Dr. Alrick Knight

Degrees

• Ph.D. University of Minnesota
• M.S. Minnesota State University, Mankato
• B.A. Minnesota State University, Mankato

Research Interests

• 19th and early 20th Century Peninsular Literature
• Philosophical approaches to literature

Professional & Community Affiliations

• 2010-present  Asociaci贸n Internacional de Galdosistas
• 2002-present  Modern Language Association
• 2003-present  Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
• 2007-present  Society for the Study of Narrative Literature
• 2007-present  American Translators Association

Courses Taught

• Advanced conversation and composition
• Intro. to Spanish literature, Middle Ages to the present
• Romanticism
• Nineteenth-century Spanish literature
• Generation of 98
• Twentieth-century Spanish prose

Selected Publications

• "Benito P茅rez Gald贸s's Do帽a Perfecta: The Problem of Rosario's Beauty"(forthcoming [2018] in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies)
• "Fines nobles y medios lun谩ticos: La b煤squeda del conocimiento en Belarmino y Apolonio de Ram贸n P茅rez de Ayala"(book chapter in Ensayos selectos sobre politica, sociedad y cultura en la Asturias de la edad moderna. Ed. Jorge Abril S谩nchez. Valladolid: Verdel铆s, 2017). Accepted and forthcoming 2017
• 鈥淪educciones de la unidad, la identidad y la individualidad en Belarmino y Apolonio de Ram贸n P茅rez de Ayala鈥� (Anales de la Literatura Espa帽ola Contempor谩nea, vol. 41, no. 1, 2016, pp. 75-96)
• 鈥淩eg铆menes epistemol贸gicos de la modernidad:  Espacios urbanos y rurales en Poe y Azor铆n鈥� (La Nueva Literatura Hisp谩nica, vol. 14, 2010 pp. 17-32)
• From Gald贸s to Modernism: The Illusory Projects of Modernity (forthcoming Spring 2011 by the Edwin Mellen Press)
• 鈥淣oble Ends and Lunatic Means:  The Quest for Knowledge in P茅rez de Ayala鈥檚 Belarmino y Apolonio鈥� (forthcoming 2010; refereed conference proceedings from a University of Chicago symposium entitled  鈥淎sturias y los asturianos en la historia:  Pasado, presente y futuro鈥� [29-30 October 2009])
• 鈥淭he Epistemology of Olfaction: Eduardo L贸pez Bago鈥檚 La prostituta鈥� (Hispania, vol. 92, no. 3, 2009, pp. 430-438)
• 鈥淭he Self Under Siege: Gald贸s and the Search for Certainty鈥� (Revista Hisp谩nica Moderna, Vol. 59, 2006, 1-2, pp.71-82)
• 鈥淚s Nothing Sacred? Spain Performs the Death of God鈥� (Mester, 2006, Vol. XXXV, 1-21)
• Review of Realism as Resistance: Romanticism and Authorship in Gald贸s, Clar铆n and Baroja, by Denise DuPont. Forthcoming in 贬颈蝉辫补苍贸蹿颈濒补.