Research Interests
- 18th and 19th Century Spanish Peninsular Literature and Culture
- Theater scenography and staging
- Labor and marginalized communities
- Political and economic utopias
- Film studies, short narrative, and literary theory
- Pedagogy and Spanish for heritage and foreign speakers
Oscar Ruiz Hernandez, Ph.D., specializes in the 18th and 19th Century Spanish Peninsular Literature and Culture. Focusing on theater, his research highlights political and economic debates, marginalized communities, social mobility, race, and gender on the Spanish scene. As a Spanish instructor, his professional interests include Film Studies as a classroom tool for learning, and doing research on teaching for heritage speakers and Spanish for the professions.
Education
Ph.D.: Spanish, University of Virginia, 2020
M.A.: Pedagogy, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
B.A.: Spanish Philology, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
M.A.: Pedagogy, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
B.A.: Spanish Philology, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain