Dan Rogers is a professor in Spanish at Wabash and currently chairs the Division of Humanities & Fine Arts. Dr. Rogers was an undergraduate at the University of Colorado at Boulder earning a degree in Spanish, Magna Cum Laude. A Phi Beta Kappa initiate at CU, he has been active in the Wabash College chapter since his arrival in 1998. In 1995, Dr. Rogers was awarded the Petry Fellowship for Dissertation Research at the University of Kansas and spent a semester at the Universidad Autónoma de México investigating the relationship between the publishing industry and aesthetics in 20th-Century Mexican Literature.  Dr. Rogers was a José M. Osma Fellow at the University of Kansas and after completing an M.A. and Ph.D. in Spanish Literature, he joined the Wabash faculty in 1998.   His research in recent years has focused Mexican film and Latin American literature.

On campus, Dr. Rogers serves as faculty advisor to Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and enjoys attending music, theater and sports events on campus. In the summer, Dr. Rogers travels with Wabash students and faculty to South America as part of Wabash Summer Study in Ecuador. In addition to his interests in axolotl husbandry and Latin American culture, he is an avid amateur astronomer and often teams up with colleagues in History and Physics to teach a course on Mesoamerican Archaeoastronomy with a travel component to southern Mexico.  Dr. Rogers may often be seen riding his Italian Vespa at mostly reasonable speeds around the mall.