Victoria Driggs

Education

M.A., Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures (Hispanic Studies), Virginia Tech, 2021

B.A., Foreign Languages (Spanish, Double Degree), Virginia Tech, summa cum laude, Honors Scholar, 2019

B.A., Music (Education), Minor in Psychology, Virginia Tech, summa cum laude, Honors Scholar, 2019

About Victoria

Victoria (Torey) Driggs is a Spanish Ph.D. student at UNC Chapel Hill. She is originally from Arlington, Virginia but moved to Blacksburg, Virginia to pursue two B.A. degrees (Music Education and Spanish) and one M.A. degree (Hispanic Studies) at Virginia Tech. After completing her studies in Blacksburg, she moved to Oviedo, Spain for a year, where she taught English on a Fulbright scholarship, and now is at UNC Chapel Hill teaching Spanish while completing coursework and conducting research. In addition to Oviedo, she has previously completed language and cultural immersion studies in Villa Real (Costa Rica), Madrid (Spain), and Porto (Portugal), and hopes to expand her immersive experiences in Portuguese-speaking countries in the near future.

Torey’s early research merged her love for Hispanic cultures and music. Her M.A. thesis, “El mal querer: Merging Flamenco with a Postmodern Universe,” examined how Spanish artist Rosalía's usage of flamenco in her 2018 album established her within a genealogy of flamenco fusion artists, while her postmodern aural and visual fusion of many distinct artistic and cultural elements that encourage global viewers to create a “universe” of meanings also separated her from the same genealogy. While Torey is still interested in finding intersections between Hispanic Studies and Music studies in her future research, she is also interested in Contemporary Peninsular Culture and Literature, Contemporary Transatlantic Studies, Cinema Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Studies of Space, and 20th-Century Dictatorships and Countercultural Movements.