Antonio Gómez López-Quiñones
Associate Professor
Appointments
Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
Area of Expertise
Memory Studies (Spanish Civil War),
European Marxism ,
Philosophy and Literature ,
Cultural Aspects of the Neoliberal Crisis,
Aesthetics (the Sublime) ,
Modern Spanish Literature and Film
Biography
Antonio Gómez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, with a joint appointment in the Program in Comparative Literature, where he regularly teaches in the graduate program. Occasionally, he has also taught Humanities 1, 2, and 3. He is the author of three monographs: one on Jorge Luis Borges's response to Nazism from 1937 to 1946 (here); another on the representation of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) in 21st-century films and novels (here); and a third on the concept of the sublime in contemporary Spanish novels (here). He has also co-edited several collective volumes and special journal issues on topics such as the dialogue between Hermeneutics and Marxism (here), political and cultural populism (here), the archaeology of the communist imaginary in the Iberian Peninsula (here), the philosophical and ideological understandings of "precarity" during the Great Recession (here), and Spain's role in the memorialization of the Holocaust (here). He has published around one hundred scholarly articles on a wide array of topics and media (film, television, novels, photography), typically exploring the interconnections between aesthetics, Marxism and political theory.
He is the recipient of the Dartmouth Assembly's Excellence Award (2009), the John M. Manley Huntington Award (2011), the New Directions in the Humanities Scholarship (2018), and, more recently, the Leslie Humanities Center's Jonathan Crewe Fellowship (2025). He has been a member of several international research groups and, in the Fall 2022, taught as a visiting professor at Sapienza Università di Roma. His current book project examines the reception of Antonio Gramsci's cultural and political thought in Spain.
Education
Ph.D. Universidad de Granada, Spain (2003)
Ph.D. University of Colorado at Boulder (2005)
Taught Courses
Publications
"Who Owns the World We Need to Know? Political Emancipation and Anti-Disinformation Pedagogy." Anti-Disinformation Pedagogy: Tackling the Power of Manipulative Media. HIOL 32 (2024): 222-241.
"El Rey y sus familias (o el problema de la abstracción real)." Bulletin of Spanish Studies 101.5-6 (2024): 727-750.
"Leyenda y pragmática del pueblo." Discursos de seducción: el mito y la leyenda en la cultura española. Madrid and Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana, 2023. 359-386
"15M/Melancolía." eHumanistas 53 (2022): 138-161.
"Bajo la esfinge de Mammon: El sentido trágico del diálogo entre cristianos y comunistas." Un siglo de comunismo en España (II). Ed. Francisco Erice. Madrid: Akal, 2022. 461-492.
"Trauma, pasado y presente: sobre la gestión memorialística de la Guerra Civil española." Novecento Transnazionale. Letterature, Arti e Culture 6.1 (2022): Forthcoming.
"The Gramscian Moment of the Spanish Crisis." Boundary 2 48.2 (2021): 55-86.
"Transatlantic Film Studies in the Age of Neoliberalism: Towards a Post-National Cinema?." Transatlantic Studies: Latin America, Iberia, and Africa. Eds. Sebastiaan Faber, Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel, Robert Newcomb and Pedro García-Caro. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. 299-312.
"¿Interpretación sin transformación? Karl Korsch y el momento no-dialéctico de la dialéctica." La Lupa Roja. Ensayos sobre hermenéutica y marxismo. Buenos Aires: TESEO, 2019. 75-123.
"¿Literatura sin Estado? Sobre las aporías del régimen estético en la modernidad capitalista." Tropelías. Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada 4 (2018): 9-32.
"En el laberinto populista. Algunas claves teóricas e históricas." Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies.Iberian Populisms 21 (2017): 105-135.
"Sin perpetradores: crisis económica, publicidad televisiva y la ontología social del azar." Perpetradores y memoria democrática en España. Eds. Ana Luengo y Katherine Stafford. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press [HIOL], 2017. 109-130.
"Cristianismo, marxismo y la teología trágica de la Transición (Al compás de Alfonso Comín)." Cruzar la línea roja. Acercamientos al imaginario comunista ibérico (1930-2015). Madrid and Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert / Iberoamericana, 2017. 279-31.
"La precariedad de la precariedad y el discreto encanto de la culpa política." Imaginación hipotecada. Aportaciones al debate sobre la precariedad del presente. Madrid: Editorial Ecologistas en Acción, 2016. 133-46.
"El dilema del modernismo literario-filosófico: Autonomía y hermenéutica en Robert Pippin." Ámbitos. Revista de Estudios de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades 35 (2016): 47-59.
"Nostalgia and/as Loose Causality in Belle Époqueand La lengua de las mariposas." International Journal of Iberian Studies 27.2-3 (2014): 105-120.
"Mendoza/Wittgenstein: ¿De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de un extraterrestre?". Anales de Literatura Española Contemporánea 39.1 (2014): 145-174.
"Contra Sartre: el marxismo estructuralista de López Aranguren y los límites de la Transición." Revista Hispánica Moderna 67.1 (2014): 17-36.
"A Secret Agreement: The Historical Memory Debate and the Limits of Recognition." Historical Memory and its Discontent. Eds. Luis Martín Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press [HIOL], 2013. 87-116.
"Aviso para navegantes: La crítica del capitalismo y sus im/posibilidades (Notas para un mapa conceptual de la crisis de 2008)." Revista de ALCES XXI. Journal of Contemporary Spanish Film & Literature 1 (2013): 68-145.
"La conquista y el problema de la modernidad hispánica. Dos discursos sobre el pasado (post)colonial español." Anales de Literatura Española Contemporánea 36.1 (2011): 101-132.
"Towards a Pragmatic Version of Memory: What Could the Spanish Civil War Mean to Contemporary Spain?." Unearthing Franco's Legacy: Mass Graves and the Recuperation of Historical Memory in Spain. Eds. Carlos Jerez-Farrán and Samuel Amago. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2010. 208-220.
"Beyond Words: The National Sublime and the Spanish War of Independence in El secreto del rey cautivo and Un día de cólera." Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 11.2 (2010): 131-151.
"Políticas de lo sublime en Burke, Kant y Lyotard." Afinidades. Revista de Literatura y Pensamiento 2 (2009): 120-131.
"Del diálogo y sus límites en La pelota alta: La piel contra la piedra." Hispanic Research Journal 10.2 (2009): 141-156.
Works in Progress
Iberian Gramsci: From the Anti-Francoist Resistance to the New Populist Movements.
"Mediación y teológica política en la narrativa caballeresca de Sánchez-Mazas". Orillas. Rivista D'Ispanistica. Forthcoming
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