Our Spanish faculty members stand at the forefront of the discipline, numbering among them an Académico Correspondiente of the Real Academia Española, two “officers” of the Orden de Isabel la Católica, and a recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. As a department, we maintain a commitment to excellence in both scholarship and teaching. Our course offerings and our faculty’s publications speak to the strength and breadth of expertise that we offer.
Our Professorial Faculty in Spanish
Alicia Borinsky
Research Interests Transnational cultural studies, contemporary gender & literary theory, legacy of the Latin American avant-garde, and the theory & practice of translation.
Selected Publications Lost Cities Go to Paradise/Las ciudades perdidas van al paraíso; One-Way Tickets: Writers & the Culture of Exile; La mujer de mi marido
Nicolás Fernández Medina
Research Interests Prof. Fernández Medina’s research and teaching interests focus on Spanish and Iberian literature and culture between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Enlightenment thought, Romanticism, interdisciplinary nineteenth-century studies, the history of medicine, the fin de siglo, decadence, women’s literature, Modernist Studies, and the Avant-garde (la vanguardia).
Selected Publications Life Embodied: The Promise of Vital Force in Spanish Modernity; Modernism and the Avant-garde Body in Spain and Italy; The Poetics of Othernes in Antonio Machado’s ‘Proverbios y cantares’
Christopher Maurer
Research Interests Professor Maurer teaches and writes about Spanish poetry with special emphasis on poetry’s relations with music and painting, translation, and textual criticism.
Selected Publications “Streets & Dreams”/”Back Tomorrow: Lorca, Poet in New York” (Digital Humanities Project/Exhibition); Federico Garcia Lorca en Nueva York y La Habana: Cartas y recuerdos; Fortune’s Favorite Child: The Uneasy Life of Walter Anderson
Catalina Rodriguez
Research Interests Professor Rodríguez’s research and teaching interests center on Latin American literature and culture from the nineteenth century onward, with a focus on gender and sexuality studies, women’s literature, theories of authorship, ecofeminism, and queer literature.
Selected Publications: “¿Cómo escribe una mujer? Adelaida Ral en José Martí” / “Los hogares de Laura Méndez: Comunidad transpacífica y ciudadanía”/ Proscrita en esta tierra
Anita Savo
Research Interests Medieval Iberian literatures and cultures, with an emphasis on cross-cultural exchange among Christians, Jews and Muslims. Her research interests include medieval theories of authorship, translation and pseudotranslation, Mediterranean Studies, the history of the book, and medievalism in the nineteenth century.
Selected Publications Portraying Authorship: Juan Manuel and the Rhetoric of Authority
