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: Womens 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 CuestaHispanic 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