Carmen Pereira-Muro

Carmen Pereira-Muro

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998

carmen.pereira@ttu.edu

• Spanish 18th- and 19th-century Studies
• 19 th -century Spanish Realist Novel
• Emilia Pardo Bazán
• Gender and Nationalism
• Intellectual and Cultural History of Spain
• Galician Studies
• Transatlantic Studies
• Poetry

Description of Publications

Pereira-Muro has published on 18th-century male friendship poetry and the construction of gendered sensibilities; the role of 18 th -century intellectual Padre Feijoo in the development of Spanish liberal thought; Galicians' migration to Cuba in the 19 th century as a catalyzer of both Galician and Cuban nationalisms, as reflected in Rosalía de Castro's poetry, Fernando Ortiz' essays and Cuban teatro bufo treatment of “gallegos”. In relation with her current book research, she has published several articles on Emilia Pardo Bazán's relation with Galician nationalism (on her book Morriña ) and Spanish nationalism (in her “Apuntes autobiográficos” as a response to Galdós' creation of a masculine national epiphany in Trafalgar ), and on her last novel Dulce Dueño as a defiantly Spanish and female version of fin de siècle art (especially opera) and writing.

Dr. Pereira-Muro is the author of Culturas de España: Una perspectiva histórica y temática , a textbook for upper-level students of Spanish. Culturas de España challenges the traditional teaching of "Spanish civilization,” emphasizing topics such as Spain's cultural plurality, women's history, and the political values of "culture" in the era of small nationalisms.

List of publications

Books

• Culturas de España: Una perspectiva histórica y temática. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003
• El prodigio de Etiopía, Lope de Vega. Edición, introducción y notas de John Beusterien. Carmen Pereira-Muro co-editora. Pontevedra: Mirabel Editorial, 2005. 142 pp.; il; 15 cm; ISBN: 84-934275-9-4

Books in Preparation

• Second edition of Culturas de España: Una perspectiva histórica y temática.
• Género, nación y literatura. Emilia Pardo Bazán en la literatura española y gallega.

Articles

• “Maravillosas supercherías: género sexual y nacionalismo en los “Apuntes autobiográficos” de Pardo Bazán y Trafalgar de Galdós”. (forthcoming) Hispanic Review.
• “Conocimiento y poder: la respuesta al regionalismo gallego en Morriña ”. Actas del I Congreso Internacional Emilia Pardo Bazán (forthcoming), A Coruña.
• “Emigración, nacionalismo y literatura: Los gallegos de Cuba en la obra de Rosalía de Castro y Fernando Ortiz” Revista Hispánica Moderna 61 (2), Winter 2008.
• “Relecturas femeninas del modernismo: El teatro de Wilde y las óperas de Strauss y Wagner en Dulce Dueño.” Actas del IV Simposio “Emilia Pardo Bazán y las artes del espectáculo ”. Summer 2008
• “De la crisis del pensamiento liberal al pensamiento poético: Subirats, Zambrano, el Padre Feijoo y la figura del intelectual en la modernidad española”. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 8.3 (2007): 317-340.
• “Mimetismo, misticismo y la cuestión de la escritura femenina en Dulce Dueño de Emilia Pardo Bazán.” La Tribuna. Cadernos de Estudos da Casa Museo Emilia Pardo Bazán, 4, 2006: 153-177.
• “Feminismo y política cultural en Werther de Pilar Miró”. Lecturas: Imágenes, 4, 2005: 213-223.
• “La amistad masculina en el siglo XVIII: género, sensibilidad y nacionalismo”. Dieciocho , Spring 2003
• “Os EEUU que coñezo e o futuro que espero non coñecer”. Tempo exterior 7, Xullo-Decembro 2003, 31-37.

Pereira-Muro is preparing a book for publication on Emilia Pardo Bazán and the role of the intellectual woman on 19th-century Spanish central and regional nationalisms. She is also interested in Galician studies and her next research project is on the transatlantic relations between Cuba and Galicia's cultural nationalisms at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th.

Nominated for TTU Equity and Diversity Award (2007)

Nominated for TTU Hemphills Wells New Professor Excellence in Teaching Award (2008)

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