School of Modern Languages & Cultures

Dr Azariah Alfante

  • Lecturer (Hispanic) (Hispanic Studies)

email: Azariah.Alfante@gla.systa-s.com

School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Hetherington Building, Room 220A, University of Glasgow, Bute Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RS

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0009-0008-1120-6166

Biography

Azariah Elikah Quintana Alfante obtained her doctorate in Spanish at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 2021. She joined the University of Glasgow in 2023.

Research interests

  • 19th-century Spanish cultural studies
  • 19th and 20th-century Hispano-Philippine cultural studies
  • memory
  • ecclesiastical history and patrimony
  • secularisation
  • anticlericalism
  • education and the religious orders in colonial Philippines (Spanish and American)

Publications

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2026

Alfante, Azariah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1120-6166 (2026) Tall tales by the tree? Supernatural beliefs and colonial boundaries in Adelina Gurrea’s "El Talisay". Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Alfante, Azariah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1120-6166 (2024) Visiones locales de un porvenir nacional: La educación y sociedad en escritos seleccionados de El Homenaje al Seminario-Colegio de Sebú (1917). La nueva literatura hispánica, 28, pp. 109-127.

Alfante, Azariah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1120-6166 (2024) Beyond church walls: secularizing the Nation in Rosario de Acuña's El Padre Juan (1891), Una dama cristiana (1910), and selected articles. Anales Galdosianos, 59, pp. 89-109. (doi: 10.1353/ang.2024.a948236)

2023

Alfante, Azariah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1120-6166 (2023) Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production. Bucknell University Press: Lewisburg, PA. ISBN 9781684484959

2022

Alfante, Azariah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1120-6166 (2022) Recomposing Memory’s Fragments: The Sacred Precinct in Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer’s Historia de los templos de España (1857) and Cartas desde mi celda (1864). Decimonónica, 19(1), pp. 1-19.

2018

Alfante, Azariah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1120-6166 (2018) The Body Disordered: diagnosing the Philippine nation in José Rizal’s Noli me tángere (1887). Decimonónica, 15(2), pp. 1-17.

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Articles

Alfante, Azariah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1120-6166 (2026) Tall tales by the tree? Supernatural beliefs and colonial boundaries in Adelina Gurrea’s "El Talisay". Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, (Accepted for Publication)

Alfante, Azariah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1120-6166 (2024) Visiones locales de un porvenir nacional: La educación y sociedad en escritos seleccionados de El Homenaje al Seminario-Colegio de Sebú (1917). La nueva literatura hispánica, 28, pp. 109-127.

Alfante, Azariah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1120-6166 (2024) Beyond church walls: secularizing the Nation in Rosario de Acuña's El Padre Juan (1891), Una dama cristiana (1910), and selected articles. Anales Galdosianos, 59, pp. 89-109. (doi: 10.1353/ang.2024.a948236)

Alfante, Azariah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1120-6166 (2022) Recomposing Memory’s Fragments: The Sacred Precinct in Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer’s Historia de los templos de España (1857) and Cartas desde mi celda (1864). Decimonónica, 19(1), pp. 1-19.

Alfante, Azariah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1120-6166 (2018) The Body Disordered: diagnosing the Philippine nation in José Rizal’s Noli me tángere (1887). Decimonónica, 15(2), pp. 1-17.

Books

Alfante, Azariah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1120-6166 (2023) Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production. Bucknell University Press: Lewisburg, PA. ISBN 9781684484959

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Grants

  • Mother Theodore Guerin Research Travel Grant, Cushwa Centre for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, 2026.
  • Dame Joan Metge & Emeritus Professor Dame Charmian J O'Connor Post-Doctoral Research Award, Kate Edger Educational Charitable Trust, 2023.

Supervision

I am happy to supervise postgraduate research projects in the following areas:

  • Hispanic Studies (histories, literature, art)
  • Postcolonial studies (Southeast Asia and the Pacific)
  • Nineteenth-century literature
  • Cultural studies
  • Religious and ecclesiastical studies
  • Cultural memory and heritage

Teaching

Comparative Literature Honours Option: What is a human? Humans, Animals, Machines COMPLIT4041

Spanish Culture 1 (Non-Beginners) HISP1007

Spanish Culture 2 HISP2010

Spanish Dissertation

Spanish Honours Option: Thinking Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Spain HISP4131 (Course Convenor)

Spanish Honours Written Language (Junior) HISP4089

Spanish Honours Written Language (Senior) HISP4090

Spanish Language 1 (Non-Beginners) HISP1009 (Course Convenor)

Translation Studies Honours Option: An Introduction to Key Topics in Theory and Practice MODLANG4012 (Spanish to English)

Additional information

Administrative Role

SMLC Exams and Assessment Officer

Profiles

Academia

ResearchGate

ORCID 0009-0008-1120-6166

Scholarly Associations/Research Groups

  • Asociación Española de Historia Religiosa Contemporánea (AEHRC)
  • The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI)
  • Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas (AIG)
  • The Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS)
  • International Scholars of the History of Women Religious Association (ISHWRA)
  • Modern Language Association (MLA)
  • Red Internacional de Hispanistas del Siglo XIX/International Network of Nineteenth-Century Hispanists
  • Rethinking the Secular: Critical Perspectives on Religion, Education, and Culture