Jeffrey Oxford
Professor
Room: Curtin Hall, Room 729
Phone: (414) 229-4257
e-mail: oxford@uwm.edu
Curriculum Vitae: pdf
Degrees:
Ph.D., Spanish, Texas Tech University
M.A., Spanish, Texas Tech University
B.A., Foreign Languages, Austin Peay State University
Research Interests:
Spanish Literature and Culture, 19th-21st centuries, Naturalism, religion and literature, Tremendismo, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Eduardo Mendoza, U.S.-Mexico Border issues
Teaching Interests:
19th-century Spanish literature; 20th-century Spanish literature; Naturalism; Contemporary Spanish literature; Spanish detective fiction; and the Contemporary Spanish novel
Other Relevant Activities:
Graduate Advisor for Spanish
Production Editor, Monographic Review/Revista Monográfica
Recent Publications:
Journals:
Lilienfeld, Jane, Jeffrey Oxford, and Lisa Low, guest editors. Woolf Studies Annual. Virginia Woolf and Literary History: Part II. Vol. 10 (2004): 139-307. ISBN: 0-944473-67-9.
Lilienfeld, Jane, Jeffrey Oxford, and Lisa Low, guest editors. Woolf Studies Annual. Virginia Woolf and Literary History: Part I. Vol. 9 (2003): 83-242. ISBN: 0-944473-62-8.
Books:
Second Language Teaching and Learning in the Net Generation. Eds. Raquel Oxford and Jeffrey Oxford. Honolulu: National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawai’i, 2009. 220 pages. ISBN: 978–0–9800459–2–5.
Valera, Juan. Pepita Jiménez. Ed. Jeffrey Oxford. Newark, DE: Cervantes and Company, 2005. 193 pages, ISBN: 1-58977-021-8.
Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente. La barraca. Ed. Jeffrey Oxford. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2003. 226 pages. ISBN: 1-58977-007-2.
Oxford, Jeffrey and David Knutson, ed. Eduardo Mendoza: A New Look. New York. Peter Lang Publishing, 2002. 225 pages. ISBN: 0-8204-5809-0.
Articles:
Petra Delicado: A Hard-Boiled Police Investigator. South Central Review 27.1-2 (2010): 91-104.
Naturalism, Tremendismo, and the Horror Genre in El verano del inglés (2006) by Carme Riera. Au Naturel: (Re)Reading Hispanic Naturalism. Eds. J. P. Spicer-Escalante and Lara Anderson. Newscastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 167-80.
Unmasked Men: Sex Roles in Like Water for Chocolate. Laura Esquivel's Mexican Fictions. Ed. Elizabeth Willingham. Brighton, Portland and Toronto: Sussex Academic P, 2010. 76-89.
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Regional and Cultural Illiteracy in Two of Jorge Martínez Reverte's Gálvez Series Novels. Crime Scene Spain: Essays on Post-Franco Crime Fiction. Eds. Renée W. Craig-0dders and Jack Collins. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland and Company, 2009. 185-203.
Tirano Banderas: A Case of Early Postmodernism. Dissidences. Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism. 4/5 (Fall 2008). http://www.dissidences.org/4OxfordValleInclan.html
'Lo más difícil de un libro es hacer humor del horror': Jorge Martínez Reverte's Gudari Gálvez. The South Carolina Modern Language Review 7.1 (2008).
Blasco Ibáñez and Animal Portrayals: An Attempt at Societal Reformation. Hipertexto. 8 (2008): 99-104. http://www.utpa.edu/dept/modlang/hipertexto/docs/Hiper8Oxford.pdf.
Revising the Spanish Major to Maximize Learning Outcomes and Curricular Objectives. Hispania 91.1 (2008): 147-57.
Sleeping Beauty Wakes Up and Franco is Dead: What Now? Letras Hispanas 7 (2007).
Viewing the Social Condition of Transitional Spain through the Naturalist Influences in Amigos del crimen perfecto by Andrés Trapiello. CIEHL: Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Humanísticos y Literatura 8 (2007): 40-48.
Bajo Franco vivíamos mejor: Eduardo Mendoza's Detective Gets Out of Prison. Celebrations and Connections in Hispanic Literature. Ed. Andrea E. Morris and Margaret Parker. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 59-68.
'Every Way of a Man is Right in His Own Eyes': Conspiracy in Early 1940s Spain. Monographic Review/Revista Monográfica 22 (2006): 143-54.
"'Well-behaved women seldom make history,' ni la cuentan: El papel de la mujer en Muertes de perro." Hispania 89.4 (2006): 759-65.
"Elementos góticos, deterministas y tremendistas en la novela neo-gótica Como bestia que duerme por Camilo José Cela Conde." Hispania 89.3 (2006): 509-14.
"Algunos efectos de la repetición numérica y de la numerología en La familia de Pascual Duarte." La obra del literato y sus alrededores: Estudios críticos en torno a Camilo José Cela. Ed. Eloy E. Merino and Carlos X. Ardavín Trabanco. Madrid: Universidad Camilo José Cela, 2006. 63-73.
"(De)Constructing Cultural Identity in Sin noticias de Gurb." Ojáncano 25 (April 2004): 75-89.
"Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente (1867-1928): His Portrayal of Women." The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature. Vol. 1. Ed. Janet Pérez and Maureen Ihrie. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. 67-68.
"Female Voices and the Feminist Novel: Gender Roles in La isla inaudita." Eduardo Mendoza: A New Look. Ed. Jeffrey Oxford and David Knutson. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. 91-101.
"Blasco Ibáñez's Misogynist Predeterminism." Excavatio 15.3-4 (2001): 148-59.