Craig Patterson's research interests include 19th and 20th century Spanish intellectual history, and Galician literature and culture, especially in relation to the history of ideas and Galician cultural identity.

He has published several articles and a book on the Galician writer and intellectual Ramón Otero Pedrayo, which has been translated into a Galician edition. His current research concerns the employment of cultural history and ideas as an imaginative formulation of cultural identity within a Peninsular and Hispanic context, and specifically relating to Galicia. This interest has led him to focus on the response of Galician writers to the philosophy and fiction of the 'Generation of 1898', as well as other relationships between Galician identity and Peninsular artists as a process of intercultural dialogue against the backdrop of wider international Modernism.

Craig has also published on diverse aspects of the work of Ramón del Valle-Inclán, and has close links with the Fundación Valle-Inclán. He is currently completing the first English-language edition of Sempre en Galiza (1944), by the Galician nationalist writer and politician, Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao.

Selected Publications

Galician Cultural Identity in the Works of Ramón Otero Pedrayo (Edwin Mellen Press: New York/Ontario/Lampeter, 2006).

O devalar da idea. Otero Pedrayo e a identidade galega (Vigo: Galaxia, 2008).

'O devalar da idea: Ramón Otero Pedrayo e a filosofía de Henri Bergson’, Ferrol Análisis 21 (2006), 128-145.

'A Tale of Two Identities: Spanish Intercultural Dialogue in Toledo', Modern Language Review, vol. 101, no.2, April 2006, 414-441.

'Da lámpada severa á escuridade mollada: o diálogo diferencialista entre Nós e o 98’, Anuario Grial de Estudos Literarios Galegos 2004, March 2006, 66-85.

'¿También de teatro? Aesthetic Propaganda in Ramón del Valle-Inclán's La Guerra carlista', Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, vol. 82, no. 2, April 2005, 167-183.