PhD Student Hispanic Studies Teaching Assistant of Spanish My name is Álvaro Ley Garrido and I'm a PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies at UGA. I also serve as a Teaching Assistant in the Spanish Program (courses regularly taught are SPAN2001 & SPAN2550). My current fields are Spanish Golden Age culture, Latinx Studies, and Translation Studies, and I also worked in Nineteenth century Peninsular literature for most of my years during my B.A. Research Dissertation/Thesis Title: La puesta en escena de lazos sin fronteras: adaptaciones latinx del teatro barroco español Staging Cultural Bonds Without Boundaries: Latinx Revisions of Early Modern Spanish Theater Selected Publications Selected Publications: Peer-reviewed Journal Articles “La visión de Gabriel de Araceli como trampantojo en los Episodios Nacionales.” Impetu, vol. 1, 2020, pp. 106–19. Book reviews Lope de Vega, La francesa Laura, ed. by Germán Vega García-Luengos and Álvaro Cuéllar. Gredos, 2023, in Cincinnati Romance Review, vol. 54, 2023, 69–71. María de Zayas y Sotomayor, La traición en la amistad, ed. by Enrique García Santo-Tomás. Cátedra, 2024, in Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, vol. 74, no. 1, 2026, pp. 256–8. Education Education: In 2019 I received a B.A. in Hispanic Studies from Universidad de Alcalá in Madrid, Spain. I then completed my M.A. in Hispanic Studies at Auburn University (Alabama), where I wrote my thesis over the translation process in the works of Valeria Luiselli.