Francisco Fernandez de Alba
Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
Office: Meneely 213
Phone: 508-296-36-31
Fax: 508-286-82-63
Email: fdealba@wheatonma.edu
Degrees
Ph.D., Cornell University (2003)
M.A., Syracuse University (1998)
B.A., Nazareth College (1997)
Diplomado en Magisterio, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and St. Patrick College of Education, Dublin (Ireland) (1993)
Main Interests
Transatlantic Studies.
Mavericks and misfits.
Research Interests
Current theoretical issues (Transatlantic studies, post-coloniality, gender, and cultural studies). Contemporary Spain and Latin America. Film, Political theory, and Latino Studies.
Teaching Interests
I have experienced a rewarding journey that has taken me from being a primary school teacher and social worker in Madrid to teaching in Syracuse University, Cornell and Wheaton College. My time as an educator taught me the importance of a teaching methodology focused on the student development in all areas (maturity, responsibility, critical abilities). Teaching is a sharing endeavor, not just the transmission of contents but also of experiences, whether the excitement of getting to know another culture or the intellectual challenge posed by modern critical theory.
Selected Publications, Creative Work or Performances
"Money and Commodities in Virgilio Piñera's La carne de René." (Forthcoming)
"El día de la bestia: Recasting Madrid." In Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool). 85.2 (2008).
"Still Violent after all These Years: Post-Franco Spain." In Dissidences, Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism. 3 (March), 2007. (http://www.dissidences/PostFrancoSpain.html)
"Hacia un acercamiento cultural a la literatura hispánica." (Co-author) in Iberoamericana, 21 (March) 2006
"Literatura chilena de avanzada, performance y video arte: Diamela Eltit en Lumperica." En María José Porro Herrera y Blas Sánchez Dueñas (eds). En el Umbral del siglo XXI. Un lustro de literatura hispánica (2000-2005). Cordoba, España: Servicio de publicaciones de la universidad de Cordoba, 2006.
"Reading as Watching: Lumperica and the moving image." La Torre. Puerto Rico, 38 (Oct-Dec) 2005
"Memoria personal como voz subversiva." In La Jornada Literaria. Actas del VI Coloquio de Estudiantes Graduados del departamento de Español y Portugues de la Universidad de Rutgers. III, N 1. October 1998
Edited colections:
"Violencias en la España pos-franquista: antecedentes, representaciones e influencias." Co-editor with Isabel Cuñado. Dissidences, Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism. 3 (March), 2007. (http://www.dissidences/PostFrancoSpain.html)
"Transatlántica: Idas y vueltas de la literatura y la cultura hispano-americana en el siglo xx." Co-editor with Pedro Pérez del Solar. Dossier in Iberoamericana, 21(Marzo) 2006
Work in progress:
"Virgilio Piñera and the Impossible Community." Submitted (2008)
"Teorías de navegación: los métodos de los estudios transatlánticos." Submitted.
"Valle-Inclan en la Primera Guerra Mundial." Revising to resubmit.
Book: Shared Histories: Eduardo Mendicutti and the Emancipatory Testimony