Assistant Director:
Antonio Carreño,  from Spain, received his Ph.D. from Yale University and taught at Yale, Columbia, and the University of Illinois before moving to Brown University where he holds the W. Duncan MacMillan Family Professorship in the Humanities. A specialist in 16th-and 17th-century Spanish Literature with an emphasis on Golden Age Poetry and the comedia, Professor Carreño has published extensively in this field and on contemporary Spanish poetry. Professor Carreño has received numerous fellowships (Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society), as well as awards and recognitions: The Ramón Menéndez Pidal Prize by the Spanish Royal Academy and the Encomienda de la Orden Isabel la Católica, which was conferred in 1998 by the King of Spain. Professor Carreño has served as President of the International Association of Galician Studies, and as Vice-President of the International Association of Hispanists. He has been Chairman of the Department of Hispanic Studies at Brown, and has taught in the Spanish School of Middlebury since 1990. 
Robert L. Davis is Associate Professor and the Director of the Spanish Language Program at the University of Oregon. He teaches courses in Spanish language, historical linguistics, and teaching methodology. His interests include language pedagogy and material development, in particular the development of language skills within content-based instruction. He has co-authored two introductory textbooks on the language and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world—Entrevistas (McGraw Hill, 2004) and Portafolio (McGraw-Hill, 2008), an advanced oral skills textbook (Tertulia, ITP, 200l), and articles on language pedagogy, material development, and language program direction.