Alvaro Enrigue
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Degrees
PHD, 2012, Univ Maryland Coll Park; MA, 2000, Univ Maryland Coll Park
Bio
Álvaro Enrigue was a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library and a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores of Mexico. His work, written in Spanish or English, has appeared in The New York Times, El País, The Believer, Letras Libres, and The New York and London Review of Books, among others. He is the author of five novels, three books of short stories, and one of literary criticism, published by Anagrama in Spanish and Dalkey Archive and Riverhead in English. His novel Sudden Death, first published in Spain as Muerte Súbita in 2013, was awarded the prestigious Herralde Prize in Spain, the Elena Poniatowska International Novel Award in Mexico, and the Barcelona Prize for Fiction. Enrigue was born in Mexico and lives in New York City.
photo by Jaime Toussaint
Recent Courses Taught
| Course | Title | Level |
|---|---|---|
| SPAN 001 | ELEMENTARY SPANISH 1 | Undergraduate |
| SPAN 002 | ELEMENTARY SPANISH 2 | Undergraduate |
| SPAN 003 | INTERMEDIATE SPANISH 1 | Undergraduate |
| SPAN 005 | ADVANCED SPANISH READING | Undergraduate |
| SPAN 109 | ADV SPANISH CONVERSATION | Undergraduate |
| SPAN 112 | ADV SPANISH COMPSITN | Undergraduate |
| SPAN 127 | U.S./LAT AMER:UNEQUAL RELATION | Undergraduate |
| SPAN 131 | (CC) POPULAR MUSIC IN SPANISH | Undergraduate |
| SPLT 050C | (LT) LOVE, SEX AND EMPIRE | Undergraduate |
| SPLT 050D | (LT) SOCCER AS A FINE ART | Undergraduate |
| SPLT 051 | (LT) DON QUIXOTE&MOD NOVL | Undergraduate |
