In Conversation w/Nuria Godón: “Counterhegemonic voices: Dulce Dueño by Emilia Pardo Bazán and beyond”

In this episode, Dean Horswell chats with Dr. Nuria Godón about her most recent co-edited book, Dulce Dueño [Sweet Master] (Stockcero, 2025), and the importance of offering an accessible, critical, and annotated Spanish edition of the last novel by Spanish-Galician writer Emilia Pardo Bazán. The conversation highlights the novel's interpretation as a female Bildungsroman, moving beyond Pardo Bazán’s traditional naturalism toward modernist aesthetics. Co-edited with Dr. Carmen Pereira-Muro (Texas Tech University), the edition brings readers closer to the author’s feminist, critical, and prophetic vision across fields such as literature, gender and religious studies, philosophy, cultural history, and the health sciences. The episode concludes with an early look at Dr. Godón’s current research on water narratives and the literary portrayal of Spanish towns and communities submerged and displaced by dam construction.

Nuria Godón is Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies at Florida Atlantic University. Her research focuses on counterhegemonic discourses and questions of cultural identity in Hispanic literature and film. She has published more than twenty scholarly essays and four volumes on gender-related issues, including her monograph La pasión esclava: Alianzas masoquistas en La Regenta [Enslaved Passions: Masochist Alliances in La Regenta] (Purdue University Press, 2017). Among her most recent publications is the critical and annotated edition of the modernist novel Dulce Dueño [Sweet Master] by Emilia Pardo Bazán, co-edited with Carmen Pereira-Muro (Stockcero, 2025). Among her current projects are a monograph on submerged towns in Spain and a co-edited volume with Carrie Ruiz on the representation of contagious diseases in Spanish literature.