David Castillo
PhD
Co-Director
Scholarly Interests
Inflationary Media and Disinformation; Cervantes; Early Modern Literature; Fantasy and Horror/Terror; Cultural Theory
Education
- PhD, University of Minnesota
- MA, University of Minnesota
- Licenciado, Universidad de Granada
Selected Publications
- Anti-Disinformation Pedagogy: Tackling the Power of Manipulative Media. (Co-edited with Bradley Nelson). Hispanic Issues Online Vol. 32, 2024.
- Truth-Seeking in our Age of (Mis)Information Overload. (Co-edited with Christina Milletti, Siwei Lyu, and Cynthia Stewart). Humanities to the Rescue Book Series. Albany: SUNY Press, 2024.
- What Would Cervantes Do? Navigating Post-Truth with Spanish Baroque Literature. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022 (with William Egginton).
- Un-Deceptions: Cervantine Strategies for the Disinformation Age. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 2021.
- Buffalo: Transatlantic Crossroads of a Critical Insurrection. (Co-edited with Jean-Jacques Thomas and Ewa Ziarek). Albany: SUNY Press, 2021.
- Writing in the End Times: Apocalyptic Imagination in the Hispanic World. (Co-edited with Bradley Nelson). Hispanic Issues Online, Vol. 23, 2019.
- Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media (Bloomsbury, 2016). Co-authored with William Egginton.
- Zombie Talk: Culture, History, Politics. Palgrave, 2016. Co-authored with David Schmid, David Reilly and John Browning.
- Spectacle and Topophilia: Reading Early Modern and Postmodern Spanish Cultures. Eds. David Castillo and Bradley Nelson. Vanderbilt University Press, 2012.
- Baroque Horrors: Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities. University of Michigan Press, 2010. Paperback, 2012.
- Reason and Its Others: Italy, Spain, and the New World. Eds. David Castillo and Massimo Lollini. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2006.
- (A)Wry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes, and the Early Picaresque. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press. Purdue Studies in Romance Languages, 2001.
Courses Taught
- Cervantes and our media condition
- AI, Information, Democracy, Humanity
- Studies in Fiction
- Don Quixote and Road Movies
- The Classics Today
- The Golden Age