Enrique Muñoz-Mantas

SPAN 101 - First-Year Spanish I

SPAN 102 - First-Year Spanish II

Spanish and Catalan Language, Literature and Culture; Translation; Spanish for the Professions; Migration Studies; Transatlantic Studies; Francoist exile; Peninsular and Catalan Postwar Literature; Concentration Camp Literature; Peninsular, Catalan, and Latin American Speculative, and Crime Fiction; Latin American literature

PUBLICATIONS

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

2024 “Gran Casino de Luis Buñuel: La petrofemineidad como condena y salvación.” (Forthcoming)

2024 “Puerto Rican Speculative Futures: Gender, Sexuality, and Resistance in the Stories of Max Chárriez.” (Forthcoming)

2023 “Cristo de 200.000 brazos de Agustí Bartra: análisis del campo de refugiados de Argelès-sur-Mer desde una aproximación biopolítica.” ÍMPETU, n.º 10, pp. 79-99.

2022 “El alcalde de Zalamea: Calderón y su propuesta de manual de buen gobierno.” El Cid - The Citadel.

2022 “Vampiros en La voz de la sangre, de Gabriela Rábago Palafox: Mexicanidad e intertextualidad.” Alambique. Revista académica de ciencia ficción y fantasía / Jornal acadêmico de ficção científica e fantasía, Vol. 9, Issue 1, Article 5.

Articles in Progress (Refereed)

"L'exili interior a Les òlibes (1954) d’Agustí Cabruja: trauma i identitat híbrida" (Under Revision)

Book Reviews

2023 Review of The Linguistics of Crime, edited by John Douthwaite and Ulrike Tabbert. Language in Society, vol. 52, Issue 5, pp. 918-919.

Translated Works

2024 Rábago Palafox, Gabriela. The Voice of Blood. Translated by Elizabeth M. Ginway and Enrique Muñoz-Mantas, University of Tampa Press (Forthcoming Fall 2024)

2024 Cabruja i Auguet, Agustí. Agustí Cabruja i Auguet (1909-1983): Vignettes Terra nostra / Our Land. Translated by Enrique Muñoz-Mantas. Metamorphoses, Special Catalan Issue, pp. 36-51.

2020 Winterberg, Philipp. Egbert Turns Red/L'Egbert es posa vermell. Translated by Enrique Muñoz-Mantas, Duitstalig, 2020.

Invited Lectures and Seminars

2024 “Trazando el camino: el exilio republicano español en perspectiva histórica.” Invited by Dr. Manuela Borzone to her undergraduate course MSPAN 3700 “Advanced Spanish Through Literature and Film: Memory in Comics and Graphic Novels from Latin America and Spain,” Nebraska Wesleyan University, NE, March 25.

2023 “La traducción EN>ES como proceso: experiencia de un profesional.” Invited by Dr. Marc Gandarillas to his undergraduate course SPAN462 “Lost in Translation,” University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, September 19.

2023 “Exile as a Crossroads: from Concentration Camps to Vampires.” Invited by the Center of European Studies, CES Lunchtime Symposium. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, March 29.

2022 “Todo está permitido: el carnaval afro-limeño y el estado de excepción.” Invited by Dr. Paola Uparela to her undergraduate course SPW4930 “Illness & Contagion in LatAm,” University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, March 18.

PRESENTATIONS

Panels Organized

2024 “Testimonies of Joy and Sorrow from Catalan Exile.” Co-organized Session with Dr. Laura Vilardell (Northern Illinois University) for the 2024 MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA, January 4-7.

2021 “Ficción biopolítica, violencia estatal y racismo en el Martín Fierro de José Hernández.” Co-organized with Dr. Paola Uparela (University of Florida). Talk given by Dr. David M. Solodkow, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, October 27.

Papers Presented

2024 “L'exili interior a l'obra de Maria Aurèlia Capmany: identitats híbrides a Lo color més blau (1982).” 19th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (NACS). Minneapolis, MN, April 18-20.

