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穩a Hisp獺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穩ptico en la literatura espa簽ola moderna: Gald籀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籀n.&紳莉莽梯;Bulletin of Spanish Studies (2019). Forthcoming. Already available .
- La nueva Ifigenia: feminismo, vanguardia y exilio en La sinraz籀n de Rosa Chacel.&紳莉莽梯;Cr穩tica Hisp獺nica 36.1 (2014): 19-34.
- Gonz獺lez Prada y Miguel de Unamuno. In El porvenir nos debe una victoria: La ins籀lita modernidad de Manuel Gonz獺lez Prada. Ed. Thomas Ward. Lima: Red para el Desarrollo de las Ciencias Sociales en el Per繳, 2010. 261-271.
- Rosa Chacel y la (auto)biograf穩a: Reflexiones en torno a Timoteo P矇rez Rubio y sus retratos del jard穩n.&紳莉莽梯;Letras Peninsulares 20.2-3 (2007-2008): 401-423.
- Baroja y el anarquismo: pol穩tica y est矇tica de oposici籀n.&紳莉莽梯;Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hisp獺nicos 30.2 (Winter 2006): 311-330.
- Torrente Ballester and the Specter of Fascism: Fragmentos de Apocalipsis. Translated by Ram籀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籀n en La sinraz籀n de Rosa Chacel.&紳莉莽梯;Revista Hisp獺nica Moderna 54.2 (December 2001): 348-363.
- La manipulaci籀n de la naturaleza en Fortunata y Jacinta.&紳莉莽梯;晨勳莽梯硃紳籀款勳梭硃 133 (Sept. 2001): 17-30.
- Torrente Ballester y el espectro del fascismo: el conflicto de Javier Mari簽o. vol. 2. Actas del XIII Congreso de la Asociaci籀n Internacional de Hispanistas: Madrid, 6-11 de julio de 1998. Eds. Florencio Sevilla and Carlos Alvar. Madrid : Castalia/Fundaci籀n Duques de Soria, 2000. 631-636.
Reviews
- Inmaculada Plaza-Agudo, Modelos de identidad en la encrucijada. Im獺genes femeninas en la poes穩a de las escritoras espa簽olas (1900-1936). M獺laga: Universidad de M獺laga, 2015. Feministas Unidas, Inc. Newsletter 37.2 (Fall 2017): 18-20.
- Carmen Rivero Iglesias (Ed.) El realismo en Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. Poder, religi籀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矇 Mar穩a Guelbenzu, Lourdes Ortiz, and Ana Mar穩a Moix. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2013. Cr穩tica Hisp獺nica 35 (2013): 212-215.
- Gemma Ma簽獺, Rafael Garc穩a, Luis Monferrer y Luisa A. Esteve. La voz de los n獺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穩guez Fontela, Mar穩a de los ngeles. La novela de autoformaci籀n: Una aproximaci籀n te籀rica e hist籀rica al Bildungsroman desde la narrativa espa簽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籀n de Rosa Chacel y la heterodoxia religiosa. Presented at the XX Congreso Asociaci籀n Internacional de Hispanistas (AIH), held in Jerusalem, on July 11, 2019.
- La sinraz籀n de Rosa Chacel y la heterodoxia religiosa de la Segunda Rep繳blica. Presented at the 38th Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, held at the University of Cincinnati, on April 7, 2018.
- La sinraz籀n (1960) de Rosa Chacel y la aniquilaci籀n de la Segunda Rep繳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繳blica espa簽ola: En torno al contexto hist籀rico de La sinraz籀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籀n. Ida y vuelta y La sinraz籀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獺scara de la masculinidad y su subversi籀n en Estaci籀n. Ida y vuelta y La sinraz籀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籀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穩ada: La sinraz籀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獺nico de g矇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籀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獺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籀n Canadiense de Hispanistas
- Asociaci籀n Internacional de Hispanistas
- Northeast Modern Language Association
- Asociaci籀n Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hisp獺nica
- Modern Language Association