Dr. Javier Krauel's research focuses on the theory of emotions and on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish and Catalan cultures. His first book, Imperial Emotions: Cultural Responses to Myths of Empire in Fin-de-Siècle Spain (Liverpool UP, 2013), reconsiders debates about historical memory from the perspective of the theory of emotions. His second book project, Francisco Ayala o la pasión distante. Un intelectual en tiempos oscuros (1929-1949), employs the methods of the history of emotions to reconstruct Francisco Ayala’s trajectory as a public intellectual . He has also written on the essayistic tradition of national self-reflection, the relationship between World War I and the Spanish Civil War, and the emotional dimension of political movements.
The Mercè Rodoreda Chair for Catalan Language and Literature, created in 2003 and funded by Institut Ramon Llull, each semester offers a course in Catalan literature and culture, or a course in Catalan sociolinguistics, alternatively, as part of the PhD Program in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures at the Graduate Center - CUNY.
