Benjamin Nelson

Benjamin Nelson is an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish, School of Humanities & Social Sciences at the University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB). He currently chairs the Courses and Curricula Committee and previously served as chair of USCB's Faculty Senate.

His educational background includes:

• PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish) from the University of Chicago (2007)
• MA in Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish) from the University of Chicago (2001)
• BA in Spanish Language and Literature from Illinois Wesleyan University (1999)

Dr. Nelson specializes in early modern Spanish literature with primary focus on the Golden Age period. His research examines pastoral traditions across Spanish, Italian, English, and French literatures; the Spanish Monarchy's cultural representations; textual praise and criticism of the Spanish Empire; geographical spaces within prose narratives; genre evolution (prose, poetry, drama); and comprehensive cultural history spanning Medieval Spain through Colonial Latin America. Recent notable contributions include a chapter on Jorge de Montemayor's La Diana in "Los cielos se agotaron de prodigios": Essays in Honor of Frederick A. de Armas and a chapter on Miguel de Cervantes's La Galatea in The Oxford Handbook of Cervantes.

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