George Albert Azcarate

George Albert Azcarate serves as Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Vassar College since 2025, holding a PhD in Spanish from the University of Notre Dame (2025) and an MA in Iberian and Latin American Studies from the same institution (2019). His academic journey follows a unique professional path spanning healthcare, theater, and international teaching.

• RN: St. Margaret School of Nursing (2009)
• BSN: Chatham University (2010)
• MA: University of Notre Dame (2019)
• PhD: University of Notre Dame (2025)

His research centers on biopolitical frameworks in medical humanities, specifically examining healer-patient dynamics where the patient's body becomes a textual artifact subject to interpretation, writing, and editing. He investigates the hospital as a political instrument for life governance and explores bioethical dimensions of abandonment and suppression within modern political power structures. His current project analyzes Andrés Manuel López Obrador's presidency during the COVID-19 pandemic, merging his clinical experience with literary analysis.

Azcarate's publications reveal interdisciplinary engagement across academic and creative domains, with scholarly work focusing on neoliberal narratives in border literature and creative contributions exploring transnational identity in anthology formats. His pandemic nursing experience in New York City ICU units directly informs his critical perspective on medical institutions.

As a registered nurse with extensive ICU experience, Azcarate uniquely bridges clinical practice and academic scholarship. His background includes firefighting in El Paso, emergency medical services, international theater performance in Argentina with The Performers troupe, and teaching English in Spain's Balearic Islands. This multifaceted career informs his humanistic approach to both patient care and literary analysis.