Mario Santana
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
1115 E. 58th Street.
Chicago, IL 60637
Office: Harper Memorial 230
Phone: 773/702-8030
Email: m-santana@uchicago.edu
Associate Professor, Spanish Literature, Center for Latin American Studies, Master of Humanities Collegiate Division; Associate Dean of the Division of the Humanities, and the College
Prof. Santana's scholarly work concentrates on 19th- and 20th-century Spanish and Catalan literatures, and 20th-century Latin American Literature, with particular emphasis on narrative and film. He is also strongly interested in literary historiography, literary theory (hermeneutics and reception, narratology, systemic and institutional approaches to literature), and cultural studies. A native of Spain (Canary Islands), he has graduate degrees in Philosophy (University of Barcelona) and Literature (Columbia University). He is the author of Foreigners in the Homeland: The Spanish American New Novel in Spain, 1962-1974 (Bucknell UP, 2000).
Education
- Ph.D. in Spanish Literature, Columbia University, 1994.
- M.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Georgia, 1988.
- Licentiate in Philosophy, University of Barcelona, 1983.
Awards, Honors, and Professional Experience
- Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Chicago, 2002.
- Chicago Humanities Institute Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1996.
Selected Courses Taught
Narratives of the Spanish Transition to Democracy; Hispanisms: The Construction of Spanish Literature; Fiction and Representation: The Discourse of Realism; Poetics and History of the Short Story in Spain; Introduction to Spanish Cinema; Crime and Literature: Detective Fiction in Latin America and Spain; Nationalism and Culture: The Formation of National Identities; Spain and Latin America: Interliterary Relations.