Dr. Fernando Gomez Herrero
Adjunct Professor
Spanish
Dr. Gomez Herrero has taught at Duke University, Stanford University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Mass, Boston, Boston College, Hofstra University and Oberlin College in the U.S., and the Universities of Birmingham and Manchester in England and the University of Salamanca, Spain.
He teaches a variety of Spanish language-and-culture courses in The Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at The Citadel. Dr. Gomez Herrero is also teaching one course on U.S. foreign policy in Spring 2027. He cares about the beauty of languages (Spanish and English, predominantly), and also about history, philosophy and international relations with a focus on the U.S. Dr. Gomez Herrero works to bring European, Latin American and American traditions together.
He has written two books: Good Places and Non-Places in Colonial Mexico: The Figure of Vasco de Quiroga and The (Latin) American Scene: Five Critical Conversations. Dr. Gomez Herrero is finishing a project titled Foreign Humanities and Foreign Relations in the Anglo Zone in the Interregnum: Ten Critical Conversations. Dr. Gomez Herrero has a fourth book project tentatively titled Agonies of Historicity: Early Modern/Colonial Studies of the Hispanic Atlantic, which will gather a few essays of his written in the last decade or so.
Dr. Gomez Herrero’s teaching and his scholarship feed each other. He brings his research selectively to his courses and always tries to give it a public dimension in conferences, workshops, public lectures, podcasts, etc. He has about 50 articles published about themes and authors such as Early Modern/colonial studies, history writing, Vasco de Quiroga, Francisco de Vitoria, Enrique Dussel, Afropessimism, Ortega y Gasset and Arnold J. Toynbee., G John Ikenberry, Lars Von Trier, Herman Melville, Daniel P. Moynihan and Evelyn Waugh and many others. He defends multi-lingual multi-perspectivism.
Degrees
Ph.D. in Romance Studies (Duke University)
M.A. in English (University of Salamanca, Spain and Wake Forest University)
B.A. in English and Spanish (U of Salamanca and The University of Wales, Swansea, Erasmus program)
M.L.S. (Simmons University)