James Mandrell
Departments/Programs
American StudiesComparative Literature
Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies
Romance Studies
Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Writing Program
Degrees
The Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D.The Johns Hopkins University, M.A.
The Johns Hopkins University, M.A.
Kalamazoo College, B.A.
Expertise
Modern and contemporary Spanish and comparative literature, film, and culture; US film and popular culture.Profile
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Participates in American Studies, Film Studies, and Comparative Literature and Culture. His current research focuses on the discourse on food in nineteenth-century Spain.
Courses Taught
| AMST | 129a | From American Movie Musicals to Music Videos |
| HISP | 109b | Introduction to Modern Spanish Cultural Studies |
| HISP | 120b | Don Quixote |
| HISP | 170a | Topics in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature |
| HISP | 180a | Topics in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Spanish Literature and Culture |
| HISP | 198a | Experiential Research Seminar in Literary and Cultural Studies |
| UWS | 32a | True or Truthiness? |
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)
Scholarship
Mandrell, James. "“Medio desmayada . . . ”: Image and Intertextuality in *Un viaje de novios*”." Siglo Diecinueve (literatura hispánica) 26. (2020): 61-86.
Mandrell, James. "‘La otra parte del espejo’: Memory and the Reader in Alberto Méndez’s Los girasoles ciegos." Approaches to Iberian Cultural Studies. Ed. José Ignacio Alvarez Fernández. New York: Peter Lang, 2019. 55-68.
Mandrell, James. "“The Late Don Juan Tenorio: Valle-Inclán Beyond the Pleasure Principle”." Immature Playboys and Predatory Tricksters: Studies in the Sources, Scope and Reach of Don Juan. Ed. Carmen Garcia-Rasilla and Jorge Abril Sánchez. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2019. 111-26.
Mandrell, James. "Doña Inés de viaje: de Zorrilla a América." Insula 850. (2017): 18-22.
Mandrell, James. "Léxico médico y farmacológico en lengua culgar y latina de la documentación cortesana navarra (siglos XIV-XV)." Rev. of Léxico médico y farmacológico en lengua culgar y latina de la documentación cortesana navarra (siglos XIV-XV), by Fernando Serrano Larráyoz. Medical History vol. 60.4 October 2016: 591-92.
Mandrell, James. "Modern Bécquer: Reading rima VIII." Siglo Diecinueve (literatura hispánica) 22. (2016): 47-69.
Mandrell, James. "Shania Twain Shakes Up Country Music." Journal of Popular Culture 47. 5 (2015): 1015-29.
Mandrell, James. "El niño-padre en Voces Inocentes y Abel: oportunismo y oportunidad en el cine mexicano contemporáneo." Agentes de cambio: perspectivas cinematográficas de España y Latinoamérica en el siglo XXI. Ed. Fátima Serra-Renobales and Helena Talaya-Manso. Madrid: Pliegos, 2014. 208-32.
Mandrell, James. "Book Review." Rev. of Dentro/Fuera: El espacio homosexual masculino en la poesía española del siglo XX, by Enrique Alvarez. Revista Hispánica Moderna vol. 64.2 (December 2011) 2012: 215-17.
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 penséque and Quien calla, otorga." Bulletin of the Comediantes 55. 2 (2003): 133-149.
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. "Carmen Miranda Betwixt and Between, or, Neither Here nor There." Latin American Literary Review 29. 57 (2001): 26-39.
Mandrell, James. "En búsqueda del párrafo perfecto o el placer de la lectura." Nuevos acercamientos a Rima de Vallbona (Actas del Simposio-Homenaje). Ed. Jorge Chen Sham. San José, Costa Rica: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica-University of Saint Thomas, 2000. 147-54.
Mandrell, James. "La revelación del cuerpo masculino: Una mirada gay." El hispanismo en los Estados Unidos: discursos críticos/prácticas textuales. Ed. José María del Pino and Francisco LaRubia-Prado. Madrid: Visor, 1999. 211-230.
Mandrell, James. "‘Experiencing Technical Difficulties’: Genre and Gender, Translation and Difference: Lourdes Ortiz, Maria Antònia Oliver, and Blanca Alvarez." Journal of Narrative Technique 27. 1 (Winter) (1997): 55-83.
