Ryan A Davis
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- Education
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Current Courses
112.014Beginning Spanish
233.002Introduction To Hispanic Literature
214.001Oral Communication In Spanish
214.002Oral Communication In Spanish
213.005Written Communication In Spanish
Research Interests & Areas
19th-21st-Century Spanish Literature and Culture, Narrative, Religion, Medicine and Literature, Spanish Influenza, "Fringe" discourses
Ph D
MA
BA
Best Article on International Mormonism
Book Review
Book, Authored
The Spanish Flu: Narrative and Cultural Identity in Spain, 1918. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Book, Chapter
"Hypnotism and the Epistemological Limits of Modernity: Alberto de Das and Leopoldo Alas." In Ryan A. Davis and Alicia Cerezo Paredes (Eds.), Modernity and Epistemology in Nineteenth-Century Spain: Fringe Discourses. Lexington Books
Book, Edited
Modernity and Epistemology in Nineteenth-Century Spain: Fringe Discourses. Eds. Ryan A. Davis and Alicia Cerezo Paredes. New York: Lexington Books, 2017.
The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919: Perspectives from the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas. Eds. María-Isabel Porras-Gallo and Ryan A. Davis. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2014
Journal Article
“The Spirituality of Sport: Los Mormones in Argentina, 1938–1943.” Journal of Mormon History 47.4 (2021): 22–51.
“Mormon Missionaries and the Emergence of Modern Argentine Sport, 1938–1943.” The International Journal of the History of Sport 35.1 (2018).
“Modern Spain, a Myth: Regeneration through Reeducation in Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s Cuentos de vacaciones (1905).” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 47.2 (2013): 313–35.
“Suggestive Characters: Hypnotism and Subjectivity in Blanca de los Ríos's Las hijas de Don Juan (1907).” Decimonónica 9.1 (2012).
“Don Juan versus Bacteriology: Competing Narrative Explanations of the 1918–19 ‘Spanish’ Flu Epidemic in Spain.” Ometeca 16 (2011): 171–89.
“Caught in Franco’s Web: Virtual Memories of Prisons during the Franco Regime.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 9.1 (2008): 89–101.
Magazine/Trade Publication
Presentations
America’s Pastime in Modern Argentina: The Forgotten Role of Mormon Missionaries, 1938–42.” Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. December 8, 2017.