Ignacio Javier López

Professor of Spanish
Chair

A professor of literary history with specialization in the areas of Modern and Contemporary Spanish culture, Ignacio Javier López’s research deals mostly with nineteenth-century narrative and with the movements of the avant-garde in the twentieth century. He is the author of four books on the modern Spanish novel: Caballero de novela (1986), Realismo y ficción (1989), Galdós y el arte de la prosa (1993), and  Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (2008). He has prepared critical editions of Emilia Pardo Bazán’s La madre Naturaleza  (1992), Emilio Prados’ Jardín cerrado (1995), Guillermo Carnero’s Dibujo de la muerte  (1998, revised 2010), Benito Pérez Galdós’   Gloria  (2010), Pedro Antonio de Alarcón’s El escándalo (scheduled to appear in 2012) and  El Niño de la Bola (in press).  In addition, he has researched S. de Villarminio’s La novela de Luis, a lost nineteenth-century ideological novel that he has rescued and prepared for publication in a modern edition.

Professor López has published more than fifty essays on issues of Spanish literature, film, and culture.  His research includes topics on Spanish Romanticism, the modern period, Surrealism (Dalí and Buñuel), and Spanish Post-modernity. Currently he is working on a book on the ideological novel written in Spain after the failed «Gloriosa», the liberal revolution of 1868.

He is the Chair of the Spanish division, serving also as acting chair of Romance Languages a position he held twice in the past (1998-2001, 2004-5).  A member of the Editorial Board of the   Hispanic Review since 1990, López served as General Editor of this journal for a total of nine years. He has lectured extensively in academic institutions of the US, Europe and Latin America; and had visiting appointments at the universities of Alicante, Valencia, and Salamanca in Spain; and at Princeton, Johns Hopkins, Villanova, and Bryn Mawr in the United States. In 1990 he created, and directed for sixteen years, the summer program of the University of Pennsylvania at the Universidad de Alicante in Spain.

E-mail: ilopez@sas.upenn.edu
Office: 512 Williams Hall
Telephone: (215) 898-3065
Fax: (215) 898-0933
Office Hours: Spring 2012 : T 2-4