- DEPARTMENT FACULTYProf. Debra AmesProf. Karen BerrierProf. Jennifer BjornstadProf. Sarah DeMarisProf. Randa DuvickProf. Mark FarmerProf. Hoult-SarosProf. Frederick KavanaghProf. Michael KumpfProf. Timothy MalchowProf. Jianyun MengProf. Carlos Miguel-PueyoProf. Sally OchoaProf. Benjamin RidgwayProf. Rachel Rivers ParroquinProf. Angela TaraskiewiczProf. Timothy TomasikProf. Nelly Zamora-Breckenridge
- FACULTY PROFILE
Prof. Carlos Miguel-Pueyo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Meier Hall 109
219.464.5398
Carlos.Miguel-Pueyo@valpo.eduBiography
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago (2006).
Dissertation: “Lenguaje insuficiente, colores suficientes: el “azul” en Bécquer y Novalis.”
Specialization: Modern Peninsular literature.
Secondary Fields: Modern Latin American literature, 19th Century French literature, Spanish Golden Age.
ABD. Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain. (1998-2001). Completed Doctorate Program.
Specialization: Literature of the Spanish Golden Age.
Secondary Fields: Modern Peninsular Poetry, Contemporary Theatre, and Cinema.
B.A. (5-year) “Licenciatura en Filología Hispánica” (Literatura española) (1993-1998).
COURSES
Over the last decade, Prof. Miguel-Pueyo, has taught both at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and here at Valparaiso University a wide variety of courses, such as:
FLS 101: “First Semester of Spanish”
FLS 102: “Second Semester Spanish”
FLS 103: “High Beginners Spanish”
FLS 204: “Spanish Conversation and Composition”
FLS 220: “Selection of Readings in Hispanic Literature”
FLS 307: “Professional Spanish”
FLS 341: “History of Spanish Language”
FLS 390: “Junior Seminar”: El humor en el teatro español: desde la Edad Media hasta nuestros días” FLS 493: “Senior Seminar”: Lecturas literarias y artísticas de la Guerra Civil Española”
ADVISING
Prof. Miguel-Pueyo advises to some Spanish majors and all new Spanish minors. If you need an advisor, please contact him.
SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES AT VALPO
Prof. Miguel-Pueyo serves in different ways at Valpo:
- He has served for the MLK Day Celebration in the Focus Sessions Committee for 2008, and 2009.
- He was a committee member in the “Focus on Europe” series during the academic course 06-07, within which he presented “African Immigrants in Spain Today” as orientation to the movie “Poniente”, in April 12th, 2007.
- Spanish faculty member collaborating with the Department of Education at Valparaiso University, evaluating and assisting student teachers of Spanish, during their student-teaching period at high schools of the area, (2007-08).
- Spanish contact of “Bridges to a World of Languages Program”, between Valparaiso University and schools of the area. Some of our foreign languages students teach at some of those schools (07-08, 08-09).
- “30 Years of Democracy in Spain with Juan Carlos I”, to the VOLTS group, in February 2nd, 2006.
SPANISH CLUB
Contact him if you want to attend! Carlos.Miguel-Pueyo@valpo.edu or visit: www.valpo.edu/foreignlanguages/spanish/spanishclub
¿ESCRIBES EN ESPANOL?
If you are a student registered in a Spanish course, FLS 220 or higher, and you have written a creative text in Spanish –poem or short story- send it to him with your name and e-mail address and it can be published in the Literary Magazine “Letras,” a new creation by the Spanish section to publish our students’ literary work in Spanish. www.valpo.edu/foreignlanguages/spanish/letras.php
SPANISH HOUSE
If you are interested in being a resident in the Spanish House at Valparaiso University, contact him for more info, or visit our website: www.valpo.edu/foreignlanguages/spanishhouse
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Prof. Miguel-Pueyo is interested mainly in Spanish Modern literature of 19th-century, and its relationship with other European literatures. He studies the meaning of color and its relationship between painting, music and literature in Romantic European writers. He also does research on the phenomenon of “orality” and writing in Spanish Golden Age until today.
BOOKS
El color del romanticismo: en busca de un arte total. (The Color of Romanticism: in Search of a Total Art). New York: Peter Lang, 2009.
This book focuses on the relationship and meaning of the “blue” color, in Romantic writers such as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and Novalis. He explores how the Romantic writers, mainly in Spain, Germany, and France, use painting techniques to express what they cannot with the mere language made of words.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
“Un puente pictórico entre España y Alemania: valor de los colores en Bécquer y Novalis”, Actas del V Coloquio sobre la Literatura española del siglo XIX: La literatura española y las literaturas europeas del siglo XIX, 2008, (forthcoming).
“El pecado de nacer músico; el color de la música en ‘El Miserere’ de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer”. VII Coloquio Internacional de Literatura Fantástica Desde los orígenes de lo fantástico”. Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (Germany), 2008, (forthcoming).
"Entre sueño y realidad; significado del color en la obra de Bécquer. Nuevas aportaciones". Actas del XVI Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas. Université de la Sorbonne, Paris, (forthcoming).
