Andrew Bush

Andrew Bush received his PhD in comparative literature from Yale University in 1983 and arrived at Vassar that fall to join the Department of Hispanic Studies. He has taught courses in both Latin American and Peninsular literature and he has published articles in both fields and in several periods, including Golden Age Spanish literature, twentieth-century women authors in Spain, and twentieth-century Latin American literature. He also served as the editor of the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, while the journal was being published at Vassar, and he is the author of The Routes of Modernity: Spanish America Poetry from the Early Eighteenth to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (2002).

Having participated in several of Vassar’s multidisciplinary programs (including American Studies, Urban Studies, the College Courses Program, and International Studies), Professor Bush was a member of the faculty group that designed the new Jewish Studies Program and he became its first director in 2000-2001. He continues to teach courses ranging from classical midrash to cultural studies of various Jewish diasporas to contemporary Jewish thought. In addition to his published articles, he has been one of the founding co-editors of the series Key Words in Jewish Studies (10 vols., Rutgers UP) and the author of its first volume, Jewish Studies: A Theoretical Introduction (2011).