Alberto Villate-Isaza
Assistant Professor of Spanish
B.A., Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia), Ph.D. Boston College
Old Main 25C
villatei@stolaf.edu
(507) 786-3958
Office Hours:
Monday - 9:00 - 10:00
Wednesday, Friday- 11:00 - 12:00
or by appointment
Alberto Villate-Isaza received his B.A. in literary studies at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá , Colombia. He obtained his Ph.D in 2008 in Hispanic Studies at Boston College. Besides teaching a variety of courses in Spanish language, culture and literature, through different fellowships he has had the opportunity to conduct research in the Biblioteca nacional in Bogotá and in the Archivo de indias in Seville, Spain. His dissertation deals with the topic of Hispanic-American baroque historiography in Nueva Granada (modern-day Colombia)and its influence on discourses of national identity during the nineteenth century. His research and teaching interests include Peninsular and Hispanic-American Baroque Literature, Political and Social Theory of the Baroque, Discourses of Latin-American Identity and Nineteenth and early twentieth-century Hispanic-American literature, specially modernismo and the essay.
