Vincent Cervantes, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, has been named the recipient of the 2019 LEAP Award (Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors). The competitive LEAP award was created as a way to foster excellence and recognize the impact assistant professors have in the College of LAS. It is granted to faculty early in their career based on scholarly productivity and contributions to the educational mission of their departments and the College of LAS.
Professor Cervantes will hold the title of LEAP Scholar for two years and will receive $5,000 in discretionary research funding in each of those two years.
He has M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California, as well as an M.T.S. degree from Harvard University.
His research interests include 20th and 21st-Century Latin American Literature and Culture; Modern Mexican Literary and Visual Cultures; U.S. Latina/o/x Literature and Culture; Queer Theory, Feminist Theory, and Gender and Sexuality Studies; Performance Studies; Critical Race Theory and Post-colonialism; Continental Philosophy; and Critical Theory.