Sebastiaan Faber

Sebastiaan Faber is a 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), and "Exhuming Franco: Spain’s Second Transition" (Vanderbilt, 2021), translated as "Franco desenterrado. La segunda Transición española"; and has co-edited "Contra el olvido. El exilio español en Estados Unidos" (U de Alcalá, 2009) and "Transatlantic Studies: Latin America, Iberia, and Africa" (Liverpool, 2019). He has served as the Chair of the Board of Governors of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA), whose quarterly magazine, "The Volunteer," he co-edits. He regularly contributes to Spanish and U.S. media, including "CTXT: Contexto y Acción," "La Marea," "FronteraD," "The Nation," "Foreign Affairs," "Jacobin," and "Public Books." Born and raised in the Netherlands, he has been at Oberlin since 1999.