Academic Title: Full Professor
Office: EA3008
Phone: 403.440.6531
Email: elopez@mtroyal.ca
Education:
BA, Hispanic Studies (Universidad de Granada)
MA, Latin American Studies (University of Liverpool)
PhD, Contemporary Spanish Peninsular Literature (Durham University)
Scholarly Interests:
Iberian Studies, Hispanism, Contemporary Spanish Cinema and Literature from Spain and the Hispanic Caribbean, Spanish Feminism
and Transnational Studies.
Teaching Statement:
Dr. Enrique Ávila López is a Spanish/Canadian Full Professor of Hispanic Studies at Mount Royal University, where he teaches at three different departments; the Department of Humanities, the Department of General Education, and the Department of English, Languages & Cultures.
Dr. Ávila López is specialized in Contemporary Spanish Feminist Literature and Cinema. He has published over forty peer-reviewed articles in academic journals as well as in different books, encyclopedias and conference proceedings. His first book dealt with the literature of Rosa Regàs, and it was the winner of the international competition for the Victoria Urbano Monograph Prize given by AILCFH: the Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica (United States, Tempe: 2007). His second book, Modern Spain (ABC-Clio: 2015) connects relevant aspects of Spain with those of other countries in 16 chapters and 4 appendixes. His third book, Discovering Spain (Kendall Hunt, 2020) was his first eBook, an interactive textbook that covers 13 chapters with some of the latest information about Spain. Currently,
He is working on his 4th book, Spanish Women: Cinema in the 21st Century.
