Dr. Jeffrey Zamostny

Professor of Spanish & Department Head

 

Contact Information

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

Dr. Jeffrey Zamostny joined K-State as Professor of Spanish and Head of the Department of Modern Languages in August 2024. He is an enthusiastic 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. He currently serves on the National Screening Committee for the Fulbright US Student Program.

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)] Reviewed by:
  • • Antorino, Thomas. Romance Quarterly 70.4 (2023): 294-95.
    • Ceballos Viro, Álvaro. Iberoamericana 24.87 (2024): 284-287.
    • Nieto Caballero, Guadalupe. Compendium. Journal of Comparative Studies. Revista de Estudos Comparatistas (University of Lisbon) 3 (2023): 127-31.
    • Ortuño Casanova, Rocío. Mediodía. Revista Hispánica de Rescate (Editorial Renacimiento) 5 (2022): 280-84.
• Zamostny, Jeffrey, and Susan Larson, eds. Kiosk Literature of Silver Age Spain: Modernity and Mass Culture. Bristol: Intellect, 2017. 493 pp. [View Publication] Reviewed by:
  • • Abellán Madrid, M^a Belén. Monteagudo (Universidad de Murcia) 3.22 (2017): 311-14.
    • Afinoguénova, Eugenia. Revista de Literatura (CSIC) 81.161 (2019): 325-28.
    • Ceballos Viro, Álvaro. Iberoamericana 18.68 (2018): 282-84.
    • Clúa, Isabel. Dicenda. Cuadernos de Filología Hispánica 36 (2018): 391-94
    • Cueto Asín, Elena. Anales Galdosianos 52 (2017): 103-05.
    • Highfill, Juli. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 20.1-2 (2019): 181-83; Mediodía. Revista Hispánica de Rescate (Editorial Renacimiento) 1 (2018): 213-15.

Translated Novel

• 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

• "Papeles peligrosos: Lectores y lecturas en la cultura queer de la Edad de Plata." Literatura popular: Lecturas y público en la Edad de Plata. Ed. Emilio José Ocampos Palomar and Guadalupe Nieto Caballero. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2026. 59-79.
• "Tórtola Valencia, José Zamora, and the Art of Queer Collaboration." Feminist Modernist Studies. 7.3 (2024): 212-232.
• "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.
• "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.
• "Locating Tragedy in El ángel de Sodoma: Inversion and the Unchanged Name." L'Erudit franco-espagnol 7 (2015): 22-34. [View Publication External Resource]
• "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]

Book Reviews

• Botrel, Jean-François. Libros e impresos sin fronteras: Estudios sobre historia de la edición y la lectura en España (1833-1936). Gijón: Trea, 2024. Review in Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 26.4 (2025): 465-467.
• Allbritton, Dean. Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2023. Review in Bulletin of Spanish Studies 102.3 (2025): 745-46.
• Martínez Rubio, José. El franquismo contra Álvaro Retana. Escritos inéditos. Seville: Renacimiento, 2024. Review in Mediodía: Revista Hispánica de Rescate 7 (2024): 291-94.
• Peral Vega, Emilio. «La verdad ignorada»: Homoerotismo masculino y literatura en España (1890-1936). Madrid: Cátedra, 2021. Review in Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 24.2 (2023).
• Valis, Noël. Lorca After Life. New Haven: Yale UP, 2022. Review in English in Romance Quarterly 70.1 (2023): 1-4. Review in Spanish in Mediodía: Revista Hispánica de Rescate 5 (2022): 252-57.
• González-Allende, Iker. Hombres en movimiento: Masculinidades españolas en los exilios y emigraciones, 1939-1999. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 2018. Review in Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature 43.2 (2019).
• Avilés Diz, Jorge, ed. Perversiones decimonónicas: Literatura y parafilia en el siglo XIX. Valencia: Albatros, 2018. Review in Romance Quarterly 66.2 (2019): 107-08.
• Gutiérrez, José Ismael. Del travestismo femenino: Realidad social y ficciones literarias de una impostura. Vigo, Spain: Editorial Academia del Hispanismo, 2013. Review in Crítica Hispánica 36.2 (2014): 139-42.
• Zubiaurre, Maite. Cultures of the Erotic in Spain, 1898-1939 and A Virtual Wunderkammer: Early Twentieth-Century Erotica in Spain. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt UP, 2012. Review in Romance Quarterly 60.1 (2013): 62-63.

