Dale Knickerbocker

Professor
Hispanic Studies
252-328-6521 (phone)
252-328-6233 (fax)
knickerbockerd@ecu.edu
Bate 3304 (office)
Dept. Foreign Languages & Literatures
East Carolina University Mailstop #556
Greenville, NC 27858-4353

Background

• B.A. Spanish, Illinois State University
• M.A. Spanish Language & Literature, Illinois State University
• Ph.D. Hispanic Language & Literature, SUNY Stony Brook, specialization in 20th Century Peninsular Literature

Areas of Interest

• 20th Century Spanish Peninsular Narrative
• Fantasy Literature
• Literary Theory

Courses Taught

• Post-Civil War Spanish Novel (Graduate Seminar)
• Spanish Literature 1898 to the Present
• Spanish Literature 1671-Present
• Spanish Literature in Translation (Post-War Novel)
• Introduction to Hispanic Literature
• Advanced Language Skills (Graduate)
• Spanish for Reading Comprehension (Graduate level Online)
• Spanish Culture and Civilization
• Spanish for Business Communication
• Advanced Spanish Conversation
• Advanced Spanish Grammar
• Basic and Intermediate Spanish language

Publications

• Lingua Cosmica: Science Fiction from Around the World. University of Illinois Press. 2023.
• Juan José Millás. The Obsessive-Compulsive Aesthetic. Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2003
• “When Books Are for the Birds: Late Capitalism and Barbarity in Juan José Millás’ El orden alfabético.” Pharr, Mary Ed. Fantastic Odysseys. Forthcoming in Greenwood Press.
• “Identidad y otredad en Primavera de luto de Juan José Millás.” Letras Peninsulares 13.2 (Fall 2000): 119-137.
• “Technology, Nature, and Dehumanization in Gonzalo Torrente Ballester’s Quizá nos lleve el viento al infinito.” Anales de Literature Contemporánea Española 25 (2000): 147-169.
• “Technology, Technophobia and Gynophobia in Gonzalo Torrente Ballester’s Quizá nos lleve el viento al infinito.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 10.4 (2000): 353-371.
• “Escritura, obsesión e identidad en la obra de Juan José Millás.” Actas del XIII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas. Florencio Sevilla and Carlos Alvar eds. Vol. 2. Madrid: Castalia, 2000. 4 vols. 681-86.
• “La reiteración de motivos en Tonto, muerto, bastardo e invisible de Juan José Millás.” Revista Hispánica Moderna 51.1 (June 1998): 147-160.
• “Búsqueda del ser auténtico y crítica social en Tonto, muerto, bastardo e invisible de Juan José Millás.” Anales de Literatura Española Contemporánea 22.2 (1997): 211-233.
• “Ideología y sujeto en La saga/fuga de J.B. de Gonzalo Torrente Ballester.” Hispanic Journal 16.2 (Fall 1995): 399-416.
• “Of Narrative Strategies and Practical Jokes: A Meta-Reading of Gonzalo Torrente Ballester’s La saga/fuga de J.B.” Romance Languages Annual 7 (1995): 527-531.
• “Pascual Duarte y el narcisismo fóbico.” Revista Hispánica Moderna 47.2 (December 1994): 407-420.
• “Abyección y crítica social en La familia de Pascual Duarte.” Hispanística 2.2 (July 1994): 20-28.
• “Tiempo de silencio and the Narration of the Abject.” Anales de Literatura Española Contemporánea 19.1 (1994): 11-31.
• “Metaficción, fantasía y mito en el Don Juan de Gonzalo Torrente Ballester.” Letras Peninsulares 7.2 (Fall 1994): 485-501.
• “The Legend of the Siete Infantes de Lara and the Problem of Antifeminismo.” La corónica 23.1 (Fall 1994): 12-22.
• “Feminism and Narrative Structure in Pardo Bazán’s Insolación.” Hispanic Journal 13.2 (Fall 1992): 251-63.
• “La teoría literaria implícita en ‘Diario para un cuento’ de Julio Cortázar.” Inti: Revista de Literatura Hispánica 34-35 (1991-1992): 151-58.
• “Play and Subversion: Observations on the Fantastic and Metafictional Modes.” Romance Languages Annual 3 (1991):478-83.
• “The Medieval Concept of the Sin of ‘Maldecir’ as Reflected in Spanish Exemplary Literature.” Cincinnati Romance Review 8 (1989): 67-77.
• Review of Kidd, Michael. Stages of Desire: The Mythological Tradition in Classical and Contemporary Spanish Theater. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 11.1 (2000): 106-109.
• Review of Wasserman, Carol. La trayectoria literaria de Camilo José Cela. Revista Hispánica Moderna 47.2 (December 1994): 566-567.