Jorge Hernandez Lasa

Education

• Ph.D., Early Modern Hispanic Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• M.E., Teaching Education, University of Burgos (Spain)
• Double M.A., Spanish Literature and Language, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (South Korea) and Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain)
• B.A., Spanish Linguistic and Literature, Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain)

Areas of Expertise

• Early Modern Hispanic Literature
• Poetry
• Material Aspects of Reading and Writing

Personal Information

My name is Jorge Hernández Lasa, and I am a visiting assistant professor in the Spanish Department at Colby College. I majored in Spanish literature at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where I participated in many linguistic projects that included the Real Academia de la Lengua’s new Spanish linguistic corpus. After finishing my undergraduate studies, I was chosen to be a member of the Ortelius Program between Barcelona and Seoul, South Korea, where I continued working in the literature field and Spanish as a Teaching Language. In 2016, I moved to Madison, WI, where I completed a dissertation that studies the powerful role of 15th and 16th century verse epistles in forging new spaces for individual, geographical, and literary recognition. In 2023, I began teaching at Colby College, where I taught intermediate and advanced Spanish language courses, as well as seminars that explore the textual representation of ordinary life across the times and spaces.

Publications

• ”Los cimientos epistolares de la «Epístola a Boscán». Un espacio comunicativo de la utilidad, familiaridad y presencia hablada”.  Calíope: journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Society, vol. 29, no. 1, 2024, pp. 1-16