C. Christopher Soufas
Christopher Soufas
PhD, Duke University
Professor of Spanish
Research Interests
Early Contemporary Spanish Literature
European Modernism
Visual-Verbal Interrelationships
Most Recent Publications
Book:
The Subject in Question: Early Contemporary Spanish Literature and Modernism. Washington,
D. C.: Catholic U of America P, 2007.
Paperback edition, 2009 ; E-book edition, 2009
Guest Editor, Special Issue. Modernism and Spain, Anales de la literatura española contemporánea 35 (2010).
Earlier books published by Wesleyan University Press, University of Alabama Press
Articles:
"Benavente and the Spanish Discourse on Theater." Hispanic Review 68 (2000): 147-59.
"Lorca and Artaud: Parallel Developments of a Modernist Mise-en-scène." Bucknell Review 45 (2001): 191-206.
"Julius Petersen and the Construction of the Spanish Literary Generation." Bulletin of Spanish Studies 79 (2002): 247-62.
"Lorca's Servants, the Audience, and Stage Authority." Hecho Teatral (Montreal) 2 (2003); 81-97.
"Force and the New Subjectivity: Charting Spanish Modernism." Modernisme(s) in de Europese Letterkunde. Ed. Jan Baetens, Sjef Houppermans, Peter Liebregts. Louvain: U of Louvain-Peeters, 2003: 165-88.
"Lorca y la ausencia existencial." Estudios sobre la poesía de Federico García Lorca. Ed. Luis Fernández-Cifuentes. Madrid: Istmo, 2005: 227-62.
"Approaching Spanish Modernism: Tradition and the 'New Man.'" Modernism. Ed. Astradur Eysteinsson and Vivian Liska. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2007: 931-45.
"Endings and Aftermaths: Lorca's Allusions to Radical Theater Reform." Hecho Teatral 8 (2008): 153-71.
"Modernist Hieroglyphics: Reading, Hearing, and the Manufacture of Being in Aleixandre's Pasión de la tierra." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 43 (2009): 251-69.
“Modernism and Spain: Spanish Criticism at the Crossroads.” Anales de la literatura española contemporánea 35 (2010): 7-16.
“Spain.” Cambridge Companion to Modernist Literature. Ed. Pericles Lewis. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011: 151-79.
“Origins and Legacy of the Spanish Literaty Generation.” Anales de la literatura española contemporánea 36: 209-33.
"The Inverted Conquest: The Myth of Modernity and the Transatlantic Onset of Modernism." Anales de la literatura española contemporánea 37 (2012): 270-73.
Earlier scholarly articles have also appeared in: PMLA, MLN, Word & Image,Teaching Philosophy
Classroom teaching and scholarship are not separate categories for me. I have enjoyed teaching a wide array of courses from the Golden Age to the present, in which I have incorporated the fruits of my research.
Recent Honors and Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2000-01, to research and write The Subject in Question
Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 2007
Provost’s Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship, Tulane University, 2005
Research Enhancement Award for Distinguished Scholars, 2007-08, Tulane University, to research Modernity Dialectics: Word, Image, Epistemology in the Spanish Discourse of Modernism
Previous Awards include: NEH Summer Stipend, NEH Summer Semianr, Manship Fellowship, Grants from Spanish Ministry of Culture
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