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TAMIU Weather Update 2025-01-17 15:26:00
Due to the threat of severe winter weather, TAMIU will be closed on Tuesday, Jan. 21.
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Dr. J. Agustín Martínez-Samos

Dr. Samos

Associate Professor of Spanish and Peninsular Literature

Education: PhD in Hispanic Literature, The University of Texas at Austin; MA in Hispanic Literature, The University of Texas at Austin; BA in History and Spanish Language and Literature, University of California, Berkeley.

Teaching: 19th - 21st Centuries Peninsular Narrative; Contemporary Women's Peninsular Narrative (Historical and crime novel).

Research Interest: Historical Memory, Traveling and Exile; Urban Space and Gender Relationships.

Recent Publications

Book Chapter:

“Del examen de la identidad a la imposibilidad del amor La Quincena Soviética (1998) de Vicente Molina Foix.” Vicente Molina Foix: el creyente de todas las religiones. Philippe Merlo-Morat, Marion LeCorre-Carrasco y Emilio Ramón, directores. Lyon: GRIMH, 115-131, 2019.

Articles:

“Una lectura de la capital de Cataluña: Urbanismo, violencia y la ciudad como organismo en Barcelona trágica de Andreu Martín.” Pasavento. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 9:1 (2021): 175-192.

“La instantánea de un desastre histórico: el reclamo por la justicia y la reválida de la identidad en Cabo Trafalgar (2004) de Arturo Pérez Reverte.” The Coastal Review: An Online Peer- reviewed Journal, 9:1 (2018).

“La reconstrucción de la identidad dañada: formación y el sujeto femenino como agente moral en ‘Habíamos Ganado la guerra’ (2008) de Esther Tusquets.” The Coastal Review: An Online Peer-reviewed Journal. 7:1, Fall 2015-Spring 2016.

Contact
Department of Humanities
Academic Innovation Center (AIC) 313
Phone: 956.326.2470 | Fax: 956.326.2459