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MATTHEW J. MARR
Assistant Professor of Spanish
The Pennsylvania State University
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Address
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Department of
Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese
211 Burrowes
Building
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
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Office Address
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355-N Burrowes Building
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Phone
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814-863-7613
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Fax
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814-863-7944
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E-Mail
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mjm66@psu.edu
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Prof. Matthew J. Marr specializes in contemporary Spanish literary
and cultural studies, with a particular emphasis on fiction, poetry, and
cinema produced since Spain’s post-1975 transition to democracy and during
its subsequent integration with the European Union. His scholarly work seeks
to open up Peninsular studies to internationally comparative perspectives by
positioning recent Spanish texts and cultural currents within a critical
framework attentive to issues such as globalization, transnationalism,
postmodernism, and transatlantic intertextuality.
The author of several articles and a monograph (Postmodern Metapoetry and the Replenishment of the Spanish Lyrical
Genre, 1980-2000), he is currently beginning a second book on marginality
and social conflict in Spanish cinema from the 1990s through the present.
Before coming to Penn State in 2007, Dr. Marr held a faculty position at the
University of Illinois at Chicago (2004-07), as well as visiting appointments
at Northwestern University (Fall 2006, by invitation) and Middlebury College
(2003-04).
Research
Interests | Education | Publications
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Research Interests
Recent Spanish Cinema
Comparative Approaches to the
Contemporary Spanish Novel
Twentieth-Century Spanish Poetry
Cultural and Media Studies in the
Post-1975 Peninsular Context
Education
Ph.D. in Spanish, University of Virginia (2003)
Dissertation: The “Metapoetics” of Postmodernism: Self-Consciousness and
Creative Renewal in Peninsular Verse of the 1980s and 1990s (Director,
Andrew A. Anderson)
M.A. in Spanish,
University of Virginia (1999)
B.A. in Spanish
& English, College of William & Mary (1997)
Studies Abroad: Universitat de València (Spain), Universidad Católica
de Valparaíso (Chile)
Publications
“Generation X and Its
Spanish Discontents: The Girl Aggressor and Youth Subjectivity in the Filmic
Adaptation of Mensaka.” Revista
de Estudios Hispánicos
42.1 (2008): (pagination forthcoming).
“Stepping Westward from Spain: Literary
and Cultural Reversal in Recent Transatlantic Academic Novels by Josefina Aldecoa, Javier Cercas, &
Antonio Muñoz Molina.” Anales
de la Literatura Española
Contemporánea 33.1 (2008): (pagination
forthcoming).
“Realism on the Rocks in the
Generational Novel: ‘Rummies’, Rhythm, and Rebellion in Historias
del Kronen and The Sun Also Rises.” Generation X Rocks:
Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film, and Rock Culture. Ed.
Christine Henseler and Randolph Pope. Nashville:
Vanderbilt UP, 2007. 126-52.
Postmodern Metapoetry and the Replenishment of the Spanish Lyrical
Genre, 1980-2000. Anstruther, Fife, Scotland, UK: La Sirena,
2007. (Distributed through Grant
& Cutler, Ltd.)
“An
Ambivalent Attraction?: Post-Punk Kinship and the
Politics of Bonding in Historias del Kronen and Less Than Zero.” Arizona
Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 10 (2006): 9-22.
“Mapping the Space of Self: Cartography
and the Narrative Act in Esther Tusquets’s El mismo mar de todos los veranos.” Anales de la Literatura
Española Contemporánea
29.1 (2004): 217-33.
“Out of the Office: Comic Self-Derision
as a Vacation from Solemnity in the Postmodern Metapoetry
of Roger Wolfe.” Revista Hispánica Moderna 56.2
(2003): 421-32.
“Formal Subversion and Aesthetic
Harmony in Mascarilla y trébol: A Reconsideration of Alfonsina
Storni’s Late Poetics.” Romance Quarterly
49.1 (2002): 50-60.
“‘Dolor común’:
Ontological (In)security in Unamuno’s
Rosario de sonetos líricos.”
España Contemporánea
14.1 (2001): 43-57.
“(Anti)heroism
in Ángel Ganivet’s Los
trabajos del infatigable creador Pío Cid.” Revista Hispánica Moderna 54 (2001): 231-37.
Literature,
Film, and Cultural Studies Courses Taught
The Pennsylvania
State University
(2007-present):
SPAN 566: Contemporary
Spanish Poetry (Graduate)
SPAN 356: Survey of Spanish Literature
Since 1700
SPAN 253W: Introduction to Hispanic
Literature
University of Illinois at Chicago (2004-07):
Recent Spanish Film from Fiction
(Graduate)
Post-Civil War Narrative (Graduate)
Spanish Narrative from Realism to the
Generation of 1898 (Graduate)
Spanish Poetry of the (Post)Modern
Century (Graduate)
The Emerging Canon of Recent Spanish
Fiction (Graduate)
Topics in Contemporary Spanish Cultural
Studies (Senior Seminar)
Modern Spanish Literature & Society
Civilization and Culture of Spain
Northwestern University (Fall 2006)
Literature in Spain since 1700
Middlebury College (2003-04)
The Changing Face of the Hero in the
Modern Spanish Novel
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