Mandrell, James/H. Jay Siskin. "Rising Enrollments in Spanish: Crisis Response or Strategic Planning?." ADFL Bulletin 28. 3 (Spring) (1997): 39-41.
Mandrell, James. "Of Material Girls and Celestial Women, or, Honor and Exchange." Heavenly Bodies: The Realms of La estrella de Sevilla. Ed. Frederick A. de Armas. Lewisburg and London: Bucknell University Press and Associated University Presses, 1996. 146-160.
Mandrell, James. "‘Poesía . . . eres tú’, or, The Construction of Bécquer and the Sign of Woman." Culture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain. Ed. Lou Charnon-Deutsch and Jo Labanyi. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. 53-73.
Mandrell, James. "Contemporary Spain and the Question of Pornography: La Sonrisa Vertical and Mercedes Abad’s Ligeros libertinajes sabáticos." Letras Peninsulares 6.2/6.3 (Fall/Winter). (1994): 277-99.
Mandrell, James. "Sense and Sensibility, or Latent Heterosexuality and Laberinto de pasiones." Pedro Almodóvar: Post-Franco Postmodern. Ed. Barbara Morris and Kathleen Vernon. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1994. 41-57.
Mandrell, James. "Alchemical Transformations, Anxious Revisions: Garcilaso’s ‘Canción V: Oda ad florem gnidi’ and Hernando de Acuña’s ‘A un buen caballero, y mal poeta, la lira de Garcilaso contrahecha’." Crítica Hispánica 15. 1 (1993): 17-34.
Mandrell, James. "Lo sublime literario en la poesía de los siglos XVIII y XIX: Meléndez Valdéz y Espronceda." Actas del Congreso Entre Siglos (Bordighera, 3-6 abril 1990). Ed. Ermanno Caldera. Rome: Bulzoni, 1993. 1-10.
Mandrell, James. "Peninsular Literary Studies: Business as Usual." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 27. (1993): 291-307.
Mandrell,James. Don Juan and the Point of Honor: Seduction, Patriarchal Society, and Literary Tradition. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992.
Mandrell, James. "Literary Theory and Medieval Texts: Authority and the Worldly Power of Language in El Conde Lucanor." South Central Review 8. 2 (Summer) (1991): 1-18.
Mandrell, James. "Nostalgia and the Popularity of Don Juan Tenorio: Reading Zorrilla Through Clarín." Hispanic Review 59. 1 (Winter) (1991): 37-55.
Mandrell, James. "The Literary Sublime in Spain: Meléndez Valdés and Espronceda." MLN 106. 2 (March (1991): 294-313.
Mandrell, James. "'Rending the ‘Veils’ of Interpretation: San Juan de la Cruz and the Poetics of Mystic Desire." Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 15. 1 (Fall) (1990): 19-33.
Mandrell, James. "Forbidden Fruit and the Lesson of Pícon’s Dulce y sabrosa.” Letras Peninsulares." 3.2/3.3 (Fall/Winter). (1990): 371-387.
Mandrell, James. "Malevolent Insemination: Don Juan Tenorio in La Regenta." “Malevolent Insemination” and Other Essays on Clárin. Ed. Noël Valis. Ann Arbor: Romance Languages, University of Michigan, 1990. 1-28.
Mandrell, James. "The Prophetic Voice in Garro, Morante, and Allende." Comparative Literature 42. 3 (Summer) (1990): 227-46.
Mandrell, James. "Realism in Spain: Galdós, Pardo Bazán, Clarín, and the European Context." Neohelicon 15. 2 (1989): 83-112.
Mandrell, James. "Cernuda’s ‘El indolente’: Repetition, Doubling, and the Construction of Poetic Voice." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 65. 4 (October) (1988): 383-95.
Mandrell, James. "Language and Seduction in El Burlador de Sevilla." Bulletin of the Comediantes 40. 2 (Winter) (1988): 165-80.
Mandrell, James. "Don Juan Tenorio as Refundición: The Question of Repetition and Doubling." Hispania 70. 1 (March) (1987): 22-30.
Mandrell, James. "Questions of Genre and Gender: Contemporary American Versions of the Feminine Picaresque." NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 20. 2 (Winter) (1987): 149-70.
Mandrell, James. "Author and Authority in Cárcel de Amor: The Role of El Auctor." The Journal of Hispanic Philology 8. 2 (Winter) (1984): 99-122.