Joan Ramon Resina, Professor

Building 260, Room 224
650 723 3800
jrresina@stanford.edu

Dr. Joan Ramon Resina, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Literature is also the Director of the Institute for Iberian Studies. He held teaching positions at Cornell University, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and Northwestern University. He specializes in Spanish and Catalan literatures with emphasis in the modern period.

Interests

His interests are amply comparative, with a strong cultural component, ranging from urban studies to the collective memory and issues of political and social scale, such as the relation between the local and the global. More generally, his interests include modern and contemporary European narrative, Literary Theory, History of Ideas, Film Studies, Iberian Cultural and Political History. Currently, he is concerned with the cultural foundations of violence and war, and with the thorny issue of reparations.

He has published extensively in specialized journals, such as PMLA, MLN, New Literary History, and Modern Language Quarterly, and has contributed to critical volumes. He was Editor of Diacritics and is on the board of various national and international journals. Awards received include the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship and a Fulbright Scholarship.

Education

Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, Comparative Literature

Ph.D., University of Barcelona, English Philology

Current Courses

SpanLit 321. Novel of Memory.
SpanLit 213. Spanish Cinema in the Second Half of the 20th Century.
SpanLit 215. The Novel in the Franco Era
SpanLit 324. Modern Catalán Literature.

Publications

He is the author of Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity: Rise and Decline of a Modern Image (forthcoming), El postnacionalisme en el mapa global (2005), El cadáver en la cocina: La novela policiaca en la cultura del desencanto (1997), Los usos del clásico (1991), Un sueño de piedra: Ensayos sobre la literatura del modernismo europeo (1990), and La búsqueda del Grial (1988), and editor of seven other books: Burning Darkness: A Half Century of Spanish Cinema (forthcoming), Casa encantada: lugares de memoria en la España constitucional (1978-2004) (2005), After-Images of the City (2003), Iberian Cities (2001), Disremembering the Dictatorship: The Politics of Memory in the Spanish Transition to Democracy (2000), El aeroplano y la estrella: El movimiento vanguardista en los Países Catalanes (1904-1936) (1997), and Mythopoesis: Literatura, Totalidad, Ideología (1992).