Contact Information

Office: 3045 JFSB

Phone: 422-1988

Email: toddkmack@byu.edu

Semester Schedule: Winter 2013 Office Hours:

MWF 10-10:50 AM

Biography:

Todd began his career with a BA in Spanish from Brigham Young University (Magna Cum Laude 2005) and immediately followed with an MA in Spanish Peninsular Literature (2007), also from BYU. The title of his Master's thesis is The Postmodern Spanish Hero’s Journey: Compassion and Postmodernism in Contemporary Spain. He recently finished a PhD from Stanford University with a dissertation entitled Open Wounds: Literature, Memory, and Space in Four Rural Iberian Communities, which focuses on the the intersection of memory, literature, and place through a study of the reception of several contemporary novels of memory in the communities they describe. In his free time he enjoys spending time with his three children and his wife, Betty. He is also an avid runner.

Degrees: (2005) BA Spanish (History Minor) - Brigham Young University - Magna cum laude

(2007) MA Spanish Peninsular Literature - Brigham Young University

(2012) PhD Iberian and Latin American Cultures - Stanford University

Interests:

anthropology and literature, memory, modern Iberian and Latin American Narrative, Iberian film