profiles

Dr. Alrick Knight

Degrees

• Ph.D. University of Minnesota
• M.S. Minnesota State University, Mankato
• B.A. Minnesota State University, Mankato

Research Interests

• 19th and early 20th Century Peninsular Literature
• Philosophical approaches to literature

Professional & Community 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

Courses 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

Selected Publications

• "Benito Pérez Galdós's Doña Perfecta: The Problem of Rosario's Beauty"(forthcoming [2018] in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies)
• "Fines nobles y medios lunáticos: La búsqueda del conocimiento en Belarmino y Apolonio de Ramón Pérez de Ayala"(book chapter in Ensayos selectos sobre politica, sociedad y cultura en la Asturias de la edad moderna. Ed. Jorge Abril Sánchez. Valladolid: Verdelís, 2017). Accepted and forthcoming 2017
• “Seducciones de la unidad, la identidad y la individualidad en Belarmino y Apolonio de Ramón Pérez de Ayala” (Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea, vol. 41, no. 1, 2016, pp. 75-96)
• “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.