Antonio Prado

Antonio Prado serves as Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (Spanish) at Knox College, where he has taught since 2000. He also directs the Barcelona Program and has held visiting positions at the University of Palermo (Buenos Aires), teaching Argentine Political Cinema.

Prado earned his B.A. (1996), M.A. (1999), and Ph.D. (2006) from the University of Illinois. His academic trajectory centers Hispanic studies through political and historical lenses.

His research explores intersections of popular culture, art, and historical memory with anarchist movements in Spain and Argentina. Key projects include feminist writings in early 20th-century Spanish anarchist press, anarcho-syndicalist film during the Spanish Civil War, post-2001 Argentine video-activism, and concentrationary literature from Spanish Republican exiles. This work critically engages Spain's historical memory recovery movement and its critique of the 'pact of forgetting' during democratic transition.

Professor Prado's publications demonstrate sustained interdisciplinary rigor, bridging literary analysis, film studies, and gender perspectives across eight major works from 2011-2016. His scholarship consistently recovers marginalized narratives through comparative frameworks linking Spanish and Argentine political movements.

Students describe Prado as a warm, native-speaking instructor who re-contextualizes texts to foster deep engagement. His mentoring approach emphasizes intellectual growth without pretension, as evidenced by testimonials praising his ability to make complex historical themes accessible. He actively supports students in Spanish and interdisciplinary majors like Environmental Journalism through personalized guidance.