Dr. Candelas Gala

Charles E. Taylor Professor of Romance Languages

Office: Greene 325

Phone: (336) 758-5485

E-mail: galacs@wfu.edu

http://www.wfu.edu/~galacs/

Curriculum vitae

Education

• Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
• M.A., University of Pittsburgh
• B.A., University of Salamanca ( Spain)

Research Interests

• Federico García Lorca
• Twentieth Century Spanish Poetry
• Spanish Poetry Written by Women
• The Avant-Gardes
• Interdisciplinary Topics: Studies Relating Literature with Art, Film, Music, and the sciences
• Film Studies

Courses Taught (Selection)

• Spanish 317: Literary and Cultural Studies of Spain
• Spanish 327: Lorca in the Twentieth Century
• Spanish 349: Contemporary Women Novelists and Their Female Characters
• Spanish 370: Film Adaptations of Literary Works
• Spanish 371: Lorca, Dalí, Buñuel: An Artistic Exploration
• Spanish 197: Spanish for Reading Knowledge

Departmental Activities

• Study Abroad Programs in Salamanca, Director
• Languages across the Curriculum, Chair

Honors and Awards

• Charles E. Taylor Professor of Romance Languages
• Hubert McNeill Poteat Award in Honor of Significant Achievement in Research and for the Third Lecture Presentation, April 5, 2000
• Graduate Research and Archie Funds

Representative Publications:

Books:

• ‘Entre pureza y revolución.’ Essays in Honor of Juan Cano Ballesta. In collaboration with Anne E. Hardcastle. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2009.
• The Poetry of Ana María Fagundo. A Bilingual Anthology. Editor  and Introduction. Bucknell UP, 2005.
• Lorca: Libro de poemas o las aventuras de una búsqueda.  Universidad de Salamanca, 1986.
• Lorca: Una escritura en trance. ‘Libro de poemas’ y ‘Diván de Tamarit’ . U Monographs in Romance Languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1992.
• Understanding Federico García Lorca. University of South  Carolina Press, 1995.
• Ensayos críticos sobre escritoras de España, Latinoamérica e hispanas en EEUU. Editor and Introduction Double Issue of /Explicación de textos literarios. Spring 1996.

Articles:

• “’…esta criatura extraordinaria’: María Blanchard, pintora.” Crítica Hispánica 31.1 (2009): 7-22.

• “Pureza Canelo y ‘La creación desde el nadie’.” Esfera Poesía. Homenaje a Pureza Canelo. Ed. José Luis Bernal Salgado. Almendralejo: Unión de Bibliófilos Extremeños, 2009. 51-64.
• “Sérpula o la verdad: exilio y arraigo en la poesía de Rosa Chacel.” Mujer, creación y exilio (España, 1939-1975). Eds. Mónica Jato, Sharon Keefe Ugalde y Janet Pérez. Barcelona: Icaria, 2009. 167-186.
• “Introduction.” In collaboration with Anne E. Hardcastle. ‘Entre pureza y revolución.’ Essays in Honor of Juan Cano Ballesta. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2009. 9-38.
• “Iconografías, daguerrotipos, fotografías, diapositivas: identidad femenina, creación y realidad en la poesía de María Beneyto.” Estudios en torno a la obra de María Beneyto. Joseph Carle Laínez (comp.). Valencia: Ajuntament de Valencia, 2008. pp. 297-322.
• “Don Giovanni: Models and Reproductions.” Ars Lyrica. Journal  of the Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations. 15 (2005-2006); 1-22.[it came out in April 2008]
• “Convergences and Transdisciplinarity in the Foreign Language  Department: A response to the MLA Report. Journal of Language and Literacy Education [Online], 4(1) (2008), #-##. Available: http://www.coe.uga.edu/jolle/2008_1/transdisciplinarity.pdf
• “Ana María Fagundo.” Cervantes Institute. Virtual Library. Posted since March 2008 : http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portal/pec
• “The Name of the Game Is in the Signifier: Molière’s / Dom Juan /and the Binding Power of Words,” Papers in French Seventeenth Century Literature XXXI, 60 (2004): 49-67
• “Un hombre sin nombre: The Mirroring of Language and Nature in Tirso’s El burlador de Sevilla,”Boletín of the Comediantes 56.1 (2004)
• “Lorca’s Suites: Reflections on Cubism and the Sciences,”Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 80.4 (October 2003): 509-524
• “Identity And Writing: A Lacanian Reading of Alba de Céspedes’ Quaderno proibito and Dacia Maraini’s Donna in Guerra. Forum Italicum 37.1 (Spring 2003): 147-160

Book Reviews (most recent):

• Pasión de mi vida. Estudios sobre Juan Ramón Jiménez. Eds. Francisco Javier Díez de Revenga y Mariano de Paco. Crítica Hispánica, Vol. XXX (Nos. 1&2): 210-213.
• Cuatro poetas en guerra. Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Federico García Lorca, Miguel Hernández. By Ian Gibson. Crítica Hispánica, Vol. XXX (Nos. 1&2): 234-237.
• En un pozo de lumbre. Estudios sobre Carmen Conde. Eds. Francisco Javier Díez de Revenga y Mariano de Paco. Crítica Hispánica, Vol. XXX (Nos. 1&2): 241-243.
• Postmodern Metapoetry and the Replenishment of the Spanish Lyrical Genre, 1980-2000. By Matthew J. Marr. Scotland, U.K.: La Sirena, 2007. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies vol.11 (2008): 211-212