Juli Highfill

Name: Juli Highfill

Title(s):

• Associate Professor of Spanish

Contact Information: 734.764.5249 , highfill@umich.edu

Website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/rll/deptdir/facultyprofiles.html

International Institute Affiliation(s):

• CES-EUC

Department Affiliation(s):

• Romance Languages & Literatures

Education Background: Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1983; M.A., University of Missouri at Kansas City, 1982; B.S., University of Kansas, 1976

World Area(s) of Study/Interest:

• European Studies

Related Countries:

• Spain

Research/Teaching Specialization: Modern Spanish novel from the 19th century to the post-Franco period

Area/Int'l Course(s) Taught: Modes of Fictional Being, Narrative Modes in Spanish Literature, Avant-garde Objects/Avant-garde Texts, 20th Century Peninsular Literature, 19th Century Peninsular Literature, Latin American Poetry, Brazilian Literature, Literary Theory

Publications:

• Metaphoric Commerce: The Greguerías novísimas and Their Circumstance. 2005. (Refereed Journal Article)
• An Aesthetics of Transience: Fashion in the Spanish Avant-garde. 2002. (Book Chapter)
• Portraits of Excess: Reading Character in the Modern Spanish Novel. 1999. (Authored Book)
• From Urban Masses to the Virtual Multitude: Collective Formations in Modern Spain. forthcoming. (Authored Book)
• The Vitality of Things: Modernism and Materiality in the Spanish Avant-Garde, 1907-1936. forthcoming. (Authored Book)
• La fe contra los hechos: El fracaso de la ilustración. 2005. (Refereed Journal Article)
• Economies of Cultural Production. 2003. (Refereed Journal Article)
• Ramón Gómez de la Serna in the Atomic Age. 2005. (Refereed Journal Article)