Asst Professor, Foreign Languages
Coordinator, Spanish Program
Advisor: Spanish Major, Latin American Studies Minor
E-mail
Damian.Bacich@sjsu.edu
Additional Contact Information
Phone Number(s)
(408) 924-4610
Office Hours
Fall 2009: Tue/Thu 10:00am - 12:00pm; Thur 4:30pm - 5:30pm or by appointment
Dr. Bacich teaches courses in Colonial Spanish American Literature, Translation, Spanish for Business and Spanish Language.
His research interests include the literatures of early modern Iberia and Ibero-America, Colonial Spanish American literature, including Alta California and the Spanish Borderlands, translation studies, especially vernacular translation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Renaissance humanism and neoplatonism in Iberia and Ibero-America. He is also a great admirer of Italian literature, especially Dante Alighieri's Divina Commedia.
He is co-translator of The Dialogues of Love (1535) by Yehudah Abravanel (University of Toronto Press, 2009).
Education:
Ph.D., Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Los Angeles
M.A., Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Los Angeles
B.A., History, University of San Francisco
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