Dr. Albert David Hitchcock, Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, earned his Master’s degree in Spanish from Middlebury College and his Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature from Cornell University. A specialist in the contemporary drama of Spain, he counts among his other areas of interest Hispanic film and drama, cultural studies, and literary theory. Prior to joining the USI faculty in 2005, he taught Spanish at Westminster School in Connecticut, Wesleyan College in Georgia (where he was recognized with the college’s teaching excellence award), and Worcester State College in Massachusetts. Over his ten years of college teaching, Dr. Hitchcock has instructed undergraduate courses on the literatures and civilizations of Spain and Latin America and on Spanish linguistics, as well as graduate courses on Spanish film and drama, civilization, and linguistics. He was honored with the Dean’s Golden Apple Award for excellence in teaching at the beginning of the 2006-2007 academic year.

A frequent presenter at scholarly conferences and the author of several articles on contemporary Spanish theater, he is currently completing a book based on his doctoral dissertation, Versions of the Self: The Search for Identity in the Drama of Francisco Nieva, a project for which he was awarded a Lilly Foundation Excellence through Engagement Summer Research Fellowship during the summer of 2006. On campus he has participated as a presenter in both the Liberal Arts Faculty Colloquia series and the 2006 International Interdisciplinary Colloquium on the Day of the Dead. He also advises Hablemos, USI’s new Spanish club.

Dr. Hitchcock enjoys hiking, travel, history, music of all genres, and spending time with his family.