thomas s. harrington ph.d. professor of language and ...mabel moraña ed. ideologies of hispanism...
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Thomas S. Harrington Ph.D. Professor of Language and Culture Studies
Trinity College
Hartford, CT 06106
Email: [email protected]
Personal Website with a much more complete inventory of my writings
than at either Academia.edu or my Trinity Profile page, as well as some of
my photographic work, is found at: https://www.thomassharrington.com/
EDUCATION:
1987-1994 Doctoral Program in Hispanic Studies. Brown University, Providence R.I. Ph.D.
degree: May 1994
1986-87 Master’s Program in Spanish. Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT and Madrid,
Spain. M.A degree: August 1987.
1978-82 Bachelor’s Program in European History. Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA.
B.A. degree: May 1982. 1988 Summer Language Program. University of Lisbon, Portugal. Camões
Lectureship Grant from Brown University and Portuguese Government.
1984 Summer Language Program. La Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo,
Santander, Spain.
1983 Polish Language Program. Summer School of the Jagiellonian University,
Kraków, Poland. Support from the Kosciuszko Foundation of New York.
1981 Semester Abroad Program in English Literature and History. Bath University,
England.
1979 Summer Program in Irish Culture. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
GRANTS, PRIZES and RESEARCH AFILIATIONS:
Part of the team of the En Valencia program of the MEITS (Multilingualism: Empowering
Individuals, Transforming Societies) project at Cambridge University, Cambridge, England.
Recipient of the Batista i Roca Prize, awarded annually by the Institute for the Foreign
Dissemination of Catalan Culture, for my “work in favor of the Catalan presence in the world and
the dissemination of Catalan culture and the Catalan national reality overseas” (awarded November
14, 2015)
Named by the Basque Autonomous Government as member of the LAIDA (Literatura eta
identitatea) research team which has been exploring the issues connected to literature and identity
in the Iberian Peninsula since 2003 under the direction of Dr. Jon Kortázar
In 2010, was awarded a Fulbright Senior Research Grant to pursue the project Idea(l)s in Transit:
Catalan Contributions to the Construction of Modern Uruguay on site in Montevideo, Uruguay.
In 2010, received a Trinity College Research Grant to do preliminary research into an oral history
project called “Listen up Catalonia” (Spring 2010)
Trinity College three-year Faculty Research Expense Grant ($8,000) to support archival research
into the contemporary “peripheral” Iberian migrations to the Americas (Fall 2003).
Recipient of a Fulbright Senior Research Grant which made possible a semester-long residence at
the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Biblioteca de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. (August-
December, 2001).
Grant from the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes of the Generalitat de Catalunya (300,000
pesetas) to support a project on Catalan-Portuguese intellectual relations in the period 1900-1925.
(Summer 2000).
Grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and US
Universities ($ 3,000) to support a project on “Catalan Contacts with Portugal and the Drive to
Reconfigure the Cultural and Political Dynamics of the Iberian Peninsula 1906-1924” (Summer
2000).
Recipient of a $ 50,000 grant from the Lorenzo Family Foundation to support the development of
the Trinity Global Site which I designed on the Creation and Maintenance of Urban and
National Culture in Barcelona, Spain. (Summer 2000).
Trinity College three-year Faculty Research Expense Grant ($8,000) to support archival research
in the Iberian Peninsula related to my study of contemporary Catalan-Portuguese intellectual
relations. (Spring 2000).
Trinity College Grant ($2,000) to develop a course on The Alchemy of Identity: Culture-Planning
and Civil Society in Barcelona 1850 to 2000 (Spring 1999).
Mellon Foundation Grant ($2500) to support research into language teaching technology at
Middlebury College. (Summer 1997).
Mellon Foundation Grant ($2500) to support research into language teaching technology at
Middlebury College. (Winter 1996).
Mellon Foundation Grant ($2500) to support research into language teaching technology at
Middlebury College. (Summer 1995).
Grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and US
Universities ($ 1,500) to support research on Intercultural Relations and Literary Transfer in the
Iberian Peninsula 1900-1925. (Summer 1995).
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
A Citizen’s Democracy in Authoritarian Times: A US View on the Catalan
Drive for Independence Valencia: University of Valencia Press, 2018 ISBN 978-84-9134-352-3
(Paperback) ASIN: B07MQGCL7T (electronic)
Una democràcia cívica en temps autoritaris: apunts d’un nord-americà sobre el procès
sobiranista a Catalunya. Barcelona: Gregal, 2018 (ISBN 978-84-17082-96-3)
Public Intellectuals and Nation Building in the Iberian Peninsula 1900-1925: The Alchemy of
Identity: Bucknell University Press, 2015 ISBN: 978-1-61148-561-5 (cloth) 978-1-61148-613-1
(electronic)
Livin’ la vida barroca:American Culture in an Age of Imperial Orthodoxies. University of
Valencia Press, 2014 . ISBN: 978-84-370-9281-2 (paperback), ASIN: B00MA3EC0Y (Kindle)
Francesc Bergós Ribalta: Metge Republicà Exiliat a l’Uruguai (manuscript in preparation for
Pagès Editors of Lleida, Spain)
Los catalanes hacia el Uruguay: una emigración de ideas. (monograph in progress)
Film Documentaries
Consultant for a documentary Del Montgó a Manhattan. Valencians a Nova York' ompli a cada
poble on va, produced by Juli Esteve of Infotv in Valencia, Spain on the history of Valencian
immigration to the United States. http://www.infotelevisio.com/
Co-scriptwriter “Pare el coche cochero”. Barcelona: Pau Estrada Films, 2001. Film on life in
contemporary Cuba premiered on Canal 33, the cultural channel of Catalan Public Television on
7 November, 2001.
Articles and Book Chapters
“Onésimo Almeida: Professor e Mentor” Letras Com/n/vida (Faculdade de Letras da
Univeridade de Lisboa vol. 3 65-72.
“A Versatilidade Dum Método Crítico: As Minhas Andanças Com A Teoría dos Polisistemas”
Ipotesi (Brazil) 27 ((July-December 2018) 52-58.
“When Mediterranean Moved West: Catalan Social Networks and the Construction of Early
Uruguayan Society and Culture", Transatlantic Studies: Staking Out the Field eds. Sebastiaan
Faber, Robert Newcomb Pedro García-Caro, Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel Liverpool: Liverpool
University Press, 2019 ) 324-335
“The Shaping of Catalan Identity in the Contemporary World" in Àngel Casals and Giovanni C.
Cattini eds. The Catalan Nation and Identity Throughout History (Bern: Peter Lang, 2018)
295-307.
“Peripheral Systems, Doctrinal Enforcement and the Future of Galician Studies” Re-routing
Galician Studies: Multidisciplinary Perspectives eds. Benita Sampedro and José Antonio
Losada New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2017 151-162
“La extraña ausencia de “Kizkitza” y La nación vasca (1918) en el discurso actual sobre la
pedagogía de la nación en los países ibéricos” Madrid: Madrid: Vervuert Iberoamericana, 2016
185-220
“Dignitat: una paraula important” in Krystyna Schreiber ed. Què en penses, Europa Barcelona:
Angle Editorial, 2015 211-226
“Sistemas periféricos, a disciplinamento doutrinal e o futuro dos estudos galegos Grial 205
(2015): 75-85
“El paper desconegut de la "factoria catalana" de Montevideu en els últims anys de la colònia i
els primers anys de la lluita per l'independència” Cercles; revista d’historia cultural 17 (2014)
25-51
“Hidden in Plain View: Catalans and the Making of Modern Uruguay” in Lisa Vollendorf and Harald Braun
eds. Theorizing the Ibero-American Atlantic. Leiden: Brill Publishing, 2013 199-219
“La victòria de Obama: o el triomf definitiu de la política del miratge i de la retirada moral als
Estats Units” Revista de Catalunya 281 (2013) 81-100
“Los catalanes: ‘La levadura’ de la colonia montevideana” ed. Angélica Peregrina, La presencia
catalana en México y el resto de América Latina. Guadalajara: Colegio de Jalisco, 2012 61-86
(reprint of article published in Encuentros Latinoamericanos
“Una comunidad muy influyente de catalanes en Uruguay” in Christoper Fielden. In Vino
Veritas: La Familia Carrau y el Vino. Montevideo: Sudamericana, 2012 183-191.
“Los catalanes: ‘La levadura’ de la colonia montevideana” Revista Encuentros Latinoamericanos
Montevideo, Vol. VI, nº 1, (2012) 275-296
“Barcelona, Ciudad de Traducciones: El Caso de La revista Estudio” Suroeste: Revista de
literaturas ibéricas (Badajoz, Spain) 2 (2012) 139-147
“Rosario, la Barcelona Argentina” L’Avenç 383 (octubre 2012) 50-53 (co-author with Jaume
Subirana)
“El ‘Powell Memo’ o el full de ruta per a induir la trivialtizació del discurs polític nord-americà”
Revista de Catalunya 279 (2012) : 98-112
“Spain: A History of Liberties Foreclosed by the Imperatives of Empire” Marc Guttman ed. Why
Peace? East Lyme: Guttman Publications, 2012 532-552
“Rudolf J. Slaby i els sistemes literaris del la Península ibèrica: el vessant portugués” in
Gabriella Gavagnin & Víctor Martínez-Gil (eds.), Entre literatures. Hegemonies i perifèries en
els processos de mediació literària, Lleida, Punctum & GELCC, 2011 123-132
“Urbanity in Transit: Catalan Contributions to the Architectural Repertoire of Modern Uruguay”
in Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet, Zohar Shavit & Gideon Toury, eds. Culture Contacts and the Making of
Cultures: Papers in Homage to Itamar Even-Zohar. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University –Unit of
Culture Research, 2011 389-407
“The Hidden History of Tripartite Iberianism 1898-1960” in Fernando Cabo ed. A Comparative History of
Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula. Sponsored Publication of International Comparative Literature
Association (ICLA). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010 147-170.
“Una exploració de la problemàtica de l'emigració no castellana a les Ameriques a través de la vida
quartizada de Joan Torrendell ” Estudis de llengua i literatura catalanes. LVII; Miscelània Joaquim Molas
3 Barcelona: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 2009 165-194.
“Risco and Portugal: Contacts Previous to the Institutional Consolidation of Galician Nationalism”
Galician Review 5-6 (2006-2007) 46-65
“Exploring the Problematics of Non-Castilian Emigration to the Americas through la vida
cuartizada of Joan/Juan Torrendell” in Nelsy Echávez-Solano and Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez
eds. Language and Empire. Spanish in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts Hispanic Issues
Series, Vol 31 . Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2007, 69-96
“Belief, Institutional Practices and Intra-Iberian Relations” in Bradley Epps and Luis Fernández-
Cifuentes. Spain Beyond Spain: Modernity, Literary History, and National Identity. Lewisburg:
Bucknell University Press, 2005. 205-230.
