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PUBLICATIONS (books / edited compilations / articles / book chapters)
«Amor de familia. Sobre el neogongorismo de dos poetas españoles (Rafael Alberti y Miguel
Hernández) y su ‘noble bravata’». In La influencia de Harold Bloom. Estudios y testimonios.
(Antonio Lastra, editor). Valencia: La Torre del Virrey, 2012. 122-150.
A book chapter on the neo-baroque, Gongoristic, phase of these two key Spanish poets of the Spanish Civil
War, which greatly influenced their later creative work
Con la pluma caliente, el escritor. El joven autor Camilo José Cela en su contexto (19391945): la obra y su expediente cívico. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2012. 473 p.
This book attempts to demonstrate how Cela might have used his literary and intellectual credentials with
respect to his reception, social and cultural ascendancy, civic performance– in order to gain political expediency
and a political identity in Francoist / falangista society.
“Reescritura y alegorización en El cuarto de atrás, de Carmen Martín Gaite”. Cuaderno
Internacional de Estudios Humanísticos y Literatura 16 (2011): 82-93.
How rewriting and allegorization about / of historical characters and events allow the narrator to speak publicly and boldly
in the Spain of the first years after Franco’s regime
“Aspectos de la representación y el tema de España en los editoriales de varios influyentes
diarios norteamericanos (1975-2007)”. In Ventanas sobre el Atlántico: Estados UnidosEspaña durante el postfranquismo (1975-2008). Jorge Marí, ed. Valencia: Publicacions de
la Universitat de Valencia, 2011. 219-233.
A survey of the presence and treatment of contemporary Spain and Spanish issues in four major US newspapers
“La conversión religiosa y su performance en verso: los ejemplos de los poetas argentinos
Jacobo Fijman y María Raquel Adler”. Ciberletras 23 (2010): no pag. (electronic publ.)
An analysis of the ideological, rhetorical and cultural expedients these two poets from Argentina employ to publicly
announce their conversion to Catholicism
“Tropos, circunvoluciones e ironía: sobre la traducción al español de LTI. Notizbuch eines
Philologen, de Victor Klemperer”. With Katharina Barbe. Revista de Traductología 13
(2009): 197-214.
Study of the translation from German into Spanish of this work, from a cultural perspective
“Si yo fuera una hermosa princesa: la truncada esfera de posibilidades en la poesía de Juana
Borrero”. Círculo. Revista de Cultura. 38 (2009): 48-59.
Study of Juana Borrero’s poetry to ascertain influences of the Decadent movement in her work
“La resurrección en cada líneaE”: mundos posibles en cuatro poetas asturianos
contemporáneos”. In Poetas asturianos para el siglo XXI. C. X. A. Trabanco, coord. Gijón,
Asturias: Ediciones Trea. 2009. 199-211.
Application of the theory of possible worlds to an analysis of the work of four contemporary Spanish poets from Asturias
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“Reescritura, melodrama y moralización en Alceste, de B. P. Galdós (eco en las últimas
heroínas dramáticas del escritor)”. Decimonónica 4.1 (2007): 51-78
Study of Galdós’ rewriting of the Classical Greek tragedy with a melodramatic and moralizing purpose.
Comparison with the other dramatic heroines of his last plays.
Oceanografía de Xenius: ensayos críticos en torno a Eugenio d’Ors. Coeditors: Carlos X.
Ardavín and Xavier Pla. Barcelona: Reichenberger (2006). 260 p.
A collection of essays that study the legacy and contemporary significance of this Catalan writer
La obra del literato y sus alrededores: estudios críticos en torno a Camilo José Cela.
Coeditor: Carlos X. Ardavín. Iria Flavia: Universidad Camilo José Cela en colaboración con
la Fundación Camilo José Cela (2006). 310 p.
A collection of essays that study the legacy and contemporary significance of this Galician writer
“La representación de José Antonio por el joven periodista Cela: el deber y su performance”.
In La obra del literato y sus alrededores: estudios críticos en torno a Camilo José Cela.
Edited by Eloy E. Merino and Carlos X. Ardavín. Iria Flavia: Universidad Camilo José Cela
en colaboración con la Fundación Camilo José Cela, 2006. 310 p. (233-252)
Cela published several newspaper articles in 1942 and 1943 praising the work and memory of the founder of Falange, the
Spanish fascist party, José A. Primo de Rivera. Here I analyze how Cela seeks a compromise in form and contents between
the party ideology he is following and his own personal agenda, his public performance as a new literary voice.
