Faculty Guide

Title

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, Comparative Literature, and Film Studies

American Studies
Romance Studies
Women's and Gender Studies

Expertise

Modern and contemporary Spanish and comparative literature, film, and culture; US popular culture; gender and sexuality

Profile

Participates in Film Studies, Italian Studies,and Latin American Studies. His current research focuses on food and fashion in nineteenth-century Spain.

Awards and Honors

National Endowment for Humanities Summer Fellowship (1993)

Marver and Sheva Bernstein Faculty Fellowship (1991)

American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant (1990)

Andrew Mellon Travel Grant (1989)

Courses Taught

AMST	129a	From American Movie Musicals to Music Videos
HECS	169a	Travel Writing and the Americas: Columbus's Legacy
HISP	109b	Introduction to Hispanic Cultural Studies
HISP	140a	Topics in Poetry
HISP	170a	Topics in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature
HISP	180a	Topics in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Spanish Literature and Culture
HISP	181a	Autores, narradores y lectores
HISP	185b	España 20XX
HISP	193b	Topics in Cinema
HISP	196a	Topics in Latina/o Literature and Culture
WMGS	105b	Feminist Theories in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective
WMGS	141a	Gender in Iranian Cinema
WMGS	198a	Women's and Gender Studies Research Seminar
WMGS	205a	Graduate Foundational Course in Women's and Gender Studies

Scholarship

Mandrell, James. "Etiquette and Table Manners in Larra’s ‘El castellano viejo’: Another Point of View." Forum for Modern Language Studies) 48.1. January (2012): 74-85.

Mandrell, James. "Fantasy and Equilibrium in Laura Gallego García’s *Alas de Fuego* [Wings of Fire]." The Lion and the Unicorn 36. 1 (2012): 20-34.

Mandrell, James. "From the Inquisition to us." The Los Angeles Times 9 May 2009: Op-Ed -.

Mandrell, James. "'It couldn't happen here': A cross-cultural rhetoric [ for a special volume on safety edited by Lawrence R. Schehr]." South Atlantic Quarterly 107. 2 (2008): 321-37.

Mandrell,James. "'Como un hombre invisible': El imposible objeto del deseo." Manuel Vazquez Montalban: El compromiso con la memoria. Ed. Jose Colmeiro. London: Tamesis, 2007. 143-55.

Mandrell,James. "Representations of, and Reactions to, the Spanish Civil War." Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War. Ed. Noel Valis. New York: MLA, 2007. 506-12.

Mandrell,James. "Don Juan in Three Acts: Seduction Across Time and Space." Approaches to Teaching Spanish Golden Age Drama. Ed. Margaret Rich Greer and Laura R. Bass. Modern Language Assocication, 2006. 143-51.

Mandrell,James. "Tirso and the Scene of Writing: El castigo del penseque and Quien calla, otorga." Bulletin of the Comediantes (2003): 133-148.

Mandrell,James. Don Juan and the Point of Honor: Seduction, Patriarchal Society, and Literary Tradition. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992.