Fernando N. Santos

Fernando N. Santos is a Lecturer in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Binghamton University. Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, he moved to the U.S. at age 10 and pursued his academic career with a BA in Spanish (minor in media arts) from Mercy College and an MA in Spanish literature from the University of Kansas. He also studied at Instituto Hemingway in Bilbao, Spain, accredited by Instituto Cervantes.

• Research Interests: Digital humanities, multilingual digital humanities, sociolinguistics, and second language acquisition
• Teaching: Courses in SPAN 115, SPAN 211, SPAN 215, and SPAN 212

His 2021-2022 Digital Humanities Fellowship at the University of Kansas focused on Caribbean dialectal zones (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico) through a pedagogical lens emphasizing jargon dynamics.

• Award: Digital Humanities Fellow (Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, 2021-2022)