Luis Sáenz De Viguera Erkiaga, Merrimack College
Associate Professor
Spanish
North Andover, Massachusetts
saenzdevigul@merrimack.edu
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(978) 837-3471
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Bio/Research
Luis Sáenz de Viguera Erkiaga, Assistant Professor (Spanish), World Languages and Cultures Ph. D. in Romance Studies, has worked researching and teaching a wide variety of topics, including Basque Punk Culture, Popular Culture as a site of resistance, and Latin American and Spanish Film and Liter...
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Bio/Research
Luis Sáenz de Viguera Erkiaga, Assistant Professor (Spanish), World Languages and Cultures Ph. D. in Romance Studies, has worked researching and teaching a wide variety of topics, including Basque Punk Culture, Popular Culture as a site of resistance, and Latin American and Spanish Film and Literature.
Prof. Sáenz de Viguera comes from Bilbao, in the Basque Country, and is fluent in Basque, English, and Spanish. His teaching experience includes stints at Mount Holyoke College, Duke University, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Education wise:
Ph. D. in Romance Studies from Duke University. Area of study: Contemporary Peninsular Cultural Studies.
M.A. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Area of study: Contemporary Latin American Literature/Latino Studies.
B.A. in English from the Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao. Area of specialization: American Literature.
Recent publications include an article on the Occupy movement from the 1980’s in Basque Literature, as well as an Encyclopedia entry on Latin American folklore in the Hernandez Brothers’ Love and Rockets comics magazine. He has lectured on Basque Culture, Spanish Politics, and the representation of minorities in American mainstream comic-books.
Past accomplishments include the completion of his Ph. D. Dissertation (download), scholarly writing, and writing and drawing comic strips and a plethora of unfinished graphic novels. He is fascinated by Urban Decay as a consequence of late capitalism, and by representations of Evil in popular culture.
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Prof. Sáenz de Viguera comes from Bilbao, in the Basque Country, and is fluent in Basque, English, and Spanish. His teaching experience includes stints at Mount Holyoke College, Duke University, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Education wise:
Ph. D. in Romance Studies from Duke University. Area of study: Contemporary Peninsular Cultural Studies.
M.A. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Area of study: Contemporary Latin American Literature/Latino Studies.
B.A. in English from the Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao. Area of specialization: American Literature.
Recent publications include an article on the Occupy movement from the 1980’s in Basque Literature, as well as an Encyclopedia entry on Latin American folklore in the Hernandez Brothers’ Love and Rockets comics magazine. He has lectured on Basque Culture, Spanish Politics, and the representation of minorities in American mainstream comic-books.
Past accomplishments include the completion of his Ph. D. Dissertation (download), scholarly writing, and writing and drawing comic strips and a plethora of unfinished graphic novels. He is fascinated by Urban Decay as a consequence of late capitalism, and by representations of Evil in popular culture.
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