Contact Information
4028 Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-176
Urbana, IL 61801
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-176
Urbana, IL 61801
Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
Biography
Unai Rocha Martínez is a Hispanic Literatures and Cultures Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He holds a B.A. in Modern Languages from the University of Deusto, with a minor Literary Studies and Hispanic Studies, and a M.A in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His work focuses on the representation of queer embodiments in Spanish orientalist literature from the 19th and 20th Century.
Research Interests
- Queer theory
- Body theory
- Orientalism
- Postcolonial studies
- Translation studies.
- 19th and 20th Century Literature
Education
B.A. in Mordern Languages at the University of Deusto, with a concentration on Spanish Studies and Literature, 2020.
M.A. in Spanish, Concentration in Literature and Culture, 2022.
Ph.D. in Spanish, Literature and Culture (in progress).
Courses Taught
- SPAN 130: Intermediate Spanish (Fall 2020 and Spring 2021)
- SPAN 141: Introduction to Spanish Grammar (Fall 2021, Spring 2022)
- SPAN 142: Spanish in the Professions (Fall 2024, Spring 2025)
- SPAN 200: Readings in Hispanic Texts (Fall 2025)
- SPAN 208: Oral Spanish (Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023)
- SPAN 228: Composition (Spring 2022)
- SPAN 312: Modern Spanish Literatures & Cultures (Fall 2023, Spring 2024)
- SPAN 320: Spanish Cultural Studies II (Fall 2025)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Minor in Translation Studies