Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education and Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures - Spanish | Provost´s Office
Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES, University Hall, 4824
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Ph.D., Hispanic Languages and Literatures
1996
Th.M., Theology and the Visual Arts
1993
M.Div., Theology
1992
M.A., Romance Languages and Literatures
1986
B.S., Biology
1980
A study of theoretical terminology and concepts essential for structural and conceptual analysis of literary works written in Spanish through oral and written exercises. Students are also introduced to literary periods and genres from Spanish and Spanish American authors. Prerequisite: SPAN 2804 (former SPAN 321). University Core fulfilled: Flag: Oral Skills; Flag: Writing.
Interdisciplinary analysis of representative Peninsular Spanish literatry textsfrom the Middle Ages to the present in their historical and cultural contexts. Prerequisite: SPAN 3510 (former SPAN 322) or consent of instructor. University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections; Flag: Oral Skills; Flag: Writing.
Interdisciplinary analysis of representative literary works and authors of the Spanish 19th century in their historical and cultural contexts through a particular theme and from different perspectives. Prerequisite: SPAN 3510 or consent of instructor
Interdisciplinary analysis of representative literary works and authors from the Spanish 20th-21st centuries in their historical and cultural contexts through a particular theme and from different perspectives. Prerequisite: SPAN 3510 or consent of instructor. University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections; Flag: Information Literacy; Flag: Writing.
The course is an in-depth interdisciplinary study of the works and person of Spanish author Federico García Lorca in its socio-historical, artistic, and cultural contexts. Prerequisite: SPAN 3510 or consent of instructor.
Topics in Peninsular Spanish literature and culture. May be repeated for degree credit when content varies. Prerequisite: SPAN 3510 or consent of instructor
Christianity and Literature
“Until Death Do Us Part: Matrimony, Casti Connubii, and the Catholic Church in Federico García Lorca´s Yerma”.
Christianity and Literature 65.1 (December 2015): 51-67.
Cincinnati Romance Review
Absence and Presence: Performing (In) Visible Masculinities in Federico García Lorca's La casa de Bernarda Alba and Ernesto Caballero's Pepe el Romano". Cincinnati Romance Review 39 (Fall 2015): 227-238.
Old Stories, New Readings: The Transforming Power of American Drama
“Triangular Transgressions: Tennessee Williams’s The Purifications’s Debt to Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding.” Old Stories, New Readings: The Transforming Power of American Drama. Eds. Miriam López-Rodriguez, Inmaculada Pineda-Hernández, and Alfonso Ceballos Muñoz. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2015. 101-114.
Romance Notes
“Staging the Senex: Aging Masculinities in the Theater of Miguel de Cervantes and Federico García Lorca." Romance Notes 54.3 (2014): 335-46.
Chasqui: revista de Literatura Latinoamericana
"Modernismos, masculinidades y nacionalismos: Rubén Darío y Federico García Lorca ante Walt Whitman". Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana 43.1 (May 2014): 92-102.
Text and Presentation
“All About Mothers: Sacred Violence in Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba and Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly, Last Summer.” Text and Presentation 2012: 125-135.
Hispania
“This is my Body which will be given up for you: Federico García Lorca´s Amor de Don Perlimplin and the auto sacramental tradition.” Hispania 92.4 (December 2009): 688-695.
Tennessee Williams Annual Review
“The Dramatization of Desire: Tennessee Williams and Federico García Lorca”. Tennessee Williams Annual Review 10 (2009): 81-90.
Text and Presentation
“Martyred Masculinities: Saint Sebastian and the Dramas of Tennessee Williams and Federico García Lorca.” Text and Presentation 2008. 5-17.