RESEARCH INTERESTS

Early modern fictional prose (novel, short story, satire, the picaresque, and Cervantes), film adaptations, relationships between narrative, poetry, and theater.

Theoretical interests include: genre, visual culture, rhetoric, politics, religion, and philosophy.

AVAILABILITY 

Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 9:30-11:30 AM or on Zoom via appointment.

EDUCATION

2022 PhD in Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2013 MA in Spanish, University of Colorado Boulder

2011 BA in Spanish, University of Central Florida

2011 BA in Political Science, University of Central Florida 

BIOGRAPHY

John Giblin is a Post-Doctoral Scholar and the Coordinator of Elementary Language Instruction at University of Kentucky. His research focuses on Early Modern Spanish Narrative, Cervantes, and the Picaresque. He became interested in these topics while studying abroad in Alcalá de Henares, Spain and completing his Undergraduate thesis on Lazarillo de Tormes. He pursued these interests during his MA and Ph.D. While living in Córdoba and Madrid he navigated seventeenth century literary works and traveled the country. His research helps him to make early modern literary works accessible to undergraduate students by bringing them to life in the classroom.

John Giblin grew up in Central Florida and has lived in many places Colorado, the Dominican Republic, Spain, Wisconsin, Kansas, and now Kentucky. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking, reading literature, watching movies, exploring historical sites, visiting museums, and traveling, especially to Spain.

PUBLICATIONS

“Picaresque Actors: Self-Fashioning in El viaje entretenido by Agustín de Rojas”. Bulletin of the Comediantes (Forthcoming Fall 2024).

“Suspending Disbelief: (Un)civil Conflict in Ginés Pérez de Hita’s Guerras civiles de Granada (primera parte)”. Hispanic Review, vol. 90 no. 2, 2022, p. 223-44.