Associate Professor of Spanish
Email: agp@loyola.edu
Phone: 410-617-2775
Office: Maryland Hall 351D
Education
- University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D (Spanish)
- University of Wisconsin, Madison, M.A. (Spanish)
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Licenciatura (Filolog鱈a Hisp叩nica, especialidad: Literatura)
Courses Taught
- SN 104 Intermediate Spanish II
- SN 201 Spanish Conversation and Composition
- SN 203 Introduction to Literature
- SN 307 Contemporary Spanish Civilization and Culture
- SN 335 Spanish Literature from 1975 to the present
- SN 336 Rewriting the Self: Women���s Literature in Contemporary Spain
- SN 355 Spanish Postwar Literature
- SN 372 Spanish Realism and Naturalism
- SN 363 Contemporary Span Lit: Generations of 1914 and 1927
- SN 364 Spanish literature of exile (1939-1975)
Publications
Books
- Las trampas de la memoria. Pensamiento apocal鱈ptico en la literatura espa単ola moderna: Gald坦s, Baroja, Chacel y Torrente Ballester. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta���Hispanic Monographs, 2005.
Articles
- ���Las confesiones de Rosa Chacel: Memorias de Leticia Valle y La sinraz坦n.���&稼恢壊沿;Bulletin of Spanish Studies (2019). Forthcoming. Already available .
- ���La nueva Ifigenia: feminismo, vanguardia y exilio en La sinraz坦n de Rosa Chacel.���&稼恢壊沿;Cr鱈tica Hisp叩nica 36.1 (2014): 19-34.
- ���Gonz叩lez Prada y Miguel de Unamuno.��� In ���El porvenir nos debe una victoria���: La ins坦lita modernidad de Manuel Gonz叩lez Prada. Ed. Thomas Ward. Lima: Red para el Desarrollo de las Ciencias Sociales en el Per炭, 2010. 261-271.
- ���Rosa Chacel y la (auto)biograf鱈a: Reflexiones en torno a Timoteo P辿rez Rubio y sus retratos del jard鱈n.���&稼恢壊沿;Letras Peninsulares 20.2-3 (2007-2008): 401-423.
- ���Baroja y el anarquismo: pol鱈tica y est辿tica de oposici坦n.���&稼恢壊沿;Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hisp叩nicos 30.2 (Winter 2006): 311-330.
- ���Torrente Ballester and the Specter of Fascism: Fragmentos de Apocalipsis.��� Translated by Ram坦n Espejo-Saavedra. In Traces of Contamination. Unearthing the Francoist Legacy in Contemporary Spanish Discourse. Eds. Eloy E. Merino and H. Rosi Song. Lewisburg: Bucknell U P, 2005. 99-123.
- ���La confesi坦n en La sinraz坦n de Rosa Chacel.���&稼恢壊沿;Revista Hisp叩nica Moderna 54.2 (December 2001): 348-363.
- ���La manipulaci坦n de la naturaleza en Fortunata y Jacinta.���&稼恢壊沿;堰庄壊沿温稼坦韓庄鉛温 133 (Sept. 2001): 17-30.
- ���Torrente Ballester y el espectro del fascismo: el conflicto de Javier Mari単o.��� vol. 2. Actas del XIII Congreso de la Asociaci坦n Internacional de Hispanistas: Madrid, 6-11 de julio de 1998. Eds. Florencio Sevilla and Carlos Alvar. Madrid : Castalia/Fundaci坦n Duques de Soria, 2000. 631-636.
Reviews
- Inmaculada Plaza-Agudo, Modelos de identidad en la encrucijada. Im叩genes femeninas en la poes鱈a de las escritoras espa単olas (1900-1936). M叩laga: Universidad de M叩laga, 2015. Feministas Unidas, Inc. Newsletter 37.2 (Fall 2017): 18-20.
- Carmen Rivero Iglesias (Ed.) El realismo en Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. Poder, religi坦n y mito. Madrid: Iberoamericana/Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 2013. Bulletin of Spanish Studies 92.6 (July 2015): 1034-1035.
- William M. Sherzer. The Spanish Literary Generation of 1968. Jos辿 Mar鱈a Guelbenzu, Lourdes Ortiz, and Ana Mar鱈a Moix. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2013. Cr鱈tica Hisp叩nica 35 (2013): 212-215.
- Gemma Ma単叩, Rafael Garc鱈a, Luis Monferrer y Luisa A. Esteve. La voz de los n叩ufragos. La narrativa republicana entre 1936 y 1939. Madrid: Ediciones de la Torre, 1997. Hispanic Review 68 (2000): 334-336.
