Professor Nicolás Fernández-Medina

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Nicolás Fernández-Medina is Professor of Spanish and Iberian Studies at Boston University. His research and teaching interests focus on Spanish and Iberian literature and culture between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Enlightenment thought, Romanticism, interdisciplinary nineteenth-century studies, the history of medicine, the fin de siglo, decadence, women’s literature, Modernist Studies, and the Avant-garde. His books include Life Embodied: The Promise of Vital Force in Spanish Modernity (MQUP, 2018), Modernism and the Avant-garde Body in Spain and Italy (co-edited, Routledge 2016), and The Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado’s ‘Proverbios y cantares’ (Wales UP, 2011). His critical translation Morbidities and “The Concept of the New Literature” by Ramón Gómez de la Serna will appear with Clemson UP. He has a book in preparation titled Raising the Dead: Resuscitation and the Reanimated Body in Spanish Science and Literature.