Hispanic Studies - Vicente Pérez de Léon

Vicente Pérez de Léon

Contact Information

E-mail: Vicente.P.de.Leon@oberlin.edu
Phone: (440) 775-8581
Office:
Peters 403
50 North Professor Street
Oberlin, OH 44074

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies

Educational Background
Ph. D. in Spanish, Minor in Comparative Literature        (Focus on Film), Indiana University:1998
M.A. Spanish. Villanova University: 1994
Ph.D. ABD Filología Inglesa, Universidad Complutense        de Madrid: 1993
Experto Traductor. Instituto de Lenguas Modernas y        Traductores: 1991
B.A. Filología Inglesa. Universidad Complutense de        Madrid: 1991

Courses Taught
   203 Intermediate Spanish II
   309 Survey of Spanish Literature I
   314 Humor and Horror in Pre- Modern literature in          Spanish
   306 Colloquium: Literary Commentary of Hispanic          Texts
   427 Cervantes and Don Quijote: Art, Context and          Fiction
   450 Picaresque Narratives: The World Vision of Female          and Male pícaros

Research and Teaching Interests
Teaching and technology; Humanistic approaches to     Higher Education; Information Literacy and its     applications into the classroom.
Cervantes works: Genre manifestations in Cervantes´ corpus: picaresque novel, burladores,     celestinas, short drama. Cervantes´ life: the figure of the Conde de Lemos and Cervantes as     a captive.
The Spanish Golden Age Drama as a global show - - long and short plays or interludes, comedia     players, writers and performance of comedias.
History of Humor, Spanish Fables, Short Stories and Novellas or Exemplary Novels. Jarchas and     Poetry of encomio (poetry of praise of noblemen in Spanish Golden Age).
Life, culture and literary manifestations in small towns vs. Life, culture and literary     manifestations in the Court in the Spanish Golden Age. History of Private Life. The     Mediterranean sea as a cultural and artistic space.
Don Juan and the concept of the Burlador in the Spanish Golden Age of Arts and through the     times. Picaresque narratives. Utopy and Utopía agraria: Menosprecio de Corte, alabanza de     aldea.
Fin de Siecle European narratives (especially Drácula and La Regenta); History of horror and its     manifestations in all genres.
Film: Horror Film and the Spanish Film of the Transición,
Reception of the French Revolution in Spain. Aesthetics and conceiving Literature as an art vs.     Literature with a purpose.

Publications on:
Cervantes Interludes and Exemplary Novels
Calderón´s Interludes
Evolution of Humor in Spanish Classical Interludes (Lope de Rueda, Cervantes and Calderón)
Viaje a ninguna parte, a film by Fernando Fernán Gómez