Anthony John Lappin
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Name and title: Anthony John Lappin
ORCID0000-0001-8491-4974 Länk till annan webbplats.
Workplace: Department of Romance Studies and Classics Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room B 438Universitetsvägen 10 B, plan 4 och 5 samt 10 C plan 5
Postal address Romanska och klassiska institutionen106 91 Stockholm
About me
(D.Phil., Oxon, 1997). Lecturer in Spanish Literature in the Department of Romance Studies and Classics.
Born in Liverpool in 1968, I studied Spanish and Portuguese at Oxford for my BA (Hons) degree, and continued there for my doctorate which covered medieval Castilian, Galician and Latin texts. I began teaching Portuguese at Oxford University, became a lecturer in Spanish at the University of Manchester, became Professor of Spanish at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, and subsequently research professor there. I have also held research fellowships at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies at Uppsala and Marsh's Library, Dublin.
I am editor of Medium Aevum Monographs, and formerly president of the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures. I am also on the editorial board of De medio aevo and work closely with the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Stockholm. I have co-organized the digital humanities international conferences, Dark Archives, from 2019 to the present.
I currently teach courses in Modern Spanish Literature, Hispanic Culture and Society, Written Spanish Composition and Research Methods. At Masters level, I offer Spanish Literary History and contribute to a course on the Epic and on Medieval Literature. I particularly enjoy teaching about short literary forms, such as poetry and the short story.
Beginners' Spanish
Culture and Society.
I introduce you to some of the major themes that have shaped Spanish and Latin American societies and cultures (colonization, religion, cuisine, ethnicity, dictatorships).
Level 1
Literature and Text I-II.
An introduction to different literary forms, from descriptions to plays, and from short stories to poetry. You'll be encouraged to respond to different forms through either creative writing or close analysis.
Level 2
Written Spanish
The course provides you with the essentials to write in academic Spanish, as a preparation for composition of a dissertation.
Level 3
Modern Spanish Literature.
Taking various works in different genres, the course provides an overview of twentieth- and twenty-first literature as well as the dominant interpretative theories of this period.
Masters Level
Spanish Literary History.
The course covers major literary movements and key authors from the nineteenth century back to the medieval origins of the language. It provides a thorough grounding in the past literature of Spain, considering Realism and Romanticism, the Enlightenment, the Baroque, the Renaissance, and different forms of medieval literature.
The Epic.
In a course shared between the different languages of the department, I offer an overview of and introduction to the subject, lectures on the orality of medieval epics, and the development and rebirth of epic in the modern world.
I have broad areas of interest in a number of languages; the main areas are listed below.
1. Medieval Iberia
a) Christian-Muslim interaction, in particular the role of the Mozarabs in religious controversy and Christian translation and commentary on the Qur'an.
b) Questions of authorship and manuscript transmission in early Spanish cuaderna vía poetry.
c) Hagiography in general, and especially the works of Gonzalo de Berceo.
2. The Baroque
a) The Baroque as an international cultural form, and particularly its relevance to English poetry.
b) Cervantes as an exemplar of the Baroque.
c) Gracián as a theorist of the Baroque into the neo-Classical age.
3. Modern Poetry
a) Religion and spirituality in twentieth-century poetry.
b) Translation of modern poetry.
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