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FIlm Media Program

Faculty

Robert C. Manteiga, Ph.D.

Professor of Spanish

Email: roberto@uri.edu
Phone: (401) 874-4701
Office: 104 Swan Hall
Office Hours: M 2:30-4, T 4-5 or by appointment

Robert C. Manteiga is Professor of Hispanic Studies, Comparative Literature, and Film/Media at the University of Rhode Island. He is the former Director of the Spanish International Engineering Program, which he founded and directed from 1998-2008. Dr. Manteiga earned his doctorate in Spanish from the University of Virginia. He currently serves as Section Head of Hispanic Studies, and is a member of the Film Media Executive Board and Film Media Curriculum and Assessment Committee. He is the recipient of a FIPSE grant from the US Department of Education and has been awarded numerous URI Research Grants, Foundation Grants, and Enhancement of Teaching Awards. Over the years, he has worked actively in the area of study abroad, and has been involved in the development and supervision of programs in Spain and Latin America. From 1978 to 1995 he was the University of Rhode Island’s representative to the Council on International Educational Exchange, and served as Chair of the Council’s Spain Policy Committee from 1991 to 1994. He is a published scholar in the fields of 20th Century Spanish Literature, Comparative Literatures, and Film Studies, and has been an editor/consultant for several literary journals, including Modern Language Studies and CHOICE. His areas of interest and expertise include avant-garde theater and film, feminine narrative, 20th Century Poetry, the novel of exile, Spanish and Italian neo-realism, Spanish and Hispanic-American film, the American Western, and the films of Sam Peckinpah.