Comparative Iberian Studies
Cristina Gonzalez
Education
UC Davis
Adrienne Martín
Spanish and Portuguese
UC Davis
Robert Newcomb
Spanish and Portuguese
UC Davis
Participants
Marta Altisent
Spanish and Portuguese
UC Davis
Emilie Bergmann
Spanish and Portuguese
UC Berkeley
Silvia Bermúdez
Spanish and Portuguese
UC Santa Barbara
João Camilo dos Santos
Spanish and Portuguese
UC Santa Barbara
Cristina Gonzalez
Education
UC Davis
Cristina Martínez-Carazo
Spanish and Portuguese
UC Davis
Viola Miglio
Spanish and Portuguese
UC Santa Barbara
Gonzalo Navajas
Spanish and Portuguese
UC Irvine
Harvey Sharrer
Spanish and Portuguese
UC Santa Barbara
The UC Comparative Iberian Studies Working Group brought together twelve University of California faculty members representing six campuses (Davis, Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Merced), plus two non-UC faculty members, to discuss how peninsular literary and cultural studies might be reimagined – and reinvigorated – “from the Iberian margin.” Our goal was to bring Spanish/Castilian literature, which has historically formed the core of the peninsular studies canon, into dialogue with writers, texts and cultural documents from the Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, Basque, and North African-immigrant traditions. This group facilitated discussion across Iberian languages and literatures, and modeled a form of peninsular studies that is multilingual, multifocal, and driven by dialogue.
