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Dr. Beth Ann Bernstein

  • Assoc Professor of Instruction - Dept of World Languages & Literatures
Portrait of Dr. Beth Ann Bernstein

Biography and education

Beth Bernstein is an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Texas State University. She is originally from Wisconsin and completed her PhD with distinction in Spanish literature at the University of New Mexico in 2006. Beth was a lecturer and supervisor at the University of Texas, and she was also a visiting professor at St. Edward’s University. Her specialty is seventeenth-century and twentieth-century peninsular theater and she is especially interested in issues of identity. . Beth enjoys teaching Spanish language courses as well as teaching second language acquisition methodology in her graduate student seminar. Beth is the Associate Editor for InScriptum: A Journal of Language and Literary Studies. She also created and organizes the Texas State University Intercambio: Spanish-Language Mixer which is an opportunity for students from Spanish-speaking countries and Spanish language learners to come together and share in a cultural dialogue. Beth also organizes the Multi-Language Mixer, an event where participants have to opportunity to practice many different languages with participants studying languages and international students. Beth is the author of Exploring Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality in Four Spanish Plays: A Crisis of Identity (Lexington Books, 2021).

Teaching Interests

Research Interests

  • Bernstein, Beth Ann. Participated in a grant application to develop a minor in Spanish for Specific Purposes at St. Edward's University. I was named as “key personnel” in the grant, and would develop the curriculum and revise the SPAN 3334 “Spanish for the Professions” course. (Funded: 2014). Grant.
  • Bernstein, B. A. (2024, April 30). Book Review of Baroque Lorca: An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage. Letras Hispanas: Revista de Literatura y Cultura. San Marcos, Texas, United States: Texas State University. Retrieved from https://www.worldlang.txst.edu/letrashispanas.html
  • Simón, A., & Bernstein, B. (2021). Trickster Women and “Chicas Raras”:  Exploring Gender Identity and Sexuality with Txus García and Hannah Gadsby. In Queer Women in Modern Spanish Literature: Activism, Sexuality, and the Otherness of the “Chicas Raras” (pp. 149–166). Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/Queer-Women-in-Modern-Spanish-Literature-Activism-Sexuality-and-the-Otherness/Simon-Alegre-Charnon-Deutsch/p/book/9780367563530
  • Bernstein, B. A. (2021). Rompiendo Barreras Heteronormativas: Txus García y Denice Frohman. In Del salvaje siglo XIX al inestable siglo XX en las letras trasatlánticas: una mirada retrospectiva a través de hispanistas [From the Wild Nineteenth century to the Unstable Twentieth century in Transatlantic Letters: A Retrospective Look by Hispanists.] (pp. 241–255). Wilmington, DE, United States: Vernon Press. Retrieved from https://vernonpress.com/book/1241
  • Bernstein, B. A. (2021). Exploring Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality in Four Spanish Plays: A Crisis of Identity. Lanham, MD, United States: Lexington Books. https://doi.org/978-1-7936-2055-2
  • Bernstein, B. A. (2024). El sol y la ola. Al Principio (Vol. XXXIX, p. 39). San Marcos, TX, USA: Texas State University (Beta Epsilon/ Sigma Delta Pi).
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  • Award / Honor Nominee: 2024 Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, Texas State University. July 1, 2024
  • Award / Honor Nominee: 2022 Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities. December 28, 2021
  • Award / Honor Recipient: NeMLA CAITY Travel Award, NeMLA. January 22, 2025
  • Award / Honor Nominee: The Texas State Quarterly Team Recognition Program Award. January 23, 2020
  • Award / Honor Nominee: The Excellence in Diversity Award. January 12, 2018
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  1. Organizer

    Multi-Language Mixer

  2. University Mentor

    Incoming Faculty and Visiting Scholar Mentor

  3. Editor

    InScriptum: A Journal of Language and Literary Studies

  4. Organizer

    Intercambio: Spanish-Language Mixer (Virtual events March 2020-April 2023)

  5. Undergraduate Advisor

    Multicultural Sorority: Delta Xi Nu

  6. Organizer

    Spanish Film Series: Asuntos de familia: Issues of Parenthood and Family in Hispanic Film, Sigma Delta Pi

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