{"id":163,"date":"2024-12-22T20:55:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T18:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/?page_id=163"},"modified":"2025-07-15T13:34:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T11:34:45","slug":"dr-nicholas-spengler","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/members\/research-team\/dr-nicholas-spengler\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Nicholas Spengler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/597\/2024\/12\/Nick.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206\" style=\"width:313px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/597\/2024\/12\/Nick.jpg 736w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/597\/2024\/12\/Nick-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:nicholas.spengler@uab.cat\">nicholas.spengler@uab.cat<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Department &amp; University:<\/strong>&nbsp;Department of English and German Studies, UAB<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Brief summary of research interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My research takes a transnational and transcultural approach to U.S. American literary and cultural studies. I wrote my PhD dissertation on Herman Melville\u2019s representation of Spanish America, and I continue to be interested in how U.S. American literature takes us beyond the borders of the nation: through travel writing, maritime writing, and writing about migration and diaspora. Among my current research projects is a study of the experimental aesthetics of war refugee fiction across different periods of U.S. history, comparing Melville\u2019s novel Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (1855) with Viet Thanh Nguyen\u2019s The Sympathizer (2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Selected publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2025<\/strong> <em>Melville\u2019s Americas: Hemispheric Sympathies<\/em>, Transatlantic Contagion. Edinburgh University Press, (forthcoming).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2025<\/strong> &#8220;Melville and American Solitude: A Settler-Colonial Poetics.&#8221; <em>The Oxford Handbook of Herman Melville<\/em>, in Jennifer Greiman and Michael Jonik (eds), Oxford University Press.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2022 <\/strong>&#8220;Sketches of Spain: The Traveling Fictions of Frances Calder\u00f3n de la Barca\u2019s The Attach\u00e9 in Madrid.&#8221; <em>Spain, the United States, and Transatlantic Literary Culture throughout the Nineteenth Century<\/em>, John C. Havard and Ricardo Miguel Alfonso (eds) Routledge, pp. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021<\/strong> &#8220;Of Squalls and Mutinies: Emergency Politics and Black Democracy in Moby-Dick and \u2018The Heroic Slave\u2019.&#8221; Textual Practice, special issue \u201cRescaling Melville,\u201d vol. 35, no. 11, 2021, pp. 1815-1834. DOI: 10.1080\/0950236X.2021.1968183.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021<\/strong>  &#8220;The Poetics of Allegory and Enchantment in Melville\u2019s Americas.&#8221; <em>Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies<\/em>, special issue \u201cMelville and Spanish America,\u201d vol. 23, no. 3, Oct. 2021, pp. 54-72. DOI: 10.1353\/lvn.2021.0033.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2019<\/strong> &#8220;Tracking Melville\u2019s \u2018Dog-King\u2019: Creole Sympathies and Canine Warfare in the Americas.&#8221; <em>Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies<\/em>, vol. 21, no. 3, Oct. 2019, pp. 71-93. DOI: 10.1353\/lvn.2019.0033.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>nicholas.spengler@uab.cat Department &amp; University:&nbsp;Department of English and German Studies, UAB Brief summary of research interests: My research takes a transnational and transcultural approach to U.S. American literary and cultural studies. I wrote my PhD dissertation on Herman Melville\u2019s representation of Spanish America, and I continue to be interested in how U.S. American literature takes us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"parent":581,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-163","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163\/revisions\/402"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}