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Dr Tilmann Altenberg – Dr. phil. (Hamburg)

Overview

Tilmann Alternberg Position: Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies Email: AltenbergTG@cardiff.ac.uk
 Telephone: +44(0)29 2087 4584
Fax: +44(0)29 2087 4946
Extension: 74584
Location: Room 1.14, 65-68 Park Place

Tilmann Altenberg’s research interests include:

  • 19th- and 20th-century Latin American literature
  • The picaresque novel
  • Spanish Realism and Naturalism
  • Adaptations of literature

Current research projects focus on executions during the Mexican Revolution and on the representation of the conscience in Hispanic literature and film.

 

Journals & Collections

New Readings

Santander Collection of Hispanic Comics and Graphic Literature

Publications

 

Research

Europäische Dimensionen des «Don Quijote» (colloquium / publication)

Sponsor: ProSpanien (Ministerio de Cultura de España)
Value: 3050 €
Duration: 01/01/2005 – 30/08/2006

Rescate de José María Heredia (conference / publication)

Sponsor: CONACYT
Value: unknown
Duration: 01/07/2003 - 31/12/2005 Further Project Information

Seminare ans Netz: Studium der spanischsprachigen Literatur (e-Learning)

Sponsor: Multimedia Kontor Hamburg
Value: 5000 €
Duration: 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2004
Further Project Information

Gattungsgeltung und Gattungsentwicklung der spanischen novela picaresca (research group)

Sponsor: DFG
Value: unknown
Duration: 1996 - 1998

Biography

Career profile

Tilmann Altenberg studied Spanish, Portuguese, German, Pedagogy and Latin American Studies at the Universities of Bonn, Santiago de Chile, Coimbra and Hamburg. He was subsequently a Research Assistant at Hamburg University, where he obtained his doctorate degree in Hispanic Literature. Before joining EUROS in 2006, Tilmann Altenberg was an Assistant Professor at Hamburg University.

Teaching Profile

Since 1999 Tilmann Altenberg has been teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Apart from regular contributions to team-taught courses on different programmes, he has divised and delivered the following modules:

  • Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Literature
  • The Spanish American novela testimonio (Ricardo Pozas, Miguel Barnet, Gabriel García Márquez)
  • Slaveholder Societies in the 19th-Century Spanish American Novel (Cirilo Villaverde: Cecilia Valdés and Jorge Isaacs: María)
  • Spanish Golden Age Poetry
  • Fernando de Rojas: La Celestina
  • Emilia Pardo Bazán: Los Pazos de Ulloa and La madre Naturaleza
  • The Short Fiction of Leopoldo Alas «Clarín»
  • Juan Valera: Pepita Jiménez and Genio y figura
  • Editing Poetry: José María Heredia
  • The Spanish American novela de la tierra and the Novel of the Mexican Revolution
  • Textual and Visual Representations of the Mexican Revolution
  • Inventing Latin America in Literature, Film and Popular Culture
  • Don Quijote: Novel and Films
  • Interlingual Subtitling of Fiction Film