"Rapping on the Cast(i)le Gates: Insurgent Culture-Planning in Twentieth Century Spain" in
Mabel Moraña ed. Ideologies of Hispanism Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004 107-
137.
"Álvaro Cunqueiro, Pascoaes y la Editorial Apolo de Barcelona” Álvaro Cunqueiro e as amizades
catalanas (Sada: Ediciós do Castro, 2003) pp. 165-183.
"Las cinco cabezas del nacionalismo ibérico" Claves de Razón Práctica 130
(Marzo, 2003) 64-73.
"La generación del ’98 y sus correlatos intra-peninsulares: una propuesta para un acercamiento pan-ibérico
al estudio de la producción cultural del primer cuarto del Siglo XX." Anuari de Filologia XXII (10) 37-54.
"Axentes dun intersistema: Cuba, Galicia e Catalunha" Canal de Estudios Galegos 41 (5 decembro 2002) <
http://www.vieiros.com/noticia.asp?Ed=60&N=26070>
“El Cercle Maristany i la interpenetració dels sistemes literaris de la Península Ibérica" Revista de
Catalunya 175 (juliol/agost 2002) 107-127.
“Risco y Portugal: Contactos anteriores a la época de Teoría do nacionalismo galego y la Revista Nós.”
Revista de Lenguas y Literaturas Catalana, Gallega y Vasca 7 (2001) 247-262.
"Agents of an Intersystem: Contributions of the Cuba-Based Diaspora to the Construction of the Nation in
Galicia and Catalonia.” Catalan Review 15-2 (2001) 95-114.
“Catalanism in the Portuguese Mirror: Skirmishes Between “Unitarians” and “Pluralists” for Control of the
Movement (1900-1925)” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 35(2001) 257-280.
“Los hispanistas de EE.UU., el 'Boletín' y la vieja España.” O Correo das Culturas (Santiago de
Compostela ) 18 febrero 2000
“Los hispanistas de E.UU., el 'Boletín' y la vieja España.” Suplemento de Arte e Ideas. La
Vanguardia (Barcelona) 11 febrero 2000 (2370 word essay) 10-11
"The In-House Nationalist Pedagogy of Antoni Ribas's La ciutat cremada." West Virginia University
Philological Papers 44 (1998): 122-130.
"Invenciones de Españas." Claves de Razón Práctica 82 (mayo de 1998): 50-51. (1500 word essay)
"Literatura e nación." Grial 134 (1997): 379-392.
"The Europeanism of Ortega's 'enemy brother' Eugeni d'Ors and its Reflection in the Galician Discourse of
Identity." in Memory, History and Critique: European Identity at the Millennium. CD-ROM. Cambridge:
MIT Press, 1997. (3100 word essay)
"El espectador." Encyclopedia of the Essay London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997: 259-260.
"Revista de occidente." Encyclopedia of the Essay London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997: 702-703.
"Laying the Foundations for an Integrated and Multi-polar Approach to the Study and Teaching of
Peninsular Culture: Labanyi and Graham's Spanish Cultural Studies: An Introduction." Siglo XX/Twentieth
Century 14, 1-2 (1996): 181-192.
Book reviews:
Bambery, Chris and George Kerevan. Catalonia Reborn: How Catalonia Took on the Corrupt Spanish
State and the Legacy of Franco Edinburgh: Luath Press, 2018. Journal of Catalan Studies (forthcoming)
A Companion to Catalan Culture. Ed. Dominic Keown London: Támesis 2012. Catalan Review XXVI ,
251-253
Cortada, James W. Origins of Nation Building in the Iberian Peninsula: the Case of
Early Catalonia. Madison, WI: Arbor Hills Institute Press, 2007. 103 pp. Catalan Review XXIV (2010) 408
Modernism and Modernity in the Mediterranean World. Ed. Luca Somigli and Domenico Pietropalo
Toronto: Legas 2006. Mediterranean Historical Review. 24:1 55-57
Kathryn Crameri, Language, the Novelist and National Identity in Post-Franco Catalonia. Oxford: Legenda
2000. 210 pp. Bulletin of Spanish Studies LXXX (2003) 385-87
Reason in Exile: Essays on Catalan Philosophers. ed. Manuel Durán and William Kluback. Bulletin of
Hispanic Studies LXXV (1998): 280-281.
Public Writing
“Les màscares: molt poca evidència per a sostenir tanta supèrbia moralitzant” Vilaweb
(Barcelona) 23 Setembre 2020 https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/les-mascares-molt-poca-
evidencia-per-a-sostenir-tanta-superbia-moralitzant/
“Contrived Spectacles of “Protecting and Caring for the People” Off-Guardian 12
September 2020 https://off-guardian.org/2020/09/12/contrived-spectacles-of-protecting-and-
caring-for-the-people/
Covid-19: Ready for ‘No One Could Have Known?’” ColdType 213 (Early September 2020) 38-
41 http://coldtype.net/Assets20/PDFs/ColdType213.September2020.pdf
“Ready for the ‘No One Could Have Known’ Routine?” Off-Guardian 22 August 2020
https://off-guardian.org/2020/08/22/are-you-ready-for-the-no-one-could-have-known-routine/
“Els espectacles de la protecció i la cura de la gent” Vilaweb (Barcelona) 3 agost 2020
https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/thomas-harrington-els-espectacles-de-la-proteccio-i-la-
cura-de-la-gent/
‘New Corona Cases’: A Phrase that Tells Us Little if Anything About the Actual Levels of
Danger We Face” Counterpunch 3 July 2020. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/new-
corona-cases-a-phrase-thats-tells-us-very-little-if-anything-about-the-actual-levels-of-danger-we-
face/
“Els fets, el relats I el risc” Vilaweb (Barcelona) 27 June 2020
https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/els-fets-els-relats-i-el-risc/
“A Nation’s Descent into Bathos” ColdType 208 (Late June edition) 51
http://www.coldtype.net/Assets20/PDFs/ColdType208.MidJune2020.pdf
“Technocrats and authoritarianism” ColdType 207 (Early June edition) 10-11
http://coldtype.net/Assets20/PDFs/ColdType207.June2020.pdf
“L’independentisme hauria d’estar, ideològicament, contra el confinement” Vilaweb (Barcelona)
22 May 2020 < https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/lindependentisme-hauria-destar-
ideologicament-contra-el-confinament/>
“Let’s Pretend” Counterpunch 8 May 2020 < https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/lets-
pretend/>
“It’s Time We Challenged the Impunity of Experts” ColdType 205 (Early May Edition) 8-10
< http://coldtype.net/Assets20/PDFs/ColdType205a.May2020.pdf>
“Hem oblidat els vincles històrics tan forts entre els ‘experts científics’ i l’autoritarisme?”
Vilaweb (Barcelona) 24 April 2020 https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/hem-oblidat-els-vincles-
historics-tan-forts-entre-els-experts-cientifics-i-lautoritarisme/
“Cheney’s ‘One Percent Doctrine’ Comes the Field of Public Health” Antiwar.com 20 April 2020
< https://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2020/04/19/cheneys-one-percent-doctrine-
comes-the-field-of-public-health/>
“When Consumerism Locks Death and Diminishment Away in the Back Room” Counterpunch
17 April 2020. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/17/when-consumerism-locks-death-and-
diminishment-away-in-the-back-room/
“Technocrats and Authoritarianism” Counterpunch 16 April 2020
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/16/technocrats-and-authoritarianism/
“Technocrats and Authoritarianism” Antiwar.com 15 April 2020 https://original.antiwar.com/thomas-
harrington/2020/04/14/technocrats-and-authoritarianism/
“The American Funhouse” Counterpunch 10 April 2020 https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/10/the-
american-funhouse/
“New Corona Cases”: the Ultimate Floating Signifier” Counterpunch 3 April 2020
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/03/new-corona-cases-the-ultimate-floating-signifier/
“N’estem farts, per fi, de la frivolitat? Vilaweb (Barcelona) 28 March 2020.
https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/estem-farts-frivolitat-opinio-thomas-harrington/
“Interview : Le président catalan est en difficulté” (French Translation of interview of Catalan
President Torra) Les Crises: Espace d’Autodéfense Intellectuelle 25 February 2020.
https://www.les-crises.fr/interview-le-president-catalan-est-en-difficulte-par-thomas-s-harrington/
“Els fills de Fukuyama… I la mediocritat” Vilaweb (Barcelona) 21 February 2020
https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/fills-fukuyama-mediocritat-opinio-thomas-harrington/
“La inevitable necessitat dels xocs frontals amb els centres de poder” Vilaweb (Barcelona) 25 January 2020
https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/la-inevitable-necessitat-dels-xocs-frontals/
“The Catalan Crisis Threatens to Reopen a Debate that the EU's Power Brokers Thought They Had Long
Ago Quashed” Village (Ireland) 23 January 2020. https://villagemagazine.ie/the-catalan-crisis-threatens-to-
reopen-a-debate-that-the-eus-power-brokers-thought-they-had-long-ago-quashed/
“The Catalan Crisis Threatens to Reopen a Debate that the EU's Power Brokers Thought They Had Long
Ago Quashed” Counterpunch 23 January 2020 https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/23/the-catalan-
crisis-threatens-to-reopen-a-debate-that-the-eus-power-brokers-thought-they-had-long-ago-quashed/
“The Catalan Crisis Threatens To Reopen a Debate That the EUs Power Brokers Thought They Had Long
Ago Quashed” Antiwar.com 22 January 2020. https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2020/01/22/the-catalan-crisis-
threatens-to-reopen-a-debate-that-the-eus-power-brokers-thought-they-had-long-ago-quashed/
“Interview: The Embattled Catalan President” Consortium News 15 January 2020
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/15/interview-the-embattled-catalan-president/
“An Interview with Embattled Catalan President Quim Torra” Counterpunch 14 January 2020
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/14/an-interview-with-embattled-catalan-president-quim-torra/
“An Interview with Embattled Catalan President Quim Torra” Antiwar.com 6 January 2020 <
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2020/01/06/an-interview-with-embattled-catalan-president-quim-torra/>
“Catalan President: Catalonia’s Crisis Is Problem of Democracy” The Globe Post 6 January 2020
https://theglobepost.com/2020/01/06/catalonia-president-interview/
“Contra el pensament lineal, sobretot en el cas dels moviments d’alliberament nacional” Vilaweb
(Barcelona) 27 December 2019. https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/contra-pensament-lineal-moviments-
alliberament-nacional-opinio-thomas-harrington/
“Misled About Their Wars: Why Americans Sign on to Nihilistic Pursuits With Such Obedient Ease”
Alternet 12 December 2020 https://www.alternet.org/2019/12/americans-misled-about-their-wars-why-
americans-sign-on-to-nihilistic-pursuits-of-this-sort-with-such-obedient-ease/
“Americans Misled About Their Wars: Lather, Rinse, and Repeat” Commondreams 11 December 2019
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/12/11/americans-misled-about-their-wars-lather-rinse-and-
repeat
“Combat in the Service of Hope: Thomas Harrington Interviews Quim Torra, President of the Government
of Catalonia” Village: Ireland’s Political and Cultural Magazine (December 2019-January 2020) 73-75
(print version)
Unabridged internet version: https://villagemagazine.ie/index.php/2020/01/18614/
“The Catalan Leadership Is Serious About Independence” Antiwar.com 2 December 2019 <
https://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2019/12/01/the-catalan-leadership-is-serious-about-
independence/>
“Obsessionar-se amb les ‘fake news’ és de mandrosos…” Vilaweb (Barcelona) 29 Novembre 2019. <
https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/fake-news-opinio-tom-harrington/>
“Let’s Give Three Cheers for Those Western Ears” Counterpunch 20 November 2019
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/20/lets-give-three-cheers-for-those-western-ears/
“Hong Kong Their Head-Bashers….and ‘Ours’”. Counterpunch 27 August 2019.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/08/27/hong-kong-their-head-bashers-and-ours/
“Their Head-Bashers – and ‘Ours’: Hong Kong vs. Catalonia” Antiwar.com 27 August 2019.
