RESEARCH & WRITING
PRIMARY LANGUAGES
- English: Native fluency in reading, writing, speaking, and listening
- Spanish: Near-native fluency in reading, writing, speaking, and listening
- Catalan: Near-native fluency in reading, writing, speaking, and listening
- Portuguese: Advanced proficiency in reading, writing, speaking, and listening
- French: Advanced proficiency in reading; Intermediate proficiency in writing, speaking, and listening
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
- 2023 “Attachment and Responsibility in El corazón del Tártaro.” Romance Notes, Vol 63, No 1 (2023). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Web. 18 Aug 2023.
2017 “El arte de Lágrimas en la lluvia.” Alambique, Vol. 5 (2017) Issue 1. University of South Florida. Web. 17 Sep 2017.
2015 “Collaboration and Performance in the Pessoa/Queiroz Love Letters.” Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 92 (2015): 203–22.
2011 “Leaving the Ivory Tower: How Engaging People Outside the Academy Could Help Save the Humanities.” SquareTwo, Vol. 4 No. 2 (Summer). Web. 1 Sep 2011.
2009 “To What Can We Attribute the Extraordinary Success of Les veus del Pamano?” Visat: La revista digital de literatura i traducció del PEN català. Sep 2010. Web. 8 Feb 2009.
Book Chapters
- 2014 “Autism and the Astonishing X-Men.” The Ages of the X-Men: Essays on the Children of the Atom in Changing Times. Ed. Joseph J. Darowski. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. 213–22. Print.
Translations
2019 Alomar, Gabriel. “The Domestication of the Gods.” Revista Hélice. 2019.
2018 Gener, Pompeu. “The Theological Palace.” Revista Hélice. 2018.
2018 Reventós, Ramón. “Plot of a Long Story.” Revista Hélice. 2018.
2018 Almirall, Valentí. “Manuscript of a Sage or a Fool.” Revista Hélice. 2018.
2012 Serés, Francesc. “Geology and Literature.” The New Ruralism: An Epistemology of Transformed Space. Ed. Joan Ramon Resina and William Viestenz. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2012.
2012 Monterde, Antoni Martí. “Interliterariness and the Literary Field: Catalan Literature and Literatures in Catalonia.” Iberian Modalities: A Relational Approach to the Study of Culture in the Iberian Peninsula, Ed. Joan Ramon Resina. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2012.
Op-eds
2019 “Media-Saturated and Mad? Cervantes Has Something to Say.” The American Spectator. 31 Jan 2019.
2019 “Catalonia: Self-Determination vs. Rule of Law in Spain.” The American Spectator. 27 March 2019.
Invited Talks
2015 “The Hero’s Journey: How One Book Turned a Reader into a Humanist.” Talk as part of BYU Herald B. Lee Library series entitled The Work that Changed My Life. Provo, UT. May 15, 2015.
2015 “Apego en El peso del corazón de Rosa Montero.” Joint panel with Dale Pratt (BYU) and Juan Carlos Martín (Stonehill College) at the debut of Rosa Montero’s novel El peso del corazón. Provo, UT. March 13, 2015.
2012 “A Bad Story. It’s Been Sixty Years and the Wound Still Isn’t Closed: Les veus de Pamano in the Valley of the Noguera Pallaresa.” Catalan Symposium III. University of Missouri. April 7, 2012.
Conference Activity/Participation
2023 “The Divided Brain in Joan Perucho’s Natural Histories.” International Conference on Myth Criticism; Madrid, Spain. October 27, 2022.
2019 “Apego y redención en El corazón del Tártaro.” Visiones de lo Fantástico; Barcelona, Spain. June 5, 2019.
2015 “Collaboration and Performance in the Pessoa/Queiroz Love Letters.” Conference of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters; Ephraim, UT. March, 27, 2015.
2014 “Autism in Popular Culture.” UVU Conference on Autism, Orem, UT. April 11, 2014.
2014 “How to post your teaching on Youtube.” Center for Teaching and Learning’s “Pedagogy Blitz.” Oct. 2, 2014.
