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Patricia María Gamboa
Lecturer
Office: HUM 1079
Patricia María Gamboa is Lecturer of Spanish in the department of Hispanic Languages
and Literature at Stony Brook University. She completed her Ph.D. at the University
of Kentucky, where she specialized in 19th and 20th centuries Peninsular Literature. Her research, which received the Myrle E. and Verle
D. Nietzel Visiting Distinguished Faculty Award, analyzes the existential implications
of the fantastic narrative by Galician author Álvaro Cunqueiro (1911-1981). Her area
of research also includes gender studies and pedagogy.
Dr. María-Gamboa graduated in Philosophy from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid,
Spain, from where she also received a Master’s Degree in Advanced Studies in Philosophy
and a Master’s Degree in Teaching Secondary Education.
Before coming to Stony Brook, she was a Lecturer in Spanish at the University of North
Georgia in 2019-2023.