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Bradley S. Epps

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Chair of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Office: Boylston Hall G-34

Phone: 617-495-5289

Email: bsepps@fas.harvard.edu

Office hours, on leave 2008-2009
A.B. Wake Forest; A.M., University of Virginia; Ph.D., Brown University
Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century Spanish and Latin American Literature; Catalan Language and Literature; French and Anglo-American Literature; Critical Theory; Gender Studies; Modernism and Post-modernism; Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Studies; Immigration; Urban Studies
Major Publications:

 

Significant violence: oppression and resistance in the narratives of Juan Goytisolo, 1970-1990, published by Oxford: Clarendon Press ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Edited Volumes:
Spain Beyond Spain: Modernity, Literary History, and National Identity, with Luis Fernández Cifuentes. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press/London: Associated University Press, 2005.
 
  Passing Lines: Sexuality and Immigration, with Keja Valens  and Bill Johnson-González, Cambridge, MA: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Harvard University Press, 2005.  
Selected Recent Articles:
  • “Monique Wittig's Materialist Utopia and Radical Critique,” critical introduction, with Jonathan Katz, to a special number of GLQ edited by Epps and Katz in honor of Monique Wittig, with articles by Monique Wittig, Judith Butler, Alice Jardine, Robyn Wiegman, Sande Zeig, Seth Silberman, Diane Griffin Crowder, and Sande Soto. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 13.4 (2007): 423-454.
  • Retos y riesgos, pautas y promesas de la teoría queer.” Debate Feminista 18.36 (2007): 219-272.
  • “Moving in Tongues: Immigration and Language in Maria Barbal.” Antípodas 18 (2007): 101-132.
  • Dalí’s Crutches.” Dalís Medienspiele: Falsche Fährten und paranoische Selbstinszenierungen in den Künsten. Eds. Isabel Maurer Queipo and Nanette Rißler-Pipka. Verlag Bielefeld, 2007. 95-128.
  • Modernisme in Catalonia.” In Modernism. Eds. Astradur Eysteinsson and Vivian Liska. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2007. 781-800.
  • “Entre l'art i la frenologia: Santiago Rusiñol i els anarquistes.” La projecció social de l’escriptor en la literatura catalana contemporània Ed. Ramon Panyella. Barcelona: Punctum & Grup d’Estudis de Literatura Catalana Contemporània, 2007. 109-126.
  • "El ojo cojo: Las muletas de Salvador Dalí." In L'oeil, la vue, le regard: La création littéraire et artistique contemporaine. Ed. Philippe Merlo. Lyon: LE GRIMH-LCE-GRMIA, 2006. 135-150.
  • L'aparença de la mort en la fotografia de guerra d'Agustí Centelles." Centelles: Les vides d'un fotògraf 1909-1985. Barcelona: Institut de Cultura de l'Ajuntament de Barcelona/Lunverg Editores, 2006. 40-47.
  • The Avant-Garde Visual Poetry of Junoy and Salvat-Papasseit. Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí. New Haven and London: Cleveland Museum of Art/ Yale University Press, 2006. 328-331.
  • "Vampires, Mestizas, Rogues, and Others: Figuring Queerness with Gloria Anzaldúa and Luis Zapata." In Desde aceras opuestas: Literatura/cultura gay y lesbiana en Latinoamérica. Ed. Dieter Ingenschay. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2006. 87-118.
  • "Un modernista davant els anarquistes: Els Caps d'anarquistes de Santiago Rusiñol." L'Avenç 311 (March 2006): 20-28.
  • "L'estrangeria, la germanor, la llengua, i la llei: Algunes reflexions poètico-polítiques (en relació a Maria-Mercè Marçal)." In Los håbitos del deseo: Formas de amar en la modernidad. 3 vols. Eds. Carme Riera, Meri Torras, Isabel Clúa, and Pau Pitarch Puzol. Valencia: Ex Cultura, 2005. 1:19-32.
  • "La ética de la promiscuidad: Reflexiones en torno a Néstor Perlongher." Ibero Americana 5.18 (2005): 145-164.
  • "Barcelona and Modernity." Edition of, and introduction to, a special number of sixteen articles on Barcelona and modern production in the areas of art, literature, architecture, cinema, linguistics, philosophy, and urban anthropology by Xavier Rubert de Ventós, Maria Barbal, Francesc Parcerisas, Joan Fontcuberta, Jordi Castellanos, Ventura Pons, Josep Sobrer, Sharon Feldman, Llorenç Comajoan, Josep Maria Montaner, Zaida Muxí, Manuel Delgado, Jordana Mendelson, Enric Bou, Josep Maria Benet i Jornet, Geoffrey Ribbans. Catalan Review: International Journal of Catalan Culture 18.1-2 (2004).
  • "Introduction: Barcelona and Modernity."  Catalan Review: International Journal of Catalan Culture.  18.1-2 (2004): 13-28.
  • "Seeing the Dead: Manual and Mechanical Specters in Modern Spain (1893-1939)."  Visualizing Spanish Modernity.  Eds. Susan Larson and Eva Woods. Oxford: Berg, 2005.  112-141.
  • "Entre la efusividad multicolor y la desaparición monocromática: Melodrama, pornografía, y abstracción en Hable con ella." Almodóvar: El cine como pasión. Eds. Fran Zurián & Carmen Vázquez Varela. Cuenca: Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 2005. 269-286.
  • "Keeping Things Opaque: On the Reluctant Personalism of a Certain Cultural Critique." In Ideologies of Hispanism. Ed. Mabel Moraña. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP: 2005. 230-266.
  • "Between Europe and Africa: Modernity, Race, and Nationality in the Correspondence of Miguel de Unamuno and Joan Maragall," Anales de Literatura Española Contemporánea , 30.1-2 (2005): 95-131.
  • "Spanish Prose, 1975-2002."  In The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature.  Ed. David T. Gies.  Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 2004.  705-723.
  • "The Queer Case of Plumas de España."  In P(h)ervsions: Critical Studies of Ana Rossetti.  Ed. Jill Robbins.  Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2004.  146-182.
  • "The Blankness of Dalí, or Forging Catalonia." In Cultures of Forgery: Making Nations, Making Selves. Eds. Judith Ryan and Alfred Thomas. New York: Routledge, 2003. 79-108.
  • "Questioning the Text." In The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel: From 1600 to the Present. Eds. Harriet Turner and Adelaida López de Martínez. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. 193-211.
  • "Before Postnationalism: Supernationalism, Modernisme, and Catalonia." Arizona Journal of Hispanic Studies 7 (2003): 133-159.
  • "Hispanismo, generalísimo." Lateral, 10.101 (May, 2003): 6.
  • "The Cadaver of Progress: Death and Putrefaction in Modernist Catalan Narrative." In From Stateless Nations to Postnational Spain/ De naciones sin estado a la España postnacional. Eds. Silvia Bermudez, Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, and Timothy McGovern. Boulder, Colorado: Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, 2002, pp. 13-62.
  • "Solitude in the City: Víctor Català and Mercè Rodoreda." Women's Narrative and Film in Twentieth-Century Spain: A
    World of Difference(s)    . Eds. Ofelia Ferrán and Kathleen Glenn. New York: Routledge, 2002. 19-39.
  • "El peso de la lengua y el fetiche de la fluidez." Revista de Crítica Cultural 25 (2002): 66-70.
  • "Battered Bodies and Inadequate Meanings: Violence and Disenchantment in Juan José Millás's Visión del ahogado," Arizona Journal of Hispanic Studies, 5 (2001): 1-29.
  • "The Fetish of Fluidity." In Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis. Eds. Tim Dean and Christopher Lane. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 412-431.
  • "Modern Spaces: Building Barcelona." In Iberian Cities. Ed. Joan Ramon Resina. New York: Routledge, 2001. 148-197.
  • "Passing Lines: Immigration and the Performance of American Identity." In Passing: Identity and Interpretation in Sexuality Race, and Religion. Eds. María Carla Sánchez and Linda Schlossberg. New York: NYUP, 2001. 92-134.
  • "The Melancholy of Literature; Or The Discredit of Holding On."  Nuevo Texto Crítico 25/28.13-14 (2000-2001): 57-74.
  • "'Moderno' and "'Modern': Modernist Studies, 1898, and Spain." Catalan Review, 14.1-2 (2000): 75-116.
  • "Writing in Accessible Language: Benet, Goytisolo, Galdós." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 34.2 (2000): 351-390.
  • La fragilitat de l'escriptura." In El mirall i la màscara: Vint-i-cinc anys de ficció narrativa en l'obra de Carme Riera. Ed. Luisa Cotoner. Barcelona: Destino, 2000 73-95. Translated as "La fragilidad de la escritura." In El espejo y la máscara: Vienticinco años de ficción narrativa en la obra de Carme Riera. Ed. Luisa Cotoner. Barcelona: Destino, 2000. 73-96.

