Dr. Mack is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Southern Utah University where he teaches courses on Iberian literature and Latin American literature and humanities. He has a PhD in Iberian and Latin American Cultures from Stanford University (2012), and an MA (2007) and BA (2005) in Spanish from Brigham Young University He began his career with a BA in Spanish from Brigham Young University (Magna Cum Laude 2005) and immediately followed with an MA in Spanish Peninsular Literature (2007), also from BYU. The title of his Master's thesis is The Postmodern Spanish Hero’s Journey: Compassion and Postmodernism in Contemporary Spain. His dissertation, entitled Open Wounds: Literature, Memory, and Space in Four Rural Iberian Communities, focuses on the the intersection of memory, literature, and place through a study of the reception of several contemporary novels of memory in the communities they describe. In his free time he enjoys spending time with his three children and his wife, Betty. He is also an avid runner.