Spanish: Spanish Literature, History of Spanish Journalism, Latin American Literature, and Poetry.
Javier Avilés was born and raised in Granada (Spain). In 2006, he moved to Madrid to pursue his interests in Journalism at the Universidad Complutense. While doing his Master’s degree he worked at the Granada Hoy newspaper and Telemadrid TV channel. In 2010, he moved to Germany for a one-year stay at the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt with an Erasmus grant from the European Union. In 2012, back in Spain, he received a M.A. in Spanish Teaching as a Foreign Language at the Universidad de Alcalá and started working as Spanish and German instructor in several language schools in Madrid. In 2015 he returned to Granada and kept teaching Spanish while completing his PhD in Spanish Studies: Language, Literature, History and Thinking at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid with a dissertation about the chronicles that the journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales wrote in the Nazi Germany in 1933. In 2018, during his PhD, he spent a year in Bogotá, Colombia. In 2020 he got his PhD with the distinction Summa Cum Laude.
Comming from a different universitary and social tradition, Dr. Avilés is particularly concerned about the dissolution of Humanities into Social Sciences in today's American university. He stands for the recovery of the sense of the importance of Philosophy, Literature and Art at college regardless of these disciplines deal with social issues or not.
After his PhD, Javier Avilés is currently researching about the links of Manuel Chaves Nogales thinking and that from humanism, 19th century liberalism the classic Greece, paying particular attention to the concept of "measure of humanness" and its relation with the defense of democracy and tolerance by the Sevillian journalist in a time when many writers and intellectuals were attracted by the epic storytelling of totalitarianisms. He also researching ablut Jorge Luis Borges and the happening of poetical feeling.
- “Un liberal en el país de los soviets: la visión de Manuel Chaves Nogales sobre la Revolución rusa a través de sus reportajes”. In S. J. Suárez-Cuadros, J. M. Valdera-Gil, M. A. del Arco-Blanco, B. Barros-García, E. F. Quero-Gervilla (Eds.) (2019): 1917. Russia in Revolution: History Culture and Memory, pp. 497-506.
- “Un flamenco en la Revolución rusa: la mirada desmitificadora en El maestro Juan Martínez que estaba allí, de Manuel Chaves Nogales” In A. Moyayo, J. M. Rúa, A. Segura (eds.) (2018): Centenari de la revolució russa (1917-2017). Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, pp. 217-228.
- “Manuel Chaves Nogales en defensa de Valle-Inclán: un discrepante para la República. Contexto y análisis del artículo “Don Ramón, «enchufista»”. EPOS: Revista de filología, nº XXXIII, 2017, UNED, pp. 77-98. Link: <https://cutt.ly/EfyITPV>.
Spring Semester 2023:
- SPAN 370-DL. Spanish Writing and Stylitics
- SPAN 212-DL. Intermediate Spanish II: Local and Global Contexts
Fall Semester 2022:
- SPAN 212-DL. Intermediate Spanish II: Local and Global Contexts
- SPAN 212. Intermediate Spanish II: Local and Global Contexts
Spring Semester 2022:
- SPAN 370-DL. Spanish Writing and Stylitics
- SPAN 201. Intermediate Spanish I
Fall Semester 2021:
- SPAN 101. Elementary Spanish I
- SPAN 306-DL. Spanish in Context II: The Spanish-Speaking World in the 20th and 21st Centuries.
Dr. Avilés holds a M.A. in Journalism at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) with a one-year stay at the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Germany), a M.A. in Spanish Teaching as a Foreign Language at the Universidad de Alcalá (Spain) and a PhD Summa Cum Laude in Spanish Studies: Language, Literature, History and Thinking at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain).