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Michael Colvin
Associate Professor of Spanish
email
212-517-0549

Degrees
B.A. Stockton State College
Ph.D. Temple University

Michael Colvin received his Ph.D. from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Temple University in Philadelphia. His areas of research interest include late twentieth-century Latin American narrative, Portuguese fado music, and Iberian film and popular culture produced under fascist dictatorships. He is the author of two books: Las últimas obras de José Donoso: Juegos, roles y rituales en la subversión del poder (Madrid: Pliegos, 2001) and The Reconstruction of Lisbon: Severa’s Legacy and the Fado’s Rewriting of Urban History (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2008). Michael Colvin regularly teaches intermediate and advanced Spanish grammar, courses on Spanish and Latin American Literature and Civilization, and writing seminars about Hispanic New York and the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.


2009-2010
Achievements in Scholarship and Service



Tenure and Promotion Awards
Assistant Professor of Spanish: granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor of Spanish.
AWARDS:


2008:
Sokol Award, Marymount Manhattan College
2007:
Sokol Award, Marymount Manhattan College





2007-2008 Achievements in Scholarships and Service

2008-2009 Achievements in Scholarships and Service

2009-2010 Achievements in Scholarships and Service