Colleen Culleton
Assistant Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Office: 905 Clemens Hall
Phone: (716) 645-0861
Email: culleton@buffalo.edu
Website: Personal site
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies (Cornell, 2002)
- M.A. in Hispanic Studies (Cornell, 2000)
- M.A. Spanish (Middlebury College, 1998)
- B.A. Spanish, Political Science, and Geography (Clark University, 1996)
Areas of Specialization
- XX peninsular narrative
- narrative theory
- Catalan nationalism
- memory studies
- spatial practices in the construction of collective identities
Selected publications
- "Josep Pla's Voices of Authority" Forthcoming in The Journal of Catalan Studies
- "Alfred Bosch, L'atles furtiu." Ten Dragons: The Latest Sant Jordi Prizes. Ed. Jordi Lon. Barcelona: Omnium, 2007. Page numbers not yet available.
- "Josep Pla, Geographer: The Presence of Landscape in El pagès i el seu món." Romance Quarterly 53:3 (Summer 2006): 185-94.
- "La memoria descolocada: El monumento a Dr. Robert." Casa encantada: Los lugares de la memoria en la España constitucional. Eds. Joan Ramon Resina and Ulrich Winter. Frankfurt: Vervuert Verlag, 2005.
- "Reflexions al laberint: Un diàleg imaginari entre Salvador Espriu i Juan Goytisolo." Nexus 31 (December 2003): Catalan: 48-57, Spanish: 85-88, English: 101-104.
- "Daedalus's Wings: The Effects of Temporal Distance in La plaça del Diamant." Catalan Review 16.1-2 (2002): 103-119.
Current Research Projects
- I'm finishing a book on memory-based narratives from Barcelona during Franco's dictatorship and have started a new project on landscape, literature, and the cultural imaginary in rural Catalonia.
Frequently Taught Courses
- SPA 301 "Survey of Spanish Literature: Middle Ages through Seventeenth Century"
- SPA 450 "Twentieth-Century Peninsular Theater"
- RLL 501 "Introduction to Romance Languages and Literatures"
Campus and Professional Affiliations
- UB Reading Group on Cultural Studies of Space
- Modern Language Association
- Anglo-Catalan Society