Rate My Professor Steven Torres

Steven Torres serves as a Professor in the Department of World Languages and Literature within the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He earned his Ph.D. in Spanish Literature and M.A. in Hispanic Literature from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His scholarly pursuits focus on cultural studies, cultural politics, metacultural discourse, Spanish literature and film, environmental humanities, the Spanish Civil War, and cultural and political activism. Complementing these, his interests extend to modern Spanish and Latin American literature, film, ecocriticism, sociology of literature, and representations of the Spanish Civil War in literature and film.

Torres has made significant contributions to academic literature through co-authored articles and edited volumes. Notable among them is his co-editorship of Spain After the Indignados/15M Movement: The 99% Speaks Out (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2019), including the introduction “After the 15M” and concluding chapter “Toward a New Cultural Politics for Spain,” both co-authored with Óscar Pereira-Zazo. Additional publications include “For a Cultural Politics of Engagement: Combating Information Poverty in and out of Class” with Palmar Álvarez-Blanco (Routledge, 2021, forthcoming), “Acerca del pensamiento propositivo y ecointegrador: Referencias y referentes” with Palmar Álvarez-Blanco (Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 23, 2019), “Activismo y militancia estadounidenses en las obras de Carlos Blanco Aguinaga y Luis Martín-Cabrera” (Studi Ispanici, 2019), and “Transformative and emancipatory research and education: A counter-practice in research and teaching” with Palmar Álvarez-Blanco (Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 40.4, 2018). As faculty in the Office of Latino/Latin American Studies (OLLAS), he integrates teaching interests in Spanish literature, film, history, contemporary society, and conversation. Since 2014, his upper-level courses have featured service learning, engaging students in voter canvassing and registration with the Heartland Workers Center, collaborative translation for the Constellation of the Commons, surveys informing public art projects in South Omaha, and interpretation services for the SHARING Clinic at UNMC and Bi-National Health Week.