Enrique Álvarez

Enrique Álvarez (Ph.D, University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign 2004) is an Associate Professor of Spanish. He specializes in 20th century Spanish poetry, and he is the author of Dentro/Fuera. El espacio homosexual masculino en la poesía Española del s. XX (Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2010). Through the intersection of queer studies and postmodern sociology, in this book Dr. Álvarez explores the relationship between poetic form, representation of space, and male homosexuality in writings by Federico García Lorca, Luis Cernuda, Jaime Gil de Biedma, and Luis Antonio de Villena. His new line of research explores the relationship between emotion and masculinity in Spanish culture of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Research Interests

• Spanish Peninsular Literature and Cultural Studies
• Queer Studies and Critical Theory
• Transatlantic Hispanic Cultures

Courses Taught

• Hispanic Cinema
• The Spanish Civil War. History, Ideology, and Culture
• Federico García Lorca
• Spanish Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Historical Contexts/Aesthetic Developments
• Queer Theory Now and Then
• Introduction to Hispanic Cultural Analysis.

Selected Publications

Books and Editions

• Dentro/Fuera. El espacio homosexual masculino en la poesía Española del s. XX. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2010.
• Bodies, Transnationalism, and Affect in Recent Hispanic Poetry. Special Focus Introduction. Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature 45, 1 (2021). Available for downloading here.

Articles and Book Chapters

• “Gay Pride or Queer Regret? Chirbes's Pastorals of Return.” Hispanic Research Journal, 24, 4 (2024) pp. 248-266.
• “Paris-Austerlitz (2016) de Rafael Chirbes y la plasticidad literaria del dolor homosexual.” In Iker González-Allende (Eds.), Masculinidades gays y maricas en la cultura española contemporánea, Madrid: Egales 2024, pp. 163-188.
• “Los Diarios de Rafael Chirbes, el orgullo gay y la escritura del dolor homosexual masculino.” Anclajes. Universidad Nacional de la Pampa, 28, 1 (2024) pp. 81-96. Available for downloading here.
• “Espacialidad, género y nación. La elegía gay y la función social del discurso funerario en la poesía de guerra de Emilio Prados.” Estudios LGBTIQ+ Comunicación y Cultura, 2. 1 (2022) pp. 5-15. Avaible for downloading here.
• “Del sentir retrospectivo: afectos y memoria LGTBQ en el 'Diario íntimo (1919-1921)' de Emilio Prados.” Estudios Hispánicos, 29 (2021) pp. 13-23. Available for downloading here.
• “Lo extraño del animal. Hacia una ecología queer en la poesía de Olvido García Valdés.” Lectora. Revista de dones i textualitat, 24 (2018) pp. 239-260.
• “Affective Variations: Queering Hispanidad in Luis Cernuda's Mexico.” In Luisa Elena Delgado, Pura Fernández, & Jo Labanyi (Eds.), Engaging the Emotions in Spanish Culture and History Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2016, pp. 192-209.
• “Man Un/Made. Homosocial and Homosexual Desire in Anarchist Culture of the Spanish Civil War.” Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 18.1 (2012), pp. 17-32.
• “Queer Arcadia: On Cultural Landscapes, Violence and Power in Federico García Lorca's ‘Poema doble del Lago Eden’.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, 34.2 (2010), pp. 265-283.