Wan Sonya Tang
Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
romance language and literatures
Academic Degrees
Ph.D., M.Phil., M.A. Yale University; B.A., University of Southern California
PhD. Dissertation
“Haunting Modernity: The Fantastic Short Story in Nineteenth-Century Spain,” 2012.
Research Areas
Contemporary Peninsular literature and culture, with an emphasis on the nineteenth century; the fantastic in literature and the visual arts; Spanish women authors.
Recent Articles
“'Mirar tapices flamencos por el revés': Elogio implícito de la traducción en Don Quijote.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 42:3 (Octubre 2008): 483-502.
Recent Papers and Presentations
“Pida y recibirá: La palabra como arma en ¡Ecué-Yamba-O! de Alejo Carpentier.” 18th Annual Conference of the New England Council of Latin American Studies. Yale University, New Haven, CT, November 3, 2012.
“Of Trams and Trains: Fantastic Movement Through Madrid and Spain in Galdós's Short Fiction." Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, October 12-14, 2012.
“The Haunted City: Madrid in the Fantastic Fiction of Galdós.” Invited talk before the Whitney Humanities Fellows. Yale University, New Haven, CT. March 28, 2012.
“A Woman Possessed: How Emilia Pardo Bazán’s 'Possession' Raised Hell in Her Day.” 42nd Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. April 7-10, 2011.
“Haunted Modernity: A Case Study of Galdós's Fantastic Fiction.” 63rd Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. April 15-17, 2010.
Contact Information
Boston College
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Lyons Hall 311A
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3804
Email: wan.tan@bc.edu