Francisco Brignole, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Office: Leutze 278
Telephone: (910) 962-3346
E-mail: brignolef@uncw.edu
B.A., M.A., M.B.A., University of Hawaii at Manoa
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Born and raised in Argentina, Dr. Brignole joined the UNCW department of World Languages and Cultures in 2015, where he teaches courses in language, culture and literature. He studies 20th-21st century Spanish-American literature and culture and specializes in exile and migration studies. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he worked under the direction of Dr. Oswaldo Estrada. Dr. Brignole has recently published a co-edited critical volume that explores the intersection of dictatorship, memory, and gender in the literary works of renowned Argentinean writer María Teresa Andruetto.
Publications
“Voluntary Exiles, New Identities, and the Emergence of a Postnational Sensibility in Contemporary Latin American Literature.” Postnational Perspectives in Contemporary Hispanic Literature. Eds. Scharm, Heike and Natalia Mata. UP of Florida, 2017. 128-46.
Co-edited with Dr. Corinne Pubill. Miradas desobedientes: María Teresa Andruetto ante la crítica. Valencia: Albatros (Serie Palabras de América), 2016.
“Volviendo a casa: exilio y género en Lengua madre.” Miradas desobedientes: María Teresa Andruetto ante la crítica. Eds. Pubill, Corinne and Francisco Brignole. Valencia: Albatros, 2016. 265-83.
“Reclaiming the Cinematic: Lisandro Alonso’s Aesthetics of Excess in Liverpool.” Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana. 45.2 (2016): 45-56.
“El exilio a contrapelo: desmitificación y patologías en El sueño del retorno.” El diablo en el espejo: reflexiones críticas sobre la obra de Horacio Castellanos Moya. Eds. Caña Jiménez, María del Carmen and Vinodh Venkatesh. Valencia: Albatros, 2016. 183-199.
“Biculturation and Beyond: Exile and Cuban-American Identity in Eliseo Alberto’s Caracol Beach.” South Atlantic Review 78.3 (2015): 75-89.
“Estrategias de supervivencia: fugas y violencia de género en Diablo Guardián de Xavier Velasco.” Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea 53 (2012): II-VII.
