James Courtad
Department Chair and Associate Professor of Spanish
Education
Ph.D., Hispanic Literature, The University of Texas at Austin
M.A., Hispanic Literature, Loyola University, Chicago
B.A., Spanish, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Teaching
Dr. Courtad teaches all levels of Spanish language, from beginning elementary Spanish through advanced conversation and composition. He also teaches courses on the culture and the literature of Spain. In addition, he has taught Spanish for business and graduate seminars on culture and travel literature at his previous institutions.
Scholarship
Dr. Courtad鈥檚 main areas of research are Spanish literature and culture from 1800 鈥 present, specifically realist fiction and travel narrative. He has also published essays that聽 focus on 20th聽C. Puerto Rican Women writers. Most recently he is working on the intersection of painting and fiction in Spanish culture as well as historical memory.
Book Chapters and Prefaces:
鈥溌縌ui茅n Soy? / 驴Qui茅nes somos?: el prisma de la identidad en los cuentos de Lourdes V谩zquez鈥. Narradoras, cuentistas, cronistas, relatoras: La escritura de mujeres en Puerto Rico a finales del Siglo XX y principios del XXI. Amarilis Hidalgo de Jes煤s, ed. Edwin Mellen Press. 2012.
“La frecuente meditaci贸n personal: nota preliminar”.聽Adagio con fugas y ciertos afectos: Mis mejores cuentos.聽Lourdes V谩zquez. Madrid: Editorial Verbum, 2013.
Journal Articles:
- 鈥淎ppropriation of Culture and the Quest for a Voice in the Works of Luisa Capetillo鈥.聽Symposium聽70.1 (Spring 2016): 24-35.
- 鈥淐annibal Imagery in Gald贸s: Bourgeois Efforts at Social Dominance鈥. Monographic Review/Revista monogr谩fica XXI (2005).
- 鈥淛uan Valera and the Business of Literature: Epistolary Confessions on Publishing in the 19th 颁别苍迟耻谤测鈥. Romance Notes 45.1 (Fall 2004): 23-33.
- 鈥淎 Forgotten <<Dialogue>>: A Case of Intertextuality in Gald贸s鈥檚 Marianela and Valera鈥檚 Las ilusiones del doctor Faustino鈥. Michigan Academician 34.4 (Winter 2003): 417-425.
Service
Dr. Courtad has served on University Senate, the Library Committee and a semester on the Curriculum and Regulations Committee. He participates in the Mesa Hisp谩nica and wherever else the Department needs his services.