Professor of Modern Spanish Literature and Culture (18th-21st centuries). Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Comparative and Transatlantic Hispanic Studies. Literature and geopolitics. Aesthetics and ideology. Critical Theory. Visual culture.
Books
Enrique Gil y la genealogía de la lírica moderna (Juan de la Cuesta, 1999).
Properties of Modernity: Romantic Spain, Modern Europe and the Legacies of Empire (Vanderbilt University Press, 2006).
The Art of Witnessing: Francisco de Goya's Disasters of War (in press, University of Toronto Press, 2023).
Selected Articles
The Student of Salamanca/El estudiante de Salamanca. "Introduction." Trans. Robert M. Fedorchek, Newark, Juan de la Cuesta, 2017: 11-30.
“The Romantic Historical Novel, A Case Study: Enrique Gil y Carrasco’s El señor de Bembibre." The Oxford Companion to the Spanish Novel. J.A. Ardila, Ed. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015: 216-233.
“Sovereign Births, Empire and War in Benito Pérez Galdós’s First Series of Episodios Nacionales.” Vanderbildt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies 5 (2009) [Online] Available: http://ejournals.library.vanderbilt.edu/lusohispanic/viewarticle.php?id=65.
“War and the Work of Poetry: Issues in Teaching Spanish Poetry of the Civil War.” Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2007: 184-195.
“El exilio romántico y el sujeto de la modernidad.” España: ¿Laberinto de Exilios? Newark, Juan de la Cuesta, 2005: 73-84.
“Romantic Prose, Journalism, and Costumbrismo.” The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2004: 81-91.
“Virile Nation: Figuring History in Galdós’ Trafalgar.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies 80.2 (2002): 183-202.
“Poética y caridad, o la doble modernidad de la ‘Introducción Sinfónica’ de Bécquer.” Romanticismo 8. Los románticos teorizan sobre sí mismos. Bologna: Centro Internacional de Estudios Sobre el Romanticismo Hispánico, 2002: 153-162.
