Ryan A Davis
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Current Courses
SPA 112.001 Beginning Spanish
IDS 121.010 Texts & Contexts: Literary Studies
SPA 385.001 Topics In Hispanic Literature
SPA 482.001 Topics in Hispanic Literature
SPA 213.002 Written Communication In Spanish
SPA 213.004 Written Communication In Spanish
SPA 214.001 Oral Communication In Spanish
SPA 324.001 Spanish Literature:18th Century To Present Day
SPA 424.001 Spanish Literature:18th Century to Present Day
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
Grants and Contracts
B.H. Roberts Research Grant
Ryan A Davis
B. H. Roberts Foundation and Mormon History Association. June 2025 - August 2025
University Research Grant
Ryan A Davis
College of Arts and Sciences. August 2024 - August 2024
College of Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Initiative Grant -- World Religions
Stewart L Winger, Larissa Kennedy, Ryan A Davis
ISU College of Arts and Sciences. July 1 2019 - June 30 2020
Global Mormon Studies Research Grant
Ryan A Davis
Claremont Graduate University. June 2019 - June 2019
Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States Universitie
Ryan A Davis
Spanish Ministry of Culture. 2010 - 2010
Book, Authored
The Spanish Flu: Narrative and Cultural Identity in Spain, 1918
Ryan A Davis
(2013), 272, Palgrave Macmillan
Book, Edited
Modernity and Epistemology in Modern Spain: Fringe Discourses
Ryan A Davis & Alicia Cerezo Paredes
(2017), Lexington Books
The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919: Perspectives from the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas
Ryan A Davis & Maria-Isabel Porras-Gallo
(2014), 290, University of Rochester Press
Journal Article
Enos Encoded: Narrative Structure in the Small Plates
Ryan A Davis
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 58 (2), 79-108, (2025), https://doi.org/10.5406/15549399.58.2.03
Rockin’ the Regime: Mormon Missionaries, American Popular Music, and the Fading of Spanish Fascism
Ryan A Davis
Popular Music and Society, 47 (4), (2024)
The Spirituality of Sport: Los Mormones in Argentina, 1938–1943
Ryan A Davis
Journal of Mormon History, 47 (4), 22–51, (2021)
Mormon Missionaries and the Emergence of Modern Argentine Sport, 1938-43
Ryan A Davis
International Journal of the History of Sport, (2018), https://doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2018.1496083
"Modern Spain, a Myth: Regeneration through Reeducation in Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s Cuentos de vacaciones (1905)"
Ryan A Davis
Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 47 (2), 313–35, (2013), 10.1353/rvs.2013.0029
Suggestive Characters: Hypnotism and Subjectivity in Blanca de los Ríos's Las hijas de Don Juan (1907)
Ryan A Davis
Decimonónica, 9 (1), (2012)
Don Juan versus Bacteriology: Competing Narrative Explanations of the 1918–19 ‘Spanish’ Flu Epidemic in Spain
Ryan A Davis
Ometeca, 16, 171–89, (2011)
"Caught in Franco’s Web: Virtual Memories of Prisons during the Franco Regime”
Ryan A Davis
Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 9 (1), (2008)
Magazine/Trade Publication
BYU, Racism, and the Road to Social Ruin
Ryan A Davis
Public Square Magazine, (2022)
Truth, Justice, and the BYU Way
Ryan A Davis
Public Square Magazine, (2022)
Presentations
A Spanish Diplomat’s 1875 Visit to Salt Lake City
Ryan A Davis
Global Mormon Studies, Online, March 29, 2025