Degrees:
Ph.D., Brown Univ.
M.A., Middlebury College
A.B., College of the Holy Cross
Thomas Harrington is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College in Hartford where he teaches courses on 20th and 21st Century Spanish Cultural History, Literature and Film. His areas of research include modern Iberian nationalist movements, the history of Iberianism, Polysystems theory, Contemporary Catalonia, and the history of migration between the peninsular “periphery” (especially Catalonia, but also Galicia, Portugal and the Basque Country) and the societies of the Caribbean and the Southern Cone. He is a two-time Fulbright Senior Research Scholar (Barcelona Spain and Montevideo, Uruguay) who also has lived and worked in Madrid, Lisbon and Santiago de Compostela. In addition to his work in Hispanic Studies, Harrington is a frequent commentator on political and cultural affairs in the US and abroad.
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Modern Iberian nationalist movements
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Contemporary Catalonia
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The history of migration between the peninsular “periphery” (Catalonia, Galicia, Portugal and the Basque Country) and the societies of the Caribbean and the Southern Cone
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Books:
- Harrington, Thomas S. Historias Olvidadas del Iberismo: Cartas del Círculo Maristany al Poeta Portugués Teixeira de Pascoaes. Madrid: Libertarias, forthcoming.
- Harrington, Thomas and Víctor Martínez-Gil, eds. Seny i Saudade: El catalanisme i la via lusitana 1910-1923. Barcelona: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, forthcoming.
Film Documentary:
- Harrington, Thomas S. Co-scriptwriter “Pare el coche cochero”. Barcelona: Pau Estrada Films, 2001. Film premiered on Canal 33, the cultural channel of Catalan Public Television on 7 November, 2001.
Refereed Publications:
- Harrington, Thomas S. “Hidden in Plain View: Catalans and the Making of Modern Uruguay.” Theorizing the Atlantic. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2008 (forthcoming).
- Harrington, Thomas S. “La vida “quartizada”de Joan Torendell i la problemàtica de l'emigració no-castellana a les Ameriques.” Estudis de llengua i literatura catalanes. Barcelona: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat (forthcoming).
- Harrington, Thomas S. “Risco and Portugal: Contacts Previous to the Institutional Consolidation of Galician Nationalism.” Galician Review 5-6 (2006-2007), 46-65.
- Harrington, Thomas S. “Exploring the Problematics of Non-Castilian Emigration to the Americas through la vida cuartizada of Joan/Juan Torrendell.” In Language and Empire. Spanish in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts, edited by Nelsy Echávez-Solano and Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez. Hispanic Issues Series, 31. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2007, 69-96.
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- Fulbright Senior Research Grant for a semester-long residence at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Biblioteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, August-December, 2001.
- Grant from the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes of the Generalitat de Catalunya (300,000 pesetas) to support a project on Catalan-Portuguese intellectual relations in the period 1900-1925, Summer 2000.
- Grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Cultureand US Universities ($3,000) to support a project on “Catalan Contacts with Portugal and the Drive to Reconfigure the Cultural and Political Dynamics of the Iberian Peninsula 1906-1924,” Summer 2000.
- $50,000 grant from the Lorenzo Family Foundation to support the development of the Trinity Global Site on the Creation and Maintenance of Urban and National Culture in Barcelona, Spain, Summer 2000.
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