Manuel Colás is the Resident Director of the Johns Hopkins University Programs in Madrid. For more than fifteen years he has assisted Hopkins academic departments with the design, management, and expansion of study abroad programs at both undergraduate and graduate level. He sees his role as a bridge to promote cultural understanding and academic collaboration between Spain, Europe and the United States. He has taught literature, culture and Spanish language at Johns Hopkins and currently, in addition to his primary job responsibilities, he teaches Spanish Renaissance and Baroque literature courses at uc3m and Entrepreneurship courses in the Madrid Immersion Program of the Master of Science in Engineering Management (MSEM).

In 2003 he was honored with the Excellence Teaching Award from the Zanvyl Krieger School of Art and Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University for his contributions to undergraduate education in Spanish language. He holds a master’s degree in Hispanic Studies (2002) from Villanova University and a doctorate (2008) from Johns Hopkins. As an undergraduate, he studied at Universidad de Cádiz and during one semester he studied abroad in Ireland where he took courses at University College of Galway (Ireland), a study abroad experience that changed his life. He currently resides in Madrid.