Francisco Fernandez de Alba
Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
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
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.
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
First year Seminar: Hispanics in the US.
HISP 150-200: Intermediate Spanish.
HISP 220-240: Advanced Oral and Written Communication I-II.
HISP 280: The Hispanic World: Introduction to Latin American Culture.
HISP 298: 20th Century Transatlantic Crossings.
HISP 298: Transatlantic Detective Fiction.
HISP 300: Spanish Practicum Internship: Latino Culture and literature.
HISP 306: Women and Modernity in Three Centuries of Spanish Literature.
HISP 340: The Spanish Civil War: Memory, Text, and Image.
HISP 400: Sex, Drugs, and Techno-Pop: Spanish Contemporary Literature.
HISP 400: The City as a Text.
Student Projects
José Díaz (Psichology): "Names Without Faces: A Study of the Interplay Between Self-Disclosure, Culture, and the Internet."(2008). Reader.
Robin Doss (English): "The (re) Constructing of Identity in Chicano/a Literature." (2006). Reader.
Publications
Peer reviewed articles
2011 "Burnt Poems: Virgilio Piñera and the Community of Critical Exchange." In Revista de estudios hispánicos. Forthcoming.
2010 "Teorías de navegación: los métodos de los estudios transatlánticos." In Hispanófila 159. Forthcoming.
2008 "Money and Commodities in Virgilio Piñera‚s La carne de René." In Symposium. A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures 62.2: 67-81.
2008 "El día de la bestia: Recasting Madrid." In Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool) 85.2: 33-46.
2007 "Still Violent After All These Years: Post-Franco Spain." Introduction. Dissidences, Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism 3: 1-10. (http://www.dissidences/PostFrancoSpain.html)
2006 "Hacia un acercamiento cultural a la literatura hispánica." Introduction.
(Co-author). Iberoamericana 21: 99-108.
2005 "Reading as Watching: Lumpérica and the Moving Image." In La Torre. Puerto Rico 38: 569-87.
Articles in books
2006 "Literatura chilena de avanzada, performance y video arte: Diamela Eltit en Lumpérica" in En el Umbral del siglo XXI. Un lustro de literatura hispánica (2000-2005), ed. María José Porro Herrera y Blas Sánchez Dueñas. 277-92. Córdoba, España: Servicio de publicaciones de la universidad de Córdoba.
Edited collections
2007 "Violencias en la España pos-franquista: antecedentes, representaciones e influencias." Edited with Isabel Cuñado. Monographic issue of Dissidences, Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism 3. (http://www.dissidences/PostFrancoSpain.html)
2006 "Transatlántica: Idas y vueltas de la literatura y la cultura hispano-americana en el siglo XX." Edited with Pedro Pérez del Solar. Dossier in Iberoamericana 21: 93-164.
Book review
2007 Transatlantic Translations: Dialogues in Latin American Literature by Julio Ortega. In Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 31.2: 540.
Works in progress
Shared History, Virtual Equality: Hispanic Queer Emancipatory Fiction
[Book manuscript].
"Visión imposible: Valle-Inclán en la Primera Guerra Mundial"
[Article. Revising to resubmit].
"Heroine Supreme and the Spanish Lost Generation"
[Article for book in preparation].
Other publications
1995 Cómo ir al campo y pasarlo bien. Madrid: Alhambra-Longman. [Book].