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Lorena Gallego

Master Lecturer
Email lsgalleg@usc.edu Office THH 120 Office Phone (213) 740-1258

Biography

Lorena Gallego joined USC in 2006. She has focused her teaching on Spanish Language and Literature, Spanish for native speakers, and conversational Spanish where film and cinematography are given a focal point.  Gallego’s areas of interest outside linguistics and cinematography include 19th-century Anglo-Peninsular comparative literature, Gothic Studies, and medical humanities.

Education

  • Other Degree Master of Letters (MLitt) in Literature and Medical Humanities, University of Oxford, 6/2025
  • M.A. Spanish Literature, Arizona State University, 12/2003
  • B.A. History, Arizona State University, 12/1999
  • B.A. Spanish, Arizona State University, 12/1999

  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    My research interests include Spanish instruction and methodology aimed to heritage speakers. In addition to this, I am working on a doctoral dissertation through Oxford University, in which I examine the representation of nineteenth-century medicine in a selection of Gothic-oriented texts, focusing specifically on the synergies between Peninsular and English representations of phobias and other psychosomatic conditions

    Research Keywords

    Heritage speakers, comparative literature (English and Spanish), 19th century, Gothic, Medical Humanities

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