Faculty at Home: Miguel Fernandez

Please join Miguel Fernández, Professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies, for a talk entitled “Tom Sawyer’s Wreck (and how did I go from studying gauchos to shipwrecks???.”

This talk has two goals: on the one hand, to discuss my current research on the 1853 shipwreck of the steamship Independence that sank off the coast of Baja California during the Gold Rush; and on the other, to share insight on how Middlebury’s academic environment has encouraged a curious faculty member to constantly explore and discover new areas of interest over a 30-year career.

Miguel Fernández, professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies, is a Middlebury alumnus from the Class of 1985. He earned a PhD at Johns Hopkins University, and his teaching interests center around Hispanic theater and performance studies employing problem-based learning. Miguel’s research has focused on 19th-century Latin America, and he is currently working with marine archaeologists on shipwrecks from the California Gold Rush era. 

Register at this link.