_Dr. Christopher Eustis
BA, Spanish, Brown University, 1965
M.A., Middlebury College, 1969
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1977
J. Christopher Eustis joined the Department
of Modern Languages at The University of Akron in August 2000, as Professor
of Modern Languages (Spanish and Portuguese) and Chair of the Department.
Immediately prior to coming to UA, he held a visiting appointment in the
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Case Western Reserve
University from 1998-2000. He also previously taught at Virginia Tech
(1976-1998), where he served as Head of the Department of Foreign Languages
and Literatures from 1984-1997.
A strong proponent of foreign study, Professor Eustis has founded and
led on numerous occasions or coordinated several study abroad programs,
including two summer study in Spain programs and a student exchange program
in Ecuador. He also was the co-founder in 1984 of an ongoing graduate-level
summer Intensive Second Language Institute for high-school foreign language
teachers and advanced undergraduates.
Professor Eustis' research interests, including journal articles, essays
in edited collections and conference presentations, focus on the picaresque
genre in Spanish narrative since the 16th Century, contemporary Spanish
fiction, and modern Luso-Brazilian narrative. He also has written on the
value of study abroad and on the issue of faculty evaluation. Since 1995,
he has served as an Associate Editor and compiler of the annual list of
dissertations completed and in progress for Hispania, the national
journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.
In addition to Spanish and Portuguese language courses at all levels,
his teaching interests focus on 19th- to 21st-century Spanish prose fiction,
picaresque narrative, literature of the Spanish Civil War, Spanish cinema,
and Spanish and Latin-American culture and civilization. While at Virginia
Tech, he was the winner of a College of Arts and Sciences Certificate
of Teaching Excellence.
In the summer of 2001, Prof. Eustis directed the university's new summer program in Santander, Spain. Information about the program can be obtained by clicking here.
Office telephone: 330 972-7486
e-mail: eustis@uakron.edu
Office telephone: 330 972-7486
e-mail: eustis@uakron.edu
