Sebastiaan Faber [Updated: November 2019] Department of Hispanic Studies 331 Eastern Ave Oberlin College Oberlin, OH 44074 50 N Professor St (440) 381-5975; fax 775-6888 Oberlin, OH 44074 [email protected] tel. (440) 775-8189 sebastiaanfaber.com ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Professor of Hispanic Studies, Oberlin College, 2008-present. • Hisp 357 – Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War • Hisp 441 – The Spanish Revolution, 80 Years Later • Fysp 152 – So You Want to be an Intellectual? A Roadmap to the Republic of Letters • Hisp 454 – Narrating the Past: The Historical Novel in Spain and Latin America • Hisp 446 – Literature and Exile in Spain and Latin America • Hisp/Soci 340 – Nationalism, Culture, and Politics Under and After Dictatorship: Spain and Yugoslavia • Hisp 347 – Luis Buñuel • Hisp 310 – The Struggle for Modernity: Survey of Spanish Literature II (18th-21st C.) • Hisp 445 – Crime, Sex and Ghosts of the Past: Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film • Hisp 304 – Advanced Grammar and Composition • Hisp 353 – Narrating the Past: History and Fiction in 19th and 20th-C Spain • Hisp 354 – Representations of the Spanish Civil War • Hisp 459 – Writers, Journalists, Public Intellectuals: Literature and Politics in Spain and Latin America Visiting Professor of Spanish & Portuguese, The Ohio State University, Spring 2015 • Spanish 7540: Representations of the Spanish Civil War Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, Oberlin College, 2004-2008. • Fysp 152 – The Making of a Martyr: The Life, Death and Afterlives of Federico García Lorca • Hisp 202 – Intermediate Spanish I • Hisp 445 – Crime, Sex and Ghosts of the Past: Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film • Hisp 310 – The Struggle for Modernity: Survey of Spanish Literature II (18th-20th C.) • Hisp 332 – Memory, Truth, and Justice: How Post-Dictatorial Democracies Come to Terms with Their Past • Hisp 345 – (Sur)Realism in Exile: Max Aub and Luis Buñuel • Hisp/Soci 340 – Nationalism, Culture, and Politics: Spain and Yugoslavia in the 20th C (with Veljko Vujacic) • Hisp 346 – Literature and Exile in Spain and Latin America Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, Oberlin College, 1999-2004. • Span 310 – The Struggle for Modernity: Survey of Spanish Literature II (18th-20th C.) • Span 345 – The Discreet Charm of the Buñuels: Transnational Cinema and the Surrealist Legacy • Span 423 – The Crisis of the Turn of the Century and the Discourse of Decadence • Span 445 – Crime, Sex, and Ghosts of the Past: Contemporary Spanish Film and Fiction • Span 446 – The Literature of Spanish Civil War Exile • Span 446 – Literature and Exile in Spain and Latin America • Span 465 – ¡Viva la raza! Constructions of Hispanic Identity Reader and Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis, Spring 1999. Associate Instructor, University of California, Davis, Summer 1997, Fall 1998-Spring 1999. Teaching Assistant (Spanish instructor), University of California, Davis, Fall 1995-Spring 1998. ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS • Chair of Hispanic Studies, Oberlin College (2006-2010, 2016-2019) • Founding Director of the Oberlin Center for Languages and Cultures (2012-2015) • Acting Chair of French and Italian, Oberlin College (Fall 2013) • Chair of Latin American Studies, Oberlin College (2012-2015) • Chair of the Board of Governors, Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (2010-2015); Co-Chair, 2018-pres • Convener of the Humanities, Oberlin College (2006-2010) • Co-director, Comparative Literature, Oberlin College (2008-2009) S. Faber, CV—p. 1 EDUCATION Ph.D., Spanish & Spanish-American Literature with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, University of California, Davis, Sept. 1999. Dissertation: “Exile and Cultural Hegemony: Spanish Intellectuals in Mexico (1939-1975).” Director: Prof. Neil A. Larsen. Doctorandus (MA equivalent), Spanish Literature, cum laude, University of Amsterdam, Jan. 1995. Thesis: “Jaulas doradas y torres de marfil. La integración de los escritores españoles exiliados en México.” Director: Prof. Germán Gullón. AREAS OF ACADEMIC INTEREST • Iberian and Latin American Trans-Atlantic Studies • Institutional History of Hispanism • Historical Memory in Post-Franco Spain • Spanish Cinema • Literature of Spanish Civil War Exile • Spanish Civil War • Contemporary Spanish Politics • Intellectuals and Political Commitment • Intellectual Contacts Between Spain and Spanish America after 1810 • Constructions of Hispanic Identity since Latin-American Independence • Theory of Ideology • Contemporary Spanish Fiction • Journalism SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Books 1. Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2018. 2. Contra el olvido. El exilio español en Estados Unidos. Ed. Sebastiaan Faber & Cristina Martínez-Carazo. Alcalá de Henares: Instituto Franklin de Estudios Norteamericanos, Universidad de Alcalá, 2009. 2nd ed. 2010. 3. Anglo-American Hispanists and the Spanish Civil War: Hispanophilia, Commitment, and Discipline. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 4. Schetsen uit Spanje, by Marcellus Emants. Ed. Gijs Mulder & Sebastiaan Faber. Leiden: Menken, Kasander & Wigman, 2004. 5. Exile and Cultural Hegemony: Spanish Intellectuals in Mexico (1939-1975). Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2002. Articles published in peer-reviewed journals 1. “The United States and World Fascism: Teaching Human Rights through the Spanish Civil War.” Hispania 102.1 (2019): 9-13. 2. “Salvados como periodismo populista. En busca de un sujeto nacional-popular.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies vol. 21 (2017) [2018], ed. Antonio Gómez López-Quiñones. 235-262. 3. “Image Politics: U.S. Aid to the Spanish Republic and Its Refugees.” Forma; revista d'estudis comparatius. Art, literatura, pensament 14 (2016) [2017]: 21-34. (link) 4. “Forum: For Whom Do We Write? A Discussion about Format, Purpose, and Audience.” Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 40.1 (2015): 139-155. With Palmar Álvarez-Blanco, Cristina Moreiras-Menor, Luis Moreno-Caballud, Simon Doubleday, and Benita Sampedro. (link) S. Faber, CV—p. 2 5. “Actos afiliativos y postmemoria: Asuntos pendientes.” Pasavento. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 2.1 (2014): 137-55. 6. “Los exiliados españoles y las instituciones mexicanas: Entre la autonomía y la cooptación.” Historia del Presente 22 (2013): 75-84. 7. “‘¿Usted, qué sabe?’: History, Memory, and the Voice of the Witness.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 36.1 (2012): 9-27. 8. “Buñuel’s Impure Modernism (1929-1950).” Modernist Cultures 7.1 (2012): 56-76. 9. With Pablo Sánchez León and Jesús Izquierdo Martín. “El poder de contar y el paraíso perdido. Polémicas mediáticas y construcción colectiva de la memoria en España.” Política y Sociedad 48.3 (2011): 463-480. 10. “L’esilio degli intellettuali spagnoli e tedeschi in Messico: due esperienze a confronto.” Memoria e ricerca: Rivista di storia contemporanea (Forlì/Ravenna, Italy) 31 (2009): 63-80. Special issue on “L’Europa in esilio: La migrazione degli intellettuali verso le Americhe tra le due guerre,” ed. Renato Camurri. 11. “The Debate about Spain’s Past and the Crisis of Academic Legitimacy: The Case of Santos Juliá.” The Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies 5 (2007): 165-90, special issue on “El ensayismo nacional”, ed. Javier Krauel; “Contestación a Santos Juliá.” The Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies 7 (2009): 245-49. 12. “Economies of Prestige: The Place of Iberian Studies in the American University.” Hispanic Research Journal 9.1 (2008): 7-32. (Special issue on cultural studies, ed. Josep-Anton Fernàndez and Patricia D’Allemand.) 13. “Silencios y tabúes del exilio español en México: historia oficial vs. historia oral.” Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie V. Historia Contemporánea 17 (2005) [2006]: 373-389. 14. “The Privilege of Pain: The Exile as Ethical Model in Max Aub, Francisco Ayala, and Edward Said.” Journal of Interdisciplinary Crossroads 3.1 (2006): 11-32. Thematic issue on “The Limits of Exile.” Ed David Kettler and Zvi Ben-Dor. 15. “Entre el respeto y la crítica. Reflexiones sobre la memoria histórica en España.” Migraciones y exilios 5 (2004) [2005]: 37-50. 16. “El mundo está en todas partes. La subversión fantástica de Jorge Luis Borges y Bernardo Atxaga.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. 28.3 (2004): 519-539. 17. “The Trope as Trap: Ideology Revisited.” Culture, Theory & Critique. 45.2 (2004): 133-169. 18. “Un pensamiento que hace rimas. El afán universalizador en las novelas de Javier Marías.” Revista Hispánica Moderna. 56.1(2003) [2004]: 195-204. 19. “Max Aub: Conciencia del exilio.” Diablotexto 7 (2003-2004): 25-52. [Repr.: in El Correo de Euclides. Anuario Científico de la Fundación Max Aub 1 (2006) [2007]: 16-35.] 20. “The Truth Behind Jusep Torres Campalans: Max Aub’s Committed Postmodernism.” Hispania 87.2 (2004): 237-246. 21. “Between Cernuda’s Paradise and Buñuel’s Hell: Mexico Through Spanish Exiles’ Eyes.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies [formerly Bulletin of Hispanic Studies] (Glasgow). 80.2 (2003): 219-40. 22. “Learning from the Latins: Waldo Frank’s Progressive Pan-Americanism.” New Centennial Review 3.1 (2003): 257-295. 23. “Algunos aspectos ideológicos del exilio español en México.” La nueva literatura hispánica 4 (2000) [2003]: 25-51. 24. “Un pasado que no fue, un futuro imposible. Juegos parahistóricos en los cuentos exílicos de Max Aub.” Explicación de Textos Literarios 29.1 (2000-2001) [2002]: 82-89. [Also in Proyecto Clío: Una Mirada Hispana a la Historia Universal 18 (2000). <http://clio.rediris.es/exilio/Aub/aub.htm>] S. Faber, CV—p. 3 25.