Mary L. Coffey

Emerita Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
mary.coffey@pomona.edu
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With 91做厙 Since: 1995
Mary L. Coffey
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  • Expertise

    Expertise

    Mary Coffey is an expert on 19th- and early 20th-century Spanish literature and culture. Her work on realist and historical fiction addresses the complex cultural processes by which Spain, throughout the long 19th century, processed the loss of its global colonial empire and its changing position on the global stage. In addition to the work of novelists Benito P矇rez Gald籀s, Leopoldo Alas, Emilia Pardo Baz獺n and Jos矇 Mar穩a Pereda, her work also explores the role of panoramic literature (costumbrismo) in the development of post-colonial identities, both in Spain and in newly independent nations in Latin America. From 2011 to 2014, Coffey served as president of the Asociaci籀n Internacional de Galdosistas, an academic non-profit international organization devoted to the study of 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature and culture. From 2017-2018, she served as the director of the Pacific Basin Institute at 91做厙, an interdisciplinary center devoted to the study of art, culture, economics, politics, history and religion of the Asia-Pacific region. Since 2016, Coffey has served as associate dean of the college at 91做厙, with a focus on international initiatives.

    Research Interests

    • Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature
    • Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature
    • Comparative Literature
    • Contemporary Spanish Culture

    Areas of Expertise

    SPANISH

    • Nineteenth-century Spanish Literature
    • Early Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature
    • Cultural Studies
  • Work

    Work

    Ghosts of Colonies Past and Present: Spanish Imperialism in the Early Fiction of Benito P矇rez Gald籀s. (forthcoming, Liverpool University Press)

    Imagined Truths: Realism in Modern Spanish Literature and Culture. Eds. Mary Coffey and Margot Versteeg. Iberic Series. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019.

    Realism, Fantasy and the Trope of Colonial Relations in Gald籀s's Fiction, Intersections of "Race," Class and Gender and Nation in Fin-de-si癡cle Spanish Literature and Culture. Eds. Jennifer Smith and Lisa Nalbone. London: Routledge, 2016. 165-184.

    El imperio pintado por s穩 mismo: el costumbrismo transatl獺ntico, Hispanismos del mundo. Di獺logos y dabates en (y desde) el Sur. Anexo digital. Secci籀n V. Leonardo Funes, Ed. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Mi簽o y D獺vila, 2016. 139-150.

    La historia como debiera ser: los historiadores galdosianos y la masculinidad, Actas del X Congreso Galdosiano 2013. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Cabildo de Gran Canaria, 2015. 283-288.

    "Gald籀s's 'locas aventuras' and the madness of Spanish colonialism." Studies in Honor of Vernon Chamberlain. Mark A. Harpring, ed. Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta Press, 2011. 37-48.

    "De profec穩a a parodia: Gald籀s y el republicanismo espa簽ol." Actas del XIX Congreso Internacional Galdosiano. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Cabildo de Gran Canaria, 2011. 312-319. CD-ROM.

    "El costumbrismo decimon籀nico y la ansiedad colonial, o c籀mo representar la p矇rdida del imperio." Actas del XVI Congreso de la Asociaci籀n Internacional de Hispanistas (2007). Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2010. CD-ROM.

    "Las colonias perdidas: Un episodio nacional que no escribi籀 Gald籀s" Actas del VIII Congreso Internacional Galdosiano Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Cabildo de Gran Canaria, 2009. 704-713.

    "Un curso de filosof穩a pr獺ctica: Gald籀s's Assessment of Spanish Colonial History" Anales galdosianos. XXXVIII-XXXIX (2003-2004): 49-67.

    "Un te籀logo patas arriba: subplots and short-circuits in La Regenta," Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 78 (December 2001): 577-596.

    "Gald籀s Sails to the Colonies: Searching for Spanish Idenity in La vuelta al mundo en la Numancia," Revista Hisp獺nica Moderna (December 1999): 350-364.

  • Education

    Education

    Ph.D.
    Northwestern University

    Master of Arts
    University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    Bachelor of Arts
    University of Illinois, Chicago

    Recent Courses Taught

    • Espa簽a en crisis: La literatura espa簽ola de 1898-1936
    • Introducci籀n al an獺lisis literario
    • The New Spain: Introduction to Cultural Studies
    • La vanguardia en Espa簽a
    • Rom獺nticos y realistas: La literatura espa簽ola decimon籀nica
  • Awards & Honors

    Awards & Honors

    Asociaci籀n Internacional de Galdosistas: President 2012-2014; Junta Directiva 2010-2012.

    Modern Language Association; Executive Division on Eighteenth and Nineteenth-century Spanish literature. 2010-2014

    National Endowment for the Humanities; Summer Stipend, 2009; Sabbatical Subvention, 2006-2007

    91做厙, Yale-Griffith Summer Research Travel Grant, 1997, 2005, 2011.

    Research Grant, Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States' Universities; 2005, 1999.

    National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute, "Text, Context and Authority in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Realism: Leopoldo Alas's La Regenta," Duke University, Summer 1999.

    Fulbright-Hayes Research Fellowship, for study in Spain, 1991-92.

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