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Chad Gasta

Department Chair
University of Delaware
103A Jastak-Burgess Hall
Newark, DE 19716
302-831-0671
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Biography

Chad M. Gasta is professor of Spanish and chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Until 2022, he served as professor and chair of the Department or World Languages and Cultures at Iowa State University where he also served as director of International Studies, co-director of the Languages and Cultures for Professions (LCP) program. He also founded and co-directed Iowa State's largest study abroad program, the ISU on the Mediterranean – Summer in Valencia, Spain, program.  

Gasta teaches a wide array of courses including Spanish for Global Professionals, Spanish Conversation for Professionals, Spain Today, Spanish Civilization and Culture as well as advanced courses on the literatures and cultures of early modern Spain and Latin America. He welcomes the opportunity to work with graduate students interested in Spain's early modern period.

His research focuses on the intersection of arts and sciences and material cultures and early modern Spanish and Latin American literature, in particular early opera and musical culture, the comedia, Cervantes, and the picaresque. He also writes on global education and international engagement through study abroad. 

Degrees

Ph.D., Spanish, Michigan State University

M.A., Spanish, Michigan State University

B.A., Political Science, Michigan State University

B.A., Spanish, Michigan State University


Publications

Books

Imperial Stagings: Empire and Ideology in Transatlantic Theater of Early Modern Spain and the New World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.

Transatlantic Arias: Early Opera in Spain and the New World. Madrid: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2013.

An annotated critical edition of Lazarillo de Tormes. Chicago: Waveland Press, 2013.

Hispanic Studies in Honor of Robert L. Fiore co-edited with Julia Domínguez. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2009.

Selected Articles

“Empire, Politics, and Literature." Oxford Handbook of Spanish Golden Age Literature. Ed. J.A. Garrido Ardila. Oxford University Press.  In press.

“Opera in Early Modern Iberia." Routledge Online Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World. 2022.

“La visión de los novatores en Bances Candamo: La astrología como experimento teatral." Atardece el Barroco: Ficción experimental en la España de Carlos II (1665-1700). Ed. Jorge García López and Enrique García Santo-Tomás. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2021. 271-96.

“Performing Musical Theater in the Bodas de Camacho in Don Quixote." Living the Comedia: Essays Celebrating Amy Williamsen. Vol. II. Ed. Esther Fernández and Yuri Porras.  University Press of the South, 2020. 165-76.

“Best Practices for Planning, Developing, and Sustaining Interdisciplinary Language-Based Study Abroad Programs." Study Abroad: Traditions, Directions, and Innovations. New York: Modern Language Association, 2019. 119-36.

“Transatlantic Opera in Spain and the New World in the 17th and Early 18th Centuries." The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. William Beezley. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Online.

“Cervantes y del debate científico en El Quijote." El Quijote en América: Cervantes, autor universal. Ed. López Martínez, María Isabel and Rosa Eugenia Montes Doncel. Seville: Renacimiento, 2016. 56-79.

“Cervantes and the Picaresque: A Question of Compatibility." The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Neopicaresque. Ed. J. A. G. Ardila. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2015. 96-112.

“Writing to be Heard: Performing Music in Don Quixote." Cervantes in Perspective. Ed. Julia Domínguez. Madrid: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2013. 87-109.

“Cervantes's Theory of Relativity in Don Quixote." Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America 31.1 (2011): 51-82.

“The Picaresque According to Cervantes." Philological Quarterly 89.1 (2010): 31-54.

“'Señora, donde hay música no puede haber cosa mala:' Music, Poetry and Orality in Don Quijote." Hispania 93.3 (2010): 357-67.

Honors and Awards

Iowa State University Outstanding Department Leadership Award (2022)

Iowa State University Outstanding Early Achievement in Departmental Leadership (2016)

Iowa State University International Service Award (2012)

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences International Service Award (2011)

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Master Teacher (2009)

Iowa State University Foundation Award for Outstanding Early Achievement in Teaching (2006)

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Award for Outstanding Early Achievement in Teaching (2005)

Cassling Family Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching (2005)​

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