https://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2019/08/26/their-head-bashers-and-ours/
“La supèrbia, de fons angoixat, d’una certa ‘gent d’esquerres’”. Vilaweb (Barcelona) 23-30 agost 2019
https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/superbia-esquerres-opinio-thomas-harrington/
“Rufián: petons cap amunt, patacades cap avall” Vilaweb (Barcelona) 30 juliol 2019
https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/petons-amunt-patacades-avall-opinio-thomas-harrington
“An interview with exiled Catalan President Carles Puigdemont” Village: Ireland’s Political and Cultural
Magazine 22 May 2019 < https://villagemagazine.ie/index.php/2019/05/an-interview-with-exiled-catalan-
president-carles-puigdemont/>
“Elections in Spain: Regime Maintenance Disguised as Democratic Vitality” The Globe Post
6 May 2019. https://theglobepost.com/2019/05/05/spain-regime-maintenance/
“Elections in Spain: Regime Maintenance Disguised as Democratic Vitality and the Possibility of Change”
Counterpunch 3 May 2019. https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/03/elections-in-spain-regime-
maintenance-disguised-as-democratic-vitality-and-the-possibility-of-change/
“Katalónía kemur öllum vi” Morgunbladid Sunnudagur (Rejkjavik, Iceland) 21 April 2019 < http://arc.ci.x-
cago.net/data/mbl/20190421/pages/01010/articles/MBL-20190421-01010002.pdf>
This is condensed Icelandic version of my interview with exiled Catalan President Carles Puigdemont in
the Sunday edition of one of Iceland’s leading newspapers
My two-part, 9000-word interview of Exiled Catalan President Carles Puigdemont was published at Salon
on 11 March and 17 March 2019.
Part one:
https://www.salon.com/2019/03/11/exclusive-catalan-independence-leader-carles-puigdemont-on-the-
future-of-spain-and-europe/
Part two:
https://www.salon.com/2019/03/17/exclusive-catalan-independence-leader-carles-puigdemont-on-
reinventing-nationalism-in-a-new-century/
“The Ghosts of Chauncey Gardner and Francisco Franco at the Trials of the Catalan Independentists in
Madrid” Counterpunch 27 February 2019. https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/27/the-ghosts-of-
chauncey-gardner-and-francisco-franco-at-the-trials-of-the-catalan-independentists-in-madrid/
“The Ghosts of Chauncey Gardner and Francisco Franco at the Trials of the Catalan Independentists in
Madrid” Antiwar.com 26 February 2019
< https://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2019/02/25/the-ghosts-of-chauncey-gardner-and-
francisco-franco-at-the-trials-of-the-catalan-independentists-in-madrid/>
“Catalan Separatists on Trial Pay Price for Spain’s Crude Transition to Democracy” Globe Post
25 February 2019 < https://theglobepost.com/2019/02/25/catalan-trial-spain-democracy/>
“El cop d’estat a Veneçuela: una prova incòmoda per a l’independentisme català” Vilaweb (Barcelona) 5
February 2019 https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/venecuela-independentisme-thomas-harrington/
“Informational Eugenics” Cold Type 175 (Late January 2019) 6-7
http://www.coldtype.net/Assets19/pdf/ColdType176.MidJan2019.pdf
“L’establishment ‘raonable’ i l’autenticitat” Vilaweb 9 January 2019.
< https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/lestablishment-raonable-i-lautenticitat-opinio-thomas-harrington/>
“On Legal Codes, Mistrust, and Moral Legitimacy” The Catalan Voice 15 December 2018.
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“No, It Has not Always Been this Way” Common Dreams 5 June 2012
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/05-3
“Being (or Not) ‘In the Place of the Soul’” Nation of Change 24 April 2012
http://www.nationofchange.org/being-or-not-place-soul-1335276007
“Customers or Citizens?” Nation of Change 21 March 2012 http://www.nationofchange.org/customers-or-
citizens-1332343841
“ Customer or Citizens?” Counterpunch 20 March 2012
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/03/20/customers-or-citizens/
“‘Mistakes Were Made’: One-Time Object of Derision Now a Core Template of Our Social Behaviors”
Common Dreams 11 march 2012 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/11-4
“If the Cords of Culture are Cut, How Will We Access the Potential Sources of Our Renewal?” Common
Dreams 19 February 2012 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/19-4
“A Better Question Might Be, 'How Is It NOT Fascism?' Common Dreams 25 January 2012
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/25-11
“More Intellectual Dishonesty at the New York Times” Antiwar.com 19 January 2012
http://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2012/01/18/more-intellectual-dishonesty-at-the-new-york-
times/
“More Intellectual Dishonesty at the New York Times” Common Dreams 18 January 2012
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/18-7
“Welcome to Dalí’s show” Sàpiens (Barcelona) 112 (gener 2012), 24-25.
“La llum catalana a Amèrica” Sàpiens (Barcelona) 111 (desembre 2011), 24-25.
“Technocrats” Common Dreams 5 December 2011 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/05-6
“Orthodoxies and Adolescents” ” Common Dreams 1 December 2011
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/01-5
“Keeping US Safe”...From the Task of Engaging and Managing our Own Anxieties” Common Dreams 16
November 2011 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/16-5
“Anger and Angry People” The Public Intellectuals Project 12 November 2011
http://publicintellectualsproject.mcmaster.ca/public-intellectuals/anger-and-angry-people/
“Anger and Angry People” Common Dreams 9 November 2011
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/09-5
“Uniformed Impunity: We’re Probably Closer to the Beginning than to the End” Common Dreams 31
October 2011 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/31-5
“One Thing You Can’t Hide…Is the Authoritarian Inside” Common Dreams 28 October 2011
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/28-1
“I am a Catalan (Pau Casals a l’ONU)” Sàpiens (Barcelona) 109 (octubre 2011), 26-27.
“Pre-emptive Strikes of the (Pseudo) Progressive Kind” Common Dreams 8 October 2011
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/08
“Junk Food for the Mind” Common Dreams, 25 September 2011
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/25
“The Doctrine of ‘Reasonable Doubt’: Universal Principle or Perk of the Powerful?”. Common Dreams, 30
August 2011. https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/30-7
“Learned Helplessness and the Imperial Mind”. Common Dreams, 22 August 2011
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/22-6
“Ballots and Democracy: Big Media Is Just Not That Into It” Common Dreams, 16 August 2011
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/16-7
«El carib a les venes». Sàpiens (Barcelona) 106 (agost 2011), 24-25.
“Tribalism Is Dead, Long Live the Tribe” Common Dreams, 15 August 2011
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/15-8
“The Partisanship Canard” Common Dreams, 11 August 2011.
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/11-7
“When 'Everybody Has a Price' Who Will Stand Up to Injustice?”. Common Dreams, 7 August 2011.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/07-2
“Harrington, Thomas S.. «Genis de la Medicina». Sàpiens (Barcelona) 105 (juliol 2011), 26-27.
“On Bumper Stickers That Say 'Coexist' (or Skipping the ‘Detail Work’ Needed for the Pursuit of Real
Justice and Democracy)”. Common Dreams, 22 July 2011.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/22-7
“Quick! Look Over There” Common Dreams. 26 June 2011.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/26-5
“Barcelona Chronicle: Last Week’s 'Siege' of the Catalan Parliament” Common Dreams. 22 June 2011. <
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/21-9
“Sooner or Later Our Children Will Ask: "How Did This Happen?" Common Dreams. 18 June 2011
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/18-2
“The Death of Jorge Semprun”. Common Dreams 10 June 2011
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/10-2
“De Balaguer a Holywood” Sàpiens (Barcelona) 104 (juny 2010) 26-27
“Pioners de l’Església Catòlica” Sàpiens (Barcelona) 103 (maig 2010) 24-25
“Els Esteve, Nissaga de magnats” Sàpiens (Barcelona) 102 (abril 2010) 24-25
“Language, "Promontory Views" and American Perceptions of the World” Common Dreams 24 April 2011
< http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/24-4>
“Language and American Perceptions of the World” Antiwar.com 12-13 April 2011
<http://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2011/04/12/american-perceptions-of-the-world/>
“Nous mons per a l’art català”. Sàpiens (Barcelona) 101 (març 2010) 24-25
“Controversialization: A Key to the Right’s Continuing Domination of Public Debates” Common Dreams
6 March 2011 < http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/06>
“Not so Different After All? Antiwar.com 2 March 2011. < http://original.antiwar.com/thomas-
harrington/2011/03/01/not-so-different-after-all/>
“Dignity: an Idea Gone Missing in the Land” Common Dreams 19 February 2011.
< http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/19-0>
“America the Baroque” Common Dreams. 18 February 2011.
