Associate Professor of Spanish ∙ Millsaps College
Judith Caballero was born in San Luis Río Colorado, México and moved to the United States at the age of 13. She is Associate Professor of Spanish at Millsaps College. She earned her doctorate in Early Modern Peninsular Literature in 2011 and has a B.F.A in Theater Arts Education from the University of Arizona. She co-edited “Peculiar Lives in Early Modern Spain” and “Living the Comedia” (University Press of the South, 2020), a two-volume collection of essays honoring her mentor, Amy Williamsen. Her research focuses on the mother in Early Modern Comedias, gender issues, cognitive literary studies, sartorial relevance, marginalized voices, and gifting and commodity exchange. She is a founding member of the trilingual graduate journal Divergencias: Revista de estudios lingüísticos y litetarios.
Fellowship Project: Judith will act as the Associate Dean for Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment. Her responsibilities will be overseeing and improving the college’s processes for unit-based (office-level) assessment of effectiveness and the Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes (ASLO) at the academic department and program level.