Carey Kasten

B.A., Skidmore College
Ph.D., Columbia University

Migration, Spanish-speaking communities in New York City, Community-Engaged Learning, Contemporary Spanish Cultural Studies.

Carey Kasten is an associate professor of Spanish language and literature at Fordham University. She researches contemporary Spanish culture and Spanish-speaking communities in New York City. She is the author of Mutuality in El Barrio: Stories of the Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service (Fordham, 2024) and The Cultural Politics of Twentieth- Century Spanish Theater: Representing the Auto Sacramental (Bucknell, 2012). She also edited a special issue of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies on "The Baroque in the Construction of a National Culture in Francoist Spain." Dr. Kasten co-founded Fordham's "Initiative on Migrants, Migration and Human Dignity" and works to bring students and faculty to the Arizona- Mexico border to learn about the complex realities of migration. In 2021, she curated “Hostile Terrain 94,” an art installation that depicts the loss of migrant life in the Sonoran desert, at Fordham University’s Lipani Gallery.