<http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/18-3>
“Farragut l’almirall llegendari”. Sàpiens (Barcelona) 100 (febrer 2011) 26-27
“Bullying i Autoritarisme” l’Avui (Barcelona) 12 desembre 2010
http://www.elpuntavui.cat/noticia/article/3-politica/17-politica/343965-bullying-i-autoritarisme.html
“Netanyahu: the Intellectual Father of the “War on Terror”. Antiwar.com 10 December 2010.
<http://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2010/11/09/netanyahu-intellectual-father/
“Absenta i Comerç al Mississipi” Sàpiens (Barcelona) 98 (desembre 2010) 28-29
“Obama, Kirchner y la valentía” Brecha (Montevideo) 19 November 2010
“L’Escola de Ferrer i Guàrdia”. Sàpiens (Barcelona) 97 (novembre 2010) 28-29
“Jordi Pujol... and the Moral Misery of Barack Obama” Antiwar.com 21 June 2010.
http://antiwar.com/regions/regions.php?countryid=172
“Lockerbie Outrage Moves Obama to Extradite Long-Wanted Terrorist” 25 August 2009.
http://antiwar.com/past/20090825.html
“New Think-Tank Seeks to Regulate Historical Analogies” Antiwar.com 19 August 2009.
http://antiwar.com/past/20090819.html
“Unequal charges: When Balanced Is Not Fair” Op-Ed Article. The Hartford Courant. 10 October 2008.
http://articles.courant.com/2008-10-10/news/harrington1010.art_1_mccain-s-participation-republican-john-
mccain-democrat-barack-obama
“Who’s Gonna Tell the Kids?” Antiwar.com 15 August 2008 (Viewpoints section)
“Livin’ La Vida Barroca” Antiwar.com. 29 July 2008.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/harrington.php?articleid=13216
“Ourselves and Others” Holy Cross Magazine. 37-2 (Spring 2003) 26
http://www.holycross.edu/departments/publicaffairs/hcm/spring03/features/essay.html
Photography
“Down but not out in the City of Brotherly Love” Cold Type 137 (early April issue) 28-31
http://coldtype.net, or https://issuu.com/coldtype/docs/ct137.april2017
“Homage to Havana” Cold Type 134 (Late-February 2017 issue) 19-23.
http://www.coldtype.net/Assets.17/PDF/CT134.MidFeb2017.pdf
A extensive gallery of my photographic work on various themes can be found on the front page of my
personal website at: https://www.thomassharrington.com/
PRESENTATIONS:
Keynotes and invited seminars:
“Eighty Years Since the Assassination of Catalan President Lluis Companys” a roundtable
discussion between Joaquim Torra, the 131st President of Catalonia, Professor Thomas
Harrington and Joana Pujol, International Action Coordinator of the Catalan National assembly.
Sponsored by the Catalan National Assembly (Barcelona, London, Hartford 16 October 2020)
La Revista Prisma (1922): punt de trobada per als escriptors de l'Amèrica "nova" i dels sistemes literaris
“perifèrics” d'Europa” Barcelona, cruïlla de circuits perifèrics de literatura a la Facultat de Filologia i
Comunicació de la Universitat de Barcelona i al Museu d’Història de Barcelona (Barcelona 18-19
setembre 2020)
Taught 15-hour seminar at the University of Havana on la “La teoría de Polisistemas y los movimientos de
identidad nacional en la Península Ibérica” (Havana, Cuba 11-15 March 2019)
“Is Resurgent Nationalism a Threat or a Renewal?: Exploring the Case of Catalonia” One World
Lecture Series West Hartford Public Library (West Hartford, CT, 10 February 2019)
Polysystems Theory and the “Polysystem Theory as a Guide to a Pedagogical Program” Second
Annual Meeting of the of the International Society for Polysystem Studies (Trento, Italy 6-7
October 2017)
“Manufactured Forgetting and the Crisis of Contemporary U.S. Culture” Staging 21st-Century
American Crises Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació Universitat de València
(Valencia, Spain 9 March 2017)
“A versatilidade dum método critico: Andanças com a Teoria dos Polisistemas” Traduzindo a
Traducão: Even-Zohar Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
5-7 October 2016)
“Peripheral Systems, Doctrinal Enforcement and the Future of Galician Studies”
(Re)Mapping Galician Studies in North America. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
(Milwaukee 2-3 May 2014) Video: http://vimeo.com/100837180
Invited Lectures: "Una democrazia civica in tempi autoritari? Dibattito sulla crisi catalana". Università Ca Foscari
(Venice, Italy, 5 November 2019)
“Diferències claus entre el sistema politic nord-americà i el sistema politic espanyol” Facultat de Dret (Law
Faculty) La Universitat de Barcelona (Barcelona 30 October 2019)
“El problema con la diversidad: versión española” Pluriliterary/ España pluriliteraria (Lund, Sweden, 7-8
June 2019)
“Introductory remarks at the book launch for Carles Santacana ed. Quan tot semblava possible: Els
fonaments del canvi cultural en Espanya (1960-1975). at the Ateneu Barcelonés (Barcelona, 17 December
2018)
“La importància moral de la causa català en el món actual” lecture delivered at the Club Marina Casinet
(Lloret de Mar, Catalonia 29 November 2018)
“Catalunya i el futur de la democràcia europea” lecture delivered at the Centre d’Estudis Vilasarrencs
(CEV), (Vilassar de Mar, Catalonia , 22 November 2018)
“Una democràcia cívica en temps autoritaris: apunts d’un nord-americà sobre el procès sobiranista a
Catalunya” talk introduced by the editor of Vilaweb, Vicent Partal and broadcast in its entirety on Vilaweb
TV and subsequently posted to YouTube. (Barcelona, 5 November 2018)
Vilaweb TV: https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/thomas-s-harrington-presenta-una-democracia-civica-
en-temps-autoritaris-a-lespai-vilaweb/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1MCr2IT9HE
Respondent to the Joan Gili Memorial keynote lecture ‘Political Conflict in Catalonia and the
Limits of Spanish Democracy’ delivered by exiled Catalan Minister of Education, Clara Ponsatí
at the 64th annual Anglo-Catalan Society Meeting at University of Bristol, England 10 November
2018)
“Patterns of Catalan Deployment in the Americas” Exeter University (Exeter, England 8
November 2018)
“When the Mediterranean Moved West: Pathways of Catalan Emigration in the Americas”
Cambridge University (Cambridge, England 7 November 2018)
“Una democràcia cívica en temps autoritaris: apunts d’un nord-americà sobre el procès
sobiranista a Catalunya book talk introduced by Catalan journalist Antoni Bassas (22 October
2018)
“The Catalan Presence in America: the Case of Cuba” introduction to the film Els que es
quedaren/ Los que se quedaron” The Bildner Center, Graduate Center, City University of New
York (New York, 27 March 2018)
“The Road to the October 1st Referendum: Understanding the Current Crisis in Catalonia”
Department of Modern Languages Wesleyan University (1 November 2017)
“El problema de la memòria en els Estats Units d’avui” guest lecture in the course on the “World
Today” in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the Autonomous University
of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain 15 March 2017)
“Polysystem Theory and the Analysis of Contemporary Politics” Inaugural Meeting of the
International Society for Polysystem Studies (Reykholt, Iceland 28-28 June 2016)
“Què en penses, Europa?”, Presentation of the book of this title written by the German-Catalan
journalist and translator Krystina Schreiber. Museu d’Historia de Catalunya/ National History
Museum of Catalonia (Barcelona, 23 February 2016)
“Los catecismos de la identidad nacional al principio del Siglo XX : el caso de La Nación Vasca”
lecture delivered at the Facultad de Letras, Universidad del País Vasco (Vitoria, Spain 18
February 2016)
“La pedogogía nacionalista de Euskadi en un contexto ibérico” Facultad de Magisterio,
Universidad del País Vasco (Bilbao/Leioa, Spain 17 February 2016)
“El extraño lugar de “Kizkitza” en la historiografía vasca” as part of the Aulas Kutxa Series
Kutxa Kultur en Tabakalera; Centro Internacional de Cultura Contemporánea (San Sebastián, 16
February, 2016)
"Polysystem? Whose Polysystem? What Polysystem?: a Bit of Genealogy" talk delivered at
roundtable session on Iberian Studies in Practice 2016 MLA Convention (Austin, TX, 9 January
2016)
“Les Bases de Manresa: El crit mobilitzador d’una societat en plena ebullició” part of the Great
Moments in the History of Catalonia Lecture Series Museu d’Historia de Catalunya/ National
History Museum of Catalonia (Barcelona, 18 November 2015)
“El papel de los catalanes en la creación de la cultura uruguaya” Modern Language Lecture
Series Florida International University (Miami, 23 October 2015)
“El catalans de les Amèriques: una visió panoramica” lecture delivered as part of the Master’s
program in contemporary history at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (9 June 2015)
“Unos apuntes sobre la implantación y el uso pedagógico de la canción popular en un programa
universitario de estudios hispánicos” Canción de autor y Música Popular en España y
Latinoamérica Università Ca’ Foscari (Venice, Italy 5 May 2015)
“Los sistemas periféricos, la fiscalización doctrinal y el futuro de los estudios galegos”,
Seminario Interncional sobre Estudos Galegos/ Estudos Ibéricos Alén das Fronteiras (Santiago
de Compostela, Spain 18 December 2014) Address delivered via Skype to the Consello da
Cultura Galega, the Galician government’s highest organ of Culture.
“Conformació de la identitat catalana en el món contemporani” Universitat Catalana d'Estiu
(Prada de Conflent, France 22 August 2014)
Roundtable Speaker, Discursos, imagens e práticas culturais, Santiago de Compostela (23-25
June, 2014)
Roundtable Speaker on “New Iberianist and Transatlantic Tendencies in North American Hispanism” Galician
Studies in the US CUNY Graduate Center (New York, 26 April 2014)
Roundtable Speaker “Toward the Capstone” Trinity Center for Teaching and Learning (6
February 2014)
“La Premsa i la Refundació Radical de l’Ordre Polític Nord-Americà Després de l’Onze de Setembre, 2001”
V Jornades d’Història de la Premsa Museu d’Història de Catalunya,(Barcelona 21-22 November de 2013)
“Doctrinal Enforcement and System Volume in Peripheral Discourses of National Identity”
Ideational and Imaging Labor: Power and Collective Entities. Ca’ Foscari University (Venice,
Italy, 2-3 October 2013)
“Els catalans i la creació de les institucions de la cultura nacional uruguaiana en el Segle XIX”
Grup d’Estudis d’Historia de la Cultura i dels Intel.lectuals (GEHCI) Universitat de Barcelona
(Barcelona 5 June 2013)
“A Unified City Riven by National Borders: Identifying the Lines of Demarcation in Today's
Barcelona” Connecting to the City: Borders and Belongings to Urban Places in the Past and
Present. (Trinity College Hartford) 20 April 2013.
