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Stephen Roberts

Professor of Modern Spanish Literature and Intellectual History, Faculty of Arts

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Biography

From 1987 till 1988 I was Lecturer in Spanish at St Hugh's College, Jesus College, Wadham College and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University.

From 1988 till 1990 I held the Queen Sofia Junior Research Fellowship and a Lecturership in Spanish at Exeter College, Oxford.

From 1991 till 1994 I was lecturer in Spanish at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Since 1994, I have been Lecturer and then Associate Professor and Reader in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Nottingham.

Expertise Summary

My main research areas are the literature, culture and intellectual history of Spain in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, with a particular interest in the thought and public role of Miguel de Unamuno and in the poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez, Federico García Lorca and others. I have also worked on cinema (John Huston, Juan Antonio Bardem, Víctor Erice, biopics). My current research deals with the phenomenon of exile.

Teaching Summary

My teaching includes the Spanish side of a survey course on the literature of Spain and Spanish America between 1840 and the present day and, at final year level, modules on Unamuno and on Literature… read more

Research Summary

I am currently completing a book dealing with Miguel de Unamuno´s time in exile (1924-1930).

Recent Publications

  • STEPHEN ROBERTS, 2022. 'El modernismo hispanoamericano'. In: JOSÉ LUIS MORA and ANTONIO HEREDIA, eds., Historia de la filosofía española Granada: Comares Editorial. 203-218
  • STEPHEN ROBERTS, 2021. 'La guerra y los naipes: el órdago de Cómo se hace una novela' Cuadernos de la Cátedra Miguel de Unamuno. Época III(49), 1
  • STEPHEN GH ROBERTS, 2020. ‘Teaching Unamuno’s Press Articles: The Badge of Identity of the Unamunian Intellectual’. In: LUIS ÁLVAREZ CASTRO, ed., Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno New York: The Modern Language Association of America. 93-98
  • STEPHEN ROBERTS, 2020. ¿Agonía o transformación? El carlismo en la literatura española, 1876-1912.: Catálogo de la exposición del mismo título celebrada en el Museo del Carlismo (Estella) entre octubre de 2019 y junio de 2020. Con introducción y textos de Stephen Roberts. Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra.

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