- Urioste Azcorra, Carmen de. Narrativa andaluza (1900-1936). Erotismo, feminismo y regionalismo. Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla, 1997. Hispanic Review 68 (2000): 332-334.
- Juan Benet: A Critical Reappraisal of His Fiction. Ed. John B. Margenot III. West Conrwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1997. Hispanic Review 67 (1999): 390-391.
- Rodr鱈guez Fontela, Mar鱈a de los ��ngeles. La novela de autoformaci坦n: Una aproximaci坦n te坦rica e hist坦rica al ���Bildungsroman��� desde la narrativa espa単ola. Kassel: Universidad de Oviedo/Edition Reichenberger, 1996. Hispanic Review 67 (1999): 294-296.
Areas of Specialization
- 20th Century Spanish Literature
- Spanish Realism and Naturalism
- Women writers
Presentations
- ���La sinraz坦n de Rosa Chacel y la heterodoxia religiosa.��� Presented at the XX Congreso Asociaci坦n Internacional de Hispanistas (AIH), held in Jerusalem, on July 11, 2019.
- ���La sinraz坦n de Rosa Chacel y la heterodoxia religiosa de la Segunda Rep炭blica.��� Presented at the 38th Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, held at the University of Cincinnati, on April 7, 2018.
- ���La sinraz坦n (1960) de Rosa Chacel y la aniquilaci坦n de la Segunda Rep炭blica.��� Presented at the 48th Annual NeMLA (North East Modern Languages Association) Convention, held in Baltimore, on March 24, 2017.
- ���El espectro del proyecto intelectual de la Segunda Rep炭blica espa単ola: En torno al contexto hist坦rico de La sinraz坦n de Rosa Chacel.��� Presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS), held at San Diego, on March 19, 2016.
- ���Feminismo y vanguardia en Estaci坦n. Ida y vuelta y La sinraz坦n de Rosa Chacel.��� Presented at the MACHL (Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature) 2014, held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on October 10, 2014.
- ���La m叩scara de la masculinidad y su subversi坦n en Estaci坦n. Ida y vuelta y La sinraz坦n de Rosa Chacel.��� Presented at the 70th Annual South Central MLA (Modern Language Association) Conference, held in New Orleans, on October 3, 2013.
- ���La nueva Ifigenia: vanguardia y exilio en La sinraz坦n de Rosa Chacel.��� Presented at the MACHL (Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature) 2012: Exiles, Migrations, & Movements, held at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, on October 13, 2012.
- ���Una nueva Orest鱈ada: La sinraz坦n de Rosa Chacel y la lucha de los sexos en el contexto de la vanguardia.��� Myth and Subversion in the Contemporary Novel. International Conference, held at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid, on March 9, 2011.
- ���Rosa Chacel y la Revista de Occidente. En torno al discurso hisp叩nico de g辿nero del primer tercio del siglo veinte.��� Presented at the Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature held at Washington University in St. Louis, on October 29, 2010.
Service Activities, Memberships in Academic Societies
Service: College Activities (Representative assignments)
- Coordinator of SN 102 (Fall 2006, Spring 2007-Fall 2007)
- Coordinator of Spanish language courses SN 101, SN 102, SN 161, SN 103 (Fall 2009; 2010-2011); SN 104 (Spring 2011)
- Sigma Delta Pi Adviser (2000-2006, 2009, 2011)
- 20th Annual Colloquium on Language, Literature and Society: ���The Distorted Mirror. Manipulating Legend and Myth to shape National and Political Identities,��� on April 26, 2006. Co-organizer with Prof. Ursula Beitter, Prof. Ram坦n Espejo-Saavedra, and Prof. April Wuensch.
- 2010 Hanna Geldrich-Leffman Colloquium on Language, Literature and Society: ���Music and the Art of Subversion: the Meaning Behind the Melody,��� on April 13, 2010. Co-organizer with Prof. Ursula Beitter, and Prof. Margarita J叩come.
- Board on Discipline (Fall 2006-20)
- Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies Committee (Fall 2005-)
- Career Center Advisory Committee (Fall 2006-Spring 2008)
- Faculty Evaluation Committee (Spring 2007-Spring 2009)
- Honors Executive Board (Summer 2008-)
- Academic Standards Committee (Fall 2008-)
- Research and Sabbatical (Fall 2008-Spring 2011)
Memberships in Academic Societies
- Asociaci坦n Canadiense de Hispanistas
- Asociaci坦n Internacional de Hispanistas
- Northeast Modern Language Association
- Asociaci坦n Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hisp叩nica
- Modern Language Association