Anna Kendrick

Anna Kathryn Kendrick
Director of Global Awards and Scholarships, Clinical Associate Professor of Literature, NYU Shanghai
Email
akk5@nyu.edu
Room
W831
Anna Kathryn Kendrick is the Director of Global Awards and a Clinical Associate Professor of Literature at NYU Shanghai.
 
Kendrick’s research brings together Spanish literature and intellectual thought with histories of progressive education and the avant-garde. Her book, Humanizing Childhood in Early Twentieth-Century Spain (2020), received the MLA’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for an outstanding work in Spanish and Latin American studies. Publications include the Modern Language Review, the Bulletin of Spanish Studies, the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies and Global Studies of Childhood. She was co-editor, in 2023, of the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies’ centennial special issue on education and the Global Hispanophone. Currently she is organizing, with Allen Young, an initiative on networks of exchange in China and the Iberoamerican world.
 
Her current project, Rock, Fossil, Bone: Literature, Human Time and Deep History in Twentieth-Century Spain, explores archaeological, geological and ecocritical dimensions of Spanish cultural production, from cave art to feminist artistic re-interpretations of the prehistoric past.
 
She is a member of the Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, the Modern Language Association, the Society for Iberian Global Art and the National Association of Fellowship Advisors. In addition to her role at NYU Shanghai as Director of Global Awards, she served for four years with the global Gates Cambridge Alumni Association, first as Asia-Pacific Director (2016–2018), then as Co-Chair (2018–2020).

 

Select Publications

  • "Fósiles and the Feminine: Clara Janés, Rosa Biadiu and the Vestiges of Time," in Fiona No­ble and Nadia Albaladejo García (eds), Alternative Voices: Curating Femininity in Hispanic Art (1920–2020) [in press with Palgrave Macmillan]
  • "Reframing the Global Hispanophone: A Conversation with Inés Dussel on Pedagogical Pasts and Educational Futures," Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 100: 10 (2024): 1053–68 (with Parker Lawson)
  • "Homero Aridjis, Public Pedagogy and an Educational Poetics of Environmentalism," Bul­letin of Hispanic Studies, 100.1 (2023): 97–116.
  • "Theorizing Education in the Global Hispanophone," Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 100.1 (2023): 5–13 (with Parker Lawson).
  • "Miraculous, Mutilated, Mundane: Redrawing Children’s Art in Francoist Spain," Global Studies of Childhood, 11: 2 (2021), 142–63.
  • Humanizing Childhood in Early Twentieth Century Spain (Cambridge: Legenda, 2020)
  • "Amor y pedagogía: Unamuno, Xirau y una fenomenología del espíritu infantil”, Boletín de la In­stitución Libre de Enseñanza, 117–18 (2020), 97–125.
  • "Native Light: Jorge Guillén's Phenomenology of Childhood, 1923–1950," Modern Language Review, 113: 3 (2018), 562–82.
  • "Structuring the Mind: Domingo Barnés, Gestalt Perception and the Science of the Child, 1917–1933," Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 94: 5 (2017), 795–820.
  • Let’s Go: Spain and Portugal with Morocco, 2009 (ed.) (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008)

 

Education

  • PhD, Spanish and Portuguese 
    University of Cambridge
  • MPhil, European Literature and Culture
    University of Cambridge
  • AB, History and Literature
    Harvard University
Research Interests
  • Twentieth-century Spanish literature and intellectual thought
  • Science and modernity in Spain and Latin America
  • Aesthetics, cognition and perception in literature
  • History of education and child study
  • Prehistory and modernity
Courses Taught
  • LIT-SHU 101: Foundations: What is Literature?
  • LIT-SHU 215: Writing Deep Time
  • Topics in the Humanities: Aesthetics and Literature
  • Topics in the Humanities: Global Modernisms
  • Arts and Cultures of Modernity
  • Independent Studies - Hispanic Literary and Cultural Studies