    Forthcoming book:

    All About Almodóvar: A Passion for Cinema, with Despina Kakoudaki, forthcoming, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

    Forthcoming articles:

  • “Moviments sentimentals: Emigració i immigració a la novelística de Maria Barbal,” forthcoming in La narrativa de Maria Barbal (Pedra de tartera i altres). Péronnas, France: La Tour Gile, “Collection Catalane.”
  • Los avatares de la evidencia en la fotografía de guerra de Agustí Centelles y Contraataque de Ramón Sender,” forthcoming in Presencia de la historia: La guerra civil española (1936-1939): Poesía, reportaje, novela, testimonio, fotografía, pintura y cine. Ed. Ursula Link-Heer. Frankfurt: Iberoamericana-Vervuert.
  • “No todo se perdió en Cuba’”: Spain between Europe and Africa in the Wake of 1898,” forthcoming in National Identities and European Literatures, eds. Manuel Barbeito, Jaime Feijóo, Antón Figueroa, and Jorge Sacido, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

    Courses Offered 2008-2009:
  • on leave

    Other courses offered:

    ...in Romance Languages and Literatures:
  • Romance Studies 171. The Spanish Civil War from Both Sides of the Border. Co-taught with Prof. Susan R. Suleiman
  • [Spanish 135. Spanish Women Writers]
  • Spanish 172. Barcelona & Modernity
  • Spanish 287r. The Ethics of Representation: Modern Spanish Narrative
  • Professor Epps is normally also Course Head for Catalan Ba (fall term); Introduction to Catalan; Catalan 20: Catalan Language and Culture: a Multimedia Approach (spring term); and Catalan 91r (fall and spring terms)

    ...in Women, Gender & Sexuality:
  • [Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1210qt. Queer Theory]
  • [Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1222. Literature, Art, Cinema and Queerness]

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    Last updated on June 18, 2008