Nicholas Wolters

Nicholas Wolters is Associate Professor of Spanish at Wake Forest University. Holding an MA in Spanish and French from the University of Delaware and a PhD in Spanish from the University of Virginia, his teaching and research focus on modern and contemporary Iberian literature (Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese), visual culture, film/television, and masculinities studies. He regularly presents on these and related topics at conferences and symposia in the United States, Europe, and the UK. His research appears in a variety of venues including peer-reviewed journals like Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies and Romanic Review.

He is the author of Masculine Figures: Fashioning Men and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century Spain (Vanderbilt UP, 2022 [2023]), which examines representations of masculine stock figures in visual culture, as well as novels by writers like Benito Pérez Galdós and Narcís Oller. His current research explores the relationship between masculinity, nature, and climate during the long nineteenth century in Spain and Portugal. Prof. Wolters is also translating Narcís Oller’s early Catalan novels (La Papallona and L’Escanyapobres) for a critical edition in English. He teaches courses in Spanish and welcomes students interested in honors theses or related research topics.

• SPA 212: Exploring the Hispanic World
• SPA 280: The Spanish-Speaking World: Portals and Perspectives
• SPA 310: Anecdotes, Bestsellers, Cuentos: The ABCs of Storytelling
• SPA 313: Lights, Camera, ¡Acción!
• SPA 315: The Making of Spain
• SPA 338: Fashioning Gender, Class, and National Identity in 18^th-19^th-Century Spain
• SPA 369: Special Topics Seminar

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