B\u00e9cquer Segu\u00edn is Associate Professor of Iberian Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on the literary, cultural, and political history of modern Spain, with secondary interests in political theory, intellectual history, and cultural sociology.<\/p>\r\n
Segu\u00edn\u2019s first book, The Op-Ed Novel: A Literary History of Post-Franco Spain<\/em><\/a> (Harvard University Press, 2024), examines how opinion journalism has shaped contemporary literature. Centered on the newspaper El Pa\u00eds<\/em>, where one in every three opinion columnists is a novelist, the book shows how a group of Spanish novelists during the 1980s and 1990s used their opinion columns as extensions of their novels and their novels as column-writing by other means, constantly troubling the fiction-nonfiction divide. The book was called \u201cengaging, well-researched, and sharply written\u201d by the Times Literary Supplement<\/em> and was recognized as new and notable by the New York Times Book Review<\/em> and Le Grand Continent<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n Segu\u00edn\u2019s current book project, tentatively titled Lorca Against Empire: How a Spanish Writer Became an Anticolonial Icon<\/em>, tells the remarkable story of how generations of anticolonial writers across Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas took up the task of interpreting, adapting, and translating the work of the poet and playwright Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca, who was murdered by Francoist forces in 1936, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. This work has been generously supported by a 2025 Catalyst Award.<\/p>\r\n He is the Editor of the MLN<\/em> Hispanic Issue and serves on the advisory boards of boundary 2<\/em>, Hispanic Review<\/em>, and the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies<\/em>. His scholarly writing has appeared in these journals as well as in Critical Inquiry<\/em>, ARTMargins<\/em>, Post45<\/em>, the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies<\/em>, and numerous other journals and edited volumes. In addition to his scholarship, he has covered Spanish politics and culture for The Nation<\/em> since 2015 with Sebastiaan Faber. He also regularly writes, in English and Spanish, for other newspapers and magazines, including El Pa\u00eds<\/em>, Slate<\/em>, Dissent<\/em>, CTXT<\/em>, and Public Books<\/em>, where he co-edits the sections on literature in translation and sports, and has provided commentary for CNBC, WNYC, KPFA and other television and radio stations.<\/p>\r\n At Hopkins, he is currently Interim Director of the Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies<\/a>, Academic Director of JHU Madrid<\/a>, and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Advanced Media Studies. His research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, and an AGHI Faculty Fellowship. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 2016, where he was Graduate School Dean\u2019s Scholar.<\/p>"],"ecpt_teaching":[" Segu\u00edn teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on a range of subjects, from modern Iberia and comparative literature to art history and political theory. Below you will find a partial list of such courses:<\/p>\r\n He regularly includes undergraduates in his research. His undergraduate mentees have gone on to pursue postgraduate study at Cambridge University, Princeton University, Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, University of Michigan Law School, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, among other institutions.<\/p>\r\n He is especially committed to mentoring graduate students in research and public writing. His students have published pieces on topics ranging from the Colombian writer Fernando Vallejo<\/a> to Mexican-American border<\/a> and from Hebrew translations of Yiddish stories<\/a> to what Orlando Furioso<\/em> tells us about Game of Thrones<\/em><\/a>. His current advisees are Rhiannon Clarke, whose dissertation on Lorca and materiality has been supported by a Fulbright Research Award, and Alicia Pi\u00f1ar D\u00edaz, whose dissertation on colonial memory in contemporary Spain has been supported by numerous grants to conduct research in the Philippines and Spain. In 2021, he was awarded the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Teaching and Mentoring Award<\/a>.<\/p>"],"ecpt_publications":[" Book<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Edited Volumes<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Articles and Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Other Academic Writing<\/strong><\/p>\r\n In addition to his scholarly work, Professor Segu\u00edn regularly contributes essays, reporting, and criticism to El Pa\u00eds<\/em><\/a>, The Nation<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0Slate<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0The Awl<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0Dissent<\/em><\/a>, CTXT<\/em><\/a>, Howler<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0Jacobin<\/em><\/a>, and\u00a0Public Books<\/em><\/a>, where he co-edits the sections on literature in translation and sports. He also provides commentary for CNBC, WNYC, KPFA, and other television and radio stations. Below you will find a selection of pieces and commentary in English.<\/p>\r\n Recent reporting on Spain with Sebastiaan Faber:<\/p>\r\n Full archive (2015\u2013 ) at The Nation<\/em><\/a><\/p>\r\n Culture writing:<\/p>\r\n Sports writing:<\/p>\r\n Media:\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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