Faculty
Assistant Professor
Nicolás Fernández-Medina
Ph.D. in Modern Spanish Literature (2007) and Ph.D. in Humanities (2007), Stanford University.
Dr. Fernández-Medina’s area of specialization is late eighteenth- through mid twentieth-century Spanish poetry and novel. He is especially interested in analyzing those junctures where literature and philosophy converge and provide a broader transnational and interdisciplinary understanding of Spain’s literary and cultural production. His scholarly interests cover costumbrismo, Romanticism (the German and Spanish traditions), Carlism, Krausism (philosophy and social-aesthetic theories), nineteenth-century domestic literature (Ángela Grassi's novels), Realism, modernismo, the Generations of 1898 and 1927, the Spanish Avant-Garde (particularly Ramón Gómez de la Serna), and the ‘poetas de posguerra’ like C. E. de Ory and J. A. Valente.
Dr. Fernández-Medina's articles and reviews have appeared in the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Latin American Literary Review, Luso-Brazilian Review, Ínsula, Revista Hispánica Moderna, Anuario Hispanoamericano de Poesía, Revista de la Asociación Española de Semiótica, Torre de papel, and BoletínRAMÓN, among others.
His book The Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado’s ‘Proverbios y cantares’ (forthcoming in the Iberian and Latin American Studies series of the University of Wales Press) demonstrates how Machado’s folkloric ‘Proverbios y cantares’ penned between 1909 and 1937 engage philosophers like Plato, Kant, Schlegel, Krause and Unamuno to examine the problem of subjectivity and alterity that came about with post-Kantian modernity.
Dr. Fernández-Medina is the recipient of a Team-Teaching Grant and Challenge Grant from the Institute of Arts and Humanities at PSU and the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2008. He is also the recipient of Stanford University’s distinguished Centennial Teaching Award and Research Fellow Grant and has served as Assistant Editor for Nuevo Texto Crítico and MANTIS Poetry Journal. He holds the distinction of having participated as a respondent to the roundtable debates commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Príncipe de Asturias Awards in Oviedo, Spain, in 2005.
Link to full CV.
