David Delgado Lopez
David Delgado López, Collegiate Assistant Professor of Spanish
Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
129 Major Williams
Blacksburg, VA 24061
ddelgado@vt.edu
David Delgado López is a Collegiate Assistant Professor of Spanish at the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at Virginia Tech. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky in 2019. His research explores Iberian cultural production, particularly Spanish contemporary poetry, through the lens of space analysis and ecocriticism focusing on the representation of working-class voices and the deconstruction of the traditional canon. In the past, he has published on Spanish contemporary poetry and novel. At this moment, Delgado is working on several projects based on the study of ecocritical and ecopedagogical theories.
- Contemporary Spanish Poetry
- Urban Studies
- Postfrancoism
- Modernist Poetry
- Spanish Film and Graphic Novel
- Ph.D., Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky, 2019
- M.A., Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky, 2016
- B.A., English Studies, Universidad de Valladolid, España, 2014
- Spanish Faculty Language Fellow in the Mozaiko Living-Learning Community
- Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cine Españoles Siglo XXI (ALCESXXI) Board of Directors
- 2018-2019 Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Assistant Director
- Dissertation Enhancement Award, University of Kentucky, 2018
- Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Kentucky, 2017
- McCrary Award for Outstanding Graduate Student, University of Kentucky, 2016
- Social Council Fellowship, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain, 2014
- Diggs Scholar Award for Innovative Pedagogical Practices, Virginia Tech University, 2023
Journal Articles
“La trascendencia del bar: espacios y rituales en Quédate este día y esta noche conmigo de Belén Gopegui.” Hispanófila, vol. 190, 2020, p. 53-63. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/hsf.2020.0047.
“Bares, ¡qué lugares!: Espacios públicos y privados en la poesía de Karmelo C. Iribarren”. Polifonía, vol. 8: Encrucijada de la literatura hispánica del siglo XXI, (pp. 93-105).
“El desencanto de la modernidad: El espacio urbano en la obra de Karmelo C. Iribarren”. Magia, irracionalismo y visión ecocrítica de la ciudad. Colección Cultura Iberoamericana, Universitas Castellae, vol. 41, (163-172).
“Cara o Cruz: Espacio y género en la poética de Itziar Mínguez Arnáiz”. Céfiro: Enlace hispano cultural y literario, vol. 15.
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Tortura institucional en el cine español de la Transición". Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, vol. 77:3, p. 171-185, DOI: 10.1080/00397709.2023.2231341
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