2024 “Agustí Cabruja’s La ciudad de madera (1947): Memories from the French Internment Camps (1939-1940).” MLA Convention Seminar: “Languages and Literature of Incarceration.” Philadelphia, PA, January 4-7.

2024 “Trauma and Alienation in Catalan Inner Exile: Interpreting Agustí Cabruja’s Les òlibes (1954).” 2024 MLA Convention “Celebration: Joy and Sorrow,” Philadelphia, PA, January 4-7.

2023 “Les òlibes y El árbol y la puesta de sol de Agustí Cabruja: Dos obras de un exiliado catalán en México”. VI Coloquio Internacional: Intelectuales, Migración y Exilio en Iberoamérica, Xalapa, México, September 7-8.

2023 “Puerto Rican Speculative Futures: Gender, Sexuality, and Resistance in the Stories of Max Chárriez.” The International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA 44), Orlando, FL, March 15-19.

2022 “Cristo de 200,000 brazos de Agustí Bartra: el campo de refugiados de Argeles-sur-Mer desde una perspectiva biopolítica.” V Coloquio Internacional: Intelectuales, Migración y Exilio en Iberoamérica, Xalapa, México, May 4-6.

2022 “Experiencing Culture from Home – The Advantage of Virtual Exchange.” With Dr. Crystal Marull. 2022 Bilingualism Matters Conference: Voices in Harmony: Bilingualism Matters to Everyone, Columbia, SC, March 26.

2022 “The Child Vampires of Mexico’s Gabriela Rábago Palafox.” The International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA 43), Orlando, FL, March 16-20.

2022 “Gran Casino de Luis Buñuel: la petrofeminidad como salvación.” XXVth Spanish Graduate Literature Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, February 17-19.

2021 “Vampiros en La voz de la sangre de Gabriela Rábago Palafox: Mexicanidad e intertextualidad.” VII Congreso Internacional de narrativa fantástica (XIII Coloquio Internacional de Narrativa Fantástica), Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo Polar, Lima, Perú, July 21-24.

2021 “Fray Servando Teresa de Mier. Instrumento para la independencia latinoamericana: la justificación del sermón guadalupano de 1794.” KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference, University of Kentucky, KY, April 22-24.

2021 “Ronda naval bajo la niebla de Pere Calders: Propuesta para una conclusión estilístico-literaria.” University of Alabama Languages Conference (UALC) “Embracing Language in a Changing World,” University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, February 19-20.

2020 “Fray Servando Teresa de Mier: Instrumento para la independencia latinoamericana.” Graduate Student Symposium: Captives, Traitors, and Translators - Colonial LA Seminar, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, December 6.

2024 Outstanding Graduate Student, Awarded by the Spanish and Portuguese department, University of Florida; Gainesville, FL

2024 GSC Travel Award, Awarded by the Graduate Student Council, University of Florida; Gainesville, FL

2024 MLA Convention Grant, Awarded by the Modern Language Association

2023 – 2024 CLAS Graduate Travel Award, Awarded by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida; Gainesville, FL

2023 Certificate of Outstanding Merit, Awarded by the University of Florida International Center, University of Florida; Gainesville, FL

2023 Sant Jordi Translation Prize (2nd), Awarded and co-sponsored by the Translation Center and the Catalan Studies program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

2022 – 2023 CES Graduate Student Travel Grant, Awarded by the Center for European Studies, University of Florida; Gainesville, FL

2020 – 2024 SPS Travel Support for Graduate Students, Awarded by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Florida; Gainesville, FL

2024 Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures (Hispanic Literatures and Cultures), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

2016 Master’s Degree in Teaching at Secondary Schools, High Schools, Vocational Training and Language Centers, Universitat Internacional Valenciana, València, Spain.

2013 B.A. in Catalan Studies, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.