Beth Ann Bernstein

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. Her specialty is seventeenth-century and twentieth-century peninsular theater and poetry, and she is especially interested in issues of identity. Beth enjoys teaching Spanish language courses as well as innovating curricula exploring issues of identity in Spanish literature. 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 the author of Exploring Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality in Four Spanish Plays: A Crisis of Identity (Lexington Books, 2021); the article “Trickster Women: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the works of Txus García and Hannah Gadsby” in the book Queer Women in Modern Spanish Literature: Sexuality, Otherness and Activism of las ‘Chicas Raras’ (Routledge, 2022); and the article “Rompiendo barreras heteronormativas: Txus García y Denice Frohman” in the book Del salvaje siglo XIX al inestable siglo XX en las letras transatlánticas: Una mirada retrospectiva a través de hispanistas (Vernon Press, 2022).