Kristin Routt

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Kristin Routt

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About

Dr. Routt, a first-generation college student, teaches all levels of Spanish language, literature, and culture, as well as a senior seminar on cultural diversity and ethnic identity in U.S. literature.  Despite her completion of the pre-med sequence and her acceptance letter to medical school, she saw the light and followed her heart, deciding to study Spanish after an undergraduate study-abroad experience in Mexico.  After earning her Ph.D. at Indiana University specializing in colonial Latin American literature, she lived and worked in Central America for a year before making her home at EIU in Charleston.

While Dr. Routt thinks classrooms are fine, she values most the high-impact experiences that take place outside their walls.  Honors students in her intermediate Spanish classes participate in service learning with Spanish-speakers in the Charleston community, and combine language and culture study with museum visits.  Each spring break, she co-leads a study abroad trip to the beautiful colonial city of Antibua Guatemala where students of all majors and language levels across campus can earn 2 credit hours.  Dr. Routt is also one of the proud faculty sponsors of Alpha Psi Lambda (the largest co-ed, Latino-interest fraternity) and the Spanish Club, and frequently collaborates with Sigma Delta Pi Spanish Honor Society and the Latin American Student Organization.

Dr. Routt lives in a bilingual household with her husband from El Salvador, one daughter at Charleston High School and the other away at college.  

Contact Information

Office: 1371 - Coleman Hall
Phone: 2175815995
Email: [email protected]

*Office hours: MTRF 2-3:00 pm, by appointment, and on a walk-in basis.  I am usually in my office 9:00-3:30 daily.  Feel free to consult my teaching schedule on the door and stop by any time I am not in the classroom.  If I can't help you when you come by, we will make an appointment.*

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Education/Academic qualification

Hispanic Literature, Ph.D., Indiana University - Bloomington

… → 1998

Hispanic Literature, M.A., University of Louisville

… → 1993

Philosophy, B.A., Indiana University - Bloomington

… → 1989

Research Interests

  • Colonial Spanish American literature
  • spiritual autobiography
  • women's writing
  • masculinity studies
  • writing and the body

Disciplines

  • Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature
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