Renée Silverman

Education

• Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
• M.A., Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
• B.A., Comparative Literature, Brown University

Specializations

• Spanish and Latin-American poetry
• Spanish literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries
• The Generations of 1898, 1925, and 1927 in Spain
• Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies
• European and Latin-American modernisms
• Comparative literature and literary theory
• Visual culture and theories of perception
• Landscape and cultural memory
• Music and the lyric

Selected Publications

SINGLE-AUTHORED BOOKS:

Silverman, Renée M. Mapping the Landscape, Remapping the Text: Spanish Poetry from Antonio
     Machado’s Campos de Castilla to the First Avant-Garde (1909-1925). North Carolina Studies in the
     Romance Languages and Literatures 302. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

EDITED VOLUMES:

Aguirre, Mariana, Rosa Sarabia, Renée M. Silverman, and Ricardo Vasconcelos, eds. International
     Yearbook of Futurism Studies. Ed. Günter Berghaus. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. Special topic: Futurism
     in Latin America.

Goldwyn, Adam J., and Renée M. Silverman, eds. Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural
     Exchange and Aesthetic Development. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Silverman, Renée M., ed. The Popular Avant-Garde. Avant-Garde Critical Studies 25. Amsterdam and
     New York: Editions Rodopi, 2010.

SELECTED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS:

Silverman, Renée M. “Transculturation and Lorca’s Syncretic ‘Son de negros en Cuba’: A ‘gota de
     madera.’” Bulletin of Spanish Studies 98.1 (January 2021): 77-99.

Muñiz Sarmiento, Ramón, and Renée M. Silverman. “Gabriela Mistral y Concha Méndez: experiencias de la
     maternidad.” Poéticas Comparadas de Mujeres: Las poetas y la transformación del discurso poético en
     los siglos 20 y 21. Ed. Esther Sánchez-Pardo. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022. 126-51. 

Silverman, Renée M. “‘Otro punto de arranque’: Gerardo Diego’s Hybrid Romances.” Hispanófila 182
     (January 2018): 127-46.

Aguirre, Mariana, Rosa Sarabia, Renée M. Silverman, and Ricardo Vasconcelos. “Editors’ Preface.”
     Aguirre, Mariana, Rosa Sarabia, Renée M. Silverman, and Ricardo Vasconcelos, eds. International
     Yearbook of Futurism Studies. Ed. Günter Berghaus. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. XXIX-XLII. Special topic:
     Futurism in Latin America.

Goldwyn, Adam J., and Renée M. Silverman. “Introduction: Fernand Braudel and the Invention of a
     Modernist’s Mediterranean.” Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic
     Development. Ed. Adam J. Goldwyn and Renée M. Silverman. London and New York: Palgrave
     Macmillan, 2016. 1-26.

Silverman, Renée M. “Rafael Barradas, Catalan Futurism and Marinetti’s Visit to Barcelona
     (1928).” International Yearbook of Futurism Studies 3 (2013): 211-42 (appendix 243-47).

Silverman, Renée M. “La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France
     (1913): Abstraction, Materiality, and an Alternative Simultaneisme.” Der Aufbruch in die
     Moderne. Herwarth Walden und die europaeische Avantgarde. Ed. Irene Chytraeus-Auerbach
     and Elke Uhl. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2013. 55-77.

Silverman, Renée M. “The Avant-Garde is Popular (Again).” Introduction. The Popular Avant Garde. Ed.
     Renée M. Silverman. Avant-Garde Critical Studies 25. Amsterdam and New York: Editions Rodopi,
     2010. 11-21.

Silverman, Renée M. “The Lyric Performance of Tragedy in Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding.”
     South Atlantic Review 74.3 (Summer 2009): 45-63.

Silverman, Renée M. “Gerardo Diego’s Heterocronismo and the Avant-Garde: Imagen and Manual de
     espumas.” Hispanic Review 77.3 (Summer 2009): 339-67.

Silverman, Renée M. “Questioning the Territory of Modernism: Ultraísmo and the Aesthetic of the First
     Spanish Avant-Garde.” Romanic Review 97.1 (January 2006): 51-71.

Silverman, Renée M. “A Europeanizing Geography: The First Spanish Avant-Garde’s Re-mapping of
     Castile (1914-1925).” The Invention of Politics in the European Avant-Garde (1905-1940). Ed. Sascha
     Bru and Gunther Martens. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006. 217-32.

Selected Honors and Awards

• Book Award, South Atlantic Modern Languages Association, 2017
  SAMLA Studies Award (Edited Volume). For Goldwyn, Adam J., and Renée M. Silverman, eds. Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development. London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016.
  
  
• FIU Top Scholar, 2015
  
  
• Book Award, Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA), 2012
  Honorable Mention. For Silverman, Renée M. Mapping the Landscape, Remapping the Text: Spanish Poetry from Antonio Machado’s Campos de Castilla to the First Avant-Garde (1909-1925).

Selected Grants and Fellowships

• 2021-2022 Kimberly Green Faculty Fellowship, 2021-2022
  Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs
  Florida International University

• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grant, 2014-2015
  Awards for Faculty Program, National Endowment for the Humanities.
  Project Title: A Lyric Revival: Avant-Garde, Popular, and Tradition in Spanish Poetry (1925-1936).
  
  
• Exhibition Development Grant, 2013-2014
  Wolfsonian Museum, Florida International University.
  With funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
  Project Title: Modern Beauty? The Trans-Siberian Railroad and the Aesthetics of War and the Machine. Co-Principal Investigators: Renée M. Silverman and A. Gray Read (Architecture, FIU). Exhibition in Frost Teaching Gallery, Spring 2014, paired with “Ways of Seeing” course.
  
  
• Summer Faculty Development Award 2010, Summer 2010
  College of Arts and Sciences, Florida International University.
  
  
• Wolfsonian-Florida International University Fellowship, Spring 2009
  Wolfsonian Museum, Florida International University.

Ph.D. Dissertations Directed

• Dissertation Director and Ph.D. Advisor, 2021-present
  Graduate Student: David Canela.
  Department of Modern Languages, Florida International University

• Dissertation Director and Ph.D. Advisor, 2018-2022
  Graduate Student: Habey Hechavarría. (Defended).
  Department of Modern Languages, Florida International University
  
  
• Dissertation Director and Ph.D. Advisor, 2017-present
  Graduate Student: Ramón Muñiz Sarmiento. (Defended).
  Department of Modern Languages, Florida International University
  
  
• Dissertation Director and Ph.D. Advisor, 2014-2019 “Blas de Otero: una poética de lo vital.”
  Graduate Student: Ezequiel Moreno Escamilla. (Defended).
  Department of Modern Languages, Florida International University