“Peninsular Archeologies: Toward a History of Tripartite Iberianism in the Twentieth Century”
CUNY Graduate Center (New York, NY 7 December 2012)
Roundtable Speaker “What is Interdisciplinarity?” Trinity Center for Teaching and Learning
(18 October, 2012 )
“Rellenando los huecos: hacia un hispanismo verdaderamente pan-hispano" Centro de Estudios
Interdisciplinarios de la Universidad de la República (Montevideo 11 October 2012)
“Los catalanes del Uruguay: en todas partes y en ninguna” Museo de las Migraciones (MUMI)
(Montevideo 10 October 2012)
"Los hilos de la memoria en peligro: el archivo cada vez más remoto del progresismo
norteamericano" Centro de Estudios Interdisciplinarios de la Universidad de la República
(Montevideo 9 October 2012)
“Los catalanes: ‘La levadura’ de la colonia montevideana” Seminario sobre la Presencia
catalana en México y el resto de América Latina. Colegio de Jalisco/ Biblioteca Pública del
Estado de Jalisco “Juan José Arreola” (Guadalajara, Mexico 29-31 August 2012)
“El paper desconegut de la "factoria catalana" de Montevideu en els últims anys de la colònia i
els primers anys de la lluita per l'independència” Grup d’Estudis d’Historia de la Cultura i dels
Intel.lectuals (GEHCI) Ateneu de Barcelona (Barcelona 30 May 2012)
“Rudolf Slaby: mediacions entre Txèquia i els sistemes literaris de la Península Ibèrica” Entre
literatures. Hegemoníes i peripheries en els processos de mediació literària. Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona (Barcelona 12 May 2011)
“Secularism in Uruguay and Latin America”. Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society &
Culture. (Hartford, 28 April 2011)
“La construcción de la identidad catalana: un proceso largo y autoconsciente” Casal Català de
Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 15 December 2010)
“Identidad y la planificación cultural en la Cataluña contemporánea” Casal Català de Córdoba,
(Córdoba, Argentina, 13 December, 2010)
“Culture-Planning and the Deployment of Identities in Contemporary Barcelona” Center for
Urban and Global Studies, Trinity College (Hartford, 9 March 2010)
“Catalonia y su relación con la España moderna” Summer Seminar for Teachers of Hispanic
Studies. Central Connecticut State University (New Britain, CT, 18 July 2009)
“The Sub-State Nations of Europe: the Case of Catalonia” European Studies Seminar Central
Connecticut State University (New Britain, CT, 28 April 2009)
“What Are You Doing Here? Studying Transnational and Urban Phenomena from
within Hispanic Studies”. Rethinking Cities and Communities. Center for Urban and Global
Engagement. Trinity College, (Hartford, 14-15 October 2008)
“Obsessions Trasvassades : Contribucions Catalanes al Repertori Arquitectònic de l’Uruguai”
Fundació Catalunya-Amèrica” (Barcelona, Spain 28 June 2008)
“L’arxiu amagat dels Catalans de l’uruguai” La Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Barcelona,
Spain, 19 June 2008)
“Barcelona, Ciudad de Traducciones: El Caso de La revista Estudio” City Lights. Literary
Constructions and Urban Space in the Iberian Peninsula Brown University (Providence, RI, 25
April 2008)
“Urbanity in Transit: Catalan Contributions to the Architectural Repertoire of Modern Uruguay”.
Culture Contacts and the Making of Cultures: International Workshop in honor of Itamar Even-
Zohar’s Forty Years of Academic Scholarship. Tel Aviv University (Tel Aviv, Israel, 6-8 January
2008). Was one of nine scholars from around the world invited to celebrate the work of this
fundamental figure in Translation Studies and Polysystems research.
“Idea(l)s in Transit: Catalan Contributions to the Construction of Modern Uruguay”. First
International Workshop on Language, Culture and Translation University of Hyderabad
(Hyderabad, India, 19-22 March, 2007)
“Què vol dir “fer l’hispanisme” als Estats Units d’avui?” Noves perspectives critiques en els
estudis als Estats Units d’Amèrica i a Catalunya. Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, 1 July
2005)
"La Revista Estudio: Un eslabón esencial (y olvidado) en la cadena del pensamiento ibérista
contemporáneo" at the Facultad de Letras, Universidad de Córdoba (Córdoba, February, 2003)
“Belief, Civic Culture and the Practice of Hispanism” España fuera de España: los espacios de
la historia literaria. Harvard University, (Cambridge, 15-17 March 2001)
“El Círculo Maristany y la interpenetración de los sistemas literarios de América, Europa y la
Península Ibérica” Universidad de León, (León, July 2000)
"Nationalist Pedagogies: 'Cultural Commerce' Between Catalonia and Portugal 1900-1925."
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Humanities Center, Harvard
University (Cambridge, October 1999)
"El amante bilingüe de Marsé: ¿una enunciación profética del reto pluriculturalista de la pos-transición?" at
the Facultad de Letras, Universidad de Córdoba (Córdoba, February 1999)
MEDIA APPEARANCES AND PRESS CITATIONS
Cited in the editorial entitled “Alliberar Catalunya és la revolució de les nostres vides” published
by the director of the Catalan newspaper Vilaweb on 28 June 2020.
https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/alliberar-catalunya-es-la-revolucio-de-les-nostres-vides/
Was interviewed on the 20 June 2020 edition of KPFA Evening (Pacifica Network) regarding the
effects of the COVID epidemic on the political situation in Spain and Catalonia. Intervention runs
from the 9:00 to the 11: 46 mark of the program. https://archives.kpfa.org/data/20200620-
Sat1800.mp3
Cited in an opinion article written by Josep Maria Solé Sabaté with the title “La falsa neutralitat”
in the Catalan newspaper El Punt/ Avui on Sunday 14 June 2020
http://www.elpuntavui.cat/opinio/article/8-articles/1804455-la-falsa-neutralitat.html
Was interviewed on KPFA radio weekend news on the Pacifica network regarding the formation
of the new government in Spain. 4 January 2020. The intervention begins at the 14:26 mark of the
program. < https://archives.kpfa.org/data/20200104-Sat1800.mp3>
Was interviewed by ILNA (Iran Labor News Agency) on 20 September 2019 regarding the
protests in Catalonia following the Spanish Supreme Court sentences of Catalan leaders handed
down on 14 October 2019. < https://www.ilna.news/fa/tiny/news-824276>
Was interviewed by Ukrainian TV channel Hromadske.TV on 16 October 2019 regarding the
protests in Catalonia following the Spanish Supreme Court sentences of Catalan leaders handed
down on 14 October 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lYcatb3xwE
Was cited extensively in an article on the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the
moon published in the 20 July 2019 edition of Ara, one of Catalonia’s leading newspapers.
https://www.ara.cat/suplements/ciencia/dia-que-tele-arribar-Lluna_0_2273772642.html
Was interviewed on the upcoming Spanish elections on the Evening News on KPFA in Berkeley,
California on Saturday 27 April 2019. https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=309463 My intervention
begins at the 8:25 mark.
Was cited in an article “Catalan Indies, Steve Bannon Proteges: Spanish Centrist Parties Pick
Allies in Fragmented Elections” at RT.com on 27 April 2019. https://www.rt.com/news/457724-
spain-elections-parties-facts/
Was cited in the editorial “La batalla (també) als mitjans” written by Vicent Partal, editor-in-chief
of the Vilaweb newspaper (Barcelona) on 1 April 2019.
Was the subject of an interview on my book conducted by the cultural collective Cazabaret in
Teruel, Spain regarding my book Una democràcia cívica en temps autoritaris: apunts d’un nord-
americà sobre el procès sobiranista a Catalunya
http://www.cazarabet.com/conversacon/fichas/fichas1/harrington.htm
On 16 February, 2019 was interviewed on the evening news of KPFA Radio (Berkeley, CA)
regarding the trials of the of the Catalan independentist politician taking place in Madrid.
<https://archives.kpfa.org/data/20190216-Sat1800.mp3> (The interview begins at the 18:15
mark)
My ideas were cited in the end-of-year editorial “Händel, o com acabar bé un any difícil” written
by Vicent Partal, the Editor of Vilaweb, one of Catalonia’s most influential dailies. https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/handel-o-com-acabar-be-un-any-dificil-editorial-vicent-
partal/
Was the subject of a story in the 9 December 2018 edition of the Catalan newspaper El Nacional.
“Un catedràtic dels EUA, sobre la vaga de fam: "És la forma més noble de desobediència civil" <
https://www.elnacional.cat/ca/politica/vaga-de-fam-desobediencia-civil_332931_102.html>
Was interviewed on Preguntes Freqüents-FAQS on TV3, the National TV network of Catalonia
the most important prime-time current affairs program in Catalonia. (Barcelona 8 December
2018)
https://www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/preguntes-frequents/t-harrington-la-vaga-de-fam-es-la-forma-mes-noble-de-desobediencia-civil/video/5804428/ Was featured Sunday interview in the Catalan daily newspaper El Nacional on 2 December 2018.
In Catalan: “Harrington: "Desobediència civil pot ser resistir-se al trasllat dels presos a
Madrid”
< https://www.elnacional.cat/ca/politica/entrevista-harrington-desobediencia-
civil_329916_102.html>
In English: Harrington: "Civil disobedience might be resisting the prisoners' transfer to
Madrid"
< https://www.elnacional.cat/en/politics/harrington-interview-civil-
disobedience_330738_102.html>
In Spanish: Harrington: "Desobediencia civil puede ser resistirse al traslado de los presos
a Madrid"
< https://www.elnacional.cat/es/politica/entrevista-harrington-desobediencia-
civil_329916_102.html>
Expert guest for “La presència catalana a l’Uruguai” program number 727 in the long-running
one-hour popular history program En Guàrdia hosted by Enric Calpena and Josep Maria Solé-
Sabaté on Catalunya Ràdio, the public radio network of Catalonia.
