Paul H. Cahill

Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

paul.cahill@pomona.edu

Office:

Mason Hall

237

(909) 607-0698

With Pomona since:

2008

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Expertise

Paul Cahill is a scholar of 20th-century Spanish literature, focusing on poetry that engages with its social context(s) while maintaining an active engagement with language itself. His work has looked primarily at poets writing during the 1960s and 1970s (Jenaro Talens, Jorge Urrutia, Eduardo Hervás, Aníbal Núñez, José-Miguel Ullán) and poets born in the 1960 and 1970s (Antonio Méndez Rubio, Víctor Gómez, Arturo Borra). His current research explores the lasting interest inspired by the Holocaust in Spanish poets who have little or no direct connection to it and in some cases were born decades after the end of World War II.

Areas of Expertise

SPANISH

Twentieth-century Spanish Literature
Spanish Poetry

Research Interests

Twentieth-century Spanish Literature
Contemporary Spanish Poetry
Poetics
Relationship between Literature and Society
Spanish Poetry and the Holocaust

Work

Talens, Jenaro. Tabula rasa. El sueño del origen y la muerte. Ed. Paul Cahill. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2013.

"Poetic Vision and (In)visible Pain in Antonio Méndez Rubio's Trasluz." Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature 36.2 (2012): 356-72.

"Deconstruction (and Digression) in the Poetry of Jenaro Talens." Hispanófila 164 (2012): 39-54.

"«El otoño del paradigma»: La fuente como un pájaro escondido de Jorge Urrutia." El mar de la palabra. La poesía de Jorge Urrutia. Ed. Francisco Estévez and Isabel Román Gutiérrez. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2011. 59-86.

"«Poesía en la guerra»: la (co)herencia y unidad (con)textual de Viento del pueblo." Ínsula 763-764 (2010): 22-26.

"Globalizing Good and Evil in the Poetry of Jorge Urrutia and Jorge Riechmann." MLN: Modern Language Notes 125.2 (2010): 457-76.

"Pedagogy, Discipline, and Resistance in Intervalo (1972) by Eduardo Hervás." Letras Peninsulares 21.2-3 (2008-2009): 345-66.

Education

2008, Ph.D., Spanish
University of California, Irvine

2005, Master of Arts, Spanish
University of California, Irvine

2002, Bachelor of Arts, Spanish
University of Colorado, Boulder

Recent Courses Taught

Advanced Spanish
Contemporary Spanish Poetry: Poetics, Identity, Difference
Intermediate Spanish
Intro to Literary Analysis
Spanish Film: Tradition and Transgression
The Avant-Garde in Spain
Critical Inquiry Seminar: Iconic Iconoclasts: Lorca, Buñuel, Dalí

Awards & Honors

Research Grant, Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and U.S. Universities, 2011

Yale-Griffith Summer Fellowship, Pomona College, 2010

Regents' Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Irvine, 2008

Dissertation Research Grant, Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and U.S. Universities, 2007