Department of World Languages & Cultures

Chad Gasta

Assistant Professor

Chad M. Gasta is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies. Professor Gasta earned two B.A.’s in Political Science Spanish (1993), an M.A. in Spanish (1996) and a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature Culture (2000) from Michigan State University. Professor Gasta is Co-Director of Languages and Cultures for Professions and Director of the Western European Studies Program. He also directs ISU’s summer program abroad in Alicante, Spain and the semester program abroad in Cáceres, Spain. He has also founded or assisted in the direction of other programs in Spain, Mexico and Italy. Professor Gasta’s research interests include Spanish Golden Age literature culture, Colonial Latin American literature and culture, transatlantic studies and general cultural studies of Spain. He is also very interested in Spanish cinema, contemporary Spanish music and early-modern painting. He has taught a wide range of courses dealing with Hispanic literature and culture: Spanish Golden Age Literature, surveys of Spanish literature, Spanish for professional communication and Don Quijote, among others. His publications center on sixteenth and seventeenth-century drama, opera, and painting from Spain and the New World as well as the picaresque novel and contemporary Spanish film. He has recently finished a book project dealing with the early-modern drama and opera in Spain and the New World.

In 2005 he was awarded the ISU Foundation Award for Early Achievement in Teaching.