About
Useche holds a B.S. in Electronics Engineering, and advanced degrees in Latin American and peninsular literatures and cultures. His teaching and research interests include the influence of science, technology and industry on Spanish cultural production, and the relations between dynamics of social, political, and economic transformation and the construction of national identity in Spain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Professor Useche has taught courses on different periods and problems related to the Hispanic world, as well as a wide variety of Spanish language classes. His book, Founders of the Future: The Science and Industry of Spanish Modernization (Bucknell UP, 2022), is an exploration of industrialization as a repertoire of concepts, images, and paradigms that writers, scientists, educators, and politicians utilized to shape their visions of the national problems at the turn of the twentieth century. Education
Ph.D., M.Phil., Columbia University
M.A., Indiana University, Bloomington
M.A., B.S., Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá
