Julia Riordan-Goncalves, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Spanish and chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures. She coordinates the minor in Spanish for business and teaches classes in Spanish language, Hispanic literature and Spanish for business. Her research focuses on Spanish novels of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, written during the Franco dictatorship and afterward as a part of historical memory. She is the faculty advisor to the Spanish Club, and a member of the General Education Oversight Committee and the President’s Advisory Council on Diversity and Inclusion.

Education

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

B.A., Dickinson College

Research Interests

• Spanish women writers of the 21st Century
• Spanish novel of the 20th and 21st Centuries
• Memory and Trauma in the Spanish novel of the 20th and 21st centuries
• Sociological and Psychological theories and the novel
• Spanish Post-Civil War literature and the novel written under/after dictatorship
• Spanish and Spanish-American novels written under/after dictatorship

Books

• Dictatorships in the Hispanic World: Transatlantic and Transnational Perspectives. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2013. Co-editor and contributor.

Scholarly Articles

• “The Body Speaks: Pain, Discipline and Agency in Ana Cañil’s Si a los tres años no he vuelto.” Letras hispanas, Vol. 14, 2018, pp. 139-53.
• “The Discourse of Silence as Testimony in Jenn Díaz’s Es un decir.” Hispania, Vol. 101, No. 1, March 2018, pp. 125-35.
• “Trauma and the Family Emotional System in Jenn Díaz’s Es un decir and Marisa Silva Schultze’s Apenas diez.” Cincinnati Romance Review, Vol. 43, Fall 2017, pp. 197-215.
• “National History and Resistance in Ricardo Piglia’s Respiración artificial and Juan Goytisolo’s Reivindicación del Conde don Julián.” Dictatorships in the Hispanic World: Transatlantic and Transnational Perspectives. Ed. Julia Riordan-Goncalves and Patricia Swier. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2013. 79-102.

Book Reviews

• Review of Reading Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature: Selected Essays, by Noël Valis. Hispania, Vol. 101, No. 1, March 2018, pp. 156-57.
• Review of Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America: Trauma, Politics, and Resistance, by Aída Díaz de León et al. Hispania, Vol. 99, No. 4, 2016, pp. 680-81.
• Review of Histories, Cultures, and National Identities: Women Writing in Spain, 1877-1984, by Christine Arkinstall. Hispania, Vol. 94, No. 4, 2011, pp. 753-54.

Dissertation Review

• Review of Zones of Influence: The Production of Madrid in Early Franco Spain, by Adam Winkel. Dissertation Reviews. 15 Feb. 2015.

Presentations/Invited Talks

• “La búsqueda de la historia en La identidad perdida de María Dolores Moreno Burgos.” NeMLA Convention, Baltimore, MD, March 2022
• Organizer and Panel Chair – “Towards a Greater Inclusion of Women Authors of the Spanish Novel of Historical Memory.” NeMLA Convention, Baltimore, MD, March 2022
• “La identidad femenina en transición en Media vida de Care Santos.” Presented at South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, Birmingham, AL, November 2018
• “Building Proficiency in the L2 Classroom: Tools, Strategies and Activities.” Workshop presented at Foreign Language Educators of New Jersey Conference, West Long Branch, NJ, August 2018
• Organizer and Panel Chair– “Confronting a Painful Past: Historical Memory in Novel and Film of the Hispanophone World”. Northeastern Modern Language Association Convention (NeMLA), Hartford, CT, March 2016
• “Trauma, Memory, and Family in Jenn Diaz’s Es un decir and Marisa Silva Schultze’s Apenas diez.” NeMLA Convention, Hartford, CT, March 2016
• “Reclaiming the Past and Reshaping the National Identity in Pedro Amoros’s La extraña victoria.” NeMLA Convention, Toronto, Canada, May 2015
• Organizer and Panel Chair – “Teaching Business Spanish: Approaches and Challenges.” NeMLA Convention, Boston, M.A., March 2013

Awards

• 2016 Distinguished Educator Award – Kappa Delta Pi Undergraduate International Honor Society in Education at Monmouth University