Jose Ignacio Alvarez-Fernandez
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., Michigan State University; M.A., B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Office hours: Monday and Wednesday 11:00-11:50 a.m. and Friday 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
And by appointment
Office: Administration Building, Room 469
Phone: (617) 498-7721
E-mail: alvarjo@emmanuel.edu
Courses Taught
Courses offered in 2010-2011:
- Beginning Spanish I & II
- Spanish Conversation & Composition I & II
- Intermediate Spanish II
- Modern Hispanic Drama
- Hispanic Culture and Language Through Film
- Approaches to Hispanic Literature
- Senior Seminar
Other courses taught:
- Contemporary Spanish Novel
- Spain: A Cultural Approach
Professional Highlights
Director of Emmanuel's Study Abroad at the University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain, 2009
Books
Memoria y trauma en los testimonios de la represión franquista/Memory and Trauma in Franco's Political Prisoner Testimonies. Barcelona, Anthropos Editorial, 2007.
(Translation and Edition) Miguel García. Prisionero de Franco: Los Anarquistas en la lucha contra la dictadura/Franco's Prisoner. Barcelona, Anthropos, 2010.
Works in progress
- Edition and Introduction of Voices Lecture Series.
- Rescatados del olvido/Save from Oblivion, an edition of letters written by Spanish political prisoners in death row. These are the last letters sent to their families before been executed.
- Edition and Introduction of Alicio Garcitoral's novel Pandora en Gijón/Pandora in Gijón. Forthcoming VTP Editorial, 2012.
Recent articles
- "La poesía testimonial de Celso Amieva/The Testimonial Poetry of Celso Amieva." Forthcoming in Actas del XVII Meeting of the International Association of Hispanist, Rome, Italy.
- "Celso Amieva", "Tomás Alvarez Angulo", "Agustín Arguelles Manso", "Luis Amador Sanchez", and "Santiago de Arisnea Lecea." Forthcoming in Diccionario biobibliográfico del exilio literario español de 1939/The Spanish Literary Exile of 1939. A Bio-bibliographic Dictionary. Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (AUB), Barcelona, Spain.
- "Fe de vida de un exilio: Alicio Garcitoral en Boston/News of an Exile: Alicio Garcitoral in Boston." In Actas del Congreso Internacional Sesenta años después. El exilio literario español de 1939/Sixty Years After. The Spanish Literary Exile of 1939. Eds. Antonio Fernández Insuela et all, Oviedo, Spain, KRK Ediciones, 2010: 95-113.
- "De campo en campo: lugares de memoria y trauma en la literatura concentracionaria de la diáspora republicana/From Camp to Camp: Lieux de Mémoire in the Concentration Camp Literature of Spanish Republican Diaspora in France." In La littérature esoagnole et les camps français d'internament (de 1939 à nos jours). Actes du colloque international "70 Años después." Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, 2010: 291-304.
Recent and upcoming conferences
- "Historia, memoria e infancia en la narrativa de Luis Mateo Díez/History, Memory and Childhood in Luis Mateo Díez's Narrative." To be deliver at Dialogos Trasatlanticos. II Congreso Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Españolas Contemporáneas, Universidad de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 3-5, 2011.
- "Grammar in Context: Using Songs in the Spanish Classroom." To be deliver at Massachusetts Foreign Language Association Conference, Sturbridge, Massachusetts, October 27-29, 2011.
- "La poesía testimonial de Celso Amieva/The Testimonial Poetry of Celso Amieva." The XVII Meeting of the International Association of Hispanist, Sapienza, Università di Roma, Rome, Italy, July 19-24, 2010.
- "Memoria y nostalgia en Días del desván de Luis Mateo Díez/Memory and Nostalgia in Days of Memory by Luis Mateo Díez." ALDEU, The II International Conference, Thunderbird School of Global Management, Phoenix/Glendale, Arizona, April 22-24, 2010.
