Curriculum Vitae

Geraldine Cleary Nichols

Professor of Spanish at the University of Florida, Geraldine Cleary Nichols received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University, and has published extensively on Spanish literature of the twentieth century. Her research over the past twenty years has been centered on contemporary women’s narrative in Spain, especially in Catalonia. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on culture and literature in Spain, as well as a graduate course centered on writing for the profession. She serves on three editorial boards for journals in the field of Spanish literature, and has lectured and read scholarly papers at universities in the United States, Spain, France, Argentina, England, New Zealand and Australia. She founded the Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum Project at the University of Florida, now in its second decade and going strong.

Current research interests: the imbrication of nationalism, gender, and subjectivity in pre- and postwar narrative by women in Catalonia; the representation of reproduction in fiction in twentieth-century Spain; memory and gender and representations of the Spanish Civil War.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

  • Miguel Hernández. Boston: Twayne, 1978.
  • Escribir, espacio propio: Laforet, Matute, Tusquets, Moix, Riera y Roig por sí mismas. Minneapolis: Instit. for the Study of Ideologies & Literature, 1989.
  • Des/cifrar la diferencia: narrativa femenina de la España contemporánea. Madrid: Siglo XXI, 1992.

ARTICLES

  • "Julia: 'This is the way the world ends.'" Novelistas femeninas de la posguerra. Ed. Janet W. Díaz. Madrid: Porrúa, 1983. 113-24.
  • "The Prison-House (and Beyond): El mismo mar de todos los veranos." Romanic Review 75 (1984): 366-85.
  • "Codes of Exclusion, Modes of Equivocation: Matute's Primera memoria." Ideologies and Literature ns 1 (1985): 156-88.
  • "Privation in Matute's Fiction for Children." Symposium 39 (1985): 125-38. "Exile, Gender, and Mercè Rodoreda." Modern Language Notes 101 (1986): 405-17.
  • "Mitja poma, mitja taronja: Génesis y destino literarios de la catalana contemporánea." Anthropos 60-61 (1986): 118-25.
  • "Caída/re(s)puesta: la narrativa femenina de la posguerra." Literatura y vida cotidiana. Actas de las IV Jornadas de Investigación Interdisciplinaria. Ed. María Angeles Durán y José Antonio Rey. Zaragoza: Seminario de Estudios de la Mujer, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid, 1987. 325-35.
  • "Sex, the Single Girl, and Other Mésalliances in Rodoreda and Laforet Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea 12 (1987): 123-40.
  • "Writers, Wantons, Witches: Woman and the Expression of Desire in Rodoreda." Catalan Review 2 (1987): 171-80.
  • "Limits Unlimited: the Strategic Use of Fantasy in Contemporary Women's Fiction in Spain." Cultural and Historical Grounding for Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Feminist Literary Criticism. Ed. Hernán Vidal. Minne- apolis: Instit. for the Study of Ideologies & Literature, 1989. 107-28.
  • "Escila y Caribdis de la literatura infantil en España, 1939-1950." Texto y sociedad: Problemas de la historia literaria. Eds. Bridget Aldaraca, Edward Baker, and John Beverley. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1990. 259-69.
