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Sebastiaan Faber
Sebastiaan Faber, a professor of Hispanic studies at Oberlin College, is the author of Exile and Cultural Hegemony: Spanish Intellectuals in Mexico, 1939–1975 (Vanderbilt, 2002), Anglo-American Hispanists and the Spanish Civil War: Hispanophilia, Commitment, and Discipline (Palgrave, 2008), Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography (Vanderbilt, 2018), Exhuming Franco: Spain’s Second Transition (Vanderbilt, 2021; 2nd ed. 2023) and Leyendas negras, marcas blancas: La malsana obsesión con la imagen de España en el mundo (Contexto, 2022). He is also the co-editor of Contra el olvido: El exilio español en Estados Unidos (Alcalá, 2009) and Transatlantic Studies: Latin America, Iberia, and Africa (Liverpool, 2019). From 2010 to 2015 and from 2018 to 2024, he served as the (co-)chair of the Board of Governors of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA), whose quarterly magazine, The Volunteer, he edits. He regularly contributes to Spanish and US media, including CTXT: Contexto y Acción and The Nation. Born and raised in the Netherlands, he has been at Oberlin since 1999.
Contact: Department of Hispanic Studies, Oberlin College, 50 N Professor Street, Oberlin, OH 44074, USA.