Nathan Richardson, PhD

Ricardo Romo PhD Endowed Professorship

Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, College of Liberal and Fine Arts 

Nathan Richardson joined the UT San Antonio faculty in 2018. He is a professor of Spanish and a scholar of 20th- and 21st-century narrative in film and literature.

Richardson has authored three books on contemporary Spain and Hispanic literature: Postmodern Paletos: Immigration, Globalization, and Nation Building in Fifty Years of Spanish Narrative and Film (Bucknell University Press, 2002); Constructing Spain: The Re-Imagination of Space and Place in Narrative and Film 1953-2003 (Bucknell University Press, 2011); and Novels for the End of a World: 21st-Century Fiction in Spain and Latin America (University of Texas at San Antonio, 2021).

His research has been supported with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and has also appeared in several book chapters and refereed journals including Hispanic Journal, Ciberletras, Hipertexto, Bulletin of Spanish Studies and Letras Hispanas.   

Richardson earned his PhD in Spanish from the University of Kansas. Prior to joining UT San Antonio, he served on the faculty at Bowling Green State University.