  • "Aquí, el que no corre, ni vuela ni entra en el canon." Debats/Debates/ Dibattiti/Panel Discussions/Besprechungen. Actas de la IV Fira Inter- nacional del Llibre Feminista. Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona, 1992. 208-212.
  • "Montserrat Roig." Spanish Women Writers: a Bio-Bibliographical Source Book. Eds. Linda Gould Levine, Ellen Engelson Marson, Gloria Feiman Waldman. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. 429-40.
  • "Miguel Hernández, toros y escobas." Miguel Hernández, cincuenta años después. Ed. José Carlos Rovira. Alicante: Comisión del Homenaje a Miguel Hernández, 1993. I: 273-81.
  • "Minding Her P's and Q's: Feminism and Form in Tusquets' Fiction." Indiana Journal of Hispanic Literatures 2 (1993): 159-79.
  • "Las cuentas claras y otras desgracias en Algunos muchachos. The Literary World of Ana María Matute. Ed. Joaquín Roy. Miami: U of Miami North- South Center, 1993. 27-34.
  • "Creced y multiplicad: niños y números en Algunos muchachos de Ana María Matute." Compás de Letras 4 (1994). 215-26.
  • "Breaking Ranks, Breaking Lances: Trends and Resistances in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women." Siglo XX/20th Century 13 (1995): 177-98.
  • "The Construction of Subjectivity in Contemporary Women Writers of Catalonia." Spain Today: Essays on Literature, Culture, Society. Ed. José Colmeiro, Christina Dupláa, Patricia Greene, and Juana Sabadell. Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1995. 113-26.
  • "Ni una, ni 'grande', ni liberada: reflexiones sobre la narrativa de mujer en la España democrática." Del franquismo a la posmodernidad. Cultura española 1975-1990. Ed.José B. Monleón. Madrid: Akal, 1995. 197-217.
  • "La pluma y la espada, sinécdoque y hombría en la poesía de guerra de Miguel Hernández." Miguel Hernández: Tradiciones y vanguardias. Ed. Serge Salaün and Javier Pérez. Alicante: Instituto de Cultura “Juan Gil-Albert,” 1996. 163-73.
  • "Platos rajados, espejos rotos: la construcción de la subjetividad en tres escritoras catalanas contemporáneas." Paraula de Dona. Actes del Col.loqui Dones, Literatura I Mitjans de Comunició. Ed. Margarida Aritzeta i Montserrat Palau.Tarragona: Diputació de Tarragona, 1997. 187-96.
  • "'Tras su hache mayúscula': Carme Riera and the Exploration of History in Dins el darrer blau." Moveable Margins: The Narrative Art of Carme Riera. Ed. Mary Vásquez, Mirella Servodidio, and Kathleen Glenn. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 1999. 200-17.
  • “Species and Speculation in Montserrat Julió’s Memòries d’un futur bàrbar.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 33 (1999): 337-50.
  • “Spanish and the Multilingual Department: Ways to Use the Rising Tide.” ADFL Bulletin 31 (2000): 39- 43. Selected for reprinting in Profession 2000: 115-23.
  • “Una vuelta a los orígenes.” El espejo y la máscara: Veinticinco años de ficción narrativa en la obra de Carme Riera. Ed. Luisa Cotoner. Barcelona: Destino, 2000. 15-31.
  • Catalan transl. “Un retorn als orígens.” El mirall y la màscara: vint-i-cinc anys de ficció narrativa en l’obra de Carme Riera. Ed. Luisa Cotoner. Barcelona: Destino, 2000. 15-31.

