Romance Languages and Literatures

Wan Sonya Tang

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies

Director, Asian American Studies Program

BOOKS

  • Specters, Monsters, and the Damned: Fantastic Threats to the Social Order in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction (Forthcoming with Vanderbilt University Press).
  • Ewald, Liana, David R. George, Jr., and Wan Sonya Tang, eds. Approaches to Teaching the Works of Benito Pérez Galdós. (Under contract with the Modern Language Association).
  • George, David R. and Wan Sonya Tang, eds. Televising Restoration Spain: History and Fiction in Twenty-First-Century Costume Dramas. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Articles and Book Chapters

  • “Gothic Galdós: Unsettling Spanish Imperialism in ‘Tropiquillos’.” (Under review for edited volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Benito Pérez Galdós).
  • “‘Yo no soy un hombre’: Masculinity, Monstrosity, and Gothic Conventions in Galdós’s La sombra (1871).” Hispanic Review, vol. 88, no. 3, 2020, pp. 243-63.
  • “From Photography to Forensics: Technology, Modernity, and the Internationalization of Spanish History in Gran Hotel.” In Televising Restoration Spain: History and Fiction in Twenty-First-Century Costume Dramas. Ed. David R. George, Jr. and Wan Sonya Tang. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 93-115.
  • “Sacred, Sublime, and Supernatural: Religion and the Spanish Capital in Nineteenth-Century Fantastic Narratives.” In The Sacred and Modernity in Urban Spain: Beyond the Secular City, ed. Antonio Córdoba and Daniel García Donoso. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 21-40.
  • “La princesa, el granuja, y el obrero condenado: El retrato de las clases sociales en dos cuentos fantásticos de Galdós.” Anales Galdosianos 49 (2014):107-20.
  • “'Mirar tapices flamencos por el revés': Elogio implícito de la traducción en Don Quijote.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 42:3 (2008): 483-502.

Awards and Distinctions

  • 2021–2022 American Fellowship, American Association of University Women.
  • 2017 Rodolfo Cardona Prize (best article by junior faculty in the Anales Galdosianos (2013-2017).

Professional Activities

Treasurer of the Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas (2023–2027)

OTHER PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS