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Thomas S. Harrington Ph.D. Professor of Language and Culture Studies Trinity College Hartford, CT 06106 Email: [email protected] Personal Website with a much more complete inventory of my writings than at either Academia.edu or my Trinity Profile page, as well as some of my photographic work, is found at: https://www.thomassharrington.com/ EDUCATION: 1987-1994 Doctoral Program in Hispanic Studies. Brown University, Providence R.I. Ph.D. degree: May 1994 1986-87 Master’s Program in Spanish. Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT and Madrid, Spain. M.A degree: August 1987. 1978-82 Bachelor’s Program in European History. Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA. B.A. degree: May 1982. 1988 Summer Language Program. University of Lisbon, Portugal. Camões Lectureship Grant from Brown University and Portuguese Government. 1984 Summer Language Program. La Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Santander, Spain. 1983 Polish Language Program. Summer School of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. Support from the Kosciuszko Foundation of New York. 1981 Semester Abroad Program in English Literature and History. Bath University, England. 1979 Summer Program in Irish Culture. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. GRANTS, PRIZES and RESEARCH AFILIATIONS: Part of the team of the En Valencia program of the MEITS (Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies) project at Cambridge University, Cambridge, England. Recipient of the Batista i Roca Prize, awarded annually by the Institute for the Foreign Dissemination of Catalan Culture, for my “work in favor of the Catalan presence in the world and the dissemination of Catalan culture and the Catalan national reality overseas” (awarded November 14, 2015) Named by the Basque Autonomous Government as member of the LAIDA (Literatura eta identitatea) research team which has been exploring the issues connected to literature and identity in the Iberian Peninsula since 2003 under the direction of Dr. Jon Kortázar In 2010, was awarded a Fulbright Senior Research Grant to pursue the project Idea(l)s in Transit: Catalan Contributions to the Construction of Modern Uruguay on site in Montevideo, Uruguay. In 2010, received a Trinity College Research Grant to do preliminary research into an oral history project called “Listen up Catalonia” (Spring 2010) Trinity College three-year Faculty Research Expense Grant ($8,000) to support archival research into the contemporary “peripheral” Iberian migrations to the Americas (Fall 2003). Recipient of a Fulbright Senior Research Grant which made possible a semester-long residence at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Biblioteca de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. (August- December, 2001). Grant from the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes of the Generalitat de Catalunya (300,000 pesetas) to support a project on Catalan-Portuguese intellectual relations in the period 1900-1925. (Summer 2000). Grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and US Universities ($ 3,000) to support a project on “Catalan Contacts with Portugal and the Drive to Reconfigure the Cultural and Political Dynamics of the Iberian Peninsula 1906-1924” (Summer 2000). Recipient of a $ 50,000 grant from the Lorenzo Family Foundation to support the development of the Trinity Global Site which I designed on the Creation and Maintenance of Urban and National Culture in Barcelona, Spain. (Summer 2000). Trinity College three-year Faculty Research Expense Grant ($8,000) to support archival research in the Iberian Peninsula related to my study of contemporary Catalan-Portuguese intellectual relations. (Spring 2000). Trinity College Grant ($2,000) to develop a course on The Alchemy of Identity: Culture-Planning and Civil Society in Barcelona 1850 to 2000 (Spring 1999). Mellon Foundation Grant ($2500) to support research into language teaching technology at Middlebury College. (Summer 1997). Mellon Foundation Grant ($2500) to support research into language teaching technology at Middlebury College. (Winter 1996). Mellon Foundation Grant ($2500) to support research into language teaching technology at Middlebury College. (Summer 1995). Grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and US Universities ($ 1,500) to support research on Intercultural Relations and Literary Transfer in the Iberian Peninsula 1900-1925. (Summer 1995). PUBLICATIONS: Books: A Citizen’s Democracy in Authoritarian Times: A US View on the Catalan Drive for Independence Valencia: University of Valencia Press, 2018 ISBN 978-84-9134-352-3 (Paperback) ASIN: B07MQGCL7T (electronic) Una democràcia cívica en temps autoritaris: apunts d’un nord-americà sobre el procès sobiranista a Catalunya. Barcelona: Gregal, 2018 (ISBN 978-84-17082-96-3) Public Intellectuals and Nation Building in the Iberian Peninsula 1900-1925: The Alchemy of Identity: Bucknell University Press, 2015 ISBN: 978-1-61148-561-5 (cloth) 978-1-61148-613-1 (electronic) Livin’ la vida barroca:American Culture in an Age of Imperial Orthodoxies. University of Valencia Press, 2014 . ISBN: 978-84-370-9281-2 (paperback), ASIN: B00MA3EC0Y (Kindle) Francesc Bergós Ribalta: Metge Republicà Exiliat a l’Uruguai (manuscript in preparation for Pagès Editors of Lleida, Spain) Los catalanes hacia el Uruguay: una emigración de ideas. (monograph in progress) Film Documentaries Consultant for a documentary Del Montgó a Manhattan. Valencians a Nova York' ompli a cada poble on va, produced by Juli Esteve of Infotv in Valencia, Spain on the history of Valencian immigration to the United States. http://www.infotelevisio.com/ Co-scriptwriter “Pare el coche cochero”. Barcelona: Pau Estrada Films, 2001. Film on life in contemporary Cuba premiered on Canal 33, the cultural channel of Catalan Public Television on 7 November, 2001. Articles and Book Chapters “Onésimo Almeida: Professor e Mentor” Letras Com/n/vida (Faculdade de Letras da Univeridade de Lisboa vol. 3 65-72. “A Versatilidade Dum Método Crítico: As Minhas Andanças Com A Teoría dos Polisistemas” Ipotesi (Brazil) 27 ((July-December 2018) 52-58. “When Mediterranean Moved West: Catalan Social Networks and the Construction of Early Uruguayan Society and Culture", Transatlantic Studies: Staking Out the Field eds. Sebastiaan Faber, Robert Newcomb Pedro García-Caro, Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019 ) 324-335 “The Shaping of Catalan Identity in the Contemporary World" in Àngel Casals and Giovanni C. Cattini eds. The Catalan Nation and Identity Throughout History (Bern: Peter Lang, 2018) 295-307. “Peripheral Systems, Doctrinal Enforcement and the Future of Galician Studies” Re-routing Galician Studies: Multidisciplinary Perspectives eds. Benita Sampedro and José Antonio Losada New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2017 151-162 “La extraña ausencia de “Kizkitza” y La nación vasca (1918) en el discurso actual sobre la pedagogía de la nación en los países ibéricos” Madrid: Madrid: Vervuert Iberoamericana, 2016 185-220 “Dignitat: una paraula important” in Krystyna Schreiber ed. Què en penses, Europa Barcelona: Angle Editorial, 2015 211-226 “Sistemas periféricos, a disciplinamento doutrinal e o futuro dos estudos galegos Grial 205 (2015): 75-85 “El paper desconegut de la "factoria catalana" de Montevideu en els últims anys de la colònia i els primers anys de la lluita per l'independència” Cercles; revista d’historia cultural 17 (2014) 25-51 “Hidden in Plain View: Catalans and the Making of Modern Uruguay” in Lisa Vollendorf and Harald Braun eds. Theorizing the Ibero-American Atlantic. Leiden: Brill Publishing, 2013 199-219 “La victòria de Obama: o el triomf definitiu de la política del miratge i de la retirada moral als Estats Units” Revista de Catalunya 281 (2013) 81-100 “Los catalanes: ‘La levadura’ de la colonia montevideana” ed. Angélica Peregrina, La presencia catalana en México y el resto de América Latina. Guadalajara: Colegio de Jalisco, 2012 61-86 (reprint of article published in Encuentros Latinoamericanos “Una comunidad muy influyente de catalanes en Uruguay” in Christoper Fielden. In Vino Veritas: La Familia Carrau y el Vino. Montevideo: Sudamericana, 2012 183-191. “Los catalanes: ‘La levadura’ de la colonia montevideana” Revista Encuentros Latinoamericanos Montevideo, Vol. VI, nº 1, (2012) 275-296 “Barcelona, Ciudad de Traducciones: El Caso de La revista Estudio” Suroeste: Revista de literaturas ibéricas (Badajoz, Spain) 2 (2012) 139-147 “Rosario, la Barcelona Argentina” L’Avenç 383 (octubre 2012) 50-53 (co-author with Jaume Subirana) “El ‘Powell Memo’ o el full de ruta per a induir la trivialtizació del discurs polític nord-americà” Revista de Catalunya 279 (2012) : 98-112 “Spain: A History of Liberties Foreclosed by the Imperatives of Empire” Marc Guttman ed. Why Peace? East Lyme: Guttman Publications, 2012 532-552 “Rudolf J. Slaby i els sistemes literaris del la Península ibèrica: el vessant portugués” in Gabriella Gavagnin & Víctor Martínez-Gil (eds.), Entre literatures. Hegemonies i perifèries en els processos de mediació literària, Lleida, Punctum & GELCC, 2011 123-132 “Urbanity in Transit: Catalan Contributions to the Architectural Repertoire of Modern Uruguay” in Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet, Zohar Shavit & Gideon Toury, eds. Culture Contacts and the Making of Cultures: Papers in Homage to Itamar Even-Zohar. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University –Unit of Culture Research, 2011 389-407 “The Hidden History of Tripartite Iberianism 1898-1960” in Fernando Cabo ed. A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula. Sponsored