Isaac Veysey-White is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Virginia Military Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Cultural Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities from Michigan State University. He previously earned a Master of Arts in Spanish from Western Michigan University, and also holds the CMI-Spanish medical interpreter credential and an accredited 120-Hour TEFL certificate. Before coming to VMI, he served as a Lecturer of Spanish at SUNY Geneseo and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at Williams College. His research focuses on contemporary Spanish literature and comics, with special interest in such themes as memory, precarity, queer studies, and social movements. He has analyzed these themes in context with major cultural events such as the 2008 economic crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, among others.
Maj. Isaac Veysey-White, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Maj. Isaac Veysey-White, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Publications
- “Shifting Hegemonies and Neoliberal Dystopias in La polilla en la casa del humo and El último sueño by Guillém López”. Hispania, 108, Issue 1, 2025, pp. 81-95.
- “Review of María Porras Sánchez and Gerardo Vilches, ed., Precarious Youth in Contemporary Graphic Narratives: Young Lives in Crisis”. European Comic Art, 17, Issue 2, 2024, pp. 146-8
- “Dystopian Necropolitics in Arnau Sanz Martínez’s Un fantasma and the Admonitory Role of Contagion Narratives in the COVID-19 Era,” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Vol. 13, Issue 3, 2023, pp. 351-63 DOI: 1080/21504857.2022.2120512 (Published online first September 12, 2022)
- “Liberatory Queer Performance and the Coloniality of Gender in Melibea Obono’s La Bastarda.” Spanish and Portuguese Review, 6, 2020, pp. 67-78