About
Sebastiaan Faber is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College. He is the author of Exile and Cultural Hegemony: Spanish Intellectuals in Mexico, 1939-1975 (Vanderbilt, 2002), Anglo-American Hispanists and the Spanish Civil War: Hispanophilia, Commitment, and Discipline (Palgrave, 2008), Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography (Vanderbilt, 2018), Exhuming Franco: Spain’s Second Transition (Vanderbilt, 2021; 2nd, revised ed. 2023), translated as Franco desenterrado. La segunda Transición española (Pasado & Presente, 2022), and Leyendas negras, marcas blancas. La malsana obsesión con la imagen de España en el mundo (Contexto, 2022). He is also co-editor of Contra el olvido. El exilio español en Estados Unidos (U de Alcalá, 2009) and Transatlantic Studies: Latin America, Iberia, and Africa (Liverpool, 2019). From 2010 until 2015 and from 2018 until 2024, he served as the (co-)Chair of the Board of Governors of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA), whose quarterly magazine, The Volunteer, he co-edits. Faber regularly contributes to Spanish and U.S. media, including CTXT: Contexto y Acción, La Marea, FronteraD, The Nation, Foreign Affairs, Conversación sobre la Historia, Jacobin, and Public Books. Born and raised in the Netherlands, he has been at Oberlin since 1999.
Contact
Dept. of Hispanic Studies
Oberlin College
50 North Professor Street
Oberlin, OH 40074
440.775.8189
sfaber@oberlin.edu