Roberto Robles-Valencia

Roberto Robles-Valencia

Assistant Professor of Spanish
Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literature

Education

  • Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2010
  • M.A. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 2003
  • Licenciatura (B.A.) in Geography and History. Universidad de Burgos (Spain). 1995

Research Interests

  • 19th, 20th and 21st century Peninsular cultural studies, literature, and film,
  • Regional and national literatures of the Iberian Region,
  • Culture Theory, Theories of Space and Urbanism,
  • Spanish Historiography and Cultural History, Fascisms and Fascist ideology.
  • Globalization and Nationalist movements

Research

Book Chapters 

  • When Multicultural Landscape Becomes Tragic Stage: Spanish Film and Immigration on the Verge of the Millennium." Toward a Multicultural Configuration of Spain: Local Cities, Global Spaces. Ed. Corbalán, Ana, Mayock, Ellen. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2014.

Edited Volume

  • Roberto Robles Valencia, Florido J., Martín, L., Matos, E.,. (eds.) Fuera de la ley: El cine y la cultura quinqui de los años 80. Granada: Ed. Comares, 2014 (Forthcoming)

Works in Progress

  • "La nación melancólica: la cultura afectiva del nacionalismo español. Book manuscript.

  • "La Heteotopia como el espacio de la nación narrada en Tiempo de silencio de Martín Santos." Submitted for publication.

  • "Los espacios de la guerra colonial: exploración de la otredad en Imán de Ramón J. Sender." Prepared for submission on a dossier on "Spaces of exclusion in 20th Century Spain."


Courses

  • LG 492/ 592 Panorama of Spanish Cinema 
  • LG334 Advanced Grammar and Composition.
  • LG 336 Introduction to Textual Analysis.
  • LG 232 Intermediate Spanish I
  • LG 231 Intermediate Spanish I
  • LG 131 Introductory Spanish I
  • LG 132 Introductory Spanish I