Edición Instituto Cervantes at FAS - Harvard University
Estudios del Observatorio/Observatorio Studies. 088-11/2023EN (Trans.)
Abstract: Beginning with Javier Marías's two stays at Wellesley College–20 kilometers from Boston–and the reverberations of those experiences in his work, this study explores the world of the exiled professors who found academic homes at Wellesley between the Spanish Civil War and the mid-20th century. These arrivals were facilitated by the personal involvement of several Wellesley women, beginning at the end of the 19th century, with Spanish institutions that promoted the education of women and with the Institución Libre de Enseñanza. Special attention is paid to the vicissitudes of the arrival of Pedro Salinas in 1936 and the need to cover Jorge Guillén’s post during his sabbatical year (1951-52), which resulted in the hiring of Julián Marías as a visiting professor. The correspondence of Justina Ruiz de Conde (former Spanish department head), preserved in the College archives, illuminates lesser-known aspects of the lives of the Spanish intellectual exiles in the United States.
Keywords: Javier Marías, Julián Marías, Rosa Montero, Jorge Luis Borges, Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillén, Justina Ruiz de Conde, Vladimir Nabokov, Amado Alonso, Wellesley College, Hispanism