Robert Sanchis-Álvarez

PhD Student
Office Hours: 
Wednesday 11am-12pm and by appointment

Education

Ph.D. Spanish, University of Virginia (in progress)

Urban Design Program Certificate (Urban History track). University of Virginia School of Architecture (in progress)

M.A. in Advanced Studies in Spanish and Latin American Literature. University of Barcelona (2019)

B.A. Hispanic Studies & Linguistics. University of Barcelona (2017)

Research Interests:

  • 19th Century and Modern Transpacific Cultural Production
  • Architectural History
  • Urban History and Design
  • Catalan Studies
  • Philippine Literature in Spanish
  • Historical Memory
  • Digital Humanities

Presentations:

“Intertextualidades y encuentros en Barcelona, y de vuelta a Manila. Estudio comparativo de La Solidaridad.” Forthcoming presentation at Congreso Internacional de literatura hispanofilipina. Universidad de Málaga, 2023.

“Geocultural Readings of a Colonial Metropolis: Exploring Representations of Space in 19th Century Barcelona’s Expansion.” Presentation at Urban Narratives Panel: 18th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society. University of Massachusetts Amherst, April 2022.

“Urban F(r)ictions in the Modern City. Contributions from a Global Hispanophone Perspective. “ Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation - Graduate Student Brown Bag Lunch, University of Virginia, April 2022.

“Idiom’s instruction: Assessing Cultural Value in the Classroom.” Presentation at International World Languages Roundtable series. University of Virginia, November 2021.

“Spatial Poetics in Roberto Bolaño’s Los detectives salvajes”, Presentation at LALISA: Latin American Latino/a & Iberian Studies Association of the Pacific Northwest, April 2019.

Fellowships, Grants and Awards:

Dean’s PhD-Architecture Fellowship in Urban Design. University of Virginia (2022-2024)

Summer Research Fellowship, Dept of Spanish Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia (2023)

Nelson Scholar Fellow in East Asian Studies, East Asia Center, University of Virginia (2022)

UVA Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fellowship (2022)

Graduate Global Research Grant. Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation (2022)

Spanish Language Scholar Fellowship, Reed College (2019)

Erasmus + Grant, University of Catania (2018)

Book Reviews:

“Guinea: El delirio colonial de España”, by Iñaki Tofiño in Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, forthcoming 2024.

Teaching:

SPAN3300: Spanish Texts and Interpretation

SPAN3040: Business Spanish

SPAN2010: Intermediate Spanish Language and Culture

SPAN1060: Intensive Elementary Spanish Language & Culture

Specialized Training:

The Margins of Global Hispanophone Literature. Summer School. University of Antwerp, 2023.

Summer Design Institute. University of Virginia School of Architecture, 2022.

Current Perspectives on Memory, European Observatory on Memories of the University of Barcelona, Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values program of the European Union, 2021-2022.

Last Name: 
Sanchis-Álvarez
Office Address: 
New Cabell Hall 458
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