Department of World Languages & Cultures

Chad M. Gasta, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Program/s

Spanish

Languages and cultures for Professions

Study Abroad

Interests

Professor Gasta's research and teaching expertise is related to transatlantic approaches to early modern Spanish and Latin American studies. He has lectured and published on theater, opera, art, Cervantes, the picaresque, and other related areas of early modern Spain and Latin America. He also researches contemporary issues in Spain such as immigration and entrepreneurship as well as ISU undergraduates' socio-cultural awareness about Spain garnered through their participation in study abroad. In 2005 he was awarded the Iowa State University Foundation Award for Early Achievement in Teaching, the College of Liberal Arts & Science’s Early Achievement in Teaching Award, and the Cassling Family Award. In 2008 he was named a Master Teacher.

Selected Publications

Hispanic Studies in Honor of Robert L. Fiore. Eds. Chad M. Gasta and Julia Domínguez. Newark: DE: Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 2009.

“Early Opera in Spain and the New World.” Hispanic Studies in Honor of Robert L. Fiore. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 2009.

“Cross-Cultural Knowledge, Business Practices and Student Learning Via Study Abroad.” Global Business Language 13 (2008): 29-44.

“Entrepreneurship, Immigration and Street Vendors in Spain” with Leland L’Hote. Journal of Contemporary Iberian Studies 20.1 (2007): 3-22.

“Opera and Spanish Evangelization in the New World.” Gestos 44 (2007): 1-23.

“The Politics of Painting: Velázquez and Diplomacy in the Court of Felipe IV.” Letras Hispanas 3.2 (2006)

"The Historical and Materialist Subtext of the Battle of the Sheep." 1605-2005: Don Quixote Across The Centuries. Ed. John P. Gabriele. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2005. 125-31.

“(De)constructing and (Re)negotiating Identities: (Re)dressing for Carnival in Fernando Trueba’s Belle Époque (1992).” Hispania 87.1 (2004): 177-84.

“Public Reception, Politics and Propaganda in Torrejón’s La púrpura de la rosa, the First New World Opera.” Latin American Theatre Review 37.1 (2003): 43-60.

“The Politics of Agriculture: Drama and Agrarian Plight in Lope’s Fuenteovejuna.” The Bulletin of the Comediantes 55.1 (2003): 9-21.

Professional Activity

Miller Faculty Fellow (2004)

Grants

Faculty Paid Development Assignment (2007-2008)

Study Abroad and Exchange Advisory Committee (SAEAC) Program Director Grant (with Julia Domínguez and Leland L'Hote) (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)

Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship, “Global Entrepreneurship and Languages and Cultures for Professions (LCP)" (with Leland L'Hote) (2007)

Miller Faculty Fellowship, “Innovations in Teaching Spanish Culture: Implementing a Web-Based Thematic Approach in the Spanish Classroom” (2005)

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences On-Line Learning (LASCAC) Grant (2003)

Awards

Iowa State University Foundation Award for Early Achievement in Teaching (2005)

Liberal Arts & Sciences Outstanding Early Achievement in Teaching (2005)

Cassling Family Award for Outstanding Early Achievement in Teaching (2005)

Liberal Arts & Sciences Master Teacher (2008-2009)