David Campbell

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Position Title
Lecturer of Spanish

611 Sproul Hall
Office Hours
Fall 26: Monday and Wednesday 1 - 2 pm and by appointment
If planning on attending office hours, email me beforehand so I know to expect you.
In-person and remote
Education and Degree(s)
  • Ph.D., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
  • M.A., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
  • B.A., UC Berkeley
Courses
  • Intermediate Spanish (University of Michigan)
  • Spanish Conversation through Film (University of Michigan)
  • Introduction to Hispanic Literature, Culture and the Arts (University of Michigan)
  • Spanish Psychiatry in Film and Literature, 1808 - the present (University of Michigan)
  • Poetics of Illness in Spanish Literature and Art (University of Michigan)
  • Hispanic Poetry and Ecologies (University of Michigan)
Research Interests & Expertise
  • Modern and contemporary Spanish literature and culture
  • Post-Franco Spain; poetry and poetics
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • film and visual culture
  • memory and historicity
  • illness and embodiment
  • mental illness and psychiatry
  • contagions, toxicity
  • critical theory, psychoanalysis
Publications
  • “Inviting o mal d’ollo: Lyrical Hospitality and the Event of the Hospital in Rosalía de Castro’s El primer loco (1881).” Hispanic Review. Vol. 94.3. July 2026.
  • “Buñuel’s Messy Law and the Extimate Image in El ángel exterminador and La mort en ce jardin.” Hispanic Research Journal. Iberian and Latin American Studies. Vol. 23.1. April 2022.
  • “’Unha húmida mensaxe de vida e de furia necesaria’: Textual Surplus and Living / On in Lois Pereiro’s Poesía última de amor e enfermidade (1992-1995)”. In Narrating Illness in Spanish Literature and Culture, edited by Nuria Godón and Carrie Ruiz, Vanderbilt University Press. Forthcoming.