Carlos Miguel Andrés Gil
Associate Professor of Spanish
Special Interests
Spanish Golden Age Literature; Mysticism; Cervantes; Literary theory; Philosophy.
Academic History
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D. in Spanish (Minor: Philosophy), 1995
- The Ohio State University, M.A. in Spanish, 1989
- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Licenciatura in Philosophy, 1986
Doctoral Dissertation
"La experiencia mística como repliegue interior del sujeto en la poesía de
Juan de la Cruz"
Academic Employment
California State University Stanislaus
Associate Professor of Spanish 2007
California State University Stanislaus
Assistant Professor of Spanish 2001-2007: Spanish, all levels (language, composition, Spanish and Latin American literature); Spanish for the Health Professions; Latin American Literature in translation; Renaissance poetry; Cervantes. Academic Senate; Curriculum development; Placement and Assessment; CSU Foreign Language representative; Library liaison.
Iowa State University
Assistant Professor of Spanish 1995-2000; Spanish, all levels (language, composition, civilization, surveys); Borges; XIX century poetry; Renaissance poetry; Cervantes’ Exemplary Novels (over the ICN); Committees (Curriculum, Testing, Search); Advising; Reader for two M.A. interdisciplinary thesis; Writing of a proposal for an M.A. program in Spanish.
Colegio “Lope de Vega”, Alcalá de Henares
Principal 1990-91; coordinator and director of the High-school faculty and program; teacher of Philosophy at the Senior level.
Colegio de los Escolapios, Getafe
High school teacher 1989-1990; Literature, Philosophy and English at the senior level.
Other Employment
California Department of Education
Translator and Reviewer 2006-present.
Siglo XXI de España Editores
Translator 1991-92 (numerous articles for the Journal Sociología del Trabajo)
Publications
Books
La experiencia poética y la experiencia mística en la poesía de San Juan de la Cruz. Potomac, Md. : Scripta Humanistica, 2004
Articles
“El desenmascaramiento de don Quijote en la aventura del león”, accepted for publication in Ojáncano.
“El delirio filosófico de Larra y la desesperación kierkegaardiana” accepted for publication in Siglo XIX.
“¿Rugido o rebuzno? De la disarmonía moral en la segunda parte del Quijote” Actas del congreso internacional “Cervantes y su tiempo”. (Forthcoming)
“Elementos trágicos en La Celestina”, Ojáncano: Revista de Literatura Española 25, (2004 Apr): p. 61-74
"Crítica filosófica en Primero sueño". Ciberletras 11, (2004 July):
"Don Quixote, the Novel and the Class: The Art of Integrating the Episodic”, in Faculty Voices, (2003): 3-6.
“Flor sin tallo y sin raíz: La poética monista de Juan Ramón Jiménez” Unidad. De Zenobia y Juan Ramón. (Enero 2001): 89-104.
“El abuelo galdosiano o la redención de Edipo”, Procedings of the “Encuentro hispano-francés”, “El teatro de fin de siglo: Del género chico a la alta comedia”. Siglo XIX, 5 (2001): 93-105.
"El libro de Avellaneda como purgante de la locura quijotesca", Cervantes XVI (Spring1996): 3-11.
“Reflejos nietzscheanos en la poesía desnuda de Juan Ramón Jiménez”, CUADERNOS ALDEEU, XII (April 1996): 119-126.
"La poética del ocaso en Rosaura Álvarez" Revista Hispánica Moderna (December 1995): 400-417.
Work in Progress
Book on the prose writings (including the letters) by John of the Cross.
Papers and Invited Lectures
"La caja amarilla de Larra como símbolo del concepto kierkegaardiano de desesperación”, presented at the IV Congreso Internacional de análisis textual, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain, November 2006.
“La disarmonía moral en el Quijote”, presented at the International Conference, “Cervantes y su tiempo”, Universidad de León, Spain, November 2005.
“El Larra de Nochebuena del 36 como precursor del existencialismo de Kierkegaard” presented at the 8th Annual Ohio State University Symposium on Hispanic and Luzo-Brazilian Literatures, Linguistics and Cultures, April 2005.
“De la ignorancia socrática al ´background´ Searliano: razones para una tarea negativa”, presented at the Biennial Conference of the International Network of Philosophers of Education (INPE), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, August 2004.
“A teaching lesson from a reading of Don Quixote”, presented at CFLC at Monterey, April 2004.
"Fuenteovejuna como catálogo de las virtudes aristotélicas", presented at the annual conference of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, March 2004.
“El prólogo a la primera parte del Quijote” presented at CFLC at Long Beach, April 2002.
“Elementos trágicos en La Celestina”, presented at PMLA at Santa Clara, October 2001.
“Reflections from a Spanish for Engineers Conversation Class”, presented at the Lilly West Conference at Lake Arrowhead (CA), March 2001.
“Fenomenología de la presencia en los poemas sanjuanistas”, presented at the 51st Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference at Lexington, April 1998.
“Resentimiento y anticristianismo en Guzmán de Alfarache”, presented at the 50th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference at Lexington, April 1997.
“La concepción medieval del tiempo en el Cántico de Juan de la Cruz”, lecture invited by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Temple University, February 1997.
“El abuelo galdosiano o la redención de Edipo”, presented at the “Encuentro hispano-francés”, “El teatro de fin de siglo: Del género chico a la alta comedia” at Medina del Campo (Spain), April 1996.
“Oralidad y experiencia mística en Juan de la Cruz”, lecture invited by the Department of Foreing Languages and Literatures, SUNY at Buffalo, February 1995.
“La poesía de San Juan de la Cruz y la teoría de la oralidad primaria”, presented at the Golden Age Hispanic Conference at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, October 1994.
Moderator in the Symposium “Discourses of Desire, Jorge Guillén: 1893-1993", Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 1993.
Professional Associations
Member of Modern Languages Association; Cervantes Society of America; American Translators Association; Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas; Asociación Internacional “Siglo de Oro”; Association for Hispanic Classical Theater.
Refereeing
- European Studies Journal.
- Journal of Research. A Multidisciplinary Journal of Research and Scholarship
- LETRAS
Political Associations
Planned Courses