Teaching and Learning with AI Conference

Dr. Constantin C. Icleanu is a Senior Lecturer of Spanish and the Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Southern Methodist University. He joined the Department of World Languages and Literatures in the Fall of 2017. Dr. Icleanu holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Kentucky, where his dissertation titled “A Case for Empathy: Immigration in Spanish Contemporary Media, Music, Film, and Novels” focused on the representations of immigrants in Spanish media from various regions including North Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe.
His academic interests lie in 20th to 21st-century peninsular literature and cinema, as well as Latin American literature and cinema, with a particular emphasis on migration and transnational studies. Prior to his work at SMU, Dr. Icleanu taught Spanish at Brigham Young University, the University of Kentucky, and Wilmington College.
In 2022 Dr. Icleanu co-authored with Dr. Ana Rueda the revised edition of the novel El Diablo de Yudis with StockCero Press. This edition of Daoudi’s novel reestablishes and revitalizes El diablo de Yudis’ role and prestige as the first modern novel to explore the magrebi immigration to Spain as written by a Moroccan. This edition corrects many orthographic and grammatical errors, gives substantial academic background to the novel and the author, and offers two in-depth analyses of first, the relationship between the absurd, immigration, and the novel, and second, it explores the identity and role of the Devil in the book.
Currently, Dr. Icleanu teaches Spanish language, literature, culture and, film courses at SMU and is the current 2023 recipient of the Provost Teaching Award, one of the highest honors bestowed on teaching faculty at SMU.