Dr. Angel Otero-Blanco
Assistant Professor of Spanish
101-B Puryear Hall
Office: (804) 484-1611
Recent Presentations:
Teaching:
Modern and contemporary Peninsular literatures and cultures
Research:
Modern and contemporary Spain
Comparative Literature (Spain/United States)
Transatlantic Studies
Education:
Ph.D., Brown University
MA, Brown University
Ph.D., Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
BA, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Selected Publications:
Book Edition:
El maestro de esgrima. Arturo Pérez-Reverte. Ed. Ángel Otero-Blanco. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica (forthcoming, 2010).
“Poesía novísima y social en Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.” Novísimos y Transición. Ed. Enric Bou. Madrid: Iberoamericana / Vervuert (forthcoming, 2010).
“The Essay.” Enric Bou, Ángel Otero-Blanco. A Comparative History of the Literatures of the Iberian Peninsula. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (forthcoming, 2010).
“Novela negra y existencialismo: Manuel de Pedrolo, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán y Juan Madrid.” Pórtico: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos del Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez 2 (2007): 53-72.
“La verdad sobre el caso Savolta de Antonio Drove.” España Contemporánea: Revista de Literatura y Cultura 19.1 (2006): 55-69.
“Adaptación cinematográfica, Estados Unidos, e século XXI.” Boletín Galego de Literatura 27 (2002): 199-209.
“The African Past in America as a Bakhtinian and Levinasian Other: ‘Rememory’ as Solution in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies 22 (2000): 141-158.
Presentations:
“El devenir del caos: Pedro Páramo en La Reina del Sur de Arturo Pérez-Reverte.” 5th International Conference on Transatlantic Studies, Brown University (April 2010).
“Humanism and the Supernatural in Suso de Toro’s A sombra cazadora,” 9th Conference of the International Association of Galician Studies, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (July 2009).
“H. P. Lovecraft in Agustín Fernández Paz’s Cartas de inverno,” 62nd Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (April 2009).
“Quevedo y Alatriste: canon literario y nación,” 8th Conference of the International Association of Spanish Golden Age Literature, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (July 2008).
“La Atlántida literaria de Arturo Pérez-Reverte,” 4th International Conference on Transatlantic Studies, Brown University (April 2008).
