Professor Nigel Dennis
Contact Details
nrd@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: 01334 462954
Office: Quad 41
Research and Teaching
Professor Nigel Dennis's primary research interests are in the field of contemporary Spanish literature. He has written on major poets such as Lorca and Alberti but has a long-standing interest in the avant-garde prose writers of the pre-war period: Ramón Gómez de la Serna, José Díaz Fernández, César Arconada, Francisco Ayala and, above all, José Bergamín. He focuses on the links between politics and literature and has published work on the literature of the Civil War, most notably the theatre, and of Republican Exile, particularly in Mexico.
His contributions to the teaching programme reflect these interests, particularly in the context of team-taught modules. At the undergraduate level he offers monographic modules on politics and literature in the 1930s and on the links between cinema and avant-garde writing of the pre-war period. At the postgraduate level he tends to centre on the literature of the Civil War and of Exile.