Faculty
Alvaro Enrigue
Associate 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
Teaching Interests
Professor Enrigue is specialized in Baroque Literature. He teaches monographic courses on Miguel de Cervantes and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. He teaches Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture too, with a focus on the region's political processes after the Cuban Revolution.Research Interests
Professor Enrigue's research focuses in the relationship between material and intelectual history in the early modern period.Recent Courses Taught
| Course | Title | Level |
|---|---|---|
| LACS 015M | (CC, IS) SOCCER IS A FINE ART | Undergraduate |
| SPAN 002 | ELEMENTARY SPANISH 2 | Undergraduate |
| SPAN 003 | INTERMEDIATE SPANISH 1 | Undergraduate |
| SPAN 112 | ADVANCED SPANISH WRITING | Undergraduate |
| SPAN 116 | READINGS IN SPANISH | Undergraduate |
| SPAN 171 | (LT) CERVANTES' DON QUIXOTE | Undergraduate |
| SPAN 180G | (LT)BOOM! LATIN AMERICAN NOVEL | Undergraduate |
| SPAN 180H | (LT)SP TPC: SOR JUANA, LA GIGN | Undergraduate |
| SPLT 050I | SP TPC: SOCCER IS A FINE ART | Undergraduate |
