Dr. Angel Otero-Blanco
Assistant Professor of Spanish
101-B Puryear Hall
Office: (804) 484-1611
Teaching:
Modern and contemporary Spanish narrative
Galician Studies
Film Studies
Research:
19th and 20th century Peninsular literatures and cultures
Cultural Studies
Transatlantic Studies
Comparative Literature (US/Spain)
Education:
Ph.D., Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Ph.D., Brown University
Selected Publications:
Bou, Enric, and Ángel Otero-Blanco. “The Essay.” A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula. Ed. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (forthcoming, 2008).
“Javier Marías, Arturo Pérez-Reverte y Antonio Muñoz Molina en Estados Unidos.” La Geotextualidad Atlántica (Actas del III Congreso Internacional Transatlántico, Brown University, Abril 2006). Eds. Inés Sáenz y Julio Ortega. Monterrey: Cátedra Alfonso Reyes del Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey (forthcoming, 2008).
“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 19.1 (2006): 55-69.
“Adaptación cinematográfica, Estados Unidos, e século XXI.” Boletín Galego de Literatura 27 (2002): 199-209.
“Irony as Comic Device and Source of (Self)Knowledge in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence.” Estudios sobre humor literario. Eds. Jorge Figueroa Dorrego, Martín Urdiales Shaw, Cristina Larkin Galiñanes, Celia Vázquez García. Vigo: Servicio de Publicacións da Universidade de Vigo, 2001: 131-211.
“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.
“ ‘Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story’ y Smoke. Paul Auster y Wayne Wang: el arte de contar historias.” El cine: otra dimensión del discurso artístico. Eds. José Luis Caramés Lage, Carmen Escobedo de Tapia, Jorge Luis Bueno Alonso. Oviedo: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Oviedo, 1999: 209-223.
“Quilts as Cultural, Social and Self-Time Travel” Alice Walker’s ‘Everyday Use’ and Bobbie Ann Mason’s ‘Love Life’.” Travelling Across Cultures: The Twentieth Century American Experience. Eds. Constante González Groba, Cristina Blanco Outón, Patricia Fra López, Susana Jiménez Placer. Santiago de Compostela: Servicio de Publicacións da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 1999: 391-398.
Book Reviews of: NAREMORE, James (ed). Film Adaptation. New Jersey: Rutgers UP, 2000; and LOTHE, Jakob. Narrative in Fiction and Film: An Introduction. New York: Oxford UP, 2000. Boletín Galego de Literatura 27 (2002): 280-287.
Presentations:
“Novela negra y existencialismo: Los mares del Sur de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán,” Recargando Identidades/Recharging Identities, Second International Conference on Transatlantic Studies, Brown University (April 2004).
“Hacia una edición de ‘Quedéme a calentar la tinta en que me ahogo’ de César Vallejo,” Transatlantic Textualities: A Series on Genetic Criticism, Critical Editions, and Genealogies of Reading, Brown University (Fall 2003).
“Newland’s Newport: From Wharton to Scorsese” (co-presented with Prof. Patricia Fra López), Edith Wharton at Newport: Imagining the Past, Remembering the Future, The Sixth Bienial Edith Wharton Society Conference, Salve Regina University (Newport, RI, June 2000).
“Marxism, Ideology, Subjectivity,” Round Table “Eagleton a debate.” International Seminar on Terry Eagleton or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism, University of Santiago de Compostela (December 1999).