Irene Gomez-Castellano
Rafael Núñez Rodriguez
Colleen McAlister
Santiago G. Gesteira
Sandra García Gutiérrez
Cristóbal Clemente Rodrigalvarez
Laura Brescane Nicolas
Education
Ph. D. in Spanish Literature University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 2008
Master of Arts in Spanish Literature University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 2004
Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Philology (Licenciatura) Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, 2002
About Professor Gomez-Castellano
Irene Gómez Castellano has been at UNC since 2008. She specializes in Modern and Contemporary Iberian literature, with a focus on poetry and visual studies. Her works explore aesthetic and social questions in canonical and non-canonical texts by applying as theoretical frameworks methodologies from other disciplines in the humanities such as music, art and cinema. Irene Gómez Castellano is the author of La cultura de las máscaras (Madrid and Frankfurt: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2012) and is the co-editor, with Aurélie Vialette, of the volume Dissonances of Modernity: Music, Text and Performance in Modern Spain. Irene Gómez Castellano’s articles have appeared in venues such as the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Revista Hispánica Moderna, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, A Contracorriente, Hispanic Research Journal, Revista Iberoamericana, Catalan Review, Dieciocho, and Goya: Revista de arte. Irene Gómez Castellano is the author of the collection of poems Natación (Swimming, trans. Jonathan McClure, Valparaíso USA, 2020) and has been the recipient of the Premio Victoria Urbano de Creación awarded by the Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica. Since 2018, she is the Editor of the academic journal Romance Notes. She is currently working on the manuscript of a book tentatively titled The Hunger Artists of Spain.
For a detailed list of Irene Gómez-Castellano's publications, click here.
To access Dr. Gómez-Castellano’s academia.edu profile, click here.
Publications, Articles, & Presentations
Books
Click on a title to learn more.
Recent Book Chapters and Introductions
“Domestic Violence, Artistic Agency and the Female Gothic in Spain, Today: a Visual/Poetic Approach to Sara Morante's Flor Fané (2021), Bibiana Collado Cabrera's Violencia (2020), Sara Morante’s La familia (2022) and Miguel Ángel Oeste’s Vengo de ese miedo (2022)” in Women’s Agency and the Gothic in Spain and the Americas, edited by Megan DeVirgilis and Sandra García Gutiérrez. Manchester UP, 2024. In progress.
“Poetic Evolution I (1924-1934): The Young Poet, Neo-romanticism, Crepusculario, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada” in Ignacio López-Calvo, Pablo Neruda in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Submitted.
‘Mi vientre de arena / se niega a descansar’: El hambre y sus intertextos en la poesía de María González. Esther María Alarcón Arana (ed.) El reflejo de Medusa. Representaciones mediáticas contemporáneas de las mujeres. Advook Editorial, 2023.
“América (2021) de Fernando Valverde: los shootings estadounidenses desde la mirada de un español”. Del salvaje siglo XIX al inestable siglo XX en las letras transatlánticas. Una mirada retrospectiva a través de hispanistas. Editado por Ana I. Simón Alegre. Delaware and Málaga: Vernon Press, 2021. 257-272.
“La poesía epifánica de Amalia Iglesias Serna”. Aérea: Revista Hispanoamericana de Poesía. núm. 15, año XV, 2021. pp. 261-63.
Recent Articles
“Sara Mesa, Un amor (2020) y la resurrección feminista del tremendismo ibérico” Submitted.
“A lomos de un potro oscuro” Paraíso: Revista de poesía número 20 (2023). pp. 53-62.
“Del Freak Show al compromiso: La niña gorda (1917) de Santiago Rusiñol desde una mirada contemporánea”. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies vol. 99.9 (2022)
“Sin más paracaídas que tu agujereado corazón”: Identidades múltiples y microrrelato en La fugacidad del color (2018) de Elga Reátegui”. Special Issue of Romance Notes 62.2 (2022), edited by Ana Calvo Revilla (Narrativas de la brevedad: Travesía transatlántica e intermedial). pp. 211-223.
"Entrelazamientos cuánticos: La habitación del niño (2006) de Álex de la Iglesia y la teoría de los universos paralelos de Erwin Schrödinger," El ojo que piensa. Revista de cine iberoamericano // e-ISSN: 2007-4999 número 24, mayo-junio 2022 (2022), pp. 77-93.
Interviews
“Guillermo Carnero: Tras el hombre y sus máscaras”. Forthcoming in Poéticas.
Encyclopedia Entries
Editor of entry on “José de Cadalso y Vázquez” for the Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 series published by GALE / CENGAGE Learning.
Other Texts
La poesía de Amalia Iglesias Serna”. Aérea: Revista Hispanoamericana de Poesía. Forthcoming.
About My Poetry
María Ángeles Naval: “Contener la respiración: La poesía de Irene Gómez Castellano” Aérea: Revista Hispanoamericana de Poesía 13: XII (2019). 391-394
Awards & Honors
(since 2018)
Keynote Closing Address, FOGO Conference, León, Spain, July 2023
Nominated to the University-wide Faculty Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring by the Graduate School, 2023
Winner of the Faculty Mentoring Award by the Graduate Romance Association, May 2022
Winner of the Graduate Faculty Award, Department of Romance Studies, 2019-2020
Winner of the Schwab Academic Excellence Award (UNC’s IAH, 2020)
Nominated to Bowman and Gordon Grey Distinguished Professorship, 2019
Keynote Address at the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival (with NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green). Cary, March 2019.
Dissertations
De Vidanes a Campazas. El Itinerario literario de Francisco de Isla antes del Fray Gerundio, Antonio Balsó, 2017
Antonio Colinas: Poetry and Life, 1967-1988, A Critical Introduction to the Foundational Poetic Works with Selected Translations, Maria C. Fellie, 2017
The Nature of Woman: Spanish Women Poets of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Keri N. Chandler, 2013
Recently Directed Dissertations
Sandra García Gutiérrez, “La heroína gótica española ante el miedo: de la victimización a la sororidad (1831-2019)” (May 2023)
Colleen McAlister, “Ruination: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Spain’s Ruins in Nineteeth-Century Literature and Culture” (May 2023)
Rhi Johnson (co-directed with Juan Carlos González Espitia, 2021) “Water Women: Reclaiming Erotic Agency through Image in the Transatlantic Nineteenth Century”
Typical Courses
SPAN 340: Spanish Women Writers
SPAN 340: Topics in Iberian Culture (¡Viva Lorca!)
SPAN 750: Enlightenment and Romanticism in Spain
SPAN 715: Modern and Contemporary Spanish Poetry
SPAN 301: Intro to Literary and Cultural Analysis
SPAN 630: Literature and Visual Arts
SPAN 398: The Hunger Artists of Spain: Food, Famine and Eating Disorders from the Picaresque to the 21st Century