Braden Clinger, Ph.D.
Braden Clinger is Assistant Professor of Spanish (3-year Term) at Simpson College in Indianola, IA. He holds a doctorate of Hispanic Language and Literature from Boston University’s Department of Romance Studies. After graduating from Utah State University in 2015, Braden taught English in Spain. He earned his master’s degree at Boston University in 2020 and his Ph.D. in 2024.
Braden’s interests include rurality, banditry, vernacular religion, adaptation, film, museum studies, and archival research. His dissertation, Mediations of Popular Belief in the Southern Cone: Museums, Prose, New Media, and Film on the Traditional Guarani Frontier focuses on the movement of popular belief and folk figures through different modalities of cultural production in Paraguay and the bordering states and provinces in the southern cone.