Alberto Villamandos, Assistant Professor of Spanish (Ph.D. University of Ottawa, Canada, 2006).  My field of study is Contemporary Spanish Literature, with an emphasis in Catalonia.  Selected publications:  "La ficciÓn de la memoria histórica y el destino de la TransiciÓn: Francomoribundia (2003) de Juan Luis Cebrián," in Siglo XXI; "Las trampas de la nostalgia: la gauche divine de Barcelona en su producción literaria," in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos; "En busca del charnego perdido: Campos de Nijar (1960) de Juan Goytisolo o de la necesidad del subalterno" in Revista Hispánica Moderna; "Pasaje al subalterno: Recuento, de Luis Goytisolo, o la derrota del intelectual antifranquista," in Letras Peninsulares.

Currently, I am working on a book-length project on the cultural production of the 1960's upper class and progressive intelligentsia Gauche divine of Barcelona, and on the edition of a volume with Professor Rosalia Cornejo (University of Ottawa) on contemporary Spanish cultural studies.