Tony Grubbs
Translation Center Director
grubbsa@msu.edu
In addition to his role as Director of the MSU Translation Center, Anthony Grubbs is the Department Chairperson and an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies (RCS) at Michigan State University.
Grubbs authored The Playwright’s Perspective: Innovative Dramaturgy and Its Poetics in Early Modern Spain (ISBN 1-93194-895-1); reviewed in Comedia Performance 9 (2012): 315-17. His research on early modern theater and culture has also been published in such journals as the Bulletin of the Comediantes, Hispanófila, Calíope, Comedia Performance, and Catalan Review, to name a few.
Grubbs is currently working on a monograph-length study of the dramatic representations and visual culture associated with Saint Christopher in early and early modern Iberia. His critical edition of Vida y muerte de San Cristóbal (ISBN 0866986294) by Juan de Benavides was published in 2020; his edition of Juan de la Cueva’s El infamador ISBN 1589770587) came out in 2008.
Additionally, Grubbs is a member of the Translation Lab, a cross-disciplinary group of scholars and translators that focus on translating and adapting early modern Spanish theater for the contemporary stage. He serves of the Board of Directors of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater. Grubbs spends his free time cooking, skiing, and traveling with his family and friends.
Degree: PhD Hispanic Literature, Indiana University, 2005
Research Interests: Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture; Hagiography; Performance Theory; Theater History
Charles Moulding
Translation Center Assistant Director
mouldin1@msu.edu
Charles Moulding is an Instructor in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies (RCS). Additionally, Moulding is a former graduate student at Michigan State University who, while originally from Utah, learned Spanish while living in Mexico for over two years. His passions for study and investigation include immigration literature and film, foodways, globalism, and transnational identity. Moulding is also the community engagement coordinator for RCS.
Degrees: Masters of Arts in Hispanic Literature from Michigan State University; Bachelor’s degrees in Spanish and Geography from Weber State University