| Faculty - Randolph D. Pope
RANDOLPH POPE is the Commonwealth Professor of Spanish
and Chair of the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.
Born in Chile, he studied Spanish Literature and Classics at
the Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. He received
an M.A. and Ph.D. in Spanish from Columbia University in New
York. His field of specialization is the Peninsular novel and
autobiography, but he has also written extensively on other
topics, such as Latin American literature, cultural studies,
literature and architecture, literature and the arts, and literature
and philosophy. He has taught at Barnard College, the University
of Bonn in Germany, Dartmouth College, Vassar College, where
he was Chair of Hispanic Studies, and Washington University
in St. Louis, where he served as Chair of Comparative Literature
for seven years. He has been Visiting Professor at the University
of Colorado at Boulder and at the University of Tübingen
in Germany. For four years he directed the Middlebury College
Spanish Summer School in Vermont. He was one of the two founders
and main editors of Ediciones del Norte and serves in several
editorial boards. From 1991 to the Spring issue of 2002 he was
Editor of the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. He
has published three books and around one hundred scholarly
essays.
He has directed twice an NEH Summer Seminar for
College Teachers on Spanish autobiography in the European context.
He has received grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the NEH,
and the Kemper Foundation. He has lectured in many universities
in the United States, Canada, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia,
France, Holland, Sweden, and Germany.
Selected and recent publications:
La autobiografía española hasta Torres Villarroel., 1974.
Novela de emergencia: España, 1939-1954, 1984.
Understanding Juan Goytisolo. 1995.
"La seducción de la clandestinidad: El caso ejemplar de Jorge Semprún," España Contemporánea 9 (1996): 75-88.
"La astuta ciencia de Torres Villarroel," Revista Hispánica Moderna
49 (1996): 407-18.
"Intrusos en el templo: Profanando tumbas en las Noches
lúgubres," Dieciocho 21 (1998): 21-34.
"Autobiographical Selves as 'Transpersonal Beings': Gibbon, Kierkegaard, Goethe, and Luis Goytisolo among Others," Intertextual Pursuits: Literary Mediations in Modern Spanish Narrative, eds. Jeanne P. Brownlow and John W. Kronik. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 1998. 26-41.
Comentarios y supervisión de notas de los capítulos xvi-xviii de
la edición del Instituto Cervantes, dirigida por Francisco
Rico, de Don Quijote de la Mancha. Barcelona: Instituto
Cervantes, 1998. Volumen complementario, comentarios en pp.
139-42.
"La lectura y la educación," in 3er Foro Internacional
por el Fomento del Libro y la Lectura, Resistencia (Argentina):
Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, 1999. 67-69.
"El espacio interrogante de Capadocia: El aprendizaje de la identitidad en la obra de Juan Goytisolo," Un círculo de relectores: Jornadas sobre Juan Goytisolo, Lund, 1998, edited by Inger Enkvit, Almería: Instituto de Estudios Almerienses, 1999. 151-56.
"Narrative in Culture, 1936-1975," in the Cambridge Companion to Spanish
Literature, edited by David Gies, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 1999. 134-46.
"Contra Unamuno," Nuevas perspectivas sobre el 98. Ed.
John P. Gabriele. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 1999. 171-78.
"La ciudad que desaparece en Cuentos del Barrio del Refugio," Aproximaciones críticas al mundo narrativo de José María Merino, eds. Ángeles Encinar and Kathleen M. Glenn, León: Edilesa, 2000. 159-68.
"La resistencia en El cuarto mundo de Diamela Eltit." Special issue on Diamela Eltit, Creación y resistencia: la narrativa de Diamela Eltit, 1983-1998), edited by María-Inés Lagos, Monografías de Nomadía (Santiago, Chile) 2000. 35-53.
"Las acotaciones de Don Alvaro: un comentario iconográfico," in Prosa
y poesía: Homenaje a Gonzalo Sobejano. Madrid: Gredos,
2001. 295-303.
“La elusiva verdad de la autobiografía: En torno
a Coto vedado de Juan Goytisolo.” CiberLetras 5 (2001)
http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/
“Cervanteando con Juan Goytisolo.” Cervantes
y la narrativa moderna, ed. László Scholz
and László Vasas. Debrecen: Kossuth Egyetemi Kiadó,
2001. 123–27.
“The Architecture of Memory: An Intersection of Science
and Literature in Eltit’s Cuarto Mundo.” Savoirs
et Littérature/Literature, the Humanities and the Social
Sciences, ed. Jean Bessière. Paris: Presses Sorbonne
Nouvelle, 2002. 179–86.
“El peso de las generaciones y La saga de los Marx de
Goytisolo.” Imprévue 2002, 405–414.
“Why Major in Literature—What Do We Tell Our Students?”
PMLA 117 (2002): 503–6.
“Delibes: Un autor con espíritu joven,”
El Norte de Castilla, 9 February 2003.
“El espacio de la falsificación en La de Bringas
de Galdós” in El espacio en la narrativa moderna
en lengua española, edited by Gabriela Menczel and
László Scholz. Budapest: Eötvos József
Könyvkiadó, 2003. 42–47.
"A Criticism of Our Own," Anales de la Literatura
Española Contemporánea 28, 1 (2003): 21-27.
"Resisting the Global: The Importance of the National
for a Comparative History of Iberian Literatures," Neohelicon
30, 2 (2003): 79-84.
“El hispanismo dionisíaco,” Lateral
(Barcelona), October 2003.
“Writing about Writing,” The Cambridge Companion
to the Spanish Novel from 1600 to the Present, edited by
Harriet Turner and Adelaida López de Martínez.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP, 2003. 264-82.
One third of “Trauma, Memory, and Healing in European
Literature and Film,” What’s the Word #160, a weekly
radio program sponsored by the MLA, produced by Sally Placksin,
2004.
“La imposible autobiografía postmoderna de Juan
Goytisolo,” Autobiographie Revisited: Theorie und
Praxis neuer autobiographischer Diskurse in der französischen,
spanischen und lateinamerikanischer Literatur, edited by
Alfonso de Toro and Claudia Gronemann, Hildesheim: Georg Olms
Verlag, 2004. 197–206.
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