Dept Chair, World Languages & Literatures
Associate Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literatures
E-mail
damian.bacich@sjsu.edu
Additional Contact Information
Phone Number(s)
(408) 924-4608
(408) 924-4610
Damian 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, and Renaissance humanism and neoplatonism in Iberia and Ibero-America.
Damian 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 AngelesM.A., Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Los Angeles
B.A., History, University of San Francisco