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Maj. Katie Ginsbach, Ph.D.

Maj. Katie Ginsbach, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Office: 533 Scott Shipp Hall

Phone: 540-464-7457

Email: ginsbachks@vmi.edu

Fields: 19th-century Peninsular literature and culture, 20th-century Peninsular literature and culture, and 21st-century Peninsular literature and culture, historical fiction, historical memory

Maj. Katie Ginsbach earned her Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She previously taught at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and St. Norbert College (De Pere, Wisconsin) before joining the faculty at VMI in 2025 as an Assistant Professor of Spanish. Maj. Ginsbach specializes in 19th, 20th, and 21st-century Peninsular literature and is a licensed educator who has taught Spanish at all levels. In addition to her teaching and research, she has led students abroad to both Costa Rica and Spain and is currently serving as the director for VMI’s summer study abroad program in Alcalá de Henares.

Her research and teaching interests include Spanish literature and culture; the historical novel and historical memory; and media, film, and television studies. In her scholarship, as well as her special topics courses, Maj. Ginsbach examines the ways in which the distant past is remembered and portrayed in contemporary Spanish society. She has presented on her teaching and research at both national and international conferences, and her current scholarly project analyzes the historical novels of Arturo Pérez-Reverte.