With thanks to our sponsors:

Zengierski Family Lectures in Spanish Literature and Culture

Prof. Justin A. Read, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Dr. Valis has just finished Lorca After Life, a study of the poet-playwright’s meaning as a cultural icon and modern celebrity, now in press with Yale University Press. Her previous works include: The Culture of Cursilería: Bad Taste, Kitsch, and Class in Modern Spain (Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, 2003); Sacred Realism: Religion and the Imagination in Modern Spanish Narrative; many other books and editions in Spanish and English, as well as creative writing.

A Guggenheim Fellow (2006-07), she is a corresponding member of the Spanish Royal Academy and a full member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española.

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Carmen Moreno-Nuño es autora de Las huellas de la Guerra Civil: mito y trauma en la narrativa de la España democrática (2006) y Haciendo memoria: confluencias entre la historia, la cultura y la memoria de la Guerra Civil en la España del siglo XXI (2019), y coeditora de Armed Resistance: Cultural Representations of the Anti-Francoist Guerrilla (2012). Ha publicado numerosos ensayos sobre, entre otros temas, migración, cine, cómic, televisión, posmodernidad, espacio, escritura femenina, y la guerra civil española.  

Analizará la búsqueda del cadáver de Federico García Lorca que tiene lugar en 2009-2010. Dicha búsqueda alcanza todo su significado como parte de la trayectoria histórica de la memoria de la Guerra Civil en la España de la primera década del siglo XXI, que Moreno-Nuño ha trazado en Haciendo Memoria: desde la aparición de la Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica y la apertura de fosas comunes por todo el territorio nacional, hasta la aprobación de la Ley de Memoria Histórica en 2007. La saturación del recuerdo del pasado que provoca la infructuosa búsqueda de Federico García Lorca cierra la década, poniendo punto y final al boom de la memoria.

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Jonathan Mayhew has published numerous books and articles on Federico García Lorca and on contemporary Spanish poetry. His 2009 Apocryphal Lorca: Translation, Parody, Kitsch, was a comparative study devoted to the way in which American poets reimagined Lorca in a New World context through a variety of textual practices. Lorca’s Legacy (Routledge, 2018), was a more expanded look at the meanings Lorca’s work acquired in a variety of interpretive contexts.   

His current project is The Musical Afterlife of Federico García Lorca, a study of musical works in both classical and vernacular genres devoted to his poetry and drama: operas, ballets, instrumental works, and above all songs in a variety of genres, including folk, flamenco, and alternative rock.

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