Contact Information

Office: 3147 JFSB

Phone: 422-3188

Email: dale_pratt@byu.edu

Commonly Taught Courses Introduction to Hispanic Literature
Lo fantástico y lo sobrenatural la literatura española
Spanish Theater Performance
Don Quijote
Protohumans and Posthumans
El mito de Don Juan
Galdós y el realismo europeo
Unamuno

Semester Schedule: Winter 2013 Office Hours:
Monday 10:30-11:30
Tuesday 9:30-11:00
Wednesday 1:10-2:00

Biography:

Dale J. Pratt is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Brigham Young University, where he teaches courses ranging from Introduction to Spanish Literature to Graduate seminars on Unamuno, Don Quijote, the Don Juan Theme, and Protohumans and Posthumans. His research focuses on Spanish novels of prehistory, Realism, and the Generation of 1898. Also, since 2002 he and his wife, Valerie Hegstrom, have produced seven full-length Golden Age plays in Spanish for international theater festivals and for tours through the southwest, Utah, Colorado and Idaho. He is currently involved in translating a series of novels about stone Age Iberians by Antonio Pérez Henares.

 

Books: 

*Signs of Science: Literature, Science and Spanish Modernity Since 1868. Purdue Studies in Romance Literature. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 2001.

*Sueños, recuerdo, memoria: La metaficción en las novelas de Joaquín-Armando Chacón. México: Coordinación de Difusión Cultural/UNAM, 1994.

Recent Publications:

*El cuarto de atrás, the Fantastic, and the Peninsular Survey Course.” MLA Approaches to Teaching... Carmen Martín Gaite. Ed. Joan Brown.

*“Teaching Realism in the Age of Second Life.” Ometeca.

*“Wheels, Windmills, Webs: Don Quixote’s Library and the History of Reading.” Framing the Quixote 1605 – 2005. Ed. Alvin F. Sherman, Jr. Provo, UT: BYU Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2007.

*“Ingenious Examinations: Science, Golden Age Theater, and Twenty-First-Century Criticism.” Bulletin of the Comediantes 58.2 (Fall 2006): 469-77.

*“Mapping, Realist Narrative and Cartographic Imagination in La Regenta.” Revista de estudios hispánicos 35 (2001): 91-110.

Degrees: BA, Spanish & Portuguese, Brigham Young U., 1990;
PhD, Romance Studies, Cornell U., 1994

Links

"Wheels, Windmills, and Webs: Don Quixote's Library and the History of Reading" on KBYU
"Linear and Non-Linear Reading" on Classical 89's Thinking Aloud
With Antonio Pérez Henares in southern Utah
With Eva García Sáenz in Alicante, Spain
BYU Spanish Golden Age Theater Outreach
Ometeca Conference 2012 organized and hosted by Dr. Pratt in Madrid