Jose Sarzi Amade

José Sarzi Amade is a PhD candidate in WLC-Spanish and a Graduate Teaching Assistant.

He holds a Master’s degree in Spanish Languages and Cultures (St. John’s University, NYC, 2021), a Master’s degree in French Didactics (Artois University, France, 2019) and a PhD in Romance Languages, with a major in Italian (Aix-Marseille University, France, 2016).

His research and work include the study of imagology, religion, and other literary explorations of the 16th and 17th centuries. He is also the author of a two-volume edition of a Capuchin missionary’s travel account of the 17th-century evangelization of the Kingdom of Congo.

He has been or will be involved into these following conferences:

Talks

Forthcoming:

*(2025) The 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Boston.

*(2024) Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference 2024, Johnson City TN.

*(2024) “Del oral al escrito: Breve et Succinta Relatione […] de Girolamo Merolla da Sorrento o la construcción artificial de un relato de viajes del siglo XVII”, The South-Central Modern Language Association’s 81st Annual Convention, The Hotel Monteleone, New Orleans, September 19-21, 2024.

*(2024) “De la boca a la pluma: Breve et Succinta Relatione […] de Girolamo Merolla da Sorrento y la construcción artificial de un relato de viajes del siglo XVII.”, Esse Humani: The (Non) Human Question, 28th Carolina Conference for Romance Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 5-6, 2024.

*(2023) “Miguel de Unamuno: ¿Qué Cristo de Velázquez?”, for the class SPAN 403: Issues and Religion in the Hispanic World at Carson-Newman University. This class is taught by Doctor Leonor Taiano (ltaiano@cn.edu), August 22, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k81rbivJj4

*(2023) “El Hospital De Los Podridos: Catarsis De La Envidia En Cervantes”, 2023 KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference, Lexington, April 22.

*(2023) “The bestiary in Cortázar’s Axolotl” for the class SPAN 304: People and Places of Latin America at Carson-Newman University. This class is taught by Doctor Leonor Taiano (ltaiano@cn.edu)

*(2023) “Nos(otros) en la metamorfosis animal: un caso de ‘Axolotl’ de Cortázar”, 8th International Conference on the Historical Links between Spain and the Americas, The City College of New York, May 3-5, 2023.

*(2022) “Del dictado al libro: la construcción artificial de un relato de viaje del siglo XVII ( el caso de Merolla-Piccardo en Breve e Succinta Relazione del viaggio nel Regno del Congo)” The 4th World Conference on University Researchers (WCUR) Department of Languages and Literatures, Carson Newman University, Civilisation latino-américaine- Université Paris Nanterre, Centre de Recherches Ibériques et Ibéro-américaines (CRIIA), New York, August 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nER1Q1NXm7w

Publications

• (2024) De la presencia animal en Cortázar a la teriantropía en “Axolotl”. Climate Change and Trans-Atlantic Transformations. Escribana Books Cultural Studies, p. 59-66.
• (2024) “Noches Lúgubres de Cadalso: de lúgubre a salubre”. Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, & Culture: Vol. 9: Iss. 1, Article 3. Available at: https://trace.tennessee.edu/vernacular/vol9/iss1/3
• (2024) “Don Juan Tenorio: de la fagocitación a la redención.” Caligrama: Revista de Estudos Românicos [Online], 29.1: 103–114. Jun 24 ISSN: 2238-3824 http://periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/caligrama/article/view/44898/1125615090
• (2023) “De la cruz al martillo: la pequeña historia de los padres obreros en España”, Relici (Revista Livre de Cinema), v. 10, n.4, p.10-39, dic 2023, ISSN: 2357-8807 http://www.relici.org.br/index.php/relici/article/view/650/515

Awards/Honors

• Travel Award South Central Modern Language Association
  81st Annual Convention, New Orleans (Sept 19-21, 2024)
• Denbo Center Graduate Student Summer Travel Grant
  University of Tennesse at Knoxville (Summer 2024)

Email: jsarziam@vols.utk.edu

Personal Website: utk.academia.edu/Jos%C3%A9SarziAmade

Education

• St John’s University, New York, NY
  MA in Spanish (Graduate Assistantship)
  May 2021
• Artois University, Arras, France
  MA in French Didactics for School and Business, Specific and Academic Purposes
  August 2018
• Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France
  PhD in Humanities (Romance Languages)
  December 2016
  Graduated with Summa Cum Laude