Recent & Selected Presentations

• “Rudolph Valentino and Exotic Spain: Transatlantic Queer Stardom and Fandom.” Convention of the Modern Language Association. Toronto, January 2026.
• “Books, Remembered and Forgotten: Reading (in) Elena Fortún’s Sapphic Bildungsroman Oculto sendero/Hidden Path.” Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association. San Francisco, November 2025.
• “José ‘Pepito’ Zamora, bailarín: Arte, escándalo y cuerpo queer.” Congreso Internacional Voces y cuerpos plurales: Disidencias sexuales en la cultura de la Edad de Plata. Universidad de Sevilla, June 2025.
• Panelist, launch of Spanish Sapphic Modernity, special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies (7.3), eds. Angela Acosta and Rebecca Haidt. April 2025. 75-minute Zoom event hosted by Feministas Unidas.
• Participant, seminar on “Queer Kinship.” Organized by Aimee Armande Wilson and Elizabeth Blake. Conference of the Modernist Studies Association. Chicago, November 2024.
• Participant, roundtable on “Feminist Modernist Studies Special Issue: Global Collaborations and Spanish Sapphic Modernity.” Organized by Angela Acosta and Rebecca Haidt. Conference of the Modernist Studies Association. Chicago, November 2024.
• “Papeles peligrosos: Lectores y lecturas en la cultura queer de la Edad de Plata.” VII Seminario Internacional de La Otra Edad de Plata: Lecturas populares: ¿Buena o mala literatura? La socialización literaria en la Edad de Plata. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, September 2024. 40-minute invited keynote lecture.
• Panelist for “Queer Futures and State Violence.” Teaching Modernisms, a series of events co-organized by the Modernist Studies Association. Virtual, July 2024. 60-minute dialogue with Angela Acosta, Jesse Gauthier, and Milo Todd.
• “Kiosk Collections and Queer Sociabilities.” Kiosk Literature Symposium. King Juan Carlos Cultural Center, New York University, November 2023. One of seven invited speakers for a 20-minute panel presentation during a 2-day symposium.
• “Tórtola Valencia, José Zamora, and the Art of Queer Collaboration.” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Shenandoah University, October 2023.
• Interview with Noël Valis about her book Lorca After Life. Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) Pride Month Book Talk. Virtual, June 2023.
• Dialogue with Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles about Hidden Path/Oculto sendero, a novel by Elena Fortún, translated by Jeffrey Zamostny. II Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London, November 2022. October Gallery, Bloomsbury. One of two invited speakers for a 90-minute dialogue and Q&A session.
• “Claudina Regnier, heterónima de Álvaro Retana (1911-1917): Misoginia, feminidad y feminismo.” Seminario Internacional Feminismo/s de la Edad de Plata: Identidades, traducciones y reflexiones. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, September 2022.
• “¿Cómo integrar textos sobre la diversidad sexual en un programa docente universitario?” I Seminario Internacional La Edad de Plata en la Tarima. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, November 2021. One of two invited speakers for 50-minute presentation and 30-minute debate.
• “La colección de literatura de quiosco en la Biblioteca Digital Mnemosine.” Congreso de Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas, HDH 2021. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela/virtual, October 2021.
• “Claudina Regnier: Creación y eclipse de un heterónimo femenino de Álvaro Retana.” Modern Language Association International Symposium. Lisbon, Portugal, July 2019.
• “Los ‘peregrinos’ de Álvaro Retana: Una apuesta por la libertad sexual a través de la escritura y el viaje.” Denuncia y compromiso en la literatura de la Otra Edad de Plata: IV Seminario Internacional de LOEP. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, March 2016.