Presidential Address: 9th IASA World Congress. Alcalá de Henares, July 8-10 2019

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31261/rias.9994

Keywords:

History of IASA, International American Studies Association, the future of American Studies, the uniqueness of the International Association of American Studies, IASA Founding Members

Abstract

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Author Biography

Manuel Broncano Rodriguez, Texas A&M International University

Manuel Broncano (PhD Salamanca 1990) is a Regents Professor of English at Texas A&M International University. From 2015 to 2019 he served as the president of the International American Studies Association (IASA). Before moving to Texas, he taught for two decades at the University of Leon (Spain). Broncano has published a number of scholarly works on various American authors such as Flannery O’Connor, Willa Cather, Faulkner, Melville, Poe, etc. His latest book was released in 2014, Religion in Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction: Apocryphal Borderlands (Routlege). Broncano has also kept an active agenda as a translator. His latest translation is Giannina Braschi’s United States of Banana (Estados Unidos de Banana, Amazon Crossing 2014).

References

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Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote, Edith Grossman, translator. New York: Harper Collins, 2003,

Kadir, Djelal. “Defending America against its devotees.” Comparative American Studies 2:2 (2004), 135-152.

Kaplan, Amy. “The tenacious grasp of American exceptionalism: A response to Djelal Kadir, 'Defending America against its devotees'.” Comparative American 2:2 (2004), 153-159.

Published

2020-12-31

How to Cite

Broncano Rodriguez, M. (2020). Presidential Address: 9th IASA World Congress. Alcalá de Henares, July 8-10 2019. Review of International American Studies, 13(2), 15–27. https://doi.org/10.31261/rias.9994