Dr. Robert Wells

Robert Wells holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish) from the University of Michigan. For over twenty years, he has taught courses on Spanish language, conversation, and composition and on Hispanic literature, culture, and film at various universities. He has also taught general education courses on Latinx studies and world cinema.

Robert’s areas of research are 19th-21st Century Latin American and Spanish Peninsular Studies, the historic avant-gardes (especially in Argentina and Spain), Southern Cone studies, transatlantic studies, cinema studies, critical theory, and continental philosophy. He has academic articles published in journals such as Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Romance Quarterly, and Hispania, among others; he also has a book chapter in Transatlantic Studies: Iberia, Latin America, and Africa (Liverpool UP, 2019).