“De Verlaine a Darío: en torno a los sentidos. Nuevas consideraciones”. Las dos orillas. Memorias del Congreso XV de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas. Ed. Mariscal, B. y Miaja, M.T. Monterrey (México): Colegio de México, 2007. v. IV. 573-584.
“El Quijote: entre lectura colectiva y lectura silenciosa”. El Quijote en Buenos Aires. Lecturas cervantinas en el cuarto centenario. Eds. Parodi, A. et al. Buenos Aires: Instituto de Filología y Literaturas Hispánicas “Dr. Amado Alonso”, 2006. 469-476.
“Entre sueño y vigilia: la semiótica en Viaje a la luna, de Federico García Lorca”, Bulletin Hispanique.108.2 (2006). 475-486.
“Álbumes románticos poéticos”. Pliegos de Bibliofilia (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) 22 (2003): 49-58.
Review of the Volume 29/30 of the Bulletin of the Foundation Federico García Lorca, dedicated to Baltasar Gracián on the Fourth Centenary of his Birth. Coord. Aurora Egido, Madrid. In Archivo de Filología Aragonesa LVII-LVIII (2001): 367-374.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
XVII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, Università di Roma, Italy, July 2010.
“De la tierra a la tierra: un asedio telúrico a Bodas de sangre, de F. G. Lorca”. 62nd Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, April 16-18, 2009.
“Un puente pictórico entre España y Alemania: valor de los colores en Bécquer y Novalis”, V Colloquium of the Society of Spanish Literature of the 19th-Century, La literatura española y las literaturas europeas del siglo XIX. Universitat de Barcelona (Spain), October 22-24, 2008.
“El pecado de nacer músico; el color de la música en ‘El Miserere’ de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer”. VII Coloquio Internacional de Literatura Fantástica Desde los orígenes de lo fantástico”. Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (Germany), September 3-6, 2008.“Entre sueño y realidad; significado del color en la obra de Bécquer. Nuevas aportaciones”. XVI Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas. Université de la Sorbonne. Paris, July 9-13, 2007.
“African Immigrants in Spain Today”. Presentation –orientation to the movie “Poniente”, within the series of events “Focus on Europe”, Valparaiso University. April 12th, 2007.
“Poetics on Blue: How Blue Color Saves the Romantic Insuficiency of the Language in Bécquer and Novalis”. Departmental Colloquium, Dep. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Valparaiso University, November 14th, 2006.
“30 Years of Democracy in Spain with Juan Carlos I”, presentation for the VOLTS group, Valparaíso University, February 2nd, 2006.
“El Quijote: entre lectura colectiva y lectura silenciosa”. Congreso Internacional el Quijote en Buenos Aires, Universidad de La Plata, Buenos Aires, September 20-23, 2005.
“De Verlaine a Darío: en torno a los sentidos. Nuevas consideraciones.” Las dos orillas. XV Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, Monterrey (México), July 19-24, 2004.
“Autobiografía”, Session Chair. 15th Congress of the International Association of Hispanists.
“De la oralidad y sus consecuencias en la Segunda Parte del Quijote". Third Annual Cervantes Symposium, Newberry Library, Center for Renaissance Studies, Chicago, April 25-26, 2003.
CURRENT WORK
Prof. Miguel-Pueyo is currently working on a project that continues his first book (The Color of Romanticism), focusing now on the color of the music in Bécquer and Novalis, as well as in other adjacent Romantic writers, whose title will be: Los poetas románticos pintan cuadros sinfónicos (Romantic Poets Paint Symphonic Paintings).
He is also working on a textbook to teach Spanish Civilization and Culture, through architecture.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Prof. Miguel-Pueyo is member of the leading associations in the field of 19th-century literature, for which he collaborates in different aspects: Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (AIH), Sociedad de la Literatura Española del Siglo XIX (SLESXIX) (Barcelona), Grupo Internacional de Estudios sobre Romanticismo Hispánico (U. of Alicante, Spain), and Modern Language Association (MLA), among others.
CREATIVE WRITING
"Lo que nunca nos dijimos" (short story).
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Committee to Enhance Learning and Teaching Travel Grant to attend and present at the VII Coloquio Internacional de Literatura Fantástica Desde los orígenes de lo fantástico”. Otto- Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (Germany), September 3-6, 2008
Recipient of one of the 2007 Valparaiso University Alumni Association Faculty Development Award, to present a paper in the XVI Conference of the International Association of Hispanists, Paris, 2007.
Committee to Enhance Learning and Teaching Travel Grant (CELT), Valparaiso University (2007), to attend the 2007 CIBER Business Language Conference, Ohio State University, March 28- March 30, 2007.
Member of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi Honor, University of Illinois at Chicago. April 14, 2005.
Teaching Excellence Award, ranked excellent by students in Spanish for the spring and fall semesters of 2004.
Ruth El-Saffar Award for the Best Graduate Essay in Hispanic Literatures, Department of Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese, University of Illinois-Chicago, fall 2003.
Travel Award from Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI) (Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Award granted to attend and present a conference in the XV Congress of International Association of Hispanists, Monterrey (Mexico), July 19-24, 2004.
Student Travel Award, (Graduate College Fund), University of Illinois-Chicago. Award granted to attend and present a conference in the XV Congress of International Association of Hispanists.