David Richter Assistant Professor of Spanish

  Spanish Language

  Survey of Spanish Literature

  Topics in Spanish Literature (Generation of '27,

          Surrealism, Contemporary Spanish Narrative)

  

 Hispanic poetry and poetics, 20 -Century Spanish literature,

          the Generation of 1927, Federico García Lorca, the

          transatlantic Hispanic avant-garde.

 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish novel, cultural studies,

          historical fiction, testimony, memory.

 Philosophy and Literature, post-structuralism, surrealism,

          Georges Bataille 

  “Don Quixote’s Demise: Games, Cruelty, and the Closure of 

           Representation on theDucal Stage.” Forthcoming in

           Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura

           25.2 (Spring 2010).

 “‘La poesía que se hace humana’: Truth, Mutation, and the

           Destruction of the Theater in Lorca’s El público.”

           Theatralia. Revista de Poética del Teatro 11 (2009):

           143–57.

 

“Hacia una poética de la obsesión en Borges: Formas e

           identidades rizomáticas.”  ConNotas. Revista de

           Crítica y Teoría Literarias 8 (2007): 41–65.

 

“Memory and Metafiction: Re-membering Stories and Histories

           in Soldados de Salamina.” Letras Peninsulares 17.2–3

           (2004–2005): 285–96.

 

“Drugs, Decadence, and The Doors of Perception in Manuel Díaz

           Rodríguez’s Sangre patricia.” Romance Review 14 (2004):

           101–10.

 “Sub-Realist Expression in Spain: Juan Larrea and the Hispanic

           Avant-Garde.” To be presented at the Rocky Mountain

           Modern Language Association Conference.  Snowbird, UT,

           October 8–10, 2009.

“Emptied Space, Lonely World, River’s Mouth: Rethinking Surrealism in

           Lorca’s Poet in New York.” Invited lecture presented at

           Utah State University.  Department of Languages, Philosophy

           & Speech Communication, February 6, 2009.

 

“Death and Desire in Modern Hispanic Poetry: Reflections on the Grinnell

           College Libraries’ Andrew P. Debicki Collection.” Invited lecture

           presented at Burling Library (Grinnell College) as part of the

           Poetry, Fiction, and Music series. April 16, 2008.

 

 “La estética de lo informe: Poeta en Nueva York y el surrealismo hispánico.”

           Invited lecture presented at the University of Iowa. Department

           of Spanish and Portuguese, December 4, 2007.

 

 “Materialismos sensuales: Contextos e intertextos gongorinos en el

           ‘Soneto gongorino’ de Federico García Lorca.” Presented at

           the VIII Biennial Conference. Society for Renaissance and

           Baroque Hispanic Poetry. Córdoba, Spain, October 18–20, 2007.

 

 “Margins of Poetry: Performing the Formless in Lorca’s Surrealism.” Public

           lecture presented at the Robert Penn Warren Center for the

           Humanities. Vanderbilt University, March 21, 2007.

 

 “Meditations on the Void: Federico García Lorca’s ‘Nocturne of Emptied

           Space.’”  Invited lecture presented at Grinnell College.

           Department of Spanish, January 29, 2007.

 

 “Diálogos sobre lo informe: Lorca y Bataille.” Invited lecture presented

           at Yale University. Department of Spanish and Portuguese,

           January 23, 2007.

   Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities

           (2006–2007), Graduate Student Fellow -- 

           Vanderbilt University. 

 

 

 

Curriculum Vita