Professor of Spanish
Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
University of Virginia
Sam Amago teaches courses on modern and contemporary Spanish literary history, cinema, comics, and culture. From 2019-2022, he served as Chair of the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese at UVA. Dr. Amago is a former Chair of the Department of Romance Studies and Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 2003 to 2010, he taught at the University of Notre Dame, where he served as Associate Professor of Spanish. In an administrative capacity, Dr. Amago was a fellow in the University of Virginia's Leadership in Academic Matters Program (2021) and the Chairs Leadership Program at UNC-Chapel Hill (2018).
His current scholarship centers on waste and space, memory and modernity in post-dictatorship Spanish cultural production, including photography, documentary, narrative, comics, film and television.