Rodriguez-Garcia, Jose M.

Associate Professor

research

research and scholarship focus

  • 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-Century Peninsular and Spanish American Poetry
  • Transatlantic and Inter-American Studies
  • Translation and Comparative Poetics

primary investigator of

international geographic focus

affiliations

faculty appointment in

member of graduate field

other Cornell affiliations

teaching

teaching focus

  • Translation and Comparative Poetics
  • Iberian Communities
  • Poetry and History of the Americas: Transatlantic Readings
  • Writing in the First Person: Transatlantic Readings
  • Romantic (Dis)Positions in Spanish Poetry
  • Readings in Modern Spanish Literature
  • Readings in Modern Spanish American Literature
  • Treasured Islands: Journeys across American Cultures (First-Year Writing Seminars/ John S. Knight Institute)
  • The Complex Fate: Self-Identity and Conflict in U.S. Hispanics and Other Ethnic Groups (First-Year Writing Seminars/ John S. Knight Institute)

background

educational background

  • Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder

professional background

  • Held appointments at several universities in Spain

featured in

publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

Articles:
  • “Marià Manent y la urna griega de John Keats.” Revista Hispánica Moderna (forthcoming).
  • “Poetry and Penal Practices in Late-Fifteenth-Century Toledo: Re-Reading Gómez Manrique.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (to appear in January 2005).
  • “Like the Fragments of a Broken Vessel: Guillermo Valencia, Walter Benjamin, and John Keats.” Translation, Comparative Poetics, Literary History. Guest ed. José María Rodríguez García. Spec. issue of Diacritics: A Review of Contemporary Criticism (to appear in 2005).
  • “Discovering the Classic: Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, and William Carlos Williams.” The Comparatist 27 (2003): 21-40.
  • “Death and Degradation in William Carlos Williams and Edgar Lee Masters.” Orbis Litterarum 58.2 (2003): 79-100.
  • “La universidad de la cultura, la universidad del disenso y la Tercera Vía universitaria (Norteamérica y España).” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 6 (2002): 151-90.
  • “Fuentes para el estudio comparado de la narrativa breve en lengua inglesa de los siglos XVI y XVII.” Exemplaria. Revista internacional de literatura comparada 6 (2002): 165-208.
  • “The Culture of Conversation and the Voice of the Indian in William Carlos Williams’s ‘Père Sebastian Rasles.’” Neophilologus 86.3 (2002): 477-92.
  • “Exiles and Arrivals in Christopher Columbus and William Bradford.” Explorations in Renaissance Culture 28.1 (2002): 75-98.
  • “The Avoidance of Romanticism in Jovellanos’s ‘Epístola del Paular.’" Crítica Hispánica 24.1-2 (2002): 93-110.
  • “Intertextual and Inter-Ethnic Relations in William Carlos Williams’s ‘To Elsie’: A Poetics of Contact.” Journal x 7.1 (2002): 1-23.
  • “Las autobiografías de Jovellanos y Moratín (con un apunte sobre Swift).” Iberoromania 55 (2002): 60-79.
  • “Determinismo, destino y fatalidad en Tiempo de silencio (a propósito de dos nuevos subtextos ingleses).” ALEC: Anales de la literatura española contemporánea 27.2 (2002): 261/547-278/564.
  • “Scientia Potestas Est—Knowledge Is Power: Francis Bacon to Michel Foucault.” Neohelicon 28.1 (2001): 109-22. Rpt. in Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie 119.1 (2001): 1-19.
  • “The Deferral of Praise in Garcilaso’s Third Eclogue.” Romance Notes 4.1 (2000): 15-23.
  • “Ruination and Translation in William Carlos Williams.” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 32 (1999): 225-44.
  • “A vueltas con Keats, Cortázar y la antigüedad clásica.” La Torre. Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico [Tercera Época] 4.13 (1999): 587-616.
  • “John Donne after Octavio Paz: Translation as Transculturation.” Dispositio/n: American Journal of Cultural Histories and Theories 48 (1996 [1999]): 155-82.
  • “Solitude and Procreation in Francis Bacon’s Scientific Writings—The Spanish Connection.” Comparative Literature Studies 35.3 (1998): 278-300.
  • “Epos delendum est: The Subject of Carthage in Garcilaso’s ‘A Boscán desde La Goleta.’” Hispanic Review 66 (1998): 151-70.