Dr. Jeffrey Zamostny

Professor of Spanish & Department Head

 

Contact Information

• Email: jzamostny@ksu.edu
• Office: Eisenhower 208

Dr. Jeffrey Zamostny began as Professor of Spanish and Head of the Department of Modern Languages in August 2024. Prior to joining K-State, he spent over eleven years at the University of West Georgia, where he served as Professor of Spanish and Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research. Zamostny is a passionate advocate for the teaching and learning of languages, literatures, and cultures; for undergraduate and graduate mentorship; and for experiential learning with emphases in undergraduate research and study abroad.

Research Interests

Zamostny's research studies questions of gender, sexuality, celebrity, and fandom in Silver Age Spain (1898-1936). He is interested in how understudied forms such as kiosk novels, illustrated magazines, silent film, and modern dance open new windows onto the study of early twentieth-century Spanish culture. His volume Kiosk Literature of Silver Age Spain: Modernity and Mass Culture (co-edited with Susan Larson) appeared with Intellect in 2017 and was presented at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. His translation of Elena Fortun's novel Hidden Path came out with Swan Isle Press in 2021 and was presented via Zoom with the Instituto Cervantes-Chicago. As a member of the Spanish research team Mnemosine (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Zamostny co-edited with Dolores Romero López the volume Towards the Digital Cultural History of the Other Silver Age Spain (Peter Lang, 2022). His journal articles appear in venues such as MLN, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Hispanófila, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Mediodía: Revista Hispánica de Rescate, and Feminist Modernist Studies.

Education

• Ph.D., Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky, 2012
• Graduate Certificate, Social Theory, University of Kentucky, 2010
• B.A., Spanish, McDaniel College (Westminister, Maryland), 2007

Recently Offered Courses

Zamostny has taught Spanish language courses at all levels of the undergraduate curriculum as well as upper-division seminars on Spanish culture and history, modern Spanish poetry, celebrity cultures of Silver Age Spain, Elena Fortún and modern Spanish women writers, and Hispanic modernismo, among other topics. He has also offered interdisciplinary courses, first-year seminars, and Honors courses in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Fandom Studies, Sociolinguistics, and Undergraduate Research.

Co-Edited Volumes

• Romero López, Dolores, and Jeffrey Zamostny, eds. Towards the Digital Cultural History of the Other Silver Age Spain. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2022. 282 pp. [View Publication (PDF)]
• Zamostny, Jeffrey, and Susan Larson, eds. Kiosk Literature of Silver Age Spain: Modernity and Mass Culture. Bristol: Intellect, 2017. 493 pp. [View Publication]

Novel Translation

• Zamostny, Jeffrey, translator. Hidden Path. Translation of the novel Oculto sendero by Elena Fortún. Foreword by Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles. Translator's Note by Jeffrey Zamostny. Chicago: Swan Isle Press, 2021. [View Publication External Resource]

Articles and Book Chapters

• "Tórtola Valencia, José Zamora, and the Art of Queer Collaboration." Feminist Modernist Studies. 2024.
• "Claudina Regnier y Álvaro Retana: feminismo, feminidad y misoginia de una autora de papel entre mujeres de carne y hueso." El feminismo en la literatura de la Edad de Plata. Ed. Emilio José Ocampos and Dolores Romero López. Madrid: Ediciones Complutense, 2024. 217-237
• “Álvaro Retana y Carlos Fortuny en Los Novelistas (1928-29): Erotismo, continuidad y cambio.” Eros y logos II: Siglo XX (1900-1950). Ed. María Martínez Deyros and Javier Blasco Pascual. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2021. 31-64.
• "Álvaro Retana and Claudina Regnier: Authorship, Enigma, and Queer Celebrity (1911-1917)." Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 22.1 (2021): 19-37.
• "La Colección Ricardo Donoso-Cortés y Mesonero-Romanos de Literatura de Kiosko, 1900-1967 (UCLA): Presentación y catálogo." Mediodía: Revista Hispánica de Rescate (Seville: Renacimiento) 1 (2018): 148-66.
• "Tórtola Valencia and Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent: Celebrity and Self-Plagiarism." Modern Language Notes 133 (2018): 297-317.
• “Blasco Ibáñez’s Piedra de Luna: Whitewashing Global Stardom.” Revista de Estudios sobre Blasco Ibáñez/Journal of Blasco Ibáñez Studies 4 (2016-2017): 147-60.
• “Homosexualidad masculina y ferrocarril en la Otra Edad de Plata.” Dinamitar los límites: Denuncia y compromiso en la literatura de la otra Edad de Plata. Ed. P. Barrera Velasco and J. M. González Soriano. Madrid: Ed. Complutense, 2017. 113-38.
• “Traducción y teoría poética en Saliendo de la estación de Atocha de Ben Lerner.” La teoría literaria ante la narrativa actual. Ed. Manuel Martínez Arnaldos and Carmen Pujante Segura. Murcia: Ediciones de la Universidad de Murcia, 2017. 229-41.
• “Virtual Álvaro Retana: Recovery and Fandom in the Digital Age.” Single-authored chapter for Kiosk Literature of Silver Age Spain: Modernity and Mass Culture. Ed. Jeffrey Zamostny and Susan Larson. Bristol: Intellect, 2017. 155-74.
• “Introduction: Kiosk Literature and the Enduring Ephemeral.” Single-authored introduction for Kiosk Literature of Silver Age Spain: Modernity and Mass Culture. Ed. Jeffrey Zamostny and Susan Larson. Bristol: Intellect, 2017. 1-27.
• "Locating Tragedy in El ángel de Sodoma: Inversion and the Unchanged Name." L'Erudit franco-espagnol 7 (2015): 22-34. [View Publication External Resource]
• "El lector como admirador y corresponsal creativo: Fan mail y fan fiction en La Novela de Hoy." Miradas de progreso: Reflejos de la modernidad en la Otra Edad de Plata. Ed. M. Mañas Martínez and B. Reguiero. Madrid: Ediciones del Orto, 2016. 87-114.
• "Jacinto Benavente's De muy buena familia and Early Twentieth-Century Discourse on Crime and Homosexuality: Three Readings." Hispanófila 173 (2015): 183-99.
• "Ricardo Darín and the Animal Gaze: Celebrity and Anonymity in El aura." Confluencia 30.2 (2015): 154-66.
• "Pimping the Text: Gendered Tropes in Spain's Mass Literary Market, 1907-1936." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 47.1 (2013): 55-78.
• "Constructing Ethical Attention in Lucía Puenzo's XXY." Representing History, Class, and Gender in Spain and Latin America: Children and Adolescents in Film. Ed. Carolina Rocha and Georgia Seminet. New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2012. 189-204.
• "Canon Formation and Diversity: Latin American Gay Literature in the Global Market." Chasqui 40.2 (2011): 80-94. Accompanying dossier of images in Chasqui 41.1 (2012): 187-90.
• "El malestar estomacal en La de Bringas de Galdós." Decimonónica 7.1 (2010): 61-75. [View Publication External Resource]
• "Comings Out: Secrecy, Sexuality, and Murder in Michael Nava's Rag and Bone." MELUS 34.3 (2009): 183-204.
• "¡Todos a bordo!: Viajes al tercer sexo madrileño en A Sodoma en tren botijo de Alvaro Retana." Divergencias 7.1 (2009): 55-60. [View Publication External Resource]