“Eugenio d’Ors, revisitado”. In Oceanografía de Xenius: ensayos críticos en torno a Eugenio
d’Ors. Edited by Carlos X. Ardavín, Eloy E. Merino, and Xavier Pla. Barcelona:
Reichenberger, 2006. 260 p. (43-58)
I comment on the contributors’ essays and draw further interpretative conclusions on the current presence, importance and
legacy of the Catalan author for the Spanish letters.
Traces of contamination. Unearthing the Francoist Legacy in Contemporary Spanish
Discourse. Coeditor: H. Rosi Song. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press (2005). 305 p.
A collection of essays that study the pervasive influence of Francoist ideology on Spanish contemporary discourse
“González Ruano reporta sobre los nazis: la expresión del emulador apropiado”. In Vida,
pensamiento y aventura de César González Ruano Edited by Carlos X. Ardavín. Gijón:
Llibros del Pexe, 2005. 483 p. (299-317)
This Spanish author served as a newspaper correspondent in Nazi Germany during1933. I show how the style of his reports
from Berlin imitate the spirit and letter of Nazi propaganda
“Los signos del neurótico sublime en Julián del Casal”. In Julián del Casal en el nuevo
milenio. Edited by Luis A. Jiménez. Managua, Nicaragua: Ediciones de PAVSA, 2005. 192
p. (56-74).
Casal described himself once as a sublime and neurotic artist. This essay searches in his poems the echoes of this selfrepresentation, according to the views on neurosis and sublimity then valid in Europe and America (XIX century)
“www.falange.es: Hyperlinked Fascism”. In Traces of contamination. Unearthing the
Francoist Legacy in Contemporary Spanish Discourse. Edited by Eloy E. Merino and H.
Rosi Song. Bucknell University Press (2005). 305 p. (220-249)
I study the current internet presence of a renewed Falangist party in Spain
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“Explorando lo camp en Julián del Casal”. Círculo: revista de cultura 34 (2005):76-85.
Application of camp contemporary theory to a reading of the first published poems by this
Cuban poet (1863-1893), the main representative of the decadent movement in Cuba / study of the camp characteristics
of his poetry
“El caballero encantado de Galdós:una fórmula regeneracionista a partir de la disyuntiva
ciudad/campo”. Bulletin Hispanique 107.2 (2005): 463-83.
A study of how B. P. Galdós views the supposedly uncorrupted moral values of the Spanish countryside, at the beginning
of the XX century, as the medicine and inspiration to solving the serious identity crisis of the nation
“El hombre-musa en El cuarto de atrás”. Ojáncano 27 (2005): 47-66.
I analyze how the presence of the masculine muse in this novel responds to a set of cultural, political and social imperatives
of the time (1981) and how this piece of narrative becomes an allegory of the political situation in Spain in that critical year
“Los límites del compromiso cívico y político en los textos de Julián del Casal”. Chasqui
34.1 (2005): 74-89
Study of the scope and limitations of this Cuban poet involvement with the politics and issues of his time
“Lugares de José Antonio entre la memoria y la historia en el discurso de la Falange
contemporánea”. Iberoamericana 4.13 (2004):147-60
I analyze how much of the ideology of the founder of Falange (the Spanish fascist party) remains and how much has
changed in recent times, through careful readings of contemporary Falangist writings
“Los usos del almuerzo lezamiano en Fresa y chocolate”. Chasqui 33.1 (2004): 42-55
I study the ideological, social and cultural implications of the lunch scene in the novel, as well as the popular film, based
on it.
“Maricas y homosexuales en la visión de Francisco Umbral (entre el hechizo y la
repugnancia)”. In Valoración de Francisco Umbral: ensayos críticos en torno a su obra.
Edited by Carlos X. Ardavín. Gijón: Llibros del Pexe, 2003. 394 p. (319-44)
I examine both the discursive berating of and empathy for Madrid’s gay men in Francisco Umbral’s fiction.
“Epos de los destinos: Eugenio d’Ors como cronista histórico”. Utah Foreign Language
Review 12 (2003): 1-19
I study the peculiar and highly subjective and poetic approach to Spanish history of the XVI century by D’Ors.
