{"id":24552,"date":"2023-01-12T17:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T22:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/?post_type=profile&p=24552"},"modified":"2026-06-22T15:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:28:30","slug":"nicolas-fernandez-medina","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/profile\/nicolas-fernandez-medina\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicol\u00e1s Fern\u00e1ndez-Medina"},"content":{"rendered":"

Research and Teaching<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Professor Fern\u00e1ndez-Medina holds PhDs in Spanish Literature and Humanities from Stanford University (2007). Before joining the faculty at Boston University, he taught at Pennsylvania State University where he was Professor of Spanish and Philosophy. His 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\u00a0fin de siglo<\/em>, decadence, women\u2019s literature, Modernist Studies, and the Avant-garde (la vanguardia<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Professor Fern\u00e1ndez-Medina\u2019s books include Life Embodied: The Promise of Vital Force in Spanish Modernity<\/em>\u00a0(MQUP, 2018),\u00a0Modernism and the Avant-garde Body in Spain and Italy<\/em>\u00a0(co-edited, Routledge 2016), and\u00a0The Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado\u2019s \u2018Proverbios y cantares\u2019<\/em>\u00a0(Wales UP, 2011). His translation Morbidities and \u201cThe Concept of the New Literature\u201d by Ram\u00f3n G\u00f3mez de la Serna<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span>appeared with Clemson UP in 2024. <\/span>He has a book in preparation titled\u00a0Raising the Dead: Resuscitation and the Reanimated Body in Spanish Science and Literature<\/em>, which takes a Medical Humanities approach to explore how questions associated with resuscitation resonated in Spanish culture, particularly from the perspective of modernity\u2019s unending fascination with the life\/death divide. His articles and translations have appeared in PMLA<\/em>,\u00a0Revista Hisp\u00e1nica Moderna,\u00a0Hispanic Review, Revista de Estudios Hisp\u00e1nicos,\u00a0Bulletin of Spanish Studies,\u00a0Bulletin of Hispanic Studies,\u00a0Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hisp\u00e1nicos,\u00a0Anales de la literatura espa\u00f1ola contempor\u00e1nea,\u00a0Romance Notes, Cincinnati Romance Review,\u00a0Latin American Literary Review,\u00a0Luso-Brazilian Review,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Insula,<\/em>\u00a0among others.<\/p>\n

Professor Fern\u00e1ndez-Medina is the recipient of the Fran\u00e7ois Chevalier Fellowship from the Madrid Institute of Advanced Studies, the Edward and Dorothy Clarke\u00a0Kempf Memorial Fund, Institute of Arts and Humanities Resident Scholar Grant, Richard Rorty Fellowship from the Benjamin Franklin Institute at the Universidad de Alcal\u00e1 de Henares, as well the Team-Teaching Grant and Challenge Grant from the Institute of Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.\u00a0He was awarded Stanford University\u2019s distinguished Centennial Teaching Award. He also serves on the PMLA Advisory Committee, the Diversity and Inclusion Committee (AAHM), as well as on the editorial boards of various journals. Currently, he is the Series Editor of the Iberian and Latin American Cultures monographic series with McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press. For more information on publishing with MQUP\u2019s ILAC series click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As the founding director of the Iberian Modernist Studies Forum<\/a> housed in the Department of Romance Studies, Professor Fern\u00e1ndez-Medina also organizes lectures, presentations, colloquia, and events dedicated to the study and research of Iberian modernisms.<\/p>\n

For personal website and CV, click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Selected Publications<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Fern\u00e1ndez-Medina, Nicol\u00e1s. Morbidities and “The Concept of The New Literature” by Ram\u00f3n G\u00f3mez de la Serna<\/a>.<\/em> Clemson UP, 2024.<\/p>\n

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Fern\u00e1ndez-Medina, Nicol\u00e1s. Life Embodied: The Promise of Vital Force in Spanish Modernity<\/em><\/a>. McGill-Queen\u2019s UP, 2018.<\/p>\n

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\"CoverFern\u00e1ndez-Medina, Nicol\u00e1s; Truglio, M., eds. Modernism and the Avant-garde Body in Spain and Italy<\/em><\/a>. Routledge, 2016.<\/p>\n

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\"BookFern\u00e1ndez-Medina, Nicol\u00e1s. The Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado\u2019s \u2018Proverbios y cantares<\/em><\/a>\u2019<\/em>. Wales UP, 2011<\/p>\n

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