Alexander Korte
271 19th Ave S
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
Alex Korte is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Department of Spanish & Portuguese (2023) and current Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Concordia College, Moorhead. His research on Premodern Iberia focuses on frontier narratives and intersecting conditions of gender and disability. His first book, Piracy, Captivity, and Human Trafficking in Medieval Iberia: Under the Predatory Flag (Amsterdam UP, 2026), explores literary representations of slavers and the enslaved in the Iberian imaginary. The project devotes special attention to stories in which enslaved bodies are "marked" by disability, punishment, and sexual violence, in order to better understand how Iberian authors grappled with the ubiquitous threat of capture and enslavement in the medieval world.
Alex teaches all levels of the Spanish language sequence, intermediate and upper-level surveys and seminars, and Spanish for the Professions. He regularly plans and moderates special panels on Ibero-Mediterranean topics of interest at the International Congress on Medieval Studies held every May at the University of Western Michigan in Kalamazoo, MI. He also works with Foreign Language Pedagogy and has published research on classroom tasks that encourage advanced oral competencies. Alex is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, having served in the Water and Sanitation Sector in Piura, Perú, from 2015-17.
Educational Background
- B.A.: English, Spanish, University of Minnesota, 2012 -
- MA: Spanish, Loyola University, 2015 -
- PhD: Hispanic Languages and Cultures, University of Minnesota, 2023
Specialties
- Medieval Iberian Culture & Thought