Dr. Pablo García Piñar

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Pablo García Piñar is an Assistant Instructional Professor at the University of Chicago specializing in Spanish Language and Literature. His research interests encompass premodern critical disability studies, early modern Spanish literature, and drama, particularly engaging with the works of Miguel de Cervantes and Juan Ruiz de Alarcón. His academic pursuits focus on how literary production during the early modern period served as resistance to societal processes of disabling individuals. He addresses the portrayal of disabled bodies in Golden Age Spanish comedia and the implications of institutionalized bodily normativity. Selected awards include the Renaissance Society of America's Paul Oskar Kristeller Fellowship and the Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship. García Piñar has taught a variety of courses on Spanish language and literature at both the University of Chicago and Colby College. He holds a PhD in Romance Studies from Cornell University and has published extensively in his field.

Research Interests

Experience

Assistant Instructional Professor

2015-09-01 — Present

University of Chicago • Chicago, IL

Teaches various Spanish language courses and literature classes focusing on early modern and contemporary themes.

Awards

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Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship

2022-03-01
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Paul Oskar Kristeller Fellowship

2022-01-01
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Huntington Library Travel Grant

2023-03-01

Requirements for University of Chicago

Doctorate Program
Requirements
TOEFL
Listening
Required:26
Reading
Required:26
Writing
Required:26
Speaking
Required:26
Total
Required:104
IELTS
Listening
Required:7
Reading
Required:7
Writing
Required:7
Speaking
Required:7
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
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Specialization Notes

Department of Philosophy