Salameno School of American and International Studies (SSAIS)

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Year Joined RCNJ: 2007

Contact Information:

• Phone: (201) 684-7426
• E-mail: nsantama@ramapo.edu 
• Office: A212
• Office Hours: MR 9:45-10:45 a.m. and also by Appt
   

Education:

• B.A. Deusto University
• M.A. University of British Columbia
• A.M. Harvard University
• Ph.D. Harvard University

Courses Offered:

Literature Courses:

• Capstone Seminar: Rewriting Hispanic Identity Constructions
• Transatlantic Encounters
• Spanish Modern literature
• Art of Reading

Culture & Language Courses:

• Spanish Civilization
• Hispanic Literature and Cinema.

• Foundations of Spanish I & II
• Intermediate Spanish I.

Teaching Interests:

• Introduction to Literature
• Modernismo/ Generación del 98
• Literature and Cinema.

Research Interests:

• Transatlantic theory
• Regeneracionismo
• Spanish and Latin American fin-de-siècle Literature.

Recent Publications:

• “Regenerative Decadence or a Decadent Regeneration: Responses to Positivism in Fin-de-siècle Europe" in Decadence, Degeneration and the End: Studies in the European Fin-de- siècle. (Forthcoming)

• Book Project: El regeneracionismo español finisecular: Una visión transatlántica [“A Transatlantic View of the Spanish Regeneration Movement”]. 
• Review of Carmen Morán Rodríguez’s Figuras y figuraciones femeninas en la obra de Rosa Chacel  (Forthcoming in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies). 
•  “El papel de la ‘Aristocracia Intelectual’ en Joaquín Costa y José Enrique Rodó.” Letras Hispanas.   6 (2). Fall 2009.
• “Debates finiseculares entre autores españoles y latinoamericanos sobre el regeneracionismo español.” Cuadernos Americanos. 132. 2010/2. 159-179.
• "Modernismo y regeneracionismo como discursos permeables: Darío, Rodó y Unamuno".  Decimonónica. 8.1. Winter 2011. 

Recent Conferences:

• El Papel del Indiano en la literatura y prensa finisecular, Trans Atlantic Project, April 2012. Brown University (USA)
• The Return of Ships: 'Hispanic' Encounters after 1898. New York public Library August 9, 2011
• Otra vision del 98: El indiano como agente transatlantico del regeneracionismo peninsular. Seventh Biennial Florida International University Conference on Spanish and spanish-American Cultural Studies, April 2010. miami (USA)
• The Epistemological Nature of the Nation: A Roundtable Based on the Study Abroad Programs of Ramapo College Students. National Collegiate Honors Council November, 2009. Washington, DC (USA).
• La Circulacion Transatlantica de la Lengua Finisecular: Un caso de Degeneracionismo Regeneracionista. 17th Conference of German Hispanists March 2009 Tubingen University (Germany)
• Choque entre Carabelas: El Regeneracionismo Finisecular a traes del Debate Transatlantico. Transatlantic Project, April 2008. Brown University (USA)
• Mid-American Conference on Hispanic Literatures, November 2006. El ideal en el cambio de siglo: Discursos teóricos sobre la regeneración de sociedades. University of Missouri- Columbia. USA.