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Research Areas

19C-20C Spanish and Catalan literatures and cultures; the history of emotions; cultural history; law and humanities.

Books

• Un intelectual en tiempos sombríos. Francisco Ayala, entre la razón y las emociones (1929-1949). Editorial Universidad de Granada-Fundación Francisco Ayala, 2022. 382 pages. You can find more information about the book .

• Imperial Emotions: Cultural Responses to Myths of Empire in Fin-de-Siècle Spain. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2013 (Open Access edition available). The book reconsiders debates about historical memory from the perspective of the theory of emotions. Its main claim is that the demise of the Spanish empire in 1898 spurred a number of contradictory emotional responses, ranging from mourning and melancholia to indignation, pride, and shame. It shows how intellectuals sought to reimagine a post-Empire Spain by drawing on myth and employing a predominantly emotional register, a contention that departs from current scholarly depictions of the fin-de-siècle crisis in Spain that largely leave the role of both emotions and imperial myths in that crisis unexplored. 

Edited Journal Issue

• Rereading the Hispanic Tradition of National Essayism. Special Issue of  5 (2007).

Selected Articles

• “Eugeni d’Ors’s Politics of Aesthetics: A Revision of his Authoritarianism.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 23.4 (2022): 429-447. doi: 10.1080/14636204.2022.2141997
• Overlooking Blanco White’s Abolitionist Consciousness: Menéndez Pelayo and Juan Goytisolo.” Hispanic Review 90.2 (2022): 245-268.
• “A Disconcerting Language: Valle-Inclán’s Tirano Banderas and the Hispanic Atlantic.” Imperialism and the Wider Atlantic: Essays on the Aesthetics, Literature, and Politics of Transatlantic Cultures. Ed. Francisco LaRubia-Prado and Tania Gentic. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 297-322.
• “Francisco Ayala’s Postwar Liberalism: Ideology and Experience.” Anales de la literatura española contemporánea 41.4 (2016): 219-243.
• ​“The Battle for Emotional Hegemony in Republican Spain (1931-1936).” Engaging the Emotions in Spanish Culture and History. Ed. Luisa Elena Delgado, Pura Fernández, and Jo Labanyi. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2016. 141-158.
• “Emotions and Nationalism: The Case of Joan Maragall’s Compassionate Love of Country.” Hispanic Research Journal 15.3 (2014): 191-208.
• “Ángel Ganivet’s Idearium español as Fin de siècle Imperial Melancholia.” Revista Hispánica Moderna 65.2 (2012): 181-197.
• “Notes on the Conflicting Uses of the Imperial Past: Spain in 1892.” Anales de la literatura española contemporánea 36.1 (2011): 133-162.

• “Josep Maria de Sagarra and the Ethics of Catalanism.” Catalan Review 23 (2009): 71-93.

• “Visión parcial del enemigo íntimo: la Gran Guerra como antesala de la Guerra Civil.”  5 (2009): 155-176.

• “El centenario de Francisco Ayala entre la filología y la alegoría.” Anales de la literatura española contemporánea 34.1 (2009): 109-136.
• “El ensayismo nacional en tiempos de posnacionalismo.” The ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Review of Hispanic Studies 5 (2007): 1-22.
• “El problema de España en el exilio: Indagación de una polémica en las páginas de Realidad (1947-1949).” Escritores, editoriales y revistas del exilio republicano de 1939. Ed. Manuel Aznar Soler. Sevilla: Renacimiento, 2006. 931-938.
• “América o la disolución de la autenticidad: intelectuales y exilio.” Crítica & ficção, ainda. Ed. Raúl Antelo. Florianópolis: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, 2006. 133-58.