SPAN 389 Special Topics – Gender, Violence and Latin American Film