José Pablo Barragán, Ph.D., Assistant Professor-Instructional in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

José Pablo Barragán Nieto has a Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Iowa, and a second Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Valladolid, Spain. His research focuses on Early Modern and Contemporary Spain, with a specialization on the literary and cultural representations of disease and marginalized communities. Barragán has published numerous academic works, including volumes, journal articles, book chapters, and reviews. He is also a translator and a creative writer with two published books of poems: Lugares comunes (2008) and La Nave (2012).

Tarea de español is a collection of 36 poems broadly focused on the author’s experience as a Spanish immigrant in the U.S., as well as on his family’s migration history inside and outside Spain during the 20th century. The book is also a poetic and linguistic exploration of his family’s origins in the Spanish north-west countryside, very close to the Portuguese border; dialogues with expatriate authors such as Luis Cernuda, Czesław Miłosz, or the Greek-Japanese writer Lafcadio Hearn; and reflections on history, identity, and the role that language plays in it.

This event will be in Spanish. Reception to follow in Mazur 310. 

Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at Temple and hosted by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Contact chat@temple.edu with questions.