James Griesse, PhD
Associate Professor, Spanish
I am an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at USCB.
I earned an undergraduate degree in Spanish at Dartmouth College, an MA in Spanish at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a PhD in Spanish at The Catholic University of America. The title of my dissertation is Utopia and Postmodernism in Recent Latin American Fiction.
As an undergraduate, I studied abroad in Salamanca, Spain, and in Puebla, Mexico. While working on my Ph.D., I participated in a short, educational program in Nicaragua organized by Global Exchange, a U.S. human rights group and non-profit. I have also traveled to Cuba with a U.S. human rights organization.
I have published articles and presented papers at multiple conferences in the United States and in Latin America. My current research focuses on post-Soviet Cuban narrative and representations of gay subjectivity in Spanish-American literary texts.
I teach Spanish language courses and seminars on Spanish-American culture and literature. I have also served as the advisor to the USCB Spanish Club.
- Education
- Teaching
- Research
PhD in Spanish. The Catholic University of America 2007
MA in Spanish. The University of Maryland 1997
BA in Spanish. Dartmouth College 1990
- SPAN B101 Beginning Spanish I
- SPAN B102 Beginning Spanish II
- SPAN B312 Introduction to Reading Hispanic Literary Text
- SPAN B403 Spanish American Civilization
- SPAN B407 Literary Tendencies and Masterpieces of Spanish America II
- SPAN B499 Senior Seminar in Spanish
- Contemporary Cuban narrative and Latin American gender and sexuality studies