Dr. Alrick C. Knight
Assistant Professor, Spanish Language and Literature
aknigh4@luc.edu
Research Interests
- 19th and early 20th Century Peninsular Literature
- Philosophical approaches to literature
Selected Publications
- “Regímenes epistemológicos de la modernidad: Espacios urbanos y rurales en Poe y Azorín” (La Nueva Literatura Hispánica, vol. 14, 2010 pp. 17-32)
- From Galdós to Modernism: The Illusory Projects of Modernity (forthcoming Spring 2011 by the Edwin Mellen Press)
- “Noble Ends and Lunatic Means: The Quest for Knowledge in Pérez de Ayala’s Belarmino y Apolonio” (forthcoming 2010; refereed conference proceedings from a University of Chicago symposium entitled “Asturias y los asturianos en la historia: Pasado, presente y futuro” [29-30 October 2009])
- “The Epistemology of Olfaction: Eduardo López Bago’s La prostituta” (Hispania, vol. 92, no. 3, 2009, pp. 430-438)
- “The Self Under Siege: Galdós and the Search for Certainty” (Revista Hispánica Moderna, Vol. 59, 2006, 1-2, pp.71-82)
- “Is Nothing Sacred? Spain Performs the Death of God” (Mester, 2006, Vol. XXXV, 1-21)
- Review of Realism as Resistance: Romanticism and Authorship in Galdós, Clarín and Baroja, by Denise DuPont. Forthcoming in Hispanófila.
Education
- Ph.D. University of Minnesota
- M.S. Minnesota State University, Mankato
- B.A. Minnesota State University, Mankato
Courses Regularly Taught
- Advanced conversation and composition
- Intro. to Spanish literature, Middle Ages to the present
- Romanticism
- Nineteenth-century Spanish literature
- Generation of 98
- Twentieth-century Spanish prose
Professional Affiliations
- 2010-present Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas
- 2002-present Modern Language Association
- 2003-present Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
- 2007-present Society for the Study of Narrative Literature
- 2007-present American Translators Association