Ryan A Davis
Professor
Lang Literatures & Cultures
Office
STV Stevenson Hall 215
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- About
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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 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
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
"Enos Encoded: Narrative Structure in the Small Plates." Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 58. 2 (2025): 79–108.
"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.
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)
Presentations
A Spanish Diplomat’s 1875 Visit to Salt Lake City. Global Mormon Studies. (2025)
Grants & Contracts
B.H. Roberts Research Grant. B. H. Roberts Foundation and Mormon History Association. Private. (2025)
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)