January 2022

Keith Howard

Keith Howard is an associate professor of Spanish. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia in 2008. His long-term research program explores how Renaissance and Baroque political modes of thought, particularly in the form of Machiavellian and post-Machiavellian discourses, reveal themselves in early modern Spanish and colonial Latin American texts. He teaches medieval, golden age and transatlantic cultural studies.


Research Interests

Machiavelli and Post-Machiavellian political discourse

Hispanic transatlantic studies