research overview
- Dr. Krauel's research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish and Catalan cultures, the history of emotions, and law and humanities. 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, Un intelectual en tiempos sombríos. Francisco Ayala, entre la razón y las emociones (1929-1949), employs the methods of the history of emotions to reconstruct Francisco Ayala’s trajectory as a public intellectual. His current project examines the cultural imagery and symbolism of constitutions in modern Spain. 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.