2014 “Dungeons and Dragons in the Classroom: A Role-Playing Approach to Teaching and Learning History and Culture.” Mentored presentation with several SPAN 3210 students. Southern Utah University Festival of Excellence. April 8, 2014.
2013 “El arte de Lágrimas en la lluvia de Rosa Montero.” Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures, Chapel Hill, NC. April 05, 2013.
2011 “The Physical Engagements of Literary Scholarship and Pedagogy.” Mormon Scholars in the Humanities, Orem, UT. March 26, 2011.
2009 “A Galactic Feast: The Baroque, The Synchronic Perspective, and Anthropophagy in Galáxias by Haroldo de Campos.” Poetic Presence: Graduate Students Presentation II. Stanford, CA. November 18, 2009.
2007 “Enamorada del puma: Análisis junguiano de tres de los Cuentos de Eva Luna.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Knoxville, KY. April 21, 2007.
Campus or departmental talks
2022 “Film Noir.” Talk as part of Hillsdale College’s CCA: Film Noir. March 2022.
2020 “The Films of John Ford.” Talk as part of the Hillsdale College’s CCA IV: The Westerns of John Ford. March 2020.
2019 Talk on the politics of Europe given with Marie-Clarie Morellec to Hillsdale College International Club Nov 11, 2019.
2018 Faculty After Hours Series: "Confessions of a Recovering Podcaster.” Oct 11, 2018.
2018 Lyceum Lunch: “What is Mormonism?” Feb 27, 2018.
2015 “The Humanities and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Keynote address at Sigma Tau Delta Undergraduate Conference. Cedar City, UT. Oct 24, 2015.
2014 “En construcción.” Film introduction for Southern Utah University’s Latin American and Iberian Film Festival. Cedar City, UT. March 18, 2014.
2013 “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.” Film introduction for Southern Utah University’s Disability Week. Cedar City, UT. November 14, 2013.
2008 “A New Kind of Story: Narrative Strategies in Cravan vs. Cravan.” Film introduction for Under the Magnifying Lens: Catalan Cinema of the Real. Stanford, CA. October 29, 2007.
2006 “Sometimes the Best Films Are the Ones that Ask the Best Questions.” Film presentation for Harold B. Lee Library Don Quixote Film Series. Brigham Young University. Provo, UT. October 1, 2006.
2006 “Finding Hope in Bleakness.” Film introduction for Juan Rulfo’s Mexico: A Film and Lecture Series. Brigham Young University. Provo, UT. March 22, 2006.
2006 “Fighting Cocks, Spontaneous Song, and a Couple of Latin America’s Greatest Writers.” Film introduction for Juan Rulfo’s Mexico: A Film and Lecture Series. Brigham Young University. Provo, UT. March 22, 2006.
INTERVIEWS AND MEDIA
2018 Niemeier, Hannah. “Mission-minded Mormons seek truth, discussion.” Hillsdale Collegian. Mar 1, 2018
2018 Ziegler, Anne. “Professors’ Favorite Classes.” Hillsdale Collegian. Apr 15, 2018
2018 Ryan, Nolan. “LDS students pursue truth, faith through community.” Hillsdale Collegian. Sep 6, 2018
2017 Jepsen, Medeleine. “Of languages and literature: New professor joins Spanish department.” Hillsdale Collegian. 2 Nov. 2017. Web.
2017 Kroeker, Jo. “Catalonia through the eyes of Hillsdale professors.” Hillsdale Collegian. 19 Oct. 2017.
In the Fall of 2013, I was invited to be on the planning committee for Southern Utah University's Disability Week. As part of that event, I participated on a panel about autism. The following article details my contribution to that conversation.
Wentz, Cathy. "'Dis-Ability Week:' SUU Hosts Week of Disability Awareness." 13 Nov. 2013. Web.
In the summers of 2010 and 2011, as I was conducting research for my dissertation in rural Spain (funded by research grants from the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Stanford University), my project was highlighted in local news outlets on a number of occasions. The following is a list of those interviews and articles.