Roberto Robles-Valencia
Assistant Professor of Spanish Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literature
Education
- Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2010
- M.A. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 2003
- Licenciatura (B.A.) in Geography and History. Universidad de Burgos (Spain). 1995
Research Interests
- 19th, 20th and 21st century Peninsular cultural studies, literature, and film,
- Regional and national literatures of the Iberian Region,
- Culture Theory, Theories of Space and Urbanism,
- Spanish Historiography and Cultural History, Fascisms and Fascist ideology.
- Globalization and Nationalist movements
Research
Book Chapters
- When Multicultural Landscape Becomes Tragic Stage: Spanish Film and Immigration on the Verge of the Millennium." Toward a Multicultural Configuration of Spain: Local Cities, Global Spaces. Ed. Corbalán, Ana, Mayock, Ellen. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2014.
Edited Volume
- Roberto Robles Valencia, Florido J., Martín, L., Matos, E.,. (eds.) Fuera de la ley: El cine y la cultura quinqui de los años 80. Granada: Ed. Comares, 2014 (Forthcoming)
Works in Progress
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"La nación melancólica: la cultura afectiva del nacionalismo español. Book manuscript.
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"La Heteotopia como el espacio de la nación narrada en Tiempo de silencio de Martín Santos." Submitted for publication.
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"Los espacios de la guerra colonial: exploración de la otredad en Imán de Ramón J. Sender." Prepared for submission on a dossier on "Spaces of exclusion in 20th Century Spain."
Courses
- LG 492/ 592 Panorama of Spanish Cinema
- LG334 Advanced Grammar and Composition.
- LG 336 Introduction to Textual Analysis.
- LG 232 Intermediate Spanish I
- LG 231 Intermediate Spanish I
- LG 131 Introductory Spanish I
- LG 132 Introductory Spanish I