Western Michigan University

Faculty Member, Spanish

Assistant Professor

Arts & Sciences

About

Dr. Ohanna is an Assistant Professor of Transatlantic Cultural and Literary Studies in the Spanish Department at Western Michigan University, and Affiliated Faculty in the WMU Medieval Institute. He studied at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and McGill University, where he completed his Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies, with a dissertation entitled "Among Muslims, Renegades and Indians: Spanish Narratives of Coexistence in Foreign Lands." Professor Ohanna specializes in Spanish Golden Age and Spanish American Colonial literatures, with a focus on the intellectual history of the Early Modern period, the cultural triangle of Europe, Africa and the Americas in struggle and exchange, the discursive configuration of the East and the New World, Spanish humanism during the Counterreformation, and the social and political meanings of cross-cultural narratives of travel, shipwreck and captivity. His scholarly work has been published in professional journals such as Hispanic Review, Anales Cervantinos, Hispanic Journal, Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, and Bulletin of Hispanic Studies.

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