People
Josep Miquel Sobrer | Faculty
Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Interim Chair and Acting Director of Graduate Studies
Office: Ballantine Hall 803
TEL: 855-8498
Email: sobrer
Education
M.A.,1969, University of Oregon
Ph.D., 1972. University of Oregon
Llicenciat en Filosofia i Lletres, 1966, Universitat de Barcelona
Specializations
- Catalan literature (interest in issues of political affirmation) and language.
- Modern literature of Spain (interest in questions of periodicity –Romanticism–, national formation, ideology).
- Translation theory and practice.
Selected Publications
- Desfer les Amèriques; Contradiccionari. Cabrera de Mar (Barcelona): Galerada, 2006.
- A Broken Mirror, translation of Mercè Rodoreda, Mirall trencat. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska Press, 2006. With an introductory essay.
- Deformation, Mutilation, and Putrefaction: The Early Foix. Tesserae; Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 9, (n 2), 2003: 179-189
- Against Barcelona?: Gaudí, the City, and Nature. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 6, 2002 [2003]: 205-219.
- Man and Beast: the Nietzschean Heroics of Àngel Guimerà's Terra Baixa. Romance Quarterly 46 (Nº 4, 1999): 196-203.
- Ironic Allegory in Terenci Moix's El sexe dels àngels. [Liverpool] Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 75 (1998): 339-356.
- The Short Fiction of Pere Calders; a Translator's Journal. Catalan Review ["Pere Calders and His Contemporaries"] 10 (nº 1-2), 1996 [1997]: 115-124.
- Catalonia, a Self-Portrait (Selections from contemporary Catalan literature, translations, introduction, notes). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
Reviewed by Ronald Christ in Sites 25 (1993), 68-71; by Manuel Duran in Catalan Review 7 (1993), 164-165. - La doble soledat d'Ausias March. Barcelona: Edicions dels Quaderns Crema, 1987.
Reviewed in Revista de Catalunya, II (November, 1987), 182-183.
Honors and Awards
- Grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation for Barcelona 1961 project.
- Publication grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States' Universities for a monographic issue of Catalan Review. 2000.
- N. E. H. Institute on Literary Translation. Participant. Univ. of California at Santa Cruz. 1989.
- Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies. 1979-80.
Current Research Projects
- Barcelona 1961; A Year in the Life of a City, essays against modernity.
Other
- Editor, Catalan Review
