Gina
Herrmann
Associate Professor of Spanish
Department of Romance Studies
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Phone: 541-654-2705 email: gah@uoregon.edu
Education
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Ph.D. in Romance Studies, August 1998.
Employment
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. Associate Professor of Spanish, 2002-present.
Colby College, Waterville, Maine. Assistant Professor of Spanish, 1998-2002.
Columbia University Oral History Summer Institute, New York, NY. Faculty, 2002.
Visiting appointment
Columbia University, New York, NY. Visiting Scholar and University Seminar Scholar at the Oral
History Institute, 2001-2002.
Books
Written in Red: The Communist Memoir in Spain. This book is a study of the aesthetic and
ideological consequences of Communist subjectivity as rhetorically reconstructed through the genre of
memoir. I analyze how six Spanish memoirists both resist and comply with Party-initiated acts of selfrepresentation in a Stalinized political culture. The agenda of this work insists on the literary aesthetics
of political memory texts as well as the defense of a psycho-historical category of political interiority
through the internalization of collectively felt and lived political identities. (Forthcoming Winter 2010,
University of Illinois Press)
Voices of the Vanquished: Spanish Republican Women in War and Prison
Taking my own large-scale oral history project with Republican women survivors of the Spanish civil
war and the Francoist penitentiary system as its point of departure, this study examines the intersections
of gender and politics in individual oral and choral narratives. Divided in four parts, the book looks at
how experiences of civil war and political incarceration shape subjectivity in working class women
through different textual articulations: testimony, fiction, history, and film. (In progress; Proposal
under consideration with Tamesis Press, England.)
Select Peer-Reviewed Publications in Print
“The Spanish Civil War and the Routes of Stalinisation.” Bolshevism. Stalinism and the
Comintern: Perspectives on Stalinisation, 1917-53. Eds. Norman Laporte, Kevin Morgan,
Matthew Worley. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. pp. 167-87.
“Documentary’s Labors of Law: The Television Journalism of Montse Armengou and Ricard Belis.”
Special issue on “The Politics of Memory in Contemporary Spain.” Journal of Spanish Cultural
Studies 9.2 July 2008: 193-212.
“Las mujeres de la izquierda radical en la guerra civil.” [Original title: “Madres e hijas de la causa:
mujeres comunistas ante la guerra civil española.”] Ibercaja. Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza.
2007. 145-63.
“The Witness in the Classroom: Survivor Oral Histories of the Spanish Civil War.” Teaching
Representations of the Spanish Civil War. Edited by Noël Valis. Modern Language Association.
2007. 385-97.
“Teresa Pàmies and the Spanish Communist Memoir: Between Devotion and Disillusion.” Revista
Canadiense de estudios hispánicos 30.1 Fall (2005): 89-108.
“Voices of the Vanquished: Leftist Women and the Spanish Civil War.” Journal of Spanish Cultural
Studies 4.1 March (2003): 11-29.
“A Usable Nostalgia for Spain: Oral History and the Novel.” Journal of Romance Studies 2.2 (2002
Summer): 70-90.
“The Dogs of War: Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness of Rafael Alberti and María Teresa León.”
Anales de la literatura española contemporánea 27.2 (2002): 155-77.
“Mujeres de la izquierda radical en la Guerra Civil española.” Pandora 2 (2002): 245-251. Special
issue on Oralités.
“The Hermetic Goddess: Dolores Ibárruri as Text.” Letras Peninsulares 11.1 (1998 Spring): 181-206.
Professional Affiliations
Editorial Board and Board Member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archive (ALBA)
Modern Language Association
Oral History Association
American History Association
Letras Femeninas
Grants and Awards
Williams Council Grant for Instructional Initiatives (University of Oregon) 2007-2008
Junior Professor Development Grant (University of Oregon) 2002-2007
Research Development Award, Romance Languages (University of Oregon) 2002
Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Education and Culture and US
Universities, Individual Research Grant 1998, 2008