Iker González-Allende

Professor of Spanish/Modern Languages and Literatures Profile Image
Professor of Spanish/Modern Languages and Literatures Women's & Gender Studies igonzalezallende2@unl.edu

Iker González-Allende is Leland J. and Dorothy H. Olson Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, Professor of Hispanic Studies and program faculty of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He specializes in 20th-21st C. Spain, masculinities, gender and queer studies, exile and migration, Basque studies, the Spanish Civil War, and autobiographical writing. He has published seven books: the monographs Hombres en movimiento: Masculinidades españolas en los exilios y emigraciones, 1939-1999 (Purdue University Press, 2018) and Líneas de fuego: Género y nación en la narrativa española durante la Guerra Civil (1936-1939) (Biblioteca Nueva, 2011); a critical edition of the novel Euzkadi en llamas, by Ramón Belaustegigoitia (Txalaparta, 2020); the edited volumes El mundo está en todas partes: La creación literaria de Bernardo Atxaga (coedited with José Ángel Ascunce Arrieta, Anthropos, 2018) and El exilio vasco: Estudios en homenaje al profesor José Ángel Ascunce Arrieta (Universidad de Deusto, 2016); and the editions of Pilar de Zubiaurre’s works, titled Evocaciones: Artículos y diario (1909-1958) (Saturrarán, 2009) and Epistolario de Pilar de Zubiaurre (1906-1970) (Tamesis, 2014). He has also published more than 60 articles in books and academic journals such as Hispania, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea, Ínsula, Hispanic Research Journal, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. His articles have appeared in 37 different academic journals worldwide, in countries such as Spain, United States, Great Britain, Germany, Canada, Italy, Netherlands, and Brazil.

 

WGS Courses

SPAN/WMNS 315: Gender and Sexuality in Hispanic Culture

SPAN/WMNS 454/854: Gender and Sexuality in Spain

SPAN 990 (Special Topics): 20th-21st C. Spanish Studies

SPAN 990 (Special Topics): Masculinities in Contemporary Spain

SPAN 990 (Special Topics): Spanish Women Writers

SPAN 990 (Special Topics): Queer Spain: Gay Spanish Literature

WMNS 492/892 (Special Topics): Masculinities

WMNS 485/885: Feminist Theories, Feminists' Perspectives

 

Education

Ph.D., University of Illinois

  • Spanish

Areas of Specialization

  • Modern and Contemporary Spain (19th-21st centuries)
  • Masculinities
  • Gender and Queer Studies
  • The Spanish Civil War
  • Exile and Migration
  • Basque Studies
  • Spanish Women Writers
  • Francoism and Falange