Josep Miquel Sobrer | Faculty | Department of Spanish and Portuguese

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Josep Miquel Sobrer Professor (Emeritus), Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Email: sobrer at indiana dot edu

M.A.,1969, University of Oregon
Ph.D., 1972. University of Oregon
Llicenciat en Filosofia i Lletres, 1966, Universitat de Barcelona

Catalan literature (interest in issues of political affirmation) and language.
Modern literature of Spain (interest in questions of periodicity –Romanticism–, national formation, ideology).
Translation theory and practice.

Desfer les Amèriques; Contradiccionari. Cabrera de Mar (Barcelona): Galerada, 2006.
A Broken Mirror, translation of Mercè Rodoreda, Mirall trencat. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska Press, 2006. With an introductory essay.
Deformation, Mutilation, and Putrefaction: The Early Foix. Tesserae; Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 9, (n 2), 2003: 179-189
Against Barcelona?: Gaudí, the City, and Nature. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 6, 2002 [2003]: 205-219.
Man and Beast: the Nietzschean Heroics of Àngel Guimerà's Terra Baixa. Romance Quarterly 46 (Nº 4, 1999): 196-203.
Ironic Allegory in Terenci Moix's El sexe dels àngels. [Liverpool] Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 75 (1998): 339-356.
The Short Fiction of Pere Calders; a Translator's Journal. Catalan Review ["Pere Calders and His Contemporaries"] 10 (nº 1-2), 1996 [1997]: 115-124.
Catalonia, a Self-Portrait (Selections from contemporary Catalan literature, translations, introduction, notes). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
Reviewed by Ronald Christ in Sites 25 (1993), 68-71; by Manuel Duran in Catalan Review 7 (1993), 164-165.
La doble soledat d'Ausias March. Barcelona: Edicions dels Quaderns Crema, 1987.
Reviewed in Revista de Catalunya, II (November, 1987), 182-183.

Grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation for Barcelona 1961 project.
Publication grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States' Universities for a monographic issue of Catalan Review. 2000.
N. E. H. Institute on Literary Translation. Participant. Univ. of California at Santa Cruz. 1989.
Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies. 1979-80.