Santiago Morales-Rivera ,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish

Santiago Morales-Rivera received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures from Harvard University (2006; M.A. 1998), and his A.B. in Hispanic Philology from the Universidad de Zaragoza (1996). Before coming to Cornell, he taught at the New York University and Boston University Study Abroad Programs in Madrid. He teaches courses in modern peninsular literature, Spanish film, and moral philosophy and narrative. He has published articles on Javier Marías, Mario Vargas Llosa, and the History of Rock, and has presented at conferences on Juan José Millás, Félix de Azúa, and Theater and Violence in Colombia. His current research focuses on countercultural figures and movements in the history of thought and literature in Spain. He is working on a book on literary representations of a modern notion of guilt—related more to regret and melancholy than to ressentiment—in Post-francoist narrative.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

19th-, 20th-, and 21st-Century peninsular fiction and essay
20th-Century Latin American narrative
Literature and Psychoanalysis: Tragedy, Guilt and Melancholy
Literary History and Critical Theory: Rethinking M.M. Bakhtin
Cultures of Answerability: Crossovers between Art and Ethics
Music and Literature: modernismo, canción protesta, and jazz

RECENT COURSES

Subjects of Revolt in Modern Spain
Readings in Modern Spanish Literature
The Pretexts of Guilt in Post-francoist Narrative
Spanish Passions in the Twentieth Century
Perspectives on Spain
Spanish Film