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chuffee@arizona.edu
Phone
520-621-7346
Office Hours
Monday 1 - 2 p.m.
Chuffe, Eliud
Associate Professor

Dr. Eliud Chuffe is Associate Professor for the Department of Spanish and Portuguese where he also served as Director of Basic Languages for over 18 years. He is currently serving as Director of Undergraduate Studies. His areas of specialization are Spanish Golden Age Literature, Cervantes’ Don Quixote, and Teaching of Spanish Methodology. He has many years of teaching experience having taught in Guadalajara, Mexico, and Segovia & Alcalá de Henares, Spain, as Resident Director of Study Abroad Programs. He received his MA and his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. Professor Chuffe has co-authored and edited three books on Spanish language and teaching.

Currently Teaching

SPAN 352 – Reading Politics and Culture in the Hispanic World

Introduction to major theories, readings and analyses of culture in Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula,and Latinos in the U.S.

SPAN 498H – Honors Thesis

An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis.

SPAN 510 – Development of Spanish Medieval, Renaissance, and Golden Age Literature

Spanish medieval, renaissance, and golden age literature (short fiction, poetry, novel and drama) from the twelfth through the seventeenth century.

SPAN 435 – Cervantes' Don Quixote