Bio
Renée M. Silverman is Associate Professor of Spanish at Florida International University. She obtained her B.A. in Comparative Literature at Brown University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Dr. Silverman has been awarded fellowships and grants from the National Endowment from the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at FIU (the 2021-2022 Kimberly Green Faculty Fellowship). She has also won Book Awards from the South Atlantic Modern Language Association as co-editor of Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development, and the Northeast Modern Language Association, for her academic monograph, Mapping the Landscape, Remapping the Text: Spanish Poetry from Antonio Machado’s Campos de Castilla to the First Avant-Garde (1909-1925).
Dr. Silverman is the author of the book, Mapping the Landscape, Remapping the Text: Spanish Poetry from Antonio Machado’s Campos de Castilla to the First Avant-Garde (1909-1925) (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Press), and editor of the volume, The Popular Avant-Garde (Rodopi). She is also the co-editor of the International Yearbook of Futurism Studies (De Gruyter; Special topic 2017: Latin America) and the volume, Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development (Palgrave Macmillan). Dr. Silverman has published several chapters on the European, Latin-American, and Spanish avant-gardes in books published by De Gruyter, Brill, and Palgrave Macmillan, and her articles on modernism and the vanguard in Spain have appeared in such journals as the Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Hispanic Review, Hispanófila, Romanic Review, and the South Atlantic Review. Among her most recent publications are two books: the co-edited volume, Nomadic New Women – Exile and Border-Crossing between Spain and the Americas, Early to mid-20th century, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2024; and A Lyric Revival: The Avant-Garde, Popular, and Traditional in Spanish Poetry (1918-1936), which is accepted for publication by McGill-Queen’s University Press.