Keith Schaefer

Director of Undergraduate Studies
Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish

Education

Ph.D. - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill M.A. 
University of Delaware B.A.T. 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research and Teaching Interests

Modern and Contemporary Spanish Novel, Representations of religion and secularization in narrative, second-language acquisition

Biography

Keith Schaefer received his Ph.D. in Romance Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on the intersections of religious and secular thought in Spanish narrative, especially in the works of Miguel de Unamuno. In his career he has taught elementary and intermediate Spanish, Conversation, Advanced Grammar and Composition, Spanish for Business, Spanish for Health Professionals, Spain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Theories and Methods of Language Teaching, Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Literature, and classes on the Spanish novel.