Vicente Rubio-Pueyo
Ph.D.
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B.A. Spanish Philology. University of Zaragoza. Spain. 2004
PhD Hispanic Languages and Literatures. SUNY Stony Brook. 2014. -
Vicente has been teaching Spanish at Fordham since 2010, first as an adjunct instructor and since 2022 as a Lecturer. Throughout the years, Vicente has taught all courses of the language sequence at our department, as well as surveys on Spanish Literature and Culture, Approaches to Literature. In recent years he has also implemented courses based on his research and interests, such as SPAN 3555 Cultural Politics in Spanish Democracy (1978-2020) and SPAN 2320 Spanish for Media.
As a researcher, Vicente’s work focuses on the intersection of politics and culture in Contemporary Spain. His book Un país entre dos tiempos. La década en que España experimentó políticamente was published in 2025 by Lengua de Trapo and Círculo de Bellas Artes in Spain. The book maps out the crises, movements and new political formations in Spain within the last decade (2008-2020) that have transformed the political culture of Spanish Democracy.
Vicente’s research interests include Cultural Studies, Social movements; Populism; Municipalism; Political and Social Documentary and Film, among other topics. His research has been published in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, boundary2 and other publications and collective books. Among Vicente’s latest projects is a collaboration with Spanish independent publisher Traficantes de Sueños in the edition of the first Spanish translation of Stuart Hall´s et al. Policing the Crisis. Mugging, the State and Law and Order (1978) published as Gobernar la crisis. Los atracos, el Estado y la «ley y el orden» (2024).
Beyond academia, Vicente writes frequently in the press about US and Spain’s culture and politics on both sides of the Atlantic. His writings have appeared at Public Books, Jacobin, and In These Times, among other outlets in the US, and at CTXT and El Salto in Spain. Vicente has also collaborated with academic spaces like NYU’s Urban Democracy Lab (where he was Visiting Scholar in 2020/21), and with institutions such as Rosa-Luxemburg Stiftung-NYC Office and Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung-NYC Office. He is a member of the Instituto de Estudios Culturales y Cambio Social and Minim Municipalist Observatory.
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SPAN 1002 Introduction to Spanish II
SPAN 1501 Intermediate Spanish I
SPAN 1502 Intermediate Spanish II
SPAN 2001 Spanish Language and Literature
SPAN 2320 Spanish for Media
SPAN 2500 Approaches to Literature
SPAN 3001 Spain: Literature and Culture Survey
SPAN 3555 Cultural Politics in Spanish Democracy
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Book: Un país entre dos tiempos. La década en que España experimentó políticamente [A Country Between Two Times. The Decade When Spain Experimented Politically ] (Lengua de Trapo/Círculo de Bellas Artes, Spain).The book tries to explain how the crises, movements and new political formations in Spain emerged within the last decade (2008-2020) have transformed the political culture of Spanish Democracy. Starting with an overview of Spanish Democracy from 1978 to the 2008 crisis, the book follows the sudden eruption of the 15M or Indignados movement in 2011; the emergence of new progressive formations such as the Municipalist confluences and Left Populist Podemos in 2015; and the later reactionary response in the form of the post-fascist party VOX. Written from a cultural studies perspective, the book aims to provide a conceptual map of the discourses and notions these forces and movements put in motion throughout an intense decade of political experimentation and turbulence, and to connect them to the current political landscape.Notes and editing work: Stuart Hall, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clark, Brian Roberts. Gobernar la crisis. Los atracos, el Estado y la «ley y el orden» (2024). [First Spanish translation of Stuart Hall´s et al. Policing the Crisis. Mugging, the State and Law and Order (1978)]