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Profile
Bruce A. Boggs, Associate Professor of Spanish and Graduate Liaison, received the Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin where he concentrated on modern Spanish Peninsular literature. Bruce came to the University of Oklahoma in 1995 as a Visiting Assistant Professor and was hired as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 1996. Since then, his teaching and writing have explored interarts relations between Spanish literature and music, Spanish women writers in the modern period, flamenco culture in literature, and Spanish poetry and theater. Bruce’s research has been supported by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Presidential International Travel Fellowship, the Bizzell Library at the University of Oklahoma, and two grants from the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sports, and United States Universities.
Selected Publications
La música, poema por Tomás de Iriarte. A Critical Edition. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 2007. Reviewed by Scott Dale in Dieciocho 32.2 (Fall 2009): 454-456.
Rebels With a Cause: Adam and Eve in Modern Spanish Literature. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. Reviewed by Michael Sawyer in Hispania 86.2 (2003): 245-247; and in Hispanic Review 81.4 (2004).
“Tomás de Iriarte, popularista: su obra a través de la música popular” Dieciocho: Hispanic Enlightenment 36.1 (Spring, 2013): 19-36. Print.
“Rescuing Flamenco by the Grace of Lola: Cante hondo as Sacrament in La Lola se va a los puertos.” Studi Ispanici XXXVII (Pisa, Italy: 2012): 253-265. Special Issue. La música en la literatura hispánica. Print.
"Music, Metaphor and Emotion in the Poetry of José Hierro." Hispania 86.2 (2003): 209- 219. Print.
Education
Ph.D. in Spanish. The University of Texas at Austin. 1995
M.A. in Spanish. Texas Tech University. 1987
B.A. in Spanish. Texas Tech University. 1985
Teaching Schedule for FALL 2023:
SPAN 4083-001 Lit and Culture of Spain, KH 330, T/R 10:30-11:45
