Alvaro Ley Garrido

Alvaro Ley Garrido
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PhD Student
Hispanic Studies
Teaching Assistant of Spanish

My name is Álvaro Ley Garrido and I'm a PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies at UGA. I also serve as a Teaching Assistant in the Spanish Program (courses regularly taught are SPAN2001 & SPAN2550). My current fields are Spanish Golden Age culture, Latinx Studies, and Translation Studies, and I also worked in Nineteenth century Peninsular literature for most of my years during my B.A.

Dissertation/Thesis Title:
La puesta en escena de lazos sin fronteras: adaptaciones latinx del teatro barroco español
Staging Cultural Bonds Without Boundaries: Latinx Revisions of Early Modern Spanish Theater
Selected Publications:

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

“La visión de Gabriel de Araceli como trampantojo en los Episodios Nacionales.” Impetu, vol. 1, 2020, pp. 106–19.

 

Book reviews

Lope de Vega, La francesa Laura, ed. by Germán Vega García-Luengos and Álvaro Cuéllar. Gredos, 2023, in Cincinnati Romance Review, vol. 54, 2023, 69–71.

María de Zayas y Sotomayor, La traición en la amistad, ed. by Enrique García Santo-Tomás. Cátedra, 2024, in Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, vol. 74, no. 1, 2026 (forthcoming).

Education:

In 2019 I received a B.A. in Hispanic Studies from Universidad de Alcalá in Madrid, Spain. I then completed my M.A. in Hispanic Studies at Auburn University (Alabama), where I wrote my thesis over the translation process in the works of Valeria Luiselli.

Articles Featuring Alvaro Ley Garrido
Left to right: Alvaro Ley Garrido, Talita Nassur, and Michel Soares do Carmo

Six Romance Languages Graduate Students Receive 2024 Outstanding Teaching Award

Every year the Center for Teaching and Learning recognizes the significant contributions graduate students make to the instructional mission of the University of Georgia through Teaching Awards sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Instruction.…

Contact Information

alvaro.leygarrido@uga.edu
Office: Gilbert Hall 370C
Office Hours: MWF. 11:15 - 12:15

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Major Professor

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Sharina Maillo Pozo

Associate Professor of Latinx Studies/Spanish

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Nicolás Lucero

Associate Professor
Alberto Villate-Isaza

Alberto Villate-Isaza

Associate Professor of Spanish

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