Gala

Candelas S. Gala

Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Charles E. Taylor Professor of Romance Languages

Office: Greene Hall 538
Phone: (336) 758-5485
e-mail: galacs@wfu.edu

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Candelas S. Gala is Charles E. Taylor Professor of Romance Languages. Author of several books and essays on the works of Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, she has also published extensively on poetry written by women. She is a member of the editorial board of several professional journals, editor and director of Cuadernos de ALDEEU, and she just completed a book manuscript on the analogical connections between 20th Spanish poetry, painting, and physics. Candelas is the Director of the Wake Forest programs in Salamanca, Spain, and of the Languages across the Curriculum teaching initiative.

CANDELAS GALA

                        Charles E. Taylor Professor of Romance Languages 
                        DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES
                        Wake Forest University       
                        7566 Reynolda Station
                        Winston-Salem, NC 27109.

                        Doctor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, Pgh. PA, 1980.
BA, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

                        Professional Service

      • Chair, Department of Romance Languages, Wake Forest University 1996-2005
      • Program Director, Wake Forest/ Salamanca Programs
      • Languages across the Curriculum, Campus Coordinator
      • Director and Editor, Cuadernos de ALDEEU
      • Editorial Board, Crítica Hispánica, Professional Journal in Hispanic and Luso-Portuguese Studies
      • Editorial Board of Salina, Revista de Letras, University Rovira I Virgili
      • Board of Advisers for Gulf Islands Review, an interdisciplinary journal
      • Editorial Board, Crítica Hispánica

                        Community Service

      • Board Member: Central YMCA of Winston-Salem; and member of the Mission Committee
      • Board Member: Winston-Salem Women’s Fund Foundation and member of the Diversity Committee
      • Board Member: El Buen Pastor Latino Community Services

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

NOTE: EARLY PUBLICATIONS UP TO 1997 APPEAR UNDER THE
                        LAST NAME OF NEWTON. AFTER THAT YEAR, ALL PUBLICATIONS
                        APPEAR UNDER THE NAME OF GALA

A. BOOKS

  • Lorca: ‘Libro de poemas’ o las aventuras de una búsqueda.              Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 1986.                       
  • Lorca: Una escritura en trance. ‘Libro de poemas’ y ‘Diván del Tamarit.’ Purdue U Monographs in Romance Languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1992.                       
  • Understanding Federico García Lorca. Columbia: Universityof South Carolina Press, 1995.
  • Ensayos críticos sobre escritoras de España, Latinoamérica e  hispanas en los EEUU. Ed. And Introductory Study. Double Issue of Explicación de textos literarios. Spring 1996.    
  • The Poetry of Ana María Fagundo. A Bilingual Anthology. Editor and Introductory Study. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2005
  • Entre pureza y revolución. Essays in Honor of Juan Cano Ballesta. Editor with Anne Hardcastle. Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs.
  • Poetry, Physics and Painting in Twentieth-Century Spain. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming December 2011.

B. ARTICLES-Most Recent

  • “Desplazamientos nómadas: la poesía de Lucía S. Saornil.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 36.2 (Invierno 2012): 315-334.
  •  “’El anaglifo, / el anaglifo, / la gallina / y por allí debe andar / algún enjambre.’ Las reverberaciones de un juego de ingenio verbal (en Lorca, con Dalí, al fondo).”  In Rumbos del hispanismo en el umbral del Cincuentenario de la AIH (International Association of Hispanists). General Ed. Bagatto Libri. Vol. V. Eds. Laura Silvestri, Loretta Frattale, and Mateo Lefèvre. Rome, 2012.
  •  “Un desubicado herbolario: el sujeto nómada de Concha García.” Salina 24 (2010): 85-92.
  •  “Entrevista a Concha García.” Quimera 343 (June 2012): 66-69.
  •  Editing and compiling volume 23, Fall 2011 of Cuadernos de ALDEEU
  • "'Un plato de ondas': La Biografía incompleta de Gerardo Diego," Turia 101-102 (marzo-mayo 2012): 302-307.
  • “Gerardo Diego y el modelo científico.” El español y su literatura en los Estados Unidos. Homenaje a la Real Academia Española. Ed. Enrique Ruiz-Fornells Silverde. Burgos : Instituto Castellano y Leonés de la Lengua, 2011. 235-253. Book chapter.
  • “’Este aroma de lilas resonando en la niebla’: Los cuerpos oscuros de Juana Castro.” Revista Monográfica/Monographic Review (2010)
  • “Amores intertextuales y parodias posmodernistas: Vicente Molina Foix y la poesía,” Revista de Literatura 72.144 (julio-diciembre 2010):479-496.
  • “Creative Entropy in Rafael Alberti’s Sobre los ángeles,” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 88.1 (2011): pp. 59-77.
  • “’…esta criatura extraordinaria’: María Blanchard, pintora.” Crítica Hispánica 31.1 (2009): 7-22.
  • “Pureza Canelo y ‘La creación desde el nadie’.” Esfera Poesía. Homenaje a Pureza Canelo. Ed. José Luis Bernal Salgado. Almendralejo: Unión de Bibliófilos Extremeños, 2009. 51-64.
  • Pureza Canelo,” Cervantes Virtual Library. It contains a bio-biographical section, a critical study of the poetry and an anthology. 2009
  • “Sérpula o la verdad: exilio y arraigo en la poesía de Rosa Chacel.” Mujer, creación y exilio (España, 1939-1975). Eds. Mónica Jato, Sharon Keefe Ugalde y Janet Perez. Barcelona: Icaria, 2009. 167-186.
  • “Introduction.” In collaboration with Anne E. Hardcastle. ‘Entre pureza y revolución.’ Essays in Honor of Juan Cano Ballesta. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2009. 9-38.
  • “Iconografías, daguerrotipos, fotografías, diapositivas: identidad femenina, creación y realidad en la poesía de María Beneyto.” Estudios en torno a la obra de María Beneyto. Joseph Carle Laínez (comp.). Valencia: Ajuntament de Valencia, 2008. 297-322.
  • “Ana María Fagundo.” Cervantes Institute. Virtual Library. Posted since March 2008. It includes: critical analysis of her poetic collections, bio-biographical section and anthology of poems.       http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portal/pec
  • “Don Giovanni: Models and Reproductions.” Ars Lyrica. Journal of the Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations. 15 (2005-2006); 1-22.
  • “Convergences and Transdisciplinarity in the Foreign Language Department: A response to the MLA Report. Journal of Language and Literacy Education [Online], 4(1) (2008), #-##. Available:            http://www.coe.uga.edu/jolle/2008_1/transdisciplinarity.pdf
  • “Prologue” to Despertando la rosa y el instante. Poetry Collection by Cristina Lacasa. Lleida: Milenio, 2006. 13-17.
  • “Escribiendo el silencio: la contemplación poética de Sara Pujol.” Revista de Literatura 67.133 (Madrid, 2005): 147-164.
  • “Identità e scrittura: una lettura lacaniana di Cuaderno proibito di Alba de Céspedes e Donna in guerra di Dacia Maraini.” Mancarsi. Ed. Laura Graciano. Verona: ombre corte/culture, 2005. 137-151.
  • “Essences Made Presence: The Poetry of Ana María Fagundo.” The Poetry of Ana María Fagundo. A Bilingual Anthology. Introductory Study. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2005. 17-48.
  • “Poetry’s Malentendu: Love, Gender, and Paradox in Pedro Salinas’La voz a ti debida.” Revista Hispánica Moderna 57. 1-2 (double issue 2004): 121-136.
  • “A modo de introducción.” Introductory Study to Desnudos del alma by Marisa Estelrich. Buenos Aires: Nuevo Ser, 2005.
  • “’Un hombre sin nombre’: The Mirroring of Language and Nature in Tirso’s El burlador de Sevilla.”Boletín of the Comediantes 56.1 (2004):97-114.
  • “The Name of the Game Is in the Signifier: Molière’s Dom Juan and the Binding Power of Words.” Papers in Seventeenth Century French Literature XXXI 60 (2004): 49-67.
  • “Lorca’s Suites: Reflections on Cubism and the Sciences.”  Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 80.4 (October 2003): 509-524.
  • “Identity And Writing: A Lacanian Reading of Alba de Céspedes’ Quaderno proibito and Dacia Maraini’s Donna in Guerra. Forum Italicum 37.1 (Spring 2003): 147-160.
  •  “Lucinaciones alucinadas: los poemas de Julia Uceda.” Julia Uceda, conversación entre la memoria y el sueño. Ed. Sara Pujol Russell. Ferrol: La Barca del Loto, 2004. 97-118.
  • “Locura, amor y escritura en Paranoia en otoño de Juana Castro.” Sujeto femenino y palabra poética. Estudios críticos de la poesía de Juana Castro. Ed. Sharon K. Ugalde. Córdoba: Diputación de Córdoba, 2002. 62-76.
  • “Phenomenology and the Image of the House in the Poetry of María Victoria Atencia.” These Walls Can Talk: The Image of the House in 20th Century Literature. Ed. Delmarie Martínez Díaz. Bucknell UP. Forthcoming.
  • “María Beneyto Cunyat.” The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature. 2 vls. Eds. Janet Pérez and Maureen Ihrie. Westport, Connecticut, London: Greenwood Press, 2002. 65-66.
  • “Ana María Fagundo.” The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature. 2 vls. Eds. Janet Pérez and Maureen Ihrie. Westport, Connecticut, London: Greenwood Press, 2002. 221-22.
  • “Angela Figuera Aymerich.” The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature. 2 vls. Eds. Janet Pérez and Maureen Ihrie. Westport, Connecticut, London: Greenwood Press, 2002. 239-40.
  • “Cristina Lacasa.” The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature. 2 vls. Eds. Janet Pérez and Maureen Ihrie. Westport, Connecticut, London: Greenwood Press, 2002. 331.
  • "‘Tópicos sublimados’: Lorca's Female Iconographies in ‘Eros con bastón’". Lorca, Dalí Buñuel. Art and Theory. Ed. Manuel Delgado and Alice J. Poust. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2001. 86-105.
  • “Cristina Lacasa, ‘Tejedora del decir del planeta’.” La Estafeta Literaria 14-15, VII época (2001): 27-30.
  • "Computer-Enhanced Spanish 217: A Survey of Spanish Literature." In Teaching with Technology. Seventy Professors from Eight Universities Tell Their Stories.            Ed. David G. Brown. Bolton, Mass: Anker Publishing Co., Inc. 2000. 157-159.
  • “De la parodia al patetismo: Lorca, Dalí y Buñuel.” Homenaje a Enrique Díez-Canedo. Cauce.  Revista de filología y su didáctica. Reixa. Universidad de Sevilla, Diputación de Badajoz: Secretariado de publicaciones de la universidad de Sevilla. 22-23 (1999-2000): 469-488.

BOOK REVIEWS-Most Recent

  • Catherine G. Bellver, Bodies in Motion. Spanish Vanguard Poetry, Mass Culture, and Gender Dynamics. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2010. 257 pp., for Crítica Hispánica 32.2 (2010): 327-329.
  • María Cristina C. Mabrey, Luzmaría Jiménez Faro o el canto de la luz: La editora y la poeta. Madrid: Torremozas, 2009. 165 pp. In Hispanófila 163 (September 2011):
  • Julio F. Hernando, Poesía y violencia. Representaciones de la agresión en el Poema de mio Cid. Palencia: Cálamo, 2009. In Crítica Hispánica 33(2011): 446-449
  • Pasión de mi vida. Estudios sobre Juan Ramón Jiménez. Eds. Francisco Javier Díez de Revenga y Mariano de Paco. Crítica Hispánica 30.1&2: 210-213.
  • Cuatro poetas en guerra. Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Federico García Lorca, Miguel Hernández. By Ian Gibson. Crítica Hispánica 30.1&2: 234-237.
  • En un pozo de lumbre. Estudios sobre Carmen Conde. Eds. Francisco Javier Díez de Revenga y Mariano de Paco.Crítica Hispánica 30.1&2: 241-243.
  • The Poetry of Sara Pujol Russell. Translated and with an Introduction by Noël Valis. Selingsgrove: Susquehanna UP, 2005. 123 pp. In Letras Peninsulares v17.2 17.3 (Fall/Winter 2004-2005): 623-624.
  • Son of Andalucía. The Lyrical Landscapes of Federico García Lorca, by C.B. Morris. Liverpool UP and Vanderbilt UP, 1997. Symposium vol.54.2 (summer 2000):127-128.
  • La obra poética de Luis Cernuda, by María Cristina Mabrey. Madrid: Pliegos, 1996. Hispanófila.
  • An Introduction to Fernando Pessoa. Modernism and the Paradoxes of Authorship. By Darlene J. Sadlier, U of Florida P, 1998. For International Review of Modernism. Vol. 2.2 (Spring/Summer, 1999): 52-53.
  • Las dinámicas del deseo. Subjetividad y lenguaje en la poesía española contemporánea. By Silvia Bermúdez. Hispanic Review vol. 69, No. 3 (summer 2001): 405-407.
  • El poeta rescatado: Antonio Machado y la poesía del grupo de Escorial. By Araceli Iravedra. Hispanófila #140.
  • The Soledades, Góngora’s Masque of the Imagination. Columbia and      London: The U of Missouri P, 2002. By Marsha S. Collins.
    Crítica Hispánica XXVI. 1&2 (2004): 207-211.
  • P/Herversions: Critical Studies of Ana Rossetti. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2004. 275 pp. By Jill Robbins, ed. Hispanófila #148.
  • The Other Poetry of Barcelona. Spanish and Spanish-American Women      Poets. Ed. Carlota Caulfield and Jaime D. Parra. Oakland,
    California: An Imprint of InteliBooks Publishers, 2004.
    Letras Femeninas 31.2 (invierno 2005): 192-194.
  • Postmodern Metapoetry and the Replenishment of the Spanish Lyrical       Genre, 1980-2000. By Matthew J. Marr. Scotland, U.K.: La
    Sirena, 2007. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies
    11 (2007).

