Office: Gaines 118E
Phone: 994-6445
Email: john.thompson166@gmail.com
Office hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 1:20-2pm, & by appointment
Fall 2012 Classes:
SPNS 320 Spanish Culture & Civ, MWF 1:10-2:00 p.m.
SPNS 460 Contemp Spain & Nations, MWF 12:00-12:50 p.m.
Spring 2013 Classes:
SPNS 325 - Survey of Spanish Literature, MWF 2:10-3:00 p.m.
SPNS 470R - Seminar: Modern Hispanic Literature, MWF 12:00-12:50 p.m.
Education:
B.A. in Hispanic & English Philology, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 1995
Ph.D. in Romance Languages & Literatures: Spanish, University of Michigan, 2003
Books
As novelas da memoria: trauma e representación da historia na Galiza contemporánea
(The Novels of Memory: Trauma and Representation of History in Contemporary Galiza). Publishing House: Galaxia (in Galiza), 2009. (See images below)
Chapters in Books
“Feminismo e nacionalismo: as perspectivas teóricas de María Xosé Queizán”
(Feminism and Nationalism: María Xosé Queizán’s Theoretical Perspectives) in Camino Noia and Manuel Forcadela, eds., Cara a unha poética feminista. Homenaxe a María Xosé Queizán (Toward a Feminist Poetics. Homage to María Xosé Queizán), Edicións Xerais de Galicia, 2011.
“Portuguese or Spanish Orthography for the Galizan Language?: An Analysis
of the conflito normativo” in Kirsty Hooper and Manuel Puga, eds.. Contemporary Galician Studies: Between the Local and the Global, Modern Language Association, 2011.
“A Tango of Lost Love and Women’s Liberation: An Analysis of Maria Xosé
Queizán’s Feminist Theory and Her Novel Amor de tango.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. BHS 85.3, 2008. Pages 343-359.
“Narrative Fiction in Galiza: The Long Path between Oblivion and Memory.”
Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. April 2006. Pages 53-77.
“The Civil War in Galiza, the Uncovering of the Common Graves, and Civil War
Novels as Counter-Discourses of Imposed Oblivion.” Iberoamericana. July 2005. Pages 75-82. Translated into Galizan and published by Gze-ditora in February 2006 with the title: “A guerra civil na Galiza: o descobrimento das valas comuns e os romances da guerra civil como contra-discursos do esquecimento imposto.”
