Eugenia Romero

After completing her undergraduate degree in Journalism at UT El Paso and working for a few years as a copywriter, Professor Romero went on to earn a Ph.D. in Spanish at Emory University. She joined the Department of Spanish and Portuguese in 2004. While formally trained in literary studies, her interests, both as regards scholarship and teaching, include music, museums, film, comics, and social and political history, all in the context of modern Spain and, more specifically, Galicia. Her Spanish/Galician Literary and Cultural Studies interest informs her research, and she has authored articles on topics ranging from amusement parks and cemeteries to emigration and contemporary representations of memory in Spain and Galicia’s literature and culture. Professor Romero believes that the teaching and learning experiences are both an individual event and a social encounter, from which we cannot separate culture, language, literature, and history. She has taught courses on topics such as Spain’s peripheral regions, memory and history in contemporary Spain, and literary and cultural travel through the Iberian Peninsula with emphasis in visual and material cultures.