Alvarez-Fernández Publishes Two New Works

Associate Professor of Modern Languages José Ignacio Alvarez-Fernández recently published a collection of essays entitled, Approaches to Iberian Cultural Studies earlier this fall. The piece offers an interdisciplinary approach to Spain's contemporary literature and culture, and provides an inquiry into the social, cultural, and political shifts that affect how, what, and why individuals, groups, and societies remember and forget.

Dr. Alvarez-Fernández's forward of Alicio Garcitoral's novel, The Crime of Cuenca, will soon be available as well. Framed within the social and political literature of the years before the Spanish civil war, the novel chronicles the struggles and frustrations of Republican Governor Augusto Valdés, alter ego of the writer, journalist and radical socialist politician Alicio Garcitoral during his short but intense personal experience at the head of the Civil Government of Cuenca and its province.