Dr. Krauel's research focuses on the theory of emotions and on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish and Catalan cultures. His first book, Imperial Emotions: Cultural Responses to Myths of Empire in Fin-de-Siècle Spain (Liverpool UP, 2013), reconsiders debates about historical memory from the perspective of the theory of emotions. His second book project, Francisco Ayala o la pasión distante. Un intelectual en tiempos oscuros (1929-1949), employs the methods of the history of emotions to reconstruct Francisco Ayala’s trajectory as a public intellectual . He has also written on the essayistic tradition of national self-reflection, the relationship between World War I and the Spanish Civil War, and the emotional dimension of political movements.
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Spanish and Catalan literature, essay, cultural history, nationalism, imperialism, theories of emotion
SPAN 3100 - Literary and Cultural Analysis in Spanish
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Spring 2019 / Fall 2019
Fosters critical thinking and the ability to discuss texts from a historical, sociological, ideological and formalistic viewpoint. Analyzes literary and cultural expressions from Latin America, Spain and the US Latino traditions in different genres, ranging from fiction to poetry, and media from the written word to cinema and other visual arts.
SPAN 3120 - Advanced Spanish Grammar
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Spring 2021
Analysis of texts from morphological and syntactic perspectives. Structural and semantic characteristics of major features of Spanish are studied at the sentence level. Use of these grammatical features is then studied in selected literary texts.
SPAN 3200 - Spanish Culture
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Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Summer 2020 / Fall 2020
Examines historical bases of modern Spain's cultural and political currents. Department enforced prerequisite: SPAN 3000.
SPAN 3270 - Barcelona: Understanding Local and Immigrant Cultures
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Summer 2018 / Summer 2019
Explores the history of Barcelona, a cosmopolitan city that is one of the oldest in Europe, from an interdisciplinary, European perspective that emphasizes the city's cultural diversity and pluralism. A range of historical, literary, artistic, and sociological texts will be examined. Taught in Spanish. Offered through the Study Abroad program. Department enforced prereq., SPAN 3000.
SPAN 4130 - The Power of Storytelling: Oral, Textual and Digital Narratives
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Spring 2019
Examines the ways in which oral, textual and digital narratives have shaped, and continue to shape, our lives and the different communities we inhabit. Looks at stories of the Spanish tradition produced in a variety of historical settings and across different media.
SPAN 5220 - Seminar: Spanish Literature, 20th Century
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Fall 2018 / Spring 2020
Treats various topics, as needs and resources dictate. Gives special attention to developing historical and current theoretical and critical background of each topic. Representative topics might include the generation of 1898, poetry of the 20th century, theatre of the 20th century, pre-Civil War novel, and post-Civil War novel. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Same as SPAN 7220.
SPAN 7220 - Seminar: Spanish Literature, 20th Century
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Fall 2018 / Spring 2020
Treats various topics, as needs and resources dictate. Gives special attention to developing historical and current theoretical and critical background of each topic. Representative topics might include the generation of 1898, poetry of the 20th century, theatre of the 20th century, pre-Civil War novel, and post-Civil War novel. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.Same as SPAN 5220.
