Nicolás M. Vivalda
Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
CH-138 / 845.437.5619 / nivivalda@vassar.edu
B.A Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina), M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh.
Vassar faculty since 2006.
Nicolás M. Vivalda is an assistant professor of Spanish culture and literature in the department of Hispanic studies. He received a B.A. in Literature from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina) and a M.A., and a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from University of Pittsburgh.
Mr. Vivalda has just successfully defended his dissertation dealing with the relation between experience, knowledge and representation in Seventeenth Century Spanish literature. His research interests include the relation between philosophical discourse and literary representations of the notions of experience, perception and “engaño a los sentidos” (a Spanish baroque term that defines the idea of the mind being deceived and tricked by the grossness of bodily senses).
His research and publications include Golden Age Peninsular novel and theatre, contemporary Latin American and Spanish prose, and trans-Atlantic perspectives on Golden Age Peninsular topics such as the Latin American recreation of the Spanish Picaresque novel tradition.
He is currently working on a series of articles closely linked to his dissertation (“Picaresca y modos de la alegoría en La vida de Guzmán de Alfarache. Atalaya de la vida humana” and “Basilio o el ocaso del monarca astrólogo: juegos de la similitud en La vida es sueño”). Among the courses taught by Mr. Vivalda are “Framing Poverty and Social Mobility: the Picaresque Novel in Spain and Latin America” and “Postmodern Sexual Identities in Post-Franco Spain”.
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- Michael Aronna, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Chair 2007/08
- Andrew Bush, Professor of Hispanic Studies and Chair 2008/09
- Mario Cesareo, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies
- Mihai Grünfeld, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies
- Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Professor of Hispanic Studies on the Randolph Distinguished Professor Chair and Director of Africana Studies Program
- Nicolas Vivalda, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
- Eva María Woods, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies