{"id":88,"date":"2015-08-31T11:24:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/david-r-george-jr\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T16:42:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:42:46","slug":"david-r-george-jr","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/david-r-george-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"David R. George Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"

David R. George, Jr. received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 2003 and has been a member of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College faculty since 2000. He teaches courses on Spanish literature and film, European studies, Iberian integration in Europe, and Hispano-Asian connections, as well as all levels of Spanish language.
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\nDavid has published more than 30 articles and book chapters on a variety of aspects of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literature, film, and television, including issues of cultural exchange and travel between Spain and Asia. He is co-author of the volumes Historias de la peque\u00f1a pantalla. Representaciones hist\u00f3ricas en la televisi\u00f3n de la Espa\u00f1a democr\u00e1tica<\/em> <\/a>(Iberoamericana 2009), Televising Restoration Spain: History and Fiction in Twenty-First Century Costume Dramas<\/em><\/a> (Palgrave-Macmillan 2018), and Approaches to Teaching the Works of Benito P\u00e9rez Gald\u00f3s<\/em><\/a> (Modern Language Association, 2025). He is also the author of annotated editions of Leopoldo Ala\u2019s Do\u00f1a Berta<\/em><\/a> (LinguaText 2008) and Benito P\u00e9rez Gald\u00f3s\u2019s Tormento<\/em><\/a> (LinguaText 2012).\u00a0His current research deals with the influence of Japanese culture in Spain from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n

David serves on the executive board of the Asociaci\u00f3n Internacional de Galdosistas <\/em><\/a>as the Editor of Anales<\/em> Galdosianos<\/em><\/a>, an international peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of the literature of nineteenth-century Spanish realist Benito P\u00e9rez Gald\u00f3s and his contemporaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":2369,"template":"","class_list":["post-88","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","expertise-asian-studies","expertise-european-studies","expertise-global-hispanophone-studies","expertise-iberian-studies","expertise-japanese-studies","expertise-media-studies","expertise-nineteenth-century-studies","expertise-travel-writing","expertise-specific-19th-and-20th-century-iberian-literatures-and-cultures","expertise-specific-film-and-tv-literary-adaptations","expertise-specific-hispano-asian-studies","expertise-specific-realist-novel","expertise-specific-travel-narrative","what-i-teach-foreign-languages","what-i-teach-literatures-and-cultures","what-i-teach-media-studies","what-i-teach-specific-european-studies","what-i-teach-specific-hispanic-cultural-studies","what-i-teach-specific-late-19th-and-early-20th-century-spanish-literature","what-i-teach-specific-media-studies","what-i-teach-specific-spanish-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/377"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8109,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/88\/revisions\/8109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}