Alberto Villamandos

Dr. Alberto Villamandos serves as Associate Chair and Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His work focuses on Spanish literature, cultural studies, and European intellectual history.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Ottawa, Canada

Research Interests:

Explores cultural production in 1960s-1980s Spain, including the transition from Franco's dictatorship to democracy. Specializes in graphic novels, immigration narratives, gender/queer studies, and the revival of literary archetypes like the flâneur and poet maudit. Recent work examines cosmopolitanism and Europeanism in Spanish literature of the 1980s.

Publications:

Authored El discreto encanto de la subversión (2011) on Barcelona's progressive elite and co-edited Un hispanismo para el siglo XXI (2011). Published widely on film studies, collective memory, and urban studies.

Awards: None explicitly listed.

Advising & Grants: No specific grants or advising details provided.

Labs/Teams: None explicitly mentioned.