Dr Anthony Trippett

Senior Lecturer

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Dr Anthony (Tony) Trippett was an undergraduate and postgraduate at Queen Mary College, University of London.

He has taught at the Universities of Bristol, Strathclyde and (since 1989) Sheffield, where he specialises in twentieth-century peninsular literature, and beginners' language (for which he has overall responsibility). He is Tutor and Admissions Officer for Mature Students.

Tony is very keen on music: he runs a flourishing departmental choir whose concerts of Spanish and Latin American music have featured such composers as Francisco Guerrero and Cristóbal de Morales.

He was the Project Director of the Sheffield production of one of Spain's earliest operas, Tomás Torrejón y Velasco's La púrpura de la rosa, and has integrated this with a new module on "Musical performance and Hispanic culture". He also coordinated the University's Centenary production of Armonya de los tres mundos in 2005 and is now preparing for the British premiere of Celos aun del aire matan (Calderón/Hidalgo)in February 2008.

His major research interests lie with the Spanish literature of exile, in particular the works of Ramón Sender and Francisco Ayala. This has brought him into close collaboration with colleagues in the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, and in Huesca.

His work has also attracted support from the Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses. He has organized a centenary international conference on Sender, held in Sheffield in May 2001. Work in progress includes an edition of Sender's Crónica del alba for Manchester University Press.

Publications

His publications include:

Staging an Opera: the Sheffield Production of La púrpura de la rosa, edited with Jane Davidson, (Durham Modern Languages Series, 2007), 383 pp.
'La psicología profunda del exilio: el caso de Sender' (Grupo del Exilio Literario Español, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Renacimiento, Sevilla 2006), pp.949-54.
Camino al español: A Comprehensive Course in Spanish, with four others (Cambridge University Press, May 2004), 443 pp.
'El lector hechizado' in Cultura, historia y literatura del exilio republicano español de 1939: Actas del Congreso Internacional “Sesenta años después”, ed. Pérez Alcalá y Medina Casado, (Universidad de Jaén, 2002) pp.287-93
Sender 2001: Actas del congreso centenario celebrado en Sheffield, introduced and edited by Anthony Trippett, HiPLA Monographs Series, (Bristol, 2002), 187 pp.
'La autobiografía desde el exilio: algunas observaciones sobre la primera parte de Crónica del alba' in Sender y su tiempo: Crónica de un siglo (Huesca, 2001) pp. 37-52
Articles on Sender in Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture, ed. Eamonn Rodgers (London: Routledge, 1999) and Encyclopedia of Literary Translation, ed. Olive Classe (London/ Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000).
'Sender's Réquiem por un campesino español: the psychology and morality of a country priest' in Viajes por España y América Latina: Essays in Honour of John C. McIntyre, ed. Miranda Stewart (Glasgow: University of Strathclyde, 1999), pp. 160- 74.
'De tal palo tal astilla: biografía y creación literaria en los Sender' in El lugar de Sender: Actas del I congreso de Ramón J. Sender, ed. Ara Torralba and Gil Encabo (Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses, 1997), pp. 737-48.