Recorded: 30 November 2018
Aired: 10 February 2019
“Thomas Harrington, observador internacional, parlarà del procés sobiranista al Casinet”
Interview on Nova Ràdio Lloret. (30 November 2018)
Fragment here: < http://www.novaradiolloret.org/thomas-harrington-observador-
internacional-parlara-del-proces-sobiranista-al-casinet/>
Was cited extensively in the article “L’excepcionalitat catalana” by Nuria Cadenes published in
the Vilaweb on 7 November 2018.
https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/lexcepcionalitat-catalana-mail-obert-opinio-nuria-
cadenes/
Was the featured weekend interview, “Thomas Harrington: ‘Catalunya és un laboratori en la lluita
contra l’autoritarisme’” of the of the Vilaweb newspaper (Barcelona, 3-4 November, 2018)
Original catalan version: https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/thomas-harrington-catalunya-es-un-
laboratori-en-la-lluita-contra-lautoritarisme/
Spanish version: https://l-hora.org/?p=9504&lang=es
Was the featured interview of the Diaspora podcast of the Catalonia-America Council on 25
October, 2018.
https://soundcloud.com/user-801821100/diaspora-oct-25-2018-interview-thomas-harrington-
trinity-college
My new book on the Catalan independence movement, Una democràcia cívica en temps
autoritaris: apunts d’un nord-americà sobre el procès sobiranista a Catalunya, was the subject
of the daily article by Antoni Bassas, one of Catalonia’s leading journalists, in the 23 October
2018 edition of the newspaper Ara https://www.ara.cat/opinio/Antoni-Bassas-mirada-americana-
admiracio-sobre-Catalunya_0_2111789053.html
On 31 May 2018 was interviewed in the evening news of RT international regarding the Italian
president’s veto of the proposed Finance Minister for the newly formed Left-Right Coalition
government and the impending ouster of Spanish Prime Minister Rajoy by a no-confidence vote.
< https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm--uPT4KH4&feature=youtu.be>
On 12 May 2018 was interviewed by RT International in relation to the recently published
Amnesty International report on the Spanish government response to the Catalan referendum on
October 1st, 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQDTkAXxU8k&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop
Was cited in the article “Por que o independentismo basco é mais fraco que o catalão” published
on 9 may 2018 in Brazil’s leading news magazine Veja. < . https://veja.abril.com.br/mundo/por-
que-o-independentismo-basco-e-mais-fraco-que-o-catalao/
On 25 February 2018 was interviewed on RT’s Sunday evening news regarding Spanish King
Felipe VI’ s visit to Barcelona earlier in that day.
<https://archive.org/details/RT_20180225_230000_News/start/866/end/926?q=catalonia>
On 24 December 2017 was interviewed on the RT evening news about the 21 December
elections in Catalonia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK95c7Xn9FE&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop
On 12 December 2017 was interviewed on RT regarding the transfer of the artifacts from Santa
María de Sixena from the Catalan city of Lleida to Aragon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3bEhvWrgNk
On 25 November 2017 was interviewed on the 6:00 news on KPFA (Pacifica Radio in San
Francisco) about the political situation in Catalonia. (Intervention begins at the 11 minute mark
of the broadcast) < https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=273514>
On 24 November was interviewed by RT about the supposed influence of Russia within the
Catalanist push for independence.
< https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W95l8ZpUCoY&feature=youtu.be>
On 5 November as interviewed on CGTV (China) News’ North American Nightly News Program
concerning the political situation in Catalonia.
<https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dlKHaGnFdUM>
On 2 November 2017 was on the Evening news of RT’s English language service about the
political situation in Catalonia.
< https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtJaKIXU0bM&feature=youtu.be>
Was interviewed on CGTV (China) News’ North American Nightly News Program concerning
the political situation in Catalonia on 29 October 2017
< https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TyI0lWC5zA>
On 27 October 2017 was interviewed as part of the lead story on the Evening news of RT’s
English language service about the Declaration of independence in Catalonia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_12HLTPUkw
On 21 October 2017 was interviewed as part of the lead story on the Evening news of RT’s
English language service about recent political developments in Catalonia.
<https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Ysyq7zju-Mo>
On 17 October 2017 was interviewed on Where We Live? The morning current affairs program at
WNPR, Connecticut’s largest NPR outlet regarding the political situation in Catalonia.
<http://wnpr.org/post/drawing-borders-home-and-around-globe> (Interview begins at 18
minute mark)
“The Catalan Independence Referendum with Dr. Tom Harrington” Wake Up Call Podcast, no.
159 (15 October 2017) http://www.wakeupcallpodcast.com/catalonia/
Was interviewed on CGTV (China) News’ North American Nightly News Program concerning
the political situation in Catalonia on 11 October 2017 <https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-
QcK32biGSQ>
“Catalogna: le ragioni della rabbia e della rivoluzione” Blogamarí (Sardinia, Italy) 6 October
2017 http://blogamari.com/catalogna-le-ragioni-della-rabbia-e-della-rivoluzione/
Was interviewed on the Scott Horton show on 6 October 2017 about the 1 October 2017
referendum for independence in Catalonia. https://scotthorton.org/10617-thomas-harrington-on-
catalonias-push-for-independence/
Was interviewed on the Morning Wave Busan show, and English-language current affairs show in
Busan, Korea on 2 October 2017 regarding the Catalan referendum for independence that took
place the previous day.
http://befm.or.kr/03/playAgainPop.jsp?prgmId=morning&aodFile=201710/20171003morning_sp
_0.wma&plyDt=20171003&partSeq=0
Was interviewed by the El Nacional, a Catalan on-line newspaper on the occasion of the visit of
the Catalan president Carles Puigdemont to Harvard University on 27 March 2017. Here is the
video and text of that intervention http://www.elnacional.cat/ca/politica/esperit-sospitos-
preguntes-conferencia-puigdemont_147495_102.html
Was the subject of an one-hour in-depth interview on the current political situation in Spain on
The Keeping Democracy Alive hosted by Burt Cohen on the Progressive Radio Network < http://keepingdemocracyalive.com/political-disarray-not-the-gop-spain/> 13 October 2016
My early analysis of the false promise of the Obama Presidency was cited in an opinion column
in the Catalonia daily El Punt/Avui on May 1st, 2016 http://www.elpuntavui.cat/opinio/article/8-
articles/962492-obama-poca-cosa.html
Was the subject of a two-part interview, published by the Spanish service of the Russian news
agency Sputnik, centering on the roots of the current Catalan drive for independence.
Part one, < http://mundo.sputniknews.com/europa/20150918/1051564763.html> was
published on 18 September 2015.
Part two < http://mundo.sputniknews.com/espana/20150921/1051629854.html>
was published on 21 September 2015
My analysis of the historical background of the current tensions between Catalonia the Spanish
central government was cited in the 2 September 2105 column of leading journalist Antoni
Bassas writng in the Barcelona-based daily Ara. http://www.ara.cat/firmes/antoni_bassas/Han-
canviat-tant-catalans_0_1423657672.html
Was the subject of an extensive interview on US foreign and domestic policy with the Algerian
journalist Mohsen Abdelmoumen published in numerous international media outlets in both
English and French on 2 May 2015.
In English: “No New Future Ever Comes out of Thin Air”
https://www.oximity.com/article/Thomas-S.-Harrington-No-new-future-eve-1?faid=651430
http://whatsupic.com/special-usa/thomas-harrington78678567.html
In French: "Un nouvel avenir ne sort jamais d'un air raréfié"
https://www.oximity.com/article/Thomas-S.-Harrington-Un-nouvel-avenir-1?faid=651423
http://fr.whatsupic.com/sp%C3%A9ciale-usa/1430647358.html
http://www.palestine-solidarite.org/interview.thomas-s-harrington.030515.htm
Was cited in the article, “ Encara un ‘problema intern’ als ulls del món” published in the 7
December 2014 issue of the Catalan daily, Ara. http://www.ara.cat/premium/politica/Encara-
problema-intern-ulls-mon_0_1262273876.html
Was cited in the article “ Un afer encara poc visible a la superpotència” that appeared in the 8
September 2014 special issue of the Catalan daily, Ara, devoted to the perception of the Catalan
independence process in the rest of the world. http://www.ara.cat/premium/Especial-
setembre_15_1208429147.html
Was the subject of an interview that appeared in the Catalan Newspaper El Punt Avui on 1
September 2014http://www.elpuntavui.cat/noticia/article/3-politica/17-politica/773133-cap-
poder-central-deixara-que-ningu-surti-sense-cost.html
Was the subject of an in-depth interview by three coordinators of the Catalan National Assembly,
a citizen action group currently advocating for the peaceful separation of Catalonia from Spain,
,published on 27 August 2014 http://catalanassembly.org/2014/08/27/interview-with-thomas-
harrington-a-very-appealing-element-of-the-movement-and-of-the-anc-is-the-fact-that-it-is-
citizen-driven/
Was cited in the article, “La UCE tanca les portes a la seva edició més internacional” published in
the Sunday edition of the Catalan daily Ara on 24 August 2014
http://www.ara.cat/premium/politica/UCE-tanca-portes-ledicio-
internacional_0_1199280104.html
Was the subject of an interview published by the Catalan News Agency and the Vilaweb
newspaper on the 23rd of August, 2014 http://www.vilaweb.cat/noticia/4208090/20140823/heu-
pensar-lendema-9-n-dificil-caldra-treballar.html
Was the featured interview of the Diari de Prada, the daily publication of the Catalan Summer
University (UCE) in Prades, France on 23 August 2014.
http://serveidepremsa.info/2014/08/23/tom-harrington-esperar-bons-senyals-dels-grans-poders-
es-ratificar-los/
Was the subject of the article, "Els catalans heu de restringir la rauxa i pensar que l'endemà del
9N serà difícil i que caldrà treballar molt" La Vanguardia (Edición Girona) 23 August 2014
http://www.lavanguardia.com/local/girona/20140823/54414295360/els-catalans-heu-de-
restringir-la-rauxa-i-pensar-que-l-endema-del-9n-sera-dificil-i-que-caldra.html
Was cited in article “Els prodigis continuaran dijous” an opinion column by Antoni Bassas
published in the Catalan daily Ara on 16 June 2014.
http://www.ara.cat/premium/opinio/prodigis-continuaran-dijous_0_1157884291.html
Was the featured Sunday interview (interview of the week) of the week for the leading Catalan
language newspaper Ara on June 8th 2014. http://www.ara.cat/premium/societat/THOMAS-
SHARRINGTON-questio-essencial-ciutadans_0_1157284333.html (video and text)
Was cited in “Geografia necessària” an opinion column by Josep Maria Solé Sabaté, in the
Catalan daily newspaper El Punt Avui on publishes on 4 May 2014.
http://www.elpuntavui.cat/noticia/article/7-vista/8-articles/737603-geografia-
necessaria.html?cca=1
Was one of ten academic experts from around the world chosen to be interviewed for a book
designed to explain the past and present realities of Catalan culture to the world’s “10,000 most
influential decision makers”. The English version of the interview (it is also published in the
original Catalan version as well as in Spanish, French and German) appears under the title, “I
Find the Vitality of Catalan Culture, Against all the Odds, Fascinating” in Catalonia Calling:
What the World has to Know 135-136 Book is currently only available in print form. However, a
description of the project can be found here. http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/359461
Was quoted in the article “La Guerra Freda, el món bipolar” which was part of special dossier
related to the 50th anniversary of the death of John Kennedy published in the Ara, the leading
Catalan-language newspaper on 17 November, 2013.
