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Ryan Anthony Spangler, Ph.D.


At the tomb of Rubén Darío in León, Nicaragua.

Assistant Professor

Humanities Center 226
ryanspangler@creighton.edu
Phone: (402) 280-3867

Spanish Club
Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish Honor Society)

Research Interests

Twentieth-Century Spanish-American Poetry, modernismo, avant-garde
Religious Identity, German Philosophy
Twentieth-Century Peninsular Poetry
Twentieth-Century Spanish-American Theater

Teaching

Rubén Darío and the Quest for Enlightenment (Independent Study)
Spanish American Modernismo and Spiritual Poetics
Spanish American Theater of Social Criticism and Religion
Culture, Politics and Ethics in the Dominican Republic (Independent Study)
Spanish American Short Story
Introduction to Literary Analysis
Spanish American Culture and Civilization
Advanced Spanish Translation
Advanced Spanish Composition

Recent Academic Activity

“La religión poética en la poesía de Rubén Darío.” Rubén Darío: Mitología y distintivo perpetuo: Procedimientos del VII Simposio Internacional Rubén Darío. Forthcoming March 2010.

"Salutación del pesimista: Darío, Schopenhauer y la revelación del arte." VII Simposio Internacional Rubén Darío. León, Nicaragua, January 15-20, 2010.
 
“Amado Nervo: The Prodigal Son Returns.” Mid American Conference on Hispanic Literature. University of Kansas, November 5-7, 2009.

“Ninguna patria tengo yo: Poetic and Political Identity in José Martí.” 59th Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Furman University, October 8-10, 2009.

“¡Viva la patria (chica)!: José Martí and Cuban-Spanish Relations in the fin de siglo.” 33rd European Studies Conference. University of Nebraska-Omaha, October 1-3, 2009.

“La religión poética en la poesía de Rubén Darío.” VII Simposio Internacional Rubén Darío. León, Nicaragua, January 18-20, 2009.

“The Poet's Self Prophecy: Spiritual Authenticity in José Martí’s 'Sueño despierto.'” Invited Guest Lecturer. University of North Carolina-Wilmington, October 9, 2008.

“Discerning the Divine in Versos sencillos.” 58th Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Langauge Conference. University of North Carolina-Wilmington, October 8-11, 2008.