“Galicia, tamizada y resuelta por Camilo J. Cela en su trilogía”. Letras peninsulares 15.2
(2002): 303-20
Structured to show how Cela constructs an alternative (pessimistic, self-destructive) ‘redemption’ plan for his Galician
fellow citizens in his trilogy of novels (1983 / 1994 / 1999), opposite to that of the traditional Nationalistic agenda.
“La utilidad del suplemento: las diversas Teresas de Ramón J. Sender”. Letras peninsulares
14.1 (2001): 113-36
I examine Ramón J. Sender’s second novel (1967) on St. Teresa de Ávila as a political refutation to Francoist propaganda
and as a subtle deconstruction of the glorified image the conservative Spanish tradition has created of her legacy.
El nuevo Lazarillo de Camilo J. Cela. Política y cultura en su palimpsesto. Edwin Mellen
Press (Lewiston, N.Y.), 2000. 372 p.
Political and cultural study of this text as a rewriting of a classical picaresque work from the XVI century
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“El exotismo de lo autóctono en las Leyendas de Asturias”. Chasqui 30.1 (2000): 14-28
I show how Asturias, while trying to extol before European readers the virtues of Guatemala’s historical indigenous society,
inadvertently turns its characters and deeds into an exotic showcase of mythical / mystified wonders
“El silencio falangista en varios textos del franquismo temprano”. Revista Monográfica 16
(2000): 94-112
I study the presence of the Falangist concept of silence (metaphorical / ideological / political) in six works of fiction from
the early Francois period (1939-1945)
“La alegoría de la violencia falangista en La familia de Pascual Duarte”. Ojáncano 16
(1999): 3-28
I demonstrate how the main character’s shocking brutality can be interpreted as a veiled behavioral handbook for the
Spanish fascism’s dealings with its ideological enemies
“Trama y deseo en una lectura de El fugitivo, de Ramón J. Sender”. Letras peninsulares 11.3
(1999): 841-62
I analyze structure and plot in Sender’s novel (1982) after Peter Brooks’ theory of reading as a metaphor of
sexual ‘intercourse’ between reader and text
“El discurso racista en el Diente del Parnaso, de Caviedes”. Osamayor 6.9 (1996): 3-12
I review the ideas of racist overtones that I identify in the poetry of the seventeenth century Peruvian poet Caviedes
REVIEWS
Of:
Dodson, Jualyne E. Sacred Spaces and Religious Traditions in Oriente, Cuba. Albuquerque:
University of New Mexico Press, 2008. In Hispania 92.3 (2009): 511-12.
Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth, and Ivette Romero-Cesareo, eds. Displacements and
Transformations in Caribbean Cultures. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. In
Hispania 92.2 (2009): 268-9.
Tinajero, Araceli. El lector de tabaquería: Historia de una tradición cubana. Madrid:
Verbum, 2007. In Hispania 91 (2008): 837-8.
Zaldívar, Gladys, y Luis Jiménez. De la trova provenzal al barroco hispánico: la poesía de
Gladys Zaldívar. Miami: Ediciones Universal, 2005. 253 pp. In Círculo: Revista de Cultura
37 (2008): 221-4.
Janer, Zilkia. Puerto Rican Nation-Building Literature. Impossible Romance. Gainesville:
UP of Florida, Pp. 119. In Hispania 90.2 (2007): 276-7.
Lewis, Linden, ed. The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean. Gainesville: UP
of Florida. Pp. 328. In Hispania 89.1 (2006): 65-67.
López Cruz, Humberto, y Luis A. Jiménez, eds. Dulce María Loynaz. Cien años después.
Madrid: Fundación Hispano-Cubana, 2004. In Círculo: Revista de cultura 35 (2006): 213-5.
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Stevens, Camilla. Family and Identity in Contemporary Cuban and Puerto Rican Drama.
Gainesville, Fl: UP of Florida, 2004. Pp. 272. In Hispania 88.4 (2005): 775-6.
TEXTBOOKS
Contributor / Consultant. Cooperation with Helena Alonso for: Roca, Ana. Nuevos Mundos.
Lectura, cultura y civilización. New York: John Wiley, 1999. [Spanish for native speakers].
254 p. In its second edition (2004)