Matías Spector
Teaching Professor · Early modern Hispanic literature and culture
University of ChicagoAbout
Matías Spector is a Teaching Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, affiliated with the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. His research focuses on early modern Hispanic literature and culture, surveillance studies, urbanism, art history, classical philosophy, and literature. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago (2024), where his dissertation explored interactions between literature and surveillance mechanisms in early modern Spanish cities.
Education:
- PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, 2024
Research Interests:
- Early modern Hispanic literature and culture
- Surveillance studies (literary and historical)
- Urbanism and cultural spaces
- Classical philosophy and its reception in early modern works
- Literary analysis of crime, law, and power dynamics
Teaching: Recent courses include SPAN 10300 (Beginning Elementary Spanish III), SPAN 20100 (Language, History, and Culture I), SPAN 22723 (Censorship: A View from Literature), and SPAN 23425 (Crime Fiction across Centuries).
Awards: None explicitly listed in the provided text.
Labs/Teams: No specific lab or team affiliations mentioned.
