- Ph.D. 1988 (Romance languages and literatures), Princeton; B.A. (magna cum laude) 1983, Dartmouth College.
James D. Fernández
Professor
James D. Fernández (Brooklyn, 1961) has been teaching at NYU since 1995. His research, teaching, publications and public humanities projects have focused on the conversion of experience into narrative, whether in the genre of autobiography in Spain, historical accounts of US participation in the Spanish Civil War, or the tales told by Spanish immigrants and their descendants in order to make sense of their experience. His most recent work on Spanish emigration to the US in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries has resulted in a major exhibition, which is currently touring Spain: Emigrantes invisibles: españoles en Estados Unidos, 1868-1945.
Modern Language Association.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1995; Mellon Fellow, Yale Whitney Humanities Center, 1991-1992.
Invisible Immigrants: Spaniards in the US (1868-1945) Madrid: Whitestoneridge, 2015
Brevísima relación de la construcción de España y otros ensayos transatlánticos Madrid: Polifemo, 2013.
Apology to Apostrophe: Autobiography and the Rhetoric of Self-Representation in Spain. Durham: Duke University Press, 1992.
Many publications available at: www.jamesdanielfernandez.wordpress.com