Michael Arnold

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• B.A. : Spanish and Portuguese, University of Minnesota, 2000 -
• B.S.: International Business, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, 2000 -
• Minor: Economics, University of Minnesota, 2000 -
• M.A. : Spanish peninsular literatures and cultures, University of Minnesota, 2008 -
• Ph.D.: Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, U of M CLA, 2013 -

Specialties

• Contemporary Spanish peninsular literature
• Film and cultural history
• Contemporary Portuguese culture
• Iberian Musics (popular, urban folk, indie)
• Hybridity
• Cultural Musicology of Flamenco and Fado
• Transatlantic studies
• Subcultural studies

Publications

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Publications

• Iglesia abandonada: Réquiem por El Duende: Ed. Enrique Encabo, Editum, Arnold, Michael, Música y cultura audiovisual: horizontes, 2014.
• El Último Grito: Pena, Duende, and Nostalgia in the Information Age: UKnowledge, Arnold, Michael, Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos, 3.6, 2014.
• That Which Is Said By Not Saying: Deolinda´s Innocuous Revolution: University of Toronto: Transverse, Arnold, Michael, Idle/Stasis, 13, pp. 18-32, 2013.
• Conquests of the Imagination: The Manipulation of Myth in Iberian Conquest Literatures: Co-author Dr. Daniel Arbino, UKnowledge, Arnold, Michael, Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos, 2.4, 2012.
• Global Indie Music in Uruguay. A review of Between Two Monsters: Popular Music, Visual Media, and the Rise of Global Indie in 21st Century Uruguay, by Rachel Lears: DissertationReviews.org, Arnold, Michael, 2015.
• ‘Ai, é tão bom ser pequenino!’: OqueStrada´s Fado-Chanson-Ska and Local Sustainable Capitalism.: Eds. Brian Goss, Joan Pedro Carañana, and Mary Gould, Peter Lang, Arnold, Michael, Talking Back to Globalization: Texts, Practices and Interventions, pp. 105-125, 2016.
• De cuplé punk a copla dura. La Shica: Mitopoesía, relectura y transgresión.: Ed. Enrique Encabo, Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales, Arnold, Michael, Miradas sobre el cuplé en España. Identidades, contextos, artistas y repertorios, pp. 239-245, 2019.
• ‘We are here’: Indie Cultural Economics and Auratic Audiovisual Authenticity: Eds. Josep Pedro and Fran Ayus, EU-topías, Arnold, Michael, Revista de interculturalidad, comunicación y estudios europeos, Vol. 18, pp. 157-168, 2019.
• Ingresos: Introducción al español comercial. Co-author Dr. Anne Hoffman-Gonzalez, University of Minnesota Libraries, Arnold, Michael, 2019.
• The Restorative and Reflective Roots of Indie Neofado Nostalgia.: Ed. Tina Frühauf, Boydell & Brewer, Arnold, Michael, Postmodernity's Musical Pasts: Rediscoveries and Revivals after 1945, pp. 249-272, 2020.

Courses

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Courses

• Span 1022: Alternate Second-Semester Spanish
• Span 1003: Intermediate Spanish I
• Span 1004: Intermediate Spanish II
• Span 3015: Spanish Composition and Communication
• Span 3104: Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Literatures
• Span 3105: Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Cultures
• Span 1014: Intermediate Business Spanish
• Span 3022: Advanced Business Spanish
• Span 330: Representations of Women in Spanish Literature
• Span 322: Flamenco and Fado
• Span 302: Spanish History and Culture
• Span 305U/320U: An Andalusian Odyssey: Spanish Language Study in Southern Spain