Bruce R. Burningham (PhD, Yale University) is Professor of Spanish Studies, Theater Studies, and Film Studies at Illinois State University.
He specializes in medieval and early modern Spanish and Latin American literature, Iberian and Latin American theater and film, and performance theory.
His most recent book is an edited volume titled Millennial Cervantes: New Currents in Cervantes Studies (University of Nebraska Press, 2020).
He is also the author of Tilting Cervantes: Baroque Reflections on Postmodern Culture (Vanderbilt UP, 2008) and Radical Theatricality: Jongleuresque Performance on the Early Spanish Stage (Purdue UP, 2007).
He was named the Fall 2025 College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Lecturer, and he is a former recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Researcher in the Humanities.
He served as Editor of Cervantes: Journal of the Cervantes Society of America from 2010 through 2025, as well as President of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT) from 2019 though 2024.
He is also a recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities grant.