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 (FilologÃa Hispánica, 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 apocalÃptico en la literatura española moderna: Galdós, 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 sinrazón.â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Bulletin of Spanish Studies (2019). Forthcoming. Already available .
- “La nueva Ifigenia: feminismo, vanguardia y exilio en La sinrazón de Rosa Chacel.â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;CrÃtica Hispánica 36.1 (2014): 19-34.
- “González Prada y Miguel de Unamuno.� In “El porvenir nos debe una victoria�: La insólita modernidad de Manuel González Prada. Ed. Thomas Ward. Lima: Red para el Desarrollo de las Ciencias Sociales en el Perú, 2010. 261-271.
- “Rosa Chacel y la (auto)biografÃa: Reflexiones en torno a Timoteo Pérez Rubio y sus retratos del jardÃn.â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Letras Peninsulares 20.2-3 (2007-2008): 401-423.
- “Baroja y el anarquismo: polÃtica y estética de oposición.â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 30.2 (Winter 2006): 311-330.
- “Torrente Ballester and the Specter of Fascism: Fragmentos de Apocalipsis.� Translated by Ramón 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 confesión en La sinrazón de Rosa Chacel.â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Revista Hispánica Moderna 54.2 (December 2001): 348-363.
- “La manipulación de la naturaleza en Fortunata y Jacinta.â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;±á¾±²õ±è²¹²Ôó´Ú¾±±ô²¹ 133 (Sept. 2001): 17-30.
- “Torrente Ballester y el espectro del fascismo: el conflicto de Javier Mariño.� vol. 2. Actas del XIII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas: Madrid, 6-11 de julio de 1998. Eds. Florencio Sevilla and Carlos Alvar. Madrid : Castalia/Fundación Duques de Soria, 2000. 631-636.
Reviews
- Inmaculada Plaza-Agudo, Modelos de identidad en la encrucijada. Imágenes femeninas en la poesÃa de las escritoras españolas (1900-1936). Málaga: Universidad de Málaga, 2015. Feministas Unidas, Inc. Newsletter 37.2 (Fall 2017): 18-20.
- Carmen Rivero Iglesias (Ed.) El realismo en Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. Poder, religión 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. José MarÃa Guelbenzu, Lourdes Ortiz, and Ana MarÃa Moix. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2013. CrÃtica Hispánica 35 (2013): 212-215.
- Gemma Mañá, Rafael GarcÃa, Luis Monferrer y Luisa A. Esteve. La voz de los náufragos. 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.
- RodrÃguez Fontela, MarÃa de los Ã�ngeles. La novela de autoformación: Una aproximación teórica e histórica al “Bildungsromanâ€� desde la narrativa española. 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 sinrazón de Rosa Chacel y la heterodoxia religiosa.� Presented at the XX Congreso Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (AIH), held in Jerusalem, on July 11, 2019.
- “La sinrazón de Rosa Chacel y la heterodoxia religiosa de la Segunda República.� Presented at the 38th Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, held at the University of Cincinnati, on April 7, 2018.
- “La sinrazón (1960) de Rosa Chacel y la aniquilación de la Segunda República.� 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 República española: En torno al contexto histórico de La sinrazón 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 Estación. Ida y vuelta y La sinrazón 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 máscara de la masculinidad y su subversión en Estación. Ida y vuelta y La sinrazón 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 sinrazón 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 OrestÃada: La sinrazón de Rosa Chacel y la lucha de los sexos en el contexto de la vanguardia.â€� 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 hispánico de género 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. Ramón 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 Jácome.
- 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
- Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas
- Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas
- Northeast Modern Language Association
- Asociación Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica
- Modern Language Association