{"id":78,"date":"2023-03-04T13:51:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T11:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/g4roc\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2023-10-14T19:58:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T17:58:37","slug":"dr-nicholas-spengler","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/g4roc\/members\/dr-nicholas-spengler\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Nicholas Spengler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/g4roc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2023\/10\/Staff-photo-736x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-121\" width=\"257\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/g4roc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2023\/10\/Staff-photo-736x1024.jpg 736w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/g4roc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2023\/10\/Staff-photo-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/g4roc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2023\/10\/Staff-photo-768x1068.jpg 768w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/g4roc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2023\/10\/Staff-photo-1104x1536.jpg 1104w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/g4roc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2023\/10\/Staff-photo-1472x2048.jpg 1472w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/g4roc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2023\/10\/Staff-photo-1200x1669.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/g4roc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2023\/10\/Staff-photo-scaled.jpg 1840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>E-mail address:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:nicholas.spengler@uab.cat\">nicholas.spengler@uab.cat<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Department &amp; University:<\/strong> 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>Melville\u2019s Americas: Hemispheric Sympathies, Transatlantic Contagion. Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cMelville and American Solitude: A Settler-Colonial Poetics\u201d. The Oxford Handbook of Herman Melville, eds. Jennifer Greiman and Michael Jonik. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cSketches of Spain: The Traveling Fictions of Frances Calder\u00f3n de la Barca\u2019s The Attach\u00e9 in Madrid\u201d. Spain, the United States, and Transatlantic Literary Culture throughout the Nineteenth Century, eds. John C. Havard and Ricardo Miguel Alfonso. Routledge, 2022. ISBN 9781032108407.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cOf Squalls and Mutinies: Emergency Politics and Black Democracy in Moby-Dick and \u2018The Heroic Slave\u2019\u201d. Textual Practice, \u201cRescaling Melville\u201d special issue, 35.11 (2021). 1815-1834. DOI: 10.1080\/0950236X.2021.1968183.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cThe Poetics of Allegory and Enchantment in Melville\u2019s Americas\u201d. Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, \u201cMelville and Spanish America\u201d special issue, 23.3 (October 2021). 54-72. DOI: 10.1353\/lvn.2021.0033.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cTracking Melville\u2019s \u2018Dog-King\u2019: Creole Sympathies and Canine Warfare in the Americas\u201d. Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, 21.3 (October 2019). 71-93. DOI: 10.1353\/lvn.2019.0033<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-mail address: nicholas.spengler@uab.cat Department &amp; University: 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-78","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/g4roc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/g4roc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/g4roc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/g4roc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/g4roc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/g4roc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/g4roc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions\/123"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/g4roc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/g4roc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}