Background
Robert A. Myak is a lecturer of Spanish at Binghamton University. He earned his PhD in Spanish and Portuguese from Princeton University in 2023; during his doctoral studies, he was a visiting doctoral researcher at the University of Granada and collaborated with La Otra Edad de Plata research group at La Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
He later held a postgraduate research fellowship and was appointed lecturer of Spanish at Princeton, where he taught about postwar social and cultural resistance from 1939 to 1964. He has also taught Spanish at the University of Kentucky and the University of Notre Dame.
Myak has presented his research at conferences across North America and Spain, and his published work on hunger and gender violence appears in Ópticas femininas do terrorismo de Estado: actitudes sociais, violencias sexuadas e xestión de pasados traumáticos. Furthermore, he has two forthcoming book chapters: one on the posthumous repatriation of Juan Ramón Jiménez’s mortal remains in an edited volume on the tombs of major Spanish poets and another on adultery and non-normative relationships in Rafael Chirbes’s París-Austerlitz, in an edited collection on adultery in modern and contemporary Spanish literature.
Education
- PhD in Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University, 2023
- MA in Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University, 2021
- MA in Latin American and Iberian Studies, University of Notre Dame, 2018
- BA in Spanish Literature and Culture (with honors), University of Notre Dame, 2017
Research Interests
- Modern and Contemporary Spanish Poetry
- Spanish Civil War and Francoism
- Psychoanalysis
- Exile and Transatlantic Studies
- Spanish Cultural Studies