Romance Languages and Literatures

Wan Sonya Tang

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies

Director, Asian American Studies Program

BOOKS

  • Specters, Monsters, and the Damned: Fantastic Threats to the Social Order in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction (Forthcoming with Vanderbilt University Press).
  • Ewald, Liana, David R. George, Jr., and Wan Sonya Tang, eds. Approaches to Teaching the Works of Benito P茅rez Gald贸s. (Under contract with the Modern Language Association).
  • George, David R. and Wan Sonya Tang, eds. Televising Restoration Spain: History and Fiction in Twenty-First-Century Costume Dramas. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Articles and Book Chapters

  • 鈥淕othic Gald贸s: Unsettling Spanish Imperialism in 鈥楾ropiquillos鈥.鈥 (Under review for edited volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Benito P茅rez Gald贸s).
  • 鈥溾榊o no soy un hombre鈥: Masculinity, Monstrosity, and Gothic Conventions in Gald贸s鈥檚聽La sombra听(1871).鈥澛Hispanic Review, vol. 88, no. 3, 2020, pp. 243-63.
  • 鈥淔rom Photography to Forensics: Technology, Modernity, and the Internationalization of聽Spanish History in聽Gran Hotel.鈥 In聽Televising Restoration Spain: History and Fiction in Twenty-First-Century Costume Dramas.聽Ed. David R. George, Jr. and Wan Sonya Tang. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 93-115.
  • 鈥淪acred, Sublime, and Supernatural: Religion and the Spanish Capital in Nineteenth-Century Fantastic Narratives.鈥 In聽The Sacred and Modernity in Urban Spain: Beyond the Secular City,聽ed. Antonio C贸rdoba and Daniel Garc铆a Donoso. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 21-40.
  • 鈥淟a princesa, el granuja, y el obrero condenado: El retrato de las clases sociales en dos cuentos fant谩sticos de Gald贸s.鈥澛Anales Galdosianos聽49 (2014):107-20.
  • 鈥'Mirar tapices flamencos por el rev茅s': Elogio impl铆cito de la traducci贸n en聽Don Quijote.鈥澛Revista de Estudios Hisp谩nicos聽42:3 (2008): 483-502.

Awards and Distinctions

  • 2021鈥2022 American Fellowship, American Association of University Women.
  • 2017 Rodolfo Cardona Prize (best article by junior faculty in the Anales Galdosianos (2013-2017).

Professional Activities

Treasurer of the Asociaci贸n Internacional de Galdosistas (2023鈥2027)

OTHER PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

  • regarding the 2022 International Galdos Conference.
  • Art in Focus: Discussion of聽 the Art Exhibition, "Cuenca: City of Spanish Abstraction," McMullen Museum of Art, md传媒国产剧 College,