People
Reyes Vila-Belda | Faculty
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Office: GISB 2153
TEL: 856-1057
Email: rvilabel
Education
Ph.D., 2002, Indiana University
M.A., 1996, Indiana University
M.L.I.S., 1982, University of Southern California
Licenciada en Ciencias de la Información., 1976, Universidad de Navarra
Specializations
- Spanish Peninsular Poetry
- Visual Arts and Literature
- Scientific and Intellectual History of Spain
- Contemporary Spanish Culture
Selected Publications
Books
- Antonio Machado, poeta de lo nimio. Alteración de la perspectiva . Madrid: Visor, 2004.
Articles
- “ ‘Entre la oficina y la noche’: identidad, escritura y prestigio literario en Gil de Biedma”. Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea (ALEC) (Invited article for a special issue) 39.1 (2014): 85-110.
- “Antonio Machado y su reconocimiento como maestro del simbolismo en La corte de los poetas." Bulletin of Spanish Studies. 89.2 (2012): 207-231.
- “Antonio Machado y la creación de su prestigio literario.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 43 (2009): 227-250.
- “Pan y versos: hambre y subversión en la poesía de Gloria Fuertes.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies 85.2 (2008): 193-215.
- “El imaginario de la muerte en la poesía de Gloria Fuertes.” Hispania 89.1 (2006): 35-47.
- “Paisajismo e impresionismo en Campos de Castilla.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. Special issue on Visual Arts and Literature, Fall 28. 1 (2003): 281-97.
- “Onomástica y humor en La gatomaquia de Lope de Vega.”Hispanic Research Journal 4. 3 (2003): 207-21.
- “La estrategia del injerto en La Regenta.” Revista Hispánica Moderna. Hispanic Institute. Columbia University 51 (1998): 13-21.
Book Chapters
- " Poetic Forms and Ideology in the Poetry of Gloria Fuertes." In Her Words. Critical Studies on Gloria Fuertes. Ed. Margaret H. Persin. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2011. 166-184.
- " La visión institucionista del paisaje en Antonio Machado." Hoy es siempre todavía. Ed. Jordi Doménech. Sevilla: Renacimiento, 2006, 198-229.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
- “ ‘Fantasía iconográfica’, visión imaginada de Antonio Machado.” Antes y después del Quijote: en el cincuentenario de la Asociación de Hispanistas de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda. Valencia: Biblioteca Valenciana, 2005. 399-409.
Teaching
- HISP S708: Silence and Cultural Production in Postwar Spain
- HISP S678: Natural and Urban Landscapes in Twentieth-Century Spanish Poetry
- HISP S548: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spanish Literature
- HISP S419: Narrating the City in the Contemporary Spanish Novel
- HISP S411: Spain: The Cultural Context
- HISP S332: The Hispanic World II
- HISP S331: The Hispanic World I
Honors and Awards
- Summer Faculty Fellowship. Office of the Vice Provost for Research. Indiana University, Bloomington 2008
- The College Arts and Humanities Institute (CAHI) Fellowship, Indiana University, Bloomington 2008
- New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities Exploration Traveling Fellowship 2006
- The College Arts and Humanitites Institute (CAHI), Research Grant 2005
- The Programs for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States Universities, 2005
- National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Seminar 2003. “Critical Approaches to Hispanic Poetry at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century.”
- Grant-in-Aid. The Research and the University Graduate School, Indiana University 2003
- Indiana University TERA Teaching Excellence Recognition Award 2000
- Indiana University TERA Teaching Excellence Recognition Award 1998
- Fulbright-Hays Scholarship 1984
- Fulbright-Banco de Bilbao Scholarship 1980-1982
Current Research Projects
Books
- Gloria Fuertes: Poetry Against Silence. A book project assessing the cultural and socio-political significance of Fuertes' subversive writings during the Franco years.
- Rocks and the Poetic Imagination. A book project on the emergence of geology in Spain and its cultural implications.
