Ana Eire
Professor of Spanish
Dr. Eire currently holds the Kathleen A. Johnson Chair of Humanities. In 2019 she received the Hand Award for Research, Creative, and Professional Activity.
- PhD, Vanderbilt University

Biography
A native of Spain, Ana Eire received her PhD in Spanish and Spanish-American literature from Vanderbilt University, where she also completed a minor in English. Her current research and publications center on contemporary Spanish poetry. Eire was named the first Jane Heman Language Professor (2010-2012) at Stetson University, and currently holds the Kathleen A. Johnson Chair of Humanities. She is the academic advisor to the study-abroad program in Madrid, Spain. In 2019 she received the Hand Award for Research, Creative, and Professional Activity.
More About Ana Eire
Areas of Expertise
- Spanish
- Hispanic poetry
- Spanish-American twentieth-century literature, film studies and cultural history
Course Sampling
- Oral Expression
- Business in Hispanic Cultures
- Spanish Film
- Hispanic poetry
- Seminars: Pablo Neruda, Hispanic Love Poetry, Hispanic Short-Novel, Ethics in Literature and Film
- Hispanic poetry
- Spanish-American twentieth-century literature, film studies and cultural histories
- “Complicidad, precio y la devaluación del lenguaje: Dinero de Pablo García Casado,” in A Journey in Readership. Karageorgou-Bastea, Nogueira, and Lehnen, eds. (Academia del Hispanismo, 2019).
- "Encuentros y desencuentros de transiciones paralelas: democracia y poesía. El caso de Julio Martínez Mesanza y Luis Alberto de Cuenca." Aula lírica 10, 2018.
- Sin fronteras. Antología de poetas gallegos que escriben en español (Renacimiento, 2018).
- "Sin escape: el ser en la poética de Miguel d'Ors," in Poetics of Hispanism. Cathy L. Jrade and Christina Karageorgou, eds. (Iberoamericana - Verveut, 2012).
- El misterio de la felicidad. Antología poética de Miguel d'Ors (Renacimiento, 2009).
- Conversaciones con poetas españoles contemporáneos (Renacimiento, 2005).
- “El sentir del tiempo en la poesía de Eloy Sánchez Rosillo,” Hispania, May 2009.
- Articles in Hispania, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Alba de América and other journals and collections.