http://www.ara.cat/premium/tema_del_dia/Guerra-Freda-Missils-vermells
televisors_0_1031296921.html
Was one of seven people from around the world featured a special report on the Catalan
National TV program Món 3/24, aired on that the eve of that country’s national day, September
11th, 2013 which addressed the prospects for, and problems related to, the current movement
toward independence in that part of the Spanish state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJKCgcavNNk
Was cited in Toni Mollà’s article “Quina alternativa política?” at País Valencià, Segle XXI on 6
July 2013 http://paisvalenciaseglexxi.org/2013/07/06/quina-alternativa-politica/
Was quoted in the article “Edward Snowden, entre l’heroïcitat i la traïdoria” which appeared in
Ara the most important Catalan-language daily on 15 June, 2013.
http://www.ara.cat/premium/tema_del_dia/Edward-Snowden-lheroicitat-
traidoria_0_938306253.html
Was a guest on Catalan National Radio’s La nit dels ingnorants, providing analysis of the US
presidential elections. 6 November 2012
Was a featured commentator on the Catalan National News Network’s (referred to as TV3-24”)
election-night coverage of the 2012 US elections .6 November 2012
Was the day’s featured interviewee in the 8 October 2012 edition of Ara, the most influential
Catalan –language daily, providing analysis of recent developments in Catalonia’s efforts to
achieve political independence. http://www.ara.cat/premium/politica/Thomas-Harrington-
Washington-lestabilitat-reconeixeria_0_788321206.html
Was the featured guest on Catalan National Radio’s La nit dels ingnorants, providing analysis of
the historic march for independence which took place earlier in the day. September 11th, 2012
http://www.catradio.cat/audio/663039/La-nit-dels-ignorants-20-primera-hora
Was the featured in-studio guest of the Catalan National News Network’s (referred to as TV3-
24”) one-hour special on the effects of the 9-11 bombings on the US and the world. 8 September
2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm_uGQAa8xY
Was mentioned in an interview done with Vicenç Villatoro, director of the Ramon Llull Institute
(the government agency dedicated to the international dissemination of Catalonia’s culture)
published in the Barcelona daily Ara on 24 March 2011.
In “L'anàlisi d'un catalanòfil” an article published on 28 November 2010 the culture supplement
of the Barcelona daily l’Avui, the historian Josep Maria Solé Sabaté does an extensive review of
analysis of the “nationalities question” in today’s Spain.
Was interviewed by Scott Horton, host of Antiwar Radio’s daily interview program on 29
October 2010 regarding war and peace issues in today’s Latin America.
On page 74 of the August 2010 issue of the Catalan history journal Sàpiens, Jordi Creus wrote:
“Harrington is one of the principal specialists of our country on the American continent and a
person that, despite the physical distances, has an extraordinary knowledge of present-day
Catalonia"
On 12 October 2008 was interviewed for 60 minutes on the Bauer Hour on WESU in Middletown,
CT on the current media climate in the US. The interview centered on the ways media systems
generate and maintain the central tropes of the national cultural system. Since that time I have
been a frequent contributor to the program.
Cited on p.102 of Edel María Porter’s Translating the Untranslatable: A Comparative Study of
Two Modern Language Translations of the Verses of Egils saga Skalla-Grimssonar (MA Thesis
Unversity of Leeds, May 2007)
Guillamón Julià. Literaturas del exilio: Buenos Aires Barcelona/Buenos Aires, 2007 page 12. Cited
as a prime source for author’s the set of interviews with members of the Catalan community of
Buenos Aires.
On August 13, 2005 was quoted in an article on the function of translated literature in the United
States in Avui, Catalonia’s most important Catalan-language newspaper. See Castells, Ada.,
“Amèrica per als Americans”. Avui, 13 agost, 2005.
On April 23rd 2005 was cited in the Christian Science Monitor after providing much of the
background information for an article on Saint Jordi’s Day, the Catalan celebration of books and
reading. See Wysocki, Barbara. “'A Rose by any Other Name...' in Spanish” The Christian Science
Monitor, 23 April 2005.
On September 14, 2004 was interviewed by Radio Sarandí in Uruguay concerning cultural and
political the changes in the USA since September 2001
On 24 December 2001, was an in-studio interviewee (15 minutes) on El Matí de Catalunya Ràdio
with Antoni Bassas, the most listened to radio news program in Catalonia. The discussion centered
on growing divergence of US and Iberian visions of the world.
On 16 February 2000 was interviewed for the América Hoy program of Radio Exterior de España,
the Foreign Service Spanish National Radio on the subject of the practice of Hispanism in the U.S.
The approximately 10 minute long interview was broadcast by shortwave radio throughout North
and South America later that evening.
Conde Cid, Alfredo."Ser nós mesmos sen deixar de ser nada do que somos" El Correo Gallego-
O Correo Galego 5 March 1998 Opinion Page
Conference papers:
“Explaining Catalonia: Might it be time to Start Strengthening the Transatlantic Perspective?
Seventeenth Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society. University of Chicago
(Chicago, IL 25-27 April 2019)
“Orestes Araujo: liberal menorquí i artífex important del sistema educatiu uruguaià”.
12th Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society. Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, 11-
13 May 2007.
“Catalan Emigration and the Transmission of Progressive Ideals in the New World: the Case of
Albà(no) Rosell” Re-Thinking the Iberian Atlantic. University of Liverpool, UK , 20-22 April
2006.
“Catalans to Uruguay: ‘Una emigració de idees’”. Dis/location: An international colloquium on
Writing Exile/Migrancy/Nomadism/Border Crossing. Concordia University, Montreal, QC, 5-7
May 2005.
“Juan Torrendell: Historic Catalanist and Trusted Arbiter of the Argentine Literary Establishment” 10th
AATSP Northeast Biennial (New Haven, September 2004)
“Hrand Nazariantz: An Armenian Presence in the Literary Systems of Iberia” given at the Mid-American
Conference on Hispanic Literatures (Boulder, October 2003)
"The Iberian and European Projections of Catalanism; 1914-23," given at the MLA Convention
(Washington, December 2000)
“Risco y Portugal: Contactos Anteriores a la Aparición de la Revista Nós” Sexto Congreso
Internacional de Estudios Galegos. (Havana, April 2000)
"The Diasporic Communities of America and the (Re)Emergence of the Non-Castilian Cultural
Systems of the Iberian Peninsula." Migrations, Diasporic Communities and Transnational
Identities (Hartford, November 1998).
"Film and the Teaching of Contemporary Spanish Culture” World Languages: A Gateway to the
Millennium. The Annual Fall Conference of the Connecticut Council of Language Teachers
(Cromwell CT, October, 1998).
"Bridging the Peninsular Divides: Enrique Díez-Canedo and Fernando Maristany as Agents of
Iberian Cultural Commerce." Modernism and Modernity in Spain and Spanish America: An
International Symposium in Honor of Geoffrey W. Ribbans (Providence, September 1998).
"Cuban Contributions to the Pedagogy of Nationhood in Galicia and Catalonia 1898-1936." La
Novè Col.loqui de la NACS-North American Catalan Society (Barcelona, May 1998).
"Parallels of Function and Thought in Eugeni d'Ors and Leonardo Coimbra, two 'Nationalist
Philosophers' of the Iberian Periphery." First Florida International University-University of
Miami Conference on Iberian/Iberian-American Literatures: Nation, Culture and Identity, 1898-
1998 (Miami, October 1997).
"Nationalist Pedagogy and Antoni Ribas' La ciutat cremada ." Twenty-First Annual Colloquium
on Literature and Film: The Uses of History in Fiction and Film at the University of West
Virginia (Morgantown, October 1996).
"When the Mediterranean Flowed Across Castile to the Atlantic: Relations Between Catalan
Noucentisme and Portuguese Saudosismo 1900-1925." Seventh Biennial Northeast Meeting of
the AATSP (Amherst, September 1996).
"The Europeanism of Ortega's 'hermano enemigo' Eugeni d'Ors and its Reflection in the Galician
Discourse of Identity." Biannual Conference of the International Society for the Study of
European Ideas (Utrecht, August 1996).
"Language Learning and the Pursuit of (a) Life" Initiation Ceremony of the Ursinus College
Chapter of Phi Sigma Iota, the Foreign Language National Honor Society (Collegeville, PA
May 1996).
"Iberian Crosscurrents: the Importance of Catalonia in the Early Nationalist Pedagogy of
Galicia." MLA Convention (Chicago, December 1995).
"Lessening the Conceptual Importance of the Generation of '98: Turn of the Century Writing in
an Iberian Cultural Context." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (Lexington, April 1995).
"The Presence--and Surprising Absence--of Teixeira de Pascoaes in Vicente Risco's Nationalist
Pedagogy in Galicia." Northeast Modern Language Association (Boston, April 1995).
"Literatura y Nación." Lingua, Creación e Pensamento --Xornadas Sobre Filosofía e Literatura
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, April 1994).
"The Historical Evolution of Galician Nationalism." Workshop on European Regional
Languages (University of Massachusetts-Amherst, August 1992).
"Modernity's Janus Face: Oppositional Criticism, Cultural Elaboration, and the Pedagogy of
Nationhood." Brown Hispanic Studies Colloquium (Providence, May 1992).
"El cuarto de atrás de Carmen Martín Gaite: ¿Obra pos-moderna?" Brown University Hispanic Studies
Colloquium (Providence, February 1990).
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Outside Examiner at the University of Cork, Ireland for the doctoral thesis by Yairen Jerez
Columbie, Re-imagining Catalonia from Havana: Transcultural Identities and Narratives of
Nationalism in the Literature of the Catalanists of Cuba (1908-1959) 16 November 2018.
