Samuel Amago

Assistant Professor of Spanish and Fellow, Nanovic Institute for European Studies
(PhD, University of Virginia, 2003)
206 Decio Hall
574-631-0367
email: samago@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~romlang/faculty/amago.html

Geographic focus: Spain

Thematic interests: Contemporary Spanish literature and film; Immigration, transnationalism and globalization in contemporary European cinemas; Reflexivity in narrative fiction and film.

Selected publications: True Lies: Narrative Self-Consciousness in the Contemporary Spanish Novel (Bucknell University Press, 2006); “Narratives, Bodies and the Self in Rosa Montero’s La hija del caníbal,” Bulletin of Spanish Studies 84, 8 (2007); “Todo sobre Barcelona: Refiguring Spanish Identities in Recent European Cinema,” Hispanic Research Journal 8, 1 (2007); “Why Spaniards Make Good Bad Guys: Sergi López and the Persistence of the Black Legend in Contemporary European Cinema,” Film Criticism 30,1 (2005).