Dr. Felipe Rojas, Associate Professor of Spanish
Co-Chair of the West Liberty University Campus & Community Diversity Committee
Elbin Library 29
304-336-8474
Education
Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literature (Spanish) from the University of Chicago, 2014
M.A. in Spanish from Queen’s University (Kingston, ON), 2007
B.A. in Spanish from the University of Guelph, 2005
Biography
Felipe E. Rojas is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at West Liberty University. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 2014 with the dissertation entitled Hemos visto un mal tan fiero: The Figure of Ganymede in the Theatre of the Spanish Golden Age. His academic interests include sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature, queer and gay studies, mythology and literature, Spanish Golden Age politics and religion, and Medieval Spanish literature. Specifically, he is interested in veiled sexual references in theater and how they may allude to the political, religious and historical formation of Spain. His research has also led him to the importance of children games and how they are portrayed in literature. He has published an article on the figure of Ganymede in Spanish Golden Age theater in the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. In addition to his continuing scholarship on Ganymede, he is co-editing a collection of essays with Dr. Peter Thompson (Queen’s University, Canada) entitled Queering the Mediterranean: An Intersectional Sea of Sex, Gender, Identity and Culture(contracted Brill). This edited collection explores queer topics within works encompassing the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean world.
Publications
Co-editor. Queering the Mediterranean: An Intersectional Sea of Sex, Gender, Identity and Culture. Leiden: Brill, (2021).
“‘Hemos visto un mal tan fiero’: Sexual Ambiguity in Lope de Vega’s El gallardo catalán (1599-1603).” Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Special Issue: Minorities and Marginalized Experiences 3 (2020): 3-22. https://ceraejournal.com/volume-7-2020/.
“Representing An-‘Other’ Ganymede: The Multi-Religious Character of Ismael in Tirso de Molina’s La prudencia en la mujer.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 91.4 (2014): 347-64.
“Mirror, Mirror on the Stage: (Refl)ekphrasis in Agustín Moreto’s La loa de Juan Rana” Laberinto 6 (2012): https://acmrs.asu.edu/sites/default/files/2020-01/v6_Laberinto_Rojas.pdf.
WLU celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Elementary students