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José Badenes

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José I. Badenes, S.J., Ph.D. serves as Vice Provost for Academic Integration and Engagement and Senior International Officer at Loyola Marymount University. To strengthen support for our academic, global, and access-oriented programs, José Badenas S.J., Ph.D., ensures coherence and mission alignment across the university while overseeing select academic portfolios and serving as a key international liaison. 

Father Badenes has been a professor in LMU's Department of Modern Languages and Literatures (teaching Spanish) since 1996. He earned his Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Santa Barbara and has Masters degrees in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in Divinity and Theology from the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara. He has served as simultaneous translator at various national and international gatherings.

Vice Provost Badenes' area of research and scholarship is 19th-21st century peninsular Spanish literature, particularly the work of early 20th-century author Federico García Lorca. He has widely presented and published in his areas of research and expertise, including a monograph, Performing the Dandy: Manuel Machado and the Anxiety of Masculinity.