José Luis Venegas
José Luis Venegas, Ph.D.
Professor of Spanish and Interdisciplinary Humanities
Director, Interdisciplinary Humanities Program
Graduate School Liason
venegajl@wfu.edu
336-758-4805
Greene 540
Transatlantic Studies, Modern and Contemporary Spanish and Spanish-American Narrative
José Luis Venegas holds a joint appointment as Professor in the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program and the Department of Spanish. His teaching and research focus on comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to modern and contemporary cultures and literatures in Europe and the Americas. He is the author of Decolonizing Modernism: James Joyce and the Development of Spanish American Fiction (Routledge, 2010) and Transatlantic Correspondence: Modernity, Epistolarity, and Literature, 1898-1992 (Ohio State University Press, 2014). José’s most recent book, which was supported by an NEH Summer Stipend, is The Sublime South: Andalusia, Orientalism, and the Making of Modern Spain (Northwestern University Press, 2018). Additionally, he has published articles in PMLA, Comparative Literature Studies, MLN, Discourse, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, and Hispanic Review, among other venues.
- SPA 212: Exploring the Hispanic World
- SPA 213: Encounters: Hispanic Literature and Culture
- SPA 310: Anecdotes, Bestsellers, Cuentos: The ABCs of Storytelling in the Spanish-Speaking World
- SPA 315: The Making of Spain: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Cultures of Spain
- HMN 200: Introduction to Humanities: Themes in Literature, Culture, and Film
- HMN 211: Dialogues with Antiquity: The West and Beyond
- HMN 212: Reading the Modern World
- HMN 213: Studies in European Literature
- HMN 226: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Contemporary Fiction