Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures ∙ Rhodes College
In addition to courses in the basic and intermediate Spanish language/Hispanic cultures sequence, Eric teaches a wide range of courses in the advanced literatures and cultural studies curriculum. Many of the advanced courses he teaches are related in some form to his primary interests in contemporary Latin American narrative, popular culture in literature, literary representations of transculturation, and Spanish in the US. His current research focuses on Spanish-language fiction set in the US Midwest and on the roles literature and journalism play in Latin America in modifying meanings associated with imported US cultural products, especially baseball.
Fellowship Project: As Associate Dean for Global Initiatives, Eric will work with the Office of International Programs at Rhodes on a range of projects, all related to internationalization of the college. Among Eric’s charges in the role are addressing obstacles for groups who are currently underrepresented in study abroad, facilitating development of new faculty-accompanied study abroad programs, assessing existing study abroad programs, extending Rhodes’s reach in recruitment of international students and faculty, enhancing the integration of global education in the curriculum, and creating an organizational model for managing and sustaining the college’s international initiatives.