Department of World Languages and Cultures

Kimberly Contag
1980 BA Spanish
1980 BA International Studies
Mankato, Minnesota


A professor of Spanish at Mankato State University, Kimberly Contag is the author of an award-winning book about her unusual ancestral ties to Ecuador. Where the Clouds Meet the Water tells the story of her father’s family who were blacklisted by the Ecuadoran government as an enemy alien and sent back to their native Germany. Eventually returning to Ecuador, Contag’s father came to Iowa where she was born and raised.


She is also the author of the book Mockery in Spanish Golden Age Literature and is the co-editor of Don Quixote Across the Disciplines. A recipient of two Fulbright Awards her current research on new voices in Ecuadorian literature allows her to connect with Ecuadorian writers, editors and professors of literature. She has taught at Minnesota State Mankato since 1992, and served as Modern Languages chair from 2000-2006.  Before that she taught at the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma’s study abroad in Spain program, the University of Minnesota and Carleton College.

Kimberly Contag

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