Faculty Profile for Dr. Beth Ann Bernstein

Biography Section

Biography and Education

Beth Bernstein is a Senior Lecturer of Spanish 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 is currently organizing a new event called the Multi-Language Mixer 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

Peninsular literature (poetry, short story, theater) , Spanish language classes of all levels, Culture of Spanish-speaking countries, Spanish conversation, Second-Language Acquisition, Spanish Language Teaching Methodology

Research Interests

Peninsular literature (poetry, short story, theater) , Identity in Spanish literature (race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality), Second-Language Acquisition, Spanish Language Teaching Methodology