Paula Sprague
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
6072 Dartmouth Hall
Hanover, NH 03755-3511
Office: 340 Dartmouth Hall
2008 Fall office hours: by appointment
Telephone: (603) 646-3380
Fax: (603) 646-3695
e-mail: Paula.A.Sprague@dartmouth.edu
Ph.D. - University of Wisconsin
Primary Interests:
- -Modern and Contemporary poetry and poetics in Spanish
- -Periodical press and mediums of cultural production
- -Nineteenth to twenty-first century Catalan studies
- -Writing pedagogy
Selected courses taught at Dartmouth:
- Translated Identities: Literatures of Bilingual Communities (SPAN 7)
- Advanced Training through Contemporary Spanish Culture (SPAN 20)
- Texts and Contexts: Post-war Memory and Expression (SPAN 37)
- Turn-of-the-Century Literature in Spain (SPAN 58)
- Avant-Garde Movements and Social Poetry in Spain (SPAN 59)
- Exile, Repression and Writing in Post-Civil War Spain (SPAN 60)
- Recent Spanish Poetry. (SPAN 64)
- Language Study Abroad - Barcelona
- Foreign Study Program - Madrid
Selected publications:
- -Facsimile edition with Introductory study: EL EUROPEO (Barcelona: 1823-1824). Madrid: Iberoamericana/Editorial Vervuert. (Forthcoming).
- -Interview: "La poesía como diálogo curativo del hombre libre: Entrevista con Luís Muñoz." Hofstra Hispanic Review. Vol. 3, Primavera/Spring: 131-140. (2007)
- -"Lecciones de geografía: Escenarios poéticos/políticos del fin-de-siglo." Essays in honor of Luciano Garcia Lorenzo. Madrid: CSIC. (forthcoming)
- -"Parodia y paradoja en el primer Pitarra: La estética fundacional de Frederic Soler contra la Renaixença." Estrenado con gran aplauso: Teatro español, 1844-1936. Ed. Marsha Swislocki. (Forthcoming)
- -"Romanticismo versus 'Renaixença': Movimientos catalanes diferenciados." Actas del XIV Congreso de la Asociación International de Hispanistas, Vol. 3. Eds. Isaías Lerner, Robert Nival, and Alejandro Alonso. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta - Hispanic Monographs: 569-576. (2004)
Current Projects:
- Book manuscript: Mocking Identities: Double-edged Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals from Barcelona.
- Essay: "A Poetics of Intimacy. 'Casa de misericordia' by Joan Margarit." (Poet awarded the 2008 National Literary Prize by the Government of Catalonia.)
