Persephone Hernández-Vogt, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Office: Classroom Center, Room 320E
Email: phernandez@wtamu.edu
Phone: 806-651-2463
Professional Profile
Dr. Hernández-Vogt joined the English, Philosophy, and Modern Languages department in 2024. Dr. Hernández-Vogt holds a B.A. in Romance Languages and Politics from Mount Holyoke College, a master's degree in Political Science from the Université de Liège, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Michigan.
Teaching and Related Service
Dr. Hernández-Vogt teaches all levels of Spanish language courses as well as courses in Hispanic cultures and literatures, especially early modern Spanish theater. Persephone's work on this latter topic has been published under the title "Fortune and Misfortune on the Stage: Ângela de Azevedo’s Marian Comedia in the Classroom and Beyond" in Comedia Performance (21, 2024).
From 2018-2021, Persephone facilitated a program on relationship skills with a transformative justice approach to reducing intimate partner violence.
Research and Creative Activity
Persephone's research focuses on hierarchy in the written works of Iberian women in the seventeenth century and how these writers embraced or eschewed metaphors of solidarity with other groups. A religious studies approach informs Dr. Hernández-Vogt's most recent work, which grapples with covert theology in early modern Iberian comedias. Persephone's other research interests include incarceration, animal agriculture, and immigration.