Humberto Huergo

Education & Professional History

Columbia College, AB, MA; Princeton University, MA, PhD

Highlights & Recent Activity

I recently published a book on the Venetian painter Jacopo Tintoretto (Con tan grade furia. Escritos sobre Tintoretto [Casimiro, 2021]) and an extensive article on the Spanish poet Luis de Góngora and the poetics of formlessness in the Baroque (“‘Si en miembros no robusto’: El retrato ecuestre de las Soledades y la maniera suave”, Creneida, 9 (2021), pp. 366-470), available online at: <https://www.uco.es/ucopress/ojs/index.php/creneida/issue/view/1112/122>.  Forthcoming publications include an article on Federico García Lorca and multimedia artist Rrose Selaby for the exhibition catalogue Federico García Lorca: La constelación y el viaje (Patronato Cultural Federico García Lorca, Fall 2022), as well as an article on the Spanish poet and art critic José Moreno Villa for the Centro Cultural de la Generación del 27 in Málaga (Fall 2022).  I am also working on a second book for Editorial Casimiro and the Spanish Ministry of Culture on photographic theory in Spain—Madrid como obra de arte.  Escritos sobre fotografía en la España de entreguerras or Madrid as a Work of Art: Photographic Essays in Spain between 1914-1936. The expected publication date is Winter 2024.

My research covers fours areas: Góngora and Baroque aesthetics, photographic theory in the 1920s, urban studies and architecture, and the work of José Moreno Villa, who in a way first introduced me to painting (see my edition of his Temas de Arte [Pre-Textos, 2001]) and modern architecture (see my edition of his Función contra forma y otros escritos sobre arquitectura madrileña, 1927-1935 [Iseebooks, 2010]).  Recent publications on these areas include:

Con tan grande furia. Escritos sobre Tintoretto, 1548-1780. Madrid: Casimiro, 2021.  On Jacopo Tintoretto and malerisch painting or pittura di macchie.

Jacinta la Pelirroja. Poema en poemas y dibujos. By José Moreno Villa. Barcelona: Anthropos, 2021. An annotated edition of Moreno Villa’s Modernist classic featuring previously unpublished materials about the historic “Jacinta.”

El desahucio a la vista. Escritos sobre fotografía (1908-1954). By Ramón Gómez de la Serna.  Madrid: Casimiro, 2020.  On photographic dissemblance in the writings of Gómez de la Serna.

“Los escaparates del nuevo Madrid.” Bulletin d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Espagne, 53 (February 2019), pp. 91-100.  On Rationalist architecture in Madrid during the 1930s.

Recent publications on Góngora and the arts include:

“‘Extraño todo’: El palomar de las Soledades de la A a la Z.” Arte Nuevo, 8 (2021), pp. 84-179.

“‘De una encina embebido en lo cóncavo.’ Las Soledades y la iconografía eremítica.” Creneida, 7 (2019), pp. 121-167.

“Góngora y la estética del borrón. Otra vez el soneto al Greco.” Creneida, 5 (2017), pp. 280-332.

Recent courses at Carleton include:

SPAN 318: Islamic Spain

SPAN 210: Reading Comics: Spanish Culture Through Graphic Novels

SPAN 349: Theory and Practice of Urban Life

SPAN 358: The Spanish Civil War

SPAN 330: Cervantes

When I am not writing, I am reading, watching movies, looking at paintings, or cooking.  I also like biking.