Fernando Unzueta, professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, is associate vice provost for global strategies and international affairs. He began his tenure in September of 2019.
Unzueta has a long-standing relationship with the Office of International Affairs, having led an education abroad program to Bolivia for many years as well as serving as the director of the Center for Latin American Studies from 2002 – 2006. He also was chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese from 2004 – 2013.
Unzueta helps to oversee administrative and academic units that fall under the umbrella of the Office of International Affairs, including including global education, international student and scholar services and grants and scholarships. Unzueta works closely with the vice provost in the formulation and implementation of global strategies for the university and represent OIA in a variety of activities both on and off campus.
Unzueta's academic and research expertise is in literature and history in the Spanish American narrative, national identities and subject formations and 19th century Latin American literature and cultures. He has published on a wide range of topics, including colonial and post-colonial subjects, the relations between literature and history, the discursive production of national identities and early newspapers.
He holds a PhD in Spanish from the University of Texas at Austin, a master’s in Spanish from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a bachelor’s in industrial engineering from SUNY at Buffalo.
