Dr. Agustín Cuadrado
Office: Centennial 224D
Phone: 512.245.2254
E-mail: ac41@txstate.edu
Biography: Agustín Cuadrado earned a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Film from the Universidad de Valladolid. He holds an M.A. in Spanish from Bowling Green State University, and an M.A. in Spanish as a Second Language from the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares and a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from the University of Arizona. He serves as Spanish undergraduate Advisor, and is co-Director of Letras Hispanas.
Research Interests: Dr. Cuadrado's research interests include contemporary Spanish literature and film with a focus on cultural studies. His work falls into three main lines of research: twentieth century writer Miguel Delibes, the Spanish detective novel, and Spanish cinema directed by young filmmakers of the 90’s. The analysis of space is the theoretical frame of the majority of his publications, granting special importance to authors such as Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau and David Harvey.
Courses Taught:
Span 5318 Advanced Composition and Grammar
Span 5316 Studies in Peninsular Culture
Span 4390 Independent Study: Spanish Literature of the 20th Century
Span 4380C Hispanic Film
Span 4350 Latin American Novel and Film
Span 4340 Advanced Spanish Grammar and Stylistics
Span 3370 Spanish Civilization
Span 3309 Introduction to Hispanic Literature and Literary Analysis
Span 3308 Advanced Composition
Span 2320 Intermediate Spanish II-Honors
Span 2320 Intermediate Spanish II
Span 2310 Intermediate Spanish I-Honors
Span 2310 Intermediate Spanish I