Anthony Grubbs

Anthony Grubbs is the Department Chairperson and an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University. He is also Director of the MSU Translation Center that offers translation and interpretation services to MSU and Michigan communities. Grubbs authored The Playwright’s Perspective: Innovative Dramaturgy and Its Poetics in Early Modern Spain (ISBN 1-93194-895-1).  His research on early modern theater and culture has also been published in such journals as the Bulletin of the Comediantes, Hispanófila, Calíope, Comedia Performance, and Catalan Review, to name a few. He is currently working on a monograph-length study of the dramatic representations and visual culture associated with Saint Christopher in early and early modern Iberia. His critical edition of Vida y muerte de San Cristóbal (ISBN 0866986294) by Juan de Benavides was published in 2020; his edition of Juan de la Cueva’s El infamador ISBN 1589770587) came out in 2008. Additionally, Grubbs is a member of the Translation Lab, a cross-disciplinary group of scholars, translators, and theater practitioners who focus on translating and adapting early modern Spanish theater for the contemporary stage. He serves of the Board of Directors of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater. Degree: PhD Hispanic Literature, Indiana University, 2005. Research Interests: Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture; Hagiography; Performance Theory; Theater History