CONFERENCES – MOST RECENT

  • “…esta criatura extraordinaria. La pintura de María Blanchard.” Asociación Cultural ‘Las Matildes,” Santander, Marzo 2011.
  • “… ‘esa criatura extraordinaria’. La pintura de María Blanchard. Asociación Cultural Las Matildes, Santander, March 9, 2011.
  • “Sinergias (con Lorca, Salinas y Diego): vanguardismo poético, física y cubismo.” Universidad Rovira e Virgili, March 17, 2011.
  • “’este aroma de lilas resonando en la niebla’: Los cuerpos oscuros de Juana Castro,” II Congreso Intercontinental XXX Asamblea, 22-24 de abril, 2010, Thunderbird School of Global Management, Phoenix/Glendale, Arizona.
  • “El anaglifo, / el anaglifo, / la gallina, / ‘y por allí debe andar algún enjambre’.  Las reverberaciones de un juego de ingenio verbal (en Lorca, con Dalí al fondo).” Presented at the meeting of the International Association of Hispanists, University La Sapienza, Roma, July 2010.
  • “Entrevista con la poeta Concha García,” http:sobreconchagarcia.blogspot.com 

Editorship

  • Editor and Director of Cuadernos de ALDEEU, volumen 23, Fall 2011

TRANSLATIONS

A Planning Guide to Pre-School Curriculum, by Jane Fiendly et al. Winston-Salem, NC: Kaplan Press.

Early Learning Accomplishment Profile (For Developmentally Young Children, Birth-36 Months), by M. Elayne Glover, Jody L. Preminger and Anne Sandford. Winston-Salem, NC: Kaplan Press.

Learning Accomplishment Profile (36-72 Months), by Anne Sandford and Janet G. Zelman. Winston-Salem, NC: Kaplan Press.

The Spanish translations of these books are to be distributed in Latin American countries (Venezuela, Puerto Rico, México), as well as in areas of the US where there is a large Spanish speaking population.

 

SPN. 196. Spanish across the Curriculum
SPN. 197. Spanish for Reading Knowledge
SPN. 213. Encounters: Hispanic Literature and Culture
SPN 301. Intensive Spanish
SPN. 316. Spanish Conversation
SPN. 317. Literary and Cultural Studies of Spain
SPN 334. Voices of Modern Spain
SPN. 335. Modern Spanish Novel
SPN 336. Lorca, Dalí, Buñuel: An Artistic Exploration
SPN 338. Love, Death and Poetry
SPN 340. Film Adaptations of Literary Works
SPN. 349. Special Topics. The Historical Avant-Garde
SPN 353. Contemporary Women Novelists and Their Female Characters
SPN. 337. Lorca in the 20th Century
HON. 133, 134. Interdisicplinary Honors: Proust, Einstein, Dalí
HMN. 230. Women Writers in Contemporary Italy
HMN. The Many Faces of Don Juan