Malcolm Alan Compitello is Professor of Spanish at the University of Arizona. From 1995 to 2018 he headed the Department. From 1977 to 1995 Compitello was assistant/associate/full professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Romance and Classical Languages at Michigan State University. As a teacher-scholar he has helped push the boundaries of inquiry in Hispanic Studies through his work in Cultural Studies and Cultural Geography and Urban Studies and Digital Humanities. He is the Founding and Executive Editor of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. He serves on the editorial boards of numerous other importnat publications in his field. He is the author of four books and numerous essays that have appeared in important collections and scholarly journals around the world. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Valladolid in Spain and the University of Verona in Italy. He has directed fourty doctoral dissertations and served on over sixty dissertation committees. He has been at the forefront of curricular transformation in Hispanic Studies and in promoting interdiscipliary collaborations with scholars in other disciplines. He is also deeply involved professionally, especially with the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the Association of Departments of Foreign Languagages (ADFL) serving on the latter's Executive Committee from 2005 through 2007 and as its President in 2007. He is the 2016 recipient of the ADFL Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession. In 2012 friends and former studies published Capital Inscriptions a volume honoring his contributions to the profession. Professor Compitello also is the Program Director for the Humanities Seminars Program in the College of Humanities at Arizona, one of the country's premier adult education programs.
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