José Luis Venegas

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: Hispanic Literature and Culture
SPA 310: Anecdotes, Bestsellers, Cuentos: The ABCs of Storytelling in the Spanish-Speaking World
SPA 315: The Making of Spain
SPA 317: Spanish Literary and Cultural Studies
SPA 359: Transatlantic Transitions: Postdictatorship in Spain and the Southern Cone
SPA 359: The Transatlantic Civil War
SPA 359: The Challenge of Modernity: Culture and Identity in Spain and Spanish America
SPA 369: Unearthing the Future: Prehistory and Culture in Modern 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: Fictions of a New Old World
HMN 214: Literatures and Cultures of the Americas
HMN 216: Present Pasts: Prehistory, Archaeology, and the Modern Nation
HMN 226: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Contemporary Fiction

Venegas CV