Cassidy B Reis

Cassidy B. Reis is a Lecturer and Interim Director of the Spanish Language Program at the University of Arizona's Department of Spanish & Portuguese, within the College of Humanities. She holds a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.Ed. in Curriculum & Instruction from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), where she served as a Teach For America Corps Member. Her research focuses on early modern Spanish literature and visual art, particularly the visual rhetoric of picaresque fiction, ekphrasis, and representations of poverty and marginalized groups. She also specializes in teaching Spanish as an additional language.

Her publications include Painted Dreams and Cervantes’s Critique of Representation in the Persiles (eHumanista Cervantes 5, 2017) and a dissertation on themes of visuality in early modern Spanish picaresque novels (2021). Reis teaches a range of Spanish language and literature courses at all proficiency levels. Her work bridges literary analysis and pedagogical innovation, emphasizing the intersection of art, text, and social context.

• Teaching Experience: Beginning, intermediate, and advanced Spanish language and literature courses.
• Key Research Contributions: Explores ekphrasis in early modern texts and the socio-cultural dimensions of Spanish art and literature.