Parker Lawson

Dr. Andrew Parker Lawson (“Parker”) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Belmont University. After majoring in Spanish and International Studies and graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Centre College, he earned a Fulbright Scholarship to Madrid, Spain. The pedagogical and research questions animated by his Fulbright led to postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge, where, with the support of a Rotary Global Grant, he completed an MPhil in Modern European History, writing on the politics of language during the Franco regime. A Gates Cambridge Scholarship to support a PhD in Hispanic Studies followed, leading to a dissertation titled, “Between Tradition and Transgression: Education, Culture, and (Inter)national Pedagogies in Spain (1857–1931).”

 

Prior to joining the Belmont faculty, Dr. Lawson was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Sewanee: The University of the South and a Teaching Fellow in Hispanic Studies at Durham University. At Belmont, Dr. Lawson teaches at all levels of the Spanish language sequence as well as upper-level courses in literature, culture, and film. He also has designed interdisciplinary humanities courses and college-level writing workshops for non-native speakers of English. Passionate about study abroad, he has taught and mentored US-college students in the UK and Spain, and he has extensive experience in advising students on major international fellowships. He is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

 

Dr. Lawson is a scholar of modern and contemporary Iberian and Global Hispanophone literature, film, and cultural studies. His research has received broad international support and in 2023 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Dr. Lawson has published articles and edited collections with a special focus on education in the Global Hispanophone, empire and (post)colonialism, migration, and race and religion. He served as co-editor of the centenary special issue of the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, and his publications appear or are forthcoming in the MLN Hispanic Issue, the BHS, the Boletín de la Institución Libre de Enseñanza, and Symposium. He has also contributed chapters to edited volumes and regularly writes reviews and serves as a peer reviewer for leading scholarly journals.

 

Dr. Lawson has been inducted into various national honor societies including Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, Sigma Delta Pi, and Phi Alpha Theta. He served as a Bonner Scholar at Centre College and remains passionate about civic engagement and community-focused pedagogy.