Ryan A Davis
Professor
Lang Literatures & Cultures

Office
STV Stevenson Hall 215
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- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
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Current Courses
112.014Beginning Spanish
233.002Introduction To Hispanic Literature
214.001Oral Communication In Spanish
214.002Oral Communication In Spanish
121.013Texts & Contexts: Literary Studies
213.005Written Communication In Spanish
Research Interests & Areas
19th-21st-Century Spanish Literature and Culture, Narrative, Religion, Literature and Medicine
Ph D
Emory University (2009)
Atlanta, Georgia
MA
Brigham Young University (2003)
Provo, Utah
BA
Brigham Young University (2001)
Provo, Utah
Best Article on International Mormonism
Mormon History Association
2022
Book, Authored
The Spanish Flu: Narrative and Cultural Identity in Spain, 1918. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Book, Chapter
"Hypnotism and the Epistemological Limits of Modernity: Alberto de Das and Leopoldo Alas." In Modernity and Epistemology in Nineteenth-Century Spain: Fringe Discourses. Eds. Ryan A. Davis and Alicia Cerezo Paredes. Lexington Books, 2017. 197-224.
“Literary Medicine, Medical Literature: César Juarros and La Novela de Hoy.” In Kiosk Literature in Silver Age Spain: Modernity and Mass Culture. Eds. Jeffrey Zamostny and Susan Larson. Intellect, 2017. 99–125.
Book, Edited
Modernity and Epistemology in Nineteenth-Century Spain: Fringe Discourses. Eds. Ryan A. Davis and Alicia Cerezo Paredes. Lexington Books, 2017.
The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919: Perspectives from the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas. Eds. María-Isabel Porras-Gallo and Ryan A. Davis. University of Rochester Press, 2014.
Journal Article
"Rockin’ the Regime: Mormon Missionaries, American Popular Music, and the Fading of Spanish Fascism." Popular Music and Society 47.4 (2024): 422–41.
“The Spirituality of Sport: Los Mormones in Argentina, 1938–1943.” Journal of Mormon History 47.4 (2021): 22–51.
"Mormon Missionaries and the Emergence of Modern Argentine Sport, 1938–1943." The International Journal of the History of Sport, 35.1 (2018), 61–86.
“Modern Spain, a Myth: Regeneration through Reeducation in Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s Cuentos de vacaciones (1905).” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 47.2 (2013): 313–35.
“Suggestive Characters: Hypnotism and Subjectivity in Blanca de los Ríos's Las hijas de Don Juan (1907).” Decimonónica 9.1 (2012).
Magazine/Trade Publication
Davis, R. BYU, Racism, and the Road to Social Ruin. Public Square Magazine (2022)
Davis, R. Truth, Justice, and the BYU Way. Public Square Magazine (2022)
Grants & Contracts
University Research Grant. College of Arts and Sciences. Illinois State University. (2024)
College of Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Initiative Grant -- World Religions. ISU College of Arts and Sciences. Illinois State University. (2019)
Global Mormon Studies Research Grant. Claremont Graduate University. Private. (2019)
Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States Universitie. Spanish Ministry of Culture. Other. (2010)