Manuscript Reviewer Rassegna iberistica, Venice, Italy (2018-present)
Manuscript reviewer Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (2018 to present)
Member of the Scientific Committee Os estudos ibéricos a partir da periferia. Desafios epistemológicos e novos olhares nos estudos galegos. Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa (8-9 março 2018)
Manuscript Reviewer International Journal of Iberian Studies (2017 to present)
Manuscript Reviewer for the Revista Canadiense De Estudios Hispánicos (2017 to present)
President of five-member tribunal assembled to adjudicate the awarding of two assistant
professorships in contemporary history at the University of Barcelona under the aegis of the
Catalan University system. (6-9 March 2017)
Outside evaluator on a case for promotion to Full Professor at Bucknell University
President of an international tribunal (members from France, Portugal, the Basque Country,
Catalonia and the US) assembled to adjudicate the awarding of an assistant professorship in
contemporary history at the University of Barcelona under the aegis of the Serra Húnter Program
for the recruitment of new scholars within the Catalan university system. (18-19 July 2016)
Co-Founder of the International Society for Polysytem Studies (ISPS) and co-organizer of its
first annual conference in Reykholt, Iceland (28-29 June 2016)
Manuscript Reviewer, University of Toronto Press
A reserve member of a Doctoral dissertation jury at the University of the Basque Country (March
2014)
Outside analyst and evaluator in the area of University Research and Grants for the Ministry of
Economy and Knowledge of the Catalan Autonomous Government (La Generalitat) 2013-present
Outside evaluator of research proposals in Hispanic Studies at Saint Joseph’s College in New
York City (2013)
Founding member of the Asociación de Catalanistas de América Latina (ACAL). 2012-present
Manuscript reviewer, Yearbook of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance
Studies 2011-present
Outside Reviewer for a Faculty Promotion case at a Queen’s University, Canada. (Fall 2011)
Manuscript reviewer for the Catalan Review. 2010-present
Invited Speaker, Winter Institute For Teaching. Trinity College, Hartford, CT (14 January 2009)
Outside Reviewer for a Faculty Promotion case (to Associate Professor with Tenure) in the
Department of Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures at Washington State University.
(July- August 2008)
Outside Reviewer for a Faculty Promotion case (to tenure) in the area of Catalan Philology
within the Catalan University System (Promotions in Catalonia are done on a national as opposed
to individual university basis).
Part of a two-person External Review Team for the Department of Spanish at Oneonta State University
(January 2007)
Part of a three-member External Review Team for the Ursinus College Department of Modern Languages
(Fall 2005)
Editorial Board, Digithum, an interdisciplinary journal published by the La Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
(Open University of Barcelona) 2003-present
Board of Directors, North American Catalan Society, 2007-2013
SELECT ACADEMIC CITATIONS:
Was cited prominently in two articles, Iberian Modalities: A Relational Approach to the Study of
Culture in the Iberian Peninsula (Liverpool University Press, 2013), a book explicitly designed
to explore the theory and practice of Iberian--as opposed to Hispanic—Studies.
The articles are:
--Dominic Keown “Dine with The Opposition? ¡No, gracias! Hispanism vs. Iberian Studies in
Great Britain and Ireland” 23-36
--Xosé Manuel Nuñez Seixas, “Iberia Reborn: Portugal Through the Lens of Galician and
Catalan Nationalism” 83-98
Cited on p. 36 of Peter Garrand’s The worldwide diaspora of Spain’s regional communities: its
reach, its history and its modern relevance. University of Melbourne: The Contemporary
Europe Research Centre (CERC) Working Papers Series, No. 3, 2008
Cited on p. 206 of Alejandro Mejías-López’s The Inverted Conquest: The Myth of Modernity and
the Transatlantic Onset of Modernism Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2009
On page 145 of her article “El personaje catlalán en la erotica de poderes e identidades del teatro
bufo cubano” in Bufo y nación: interpelaciones desde el presente. Havana: Letras Cubanas, 2009.
105-153 Tànit Fernández de la Reguera Tayà cites my theory of the “cultural intersystem” in her
discussion of the role of Catalans in Cuban theatre.
Cited on p.102 of Edel María Porter’s Translating the Untranslatable: A Comparative Study of
Two Modern Language Translations of the Verses of Egils saga Skalla-Grimssonar (MA Thesis
Unversity of Leeds, May 2007)
Guillamón Julià. Literaturas del exilio: Buenos Aires Barcelona/Buenos Aires, 2007 page 12. Cited
as a prime source for author’s the set of interviews with members of the Catalan community of
Buenos Aires.
Reguant, Montserrat. Etapas reivindicativas de la teoría nacional catalana. New York: Peter Lang,
1997 vi
TEACHING/PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2015- Present,
Professor of Language and Culture Studies
2003-2015
Associate Professor of Language and Culture Studies, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
--Spanish Search 2013-14
--Director of Hispanic Studies 2012-present
--Instructor, York Prison Education Series 2012 to present
--Coordinator Language and Culture Studies Lecture Series (Fall 2012-present)
--Director of Hispanic Studies (6.5 FTE) 2006-07
--Founder of Trinity’s Barcelona Summer Session 2005, 2008, 2010
--Co-Director of the Academy of Lifelong Learning 2005-2006
--Coordinator of Latin American Studies 2005-2006
--Director of Trinity’s Global Site in Barcelona 2003-Present
1997-2003
Assistant Professor of Modern Languages, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
--Director of Trinity’s Global Site in Barcelona 2002-2003
--Founder of Trinity’s Global Site in Barcelona 2000-2002
--Director of Hispanic Studies, Spring 2001
--Director of Hispanic Studies 1998-99, Spring 2007
--Co-Director of Hispanic Studies 1999-2000
--Co-Director of Hispanic Studies 1997-98
Courses taught:
Portuguese 101 (SILP)
Portuguese 102 (SILP)
Intermediate Spanish II: Grammar and Readings (HISP. 202)
Spanish Conversation: Song and Society (HISP 225)
Spanish Conversation: Society and Culture through Spanish and Latin American Cinema (HISP 226)
Sorting out the Iberian Puzzle: Cultural and Natl. Identity in Modern Spain and Portugal (MDLG 233)
The Alchemy of Identity: Culture-Planning and Civil Society in Barcelona 1850 to 2008 (MDLG 233)
Iberian Culture I (HISP 261)
Iberian Culture II (HISP 262)
Hispanic Hartford (HISP 280)
Introduction to Cultural Analysis (HISP 270)
Introduction to Spanish Literature I (HISP 291)
Introduction to Spanish Literature II (HISP 292)
Iberian Emigration and Transatlantic Cultural Commerce (HISP 320)
The Spanish Post-War Novel (HISP 324)
Iberian Film (HISP 328)
The Transatlantic Radio Network: Using Podcasts to “Write” Cultural History (HISP 329)
Iberian Turn-of-the-Century Literature (HISP 338)
The Cultural Diversity of the Iberian Peninsula (HISP 401)
College Service:
Member of Humanities Advisory Board 2014-present
OIP Faculty Committee 2011-present
Elected Faculty Committees
-- Chair, Academic Freedom Committee 2014-present
--Academic Freedom Committee 2008-2011
-- Faculty Mandated Committee on Governance Reform 2008-2010 --Faculty Conference 2006-2008
--Athletic Advisory Committee 2006-2008
--Faculty Research Committee 2004-2006
--Educational Policy Committee, 2001-2003
--Jury Panel, 2001 to 2003
--Curriculum Committee, Spring 2000
Search Committee Director of Trinity Global Site in Rome 2017
Chair, Language and Culture Studies Distinguished Lecturer Committee 2017
Chair, Tenure-Track Search Hispanic Studies, 2016-17
Search Committee, Director of Study Away 2016-17
Tenure-Track Search Committee in Hispanic Studies 2013-14
Chair Levy Prize and Scholarship Committees (2008-2010)
Chair, Tenure-Track Search Committee in Hispanic Studies 2008-09
Search Committee for the Director of the Blume Language Center
Global Advisory Group, Fall 2002 to present
President’s Council on Affirmative Action, 2002 to present
Spanish Studies Coordinator, 1997 to present
Modern Languages Distinguished Lecturer Committee, 2002-2003
PRESHCO Coordinator, 1998-2003, 2008
Faculty Advisor, Portuguese Club, 2000-2002
Spanish One-Year Position Search, 2002
Search for Director/Manager of the Language Media Center, Spring 2002
Dean's Global Planning Task Force 2000-2001
Creator of internship program for Trinity students at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, 2001
Creator of internship program for Trinity students at the Universal Forum of Cultures in Barcelona, 2001
Coordinator of the Camões Lectureship from the Portuguese Government 1999-02
Co-author of the Proposal to Establish a Trinity Global Site in Barcelona, Summer 2000
Spanish Tenure-Track Faculty Search, 1999-00
Spanish Tenure-Track Faculty Search, 1998-99
Search Committee for the Director of Community Service and Civic Engagement, Fall 1998
Chief Planner of Faculty Exploratory Trip to Barcelona, Summer 1998
Spanish One-Year Position Search 1998
Spanish Graduate Fellow Search, Spring 1998
Ford Grant Task Torce, 1997-98
PPC “Where” Sub-Committee, 1997-98
1994-97
Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Lafayette College, Easton, PA
--Co-coordinator of 5 FTE section 1994-95
--Foreign study Coordinator for Spanish-speaking countries 1994-1997
Courses taught:
Advanced Spanish Grammar (SP 205)
Advanced Spanish Conversation and Composition (SP 206)
Spanish Civilization and Culture to 1900 (SP 213)
Survey of 19th and Twentieth Century Spanish Literature Spanish (SP 311)
Contemporary Spain and Hispanics in the U.S. (SP 313)
First Year Seminar on Nations, Nationalisms and the Religious Impulse (FYS)
Contemporary Spain and Portugal (History 229)
Seminar on the Novel of the Spanish Post-War Era (SP 427)
Interdisciplinary Senior Seminar on the Cultural Diversity of the Iberian Peninsula (SP432)
1992-94
Lecturer at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Courses taught:
Multiple Sections of First and Second Year English Grammar and Conversation
Lecture Course on English Grammar, Syntax and Dialectology
1991-92
Lecturer in Spanish at Bryant College, North Smithfield, R.I.
Courses taught:
Introduction to Spanish Language I
Introduction to Spanish Language II
Survey Course in Hispanic Culture
OTHER EXPERIENCE:
Teacher and group leader of study tour in Andalucía (Summer 1990)
Cultural guide, tutor, and interpreter on a five-month sailing journey that consisted of a trans-Atlantic trip
from the Azores to France and the circumnavigation of the Iberian Peninsula (Summer and Fall 1989)
Travel in Venezuela, Nicaragua and México (1984, 1985 and 1988)
Campus Services Director, Council on International Educational Exchange Boston, MA (1985-
86)
Teacher of History, English and Spanish at the Rivers Country Day School, Weston, MA (1983-
1985)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
Board of Directors Summer Institute for Hispanic Studies
LANGUAGES:
Near-native fluency in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Galician
Strong Reading and auditory knowledge of Italian and French
Some basic knowledge of Polish