Geoff Guevara-Geer
Education
- Postdoctoral Work: Northwestern University
- Ph.D., M.A. – Pennsylvania State University (major: Spanish, minor: aesthetics and literary theory)
- B.A. – Ripon College (majors: philosophy, French, Spanish)
Current Courses Taught
- Julio Cortázar and His Pursuers 435 (for Spring 2010, in Spanish)
- Cuba: Its Revolution and Its Arts 425 (in Spanish)
- Magical Realism and other Eccentric Realisms 420 (in Spanish)
- A Theoretical Panorama (There Are Others) 450 (in Spanish)
- The Spanish American Short Story 410 (in Spanish)
- The Fiction of Gabriel García Márquez 415 (in Spanish)
- Spanish American Voices: Survey of Span-Am Literature 333 (in Spanish)
- Spanish American Voices I: From the Pre-Colombian to modernismo 332 (in Spanish)
- Spanish American Voices II: From modernismo through the Post-Modern (in Spanish)
- FYS – Identity and a Sense of Place 175 (in English)
- FYS – The Ethics of Representation 175 (in English)
- Advanced Spanish Composition 320 (in Spanish)
- The Hispanophone World 222 (in Spanish)
- Elementary/Intermediate Spanish Program 111, 112, 211 (on-going rotation)
Awards and Honors
- Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Northwestern University, 1999-2001
- Sparks Dissertation Fellowship, The Pennsylvania State University, 1998-1999
- Tuition Scholarship, The Pennsylvania State University, 1993-1998
Recent Publications and Presentations
- “Lazarillo de Tormes and the Little Tramp of Modern Times: Two Modern Pícaros Find Their Way.” “Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée.” 24,2 (19: 235-45).
- Review of Stephanie Merrim’s “Early Modern Women’s Writing and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz” for “Latin American Literary Review.”
- “The Final Silence of Sor Juana: The Abysmal Remove of Her Closing Night.”
- “The Rumba of the Flying Buttresses.” Essay published in playbill for musical production “Cambio” at the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, 2008.
Areas of Interest
- Spanish American literature
- Literary theory and aesthetics
- Spanish colonial literature
- Spanish American civilizatin and arts
- Topics in world/comparative literature
- Spanish language: grammar, composition and conversation
- French language: grammar and conversation
Mailing Address:
800-947-4766
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