Dr. Pablo Restrepo Gautier

Dr. Pablo Restrepo Gautier
Position
Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor
Contact
Office: CLE A415restrepo@uvic.ca250-721-7415
Credentials

MA, PhD (UBC)

Area of expertise

Spanish Theatre and Fiction (Tirso de Molina, entremeses, the picaresque novel), Post-Franco Spanish Fiction, Contemporary Colombian Fiction, Gender Studies, Humour Studies.

Research Profile

My main area of research is 17th-century Spain. I conduct research on cultural products such as the emblem, which is key to understanding the Baroque way of thinking.  I am proud of my book on the relationship between the emblem and theatre, La imaginación emblemática en el drama de Tirso de Molina (Juan de la Cuesta, 2001). I am also interested in gender and humour studies.  A few years ago, I started doing research on the Spanish presence in the northwest coast of North America between 1774 and 1796, which brought Indigenous Nations of the West Coast into contact and conflict with Spain, and almost sparked a war between Great Britain and Spain in 1789 in what is known as the Nootka Incident. Robin Inglis and I are co-authoring an annotated translation with introductory studies of one of the key Spanish navigation diaries of 1789, which is almost ready to be submitted for publication.

Principal Teaching Areas

I teach on Golden Age Theatre, Lorca, Spanish literature from its origins to the present, and language and Hispanic linguistics.  

Selected publications
Books

Articles and book chapters