KEYNOTE AND PLENARY SESSION LECTURES

  • "Mitja poma, mitja taronja: Génesis y destino literarios de la catalana contemporánea." Keynote lecture, Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo en Catalunya on "La literatura de dones: una visió del món." September 1985.
  • "Ni una, ni 'grande', ni liberada: reflexiones sobre la narrativa de mujer en la España democrática." Closing Address, International Symposium on Spanish Literature Since 1975, University of California at Los Angeles. November 1990.
  • "Platos rajados, espejos rotos: la subjetividad en tres escritoras de la Catalunya contemporánea." Plenary session. Symposium, Dona i paraula, Univ. Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. April 1995.
  • "Telling Tales and Righting Wrongs: Tendencies in Recent Women's Fiction in Spain." Taft Memorial Lecture, University of Cincinnati. May 1996.
  • “(Re)producciones escandalosas: cuatro casos de resistencia.” Inaugural Address at Conference Perversas y divinas: artistas, viajeras, hetairas, musas, cyborgs y demás, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. October 2000.

RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES

  • "Las cuentas claras y otras desgracias en Algunos muchachos de Ana María Matute." VIII Symposium "Letras de Oro," University of Miami. March 1993.
  • "Miguel Hernández, armas, toros y escobas." Universidad de Buenos Aires, Cátedra de Literatura Española. May 1993.
  • "The Construction of Subjectivity in Contemporary Women Writers of Catalonia." Symposium, Spain Today: Literature, Culture, Society. Dartmouth College. November 1994.
  • "'Tras su hache mayúscula': Carme Riera and the Exploration of History." Twentieth Century Spanish Literature Division Session, MLA. December 1995.
  • “The World Turned Upside Down: Women Writers and the(ir) Spanish Civil War.” Swarthmore College. April 1997.
  • “Rising Tides and Leaky Boats: Spanish in the Multilingual Department.” AATSP Convention, Madrid. August 1998.
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  • Species and Speculation in Montserrat Julió’s Memòries d’un futur bàrbar.” Twentieth Century Spanish Literature Division Session, MLA. December 1998.
  • “Voulez-vous parlay conmigo? Leveraging the Spanish Colossus.” ADFL Seminar West, Arizona State University. June 2000.
  • “Escritura y reproducción: España, fin de siglo.” Spain in the Twenty-First Century. Ohio State University. November, 2000.
  • “Una vuelta a los orígenes.” Trobada internacional d’especialistes en l’obra narrativa de Carme Riera, Barcelona. November 2000.
  • “Reading Reproduction.” Session of the North American Catalan Society, MLA. December 2000.
  • “Espacios en blanco: España, la historia literaria y el tercer milenio.” España fuera de España: los espacios de la historia literaria, Harvard University. March 2001.
  • “Apples, Oranges, and Rewards in the Multilingual Department.” ADFL Seminar East, Middlebury College. June 2001.

COURSES TAUGHT

SPANISH

  • Language: Elementary, Intermediate, Conversation, Intermediate Oral Practice, Grammar and Composition, Advanced Conversation

    • Literature and Culture, Junior or third-year level:
    • Baroque, Neoclassical and Romantic Peninsular Literature
    • Contemporary Hispanic Literature
    • Introduction to Spanish Literature 2 (XVIII-present)
    • Spanish Civilization and Culture

    Literature, Senior level:

    • From the Generation of 1898 to the Present Twentieth Century Spanish Poetry García Lorca
    • Miguel Hernández and Federico García Lorca
    • Spanish Drama of the Golden Age
    • Hispanic Women Writers

    Literature, Graduate level:

    • Spanish Postwar Narrative Fiction
    • Spanish Literature from 1927 to the Present
    • Twentieth Century Spanish Poetry
    • Gender Issues and Contemporary Spanish Narrative
    • Masterpieces of XX Spanish Literature
    • Sexualities, Textualities, Nationalities: Spanish Postwar Fiction
    • Reproducción, Familia y Futuro en la Literatura Española del Siglo XX

    CATALAN AND CASTILIAN LITERATURE

      Graduate level (Tercer Ciclo, Spain):
    • Dobleces y Desdoblamientos: Narrativa femenina en Catalunya desde la Guerra Civil

    WORLD LITERATURE IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

    • Images of Modern Man
    • Continental Masterpieces

    WOMEN'S STUDIES

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Women

    HONORS , AWARDS, DISTINCTIONS

    • Visiting Distinguished Professor, Programa de Doctorat de Tercer Cicle en Estudis Sobre la Dona, Universitat de Barcelona, 1991
    • Visiting Faculty, Cursos de Verano de la Universidad Complutense, San Lorenzo de El Escorial: "Mujeres creadoras," August 1993
    • TIP Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Florida, 1995
    • Visiting Professor, Seminar on Twentieth Century Spanish Literature, Emory University, October-November 1996
    • Modern Language Association (MLA): Executive Committee, Twentieth Century Spanish Literature Division, 1996-2000
    • Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL): Executive Committee, 2000-03; President-Elect, 2002-03

    OTHER GRANTS

    • NEH Grant for Independent Study and Research, 1984-85
    • Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture and U.S. Universities, Publication Subsidy for Escribir, espacio propio, 1989