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Phi Beta Kappa speaker Dr. Padrón visited our department on February 23.
He teaches at the University of Virginia. Dr. Padrón is a specialist in the literature and culture of the early modern Hispanic world and has published extensively on questions of empire, literature, cartography, and the geopolitical imagination.