Modern Languages and Literatures
Christine Henseler
Job Title
Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies
Areas of expertise
Hi! I’m Christine. I’m actually of German origin, but I went to high school in Spain, and that’s where my love for everything Spanish started! I was born in London and lived in Brazil and the US as a child, where I learned my Portuguese (which I readily forgot) and English. And when I first got a chance to teach—as a senior undergraduate, if you can believe it!—I was so energized. What a creative and fun field. I love engaging students and building student-centered and project based courses. I also love empowering students to find their voice through writing.
Biography
I love to write and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism / Advertising, and a BA and MA in Spanish Literature and Culture from the University of Kansas. And I received my Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature from Cornell University. I’m the co-founder and co-president of the Center for Humanities Communication (CHC). I also co-lead 4Humanities with Prof. Alan Liu. I publish public opinion pieces in Inside Higher Ed, HuffPost, Medium, and other outlets. My most recent book publications include The Entrepreneurial Humanities: The Crucial Role of the Humanities in Enterprise and the Economy (co-edited with Alain-Philippe Durand, 2023) and Extraordinary Partnerships: How the Arts and Humanities are Transforming America. I have also designed a student oriented career guidebook called Arts and Humanities: Don’t Leave College Without Them.
Research interests
My research interests include the advocacy and communication of the arts and humanities, education innovation, sustainability, social innovation and social change, storytelling, creativity and play.
For more information, please go to: www.christinehenseler.com
Teaching interests
These are some of the exciting classes that I teach:
- Spanish for beginners
- Intermediate Spanish
- Spanish Communication & Marketing
- Sustainable Travel in the Hispanic World
- Social Innovation in Spain
- The Spanish Movida: Spanish Youth Culture of the 1970s and ‘80s
- Spanish Youth Culture and Protest
- Narrative and New Media in Contemporary Spanish Literature
- Digital Storytelling Lab
- Sustainable Living (in English) (ENS 206)
- Why the Arts and Humanities (in English)
- Call for Social Change (in English and Spanish )
- Humanity-Centered Design: Eco-Design your life (with colleagues in Environmental Engineering and German Studies. (in English)
Travesías del ser: Nuestro llamado al mundo is a book that was written, designed, edited, and published by the students of SPN 425 - Call for Social Change in the winter of 2024. You can buy it on Amazon. Proceeds are donated to COCOA House, a Schenectady after school program.
Publications
BOOKS (select):
- How Do We Build That?: An Interdisciplinary Toolbox for Humanities Practices, Projects and Programs in Iberian, Latin American, Latinx, and Allied Fields (Forthcoming. Co-edited with Palmar Álvarez-Blanco, Benjamin Fraser, Christine Henseler and Stephanie A. Mueller)
- The Entrepreneurial Humanities: The Crucial Role of the Humanities in Enterprise and the Economy
- co-edited with Alain-Philippe Durand. Routledge, 2023
- Extraordinary Partnerships: How the Arts and Humanities are Transforming America
- Lever Press, 2020
- Hybrid Storyspaces: Redefining the Critical Enterprise in Twenty-First Century Hispanic Literature
- Co-edited with Debra Castillo Hispanic Issues Series, 2012
- Spanish Fiction in the Digital Age: Generation X Remixed
- Palgrave Macmillan 2011
And check out the free flipbook, made for students like you!
Arts and Humanities: Don’t Leave College Without Them
Additional media
Academic credentials
B.S., The University of Kansas; B.A., The University of Kansas; M.A., The University of Kansas; Ph.D., Cornell University
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