Cassidy Reis Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison) is a Lecturer and Assistant to the Basic Language Program in the UA Department of Spanish Portuguese. Her research interests include early modern Spanish literature and visual art, the visual rhetoric of Spanish picaresque fiction, ekphrasis in early modern literature, the representation of poverty and marginalized groups in Spanish art and literature, and teaching Spanish as a second language. She received her M.Ed. in Curriculum Instruction from UNLV as a Teach For America Corps Member in Las Vegas, Nevada from 2007-2009. Her teaching experience includes beginning, intermediate, and advanced Spanish language and literature courses at the university level. Her dissertation is titled, Themes of Visuality, Visual Language, and Ekphrasis in the Early Modern Spanish Picaresque Novel 2021) and other publications include Painted Dreams and Cervantes’s Critique of Representation in the Persiles" eHumanista Cervantes 5 (2017)She is currently teaching Spanish 350: Introduction to Spanish Literary Genres with the Arizona Online Bachelor of Arts in Spanish program.