• Dissertation Title: Descripción y ékfrasis en la prosa de Ramón Gómez de la Serna

• Supervisory Committee:
  • Professor Gerardo Piña, Chair
  • Professor Thomas Mermall
  • Professor José Muñoz-Millanes

• email: klohec@stjohns.edu

Dr. Carmen Fernández-Klohe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages of St. John's University where she specializes in Nineteenth and Twentieth-century Spanish literature, the novel of the Spanish Vanguard and Literary Theory. Among her special interests are Ekphrasis, the Generation of 1898, the Generation of 1927, Spanish cultural history, Spanish poetry, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Rosa Chacel, Miguel de Unamuno, and Ramón del Valle Inclán .

Dr. Klohe's research has focused on the interrelations between literature and the visual arts in the early twentieth century. Her book El imperativo ekfrastico en la prosa de Ramon Gomez de la Serna shows how this author uses language, forcing the limits of the medium with extraordinary results. In her book Rosa Chacel y las artes visuales, Dr. Klohe investigates the importance of the pictorial elements in this author's novels. She has also published articles on contemporary poets, Spanish art, and the Hispanic presence in the United States. Her book in progress is an inter-generational study of the uses of ekphrasis in Spanish literature of the twentieth century.

She is a member of the Editorial Board of the academic journal Cuadernos de ALDEEU, and of numerous professional organizations.

[Text source and photo: St. John's University, Department of Modern Foreign Languages]