Jo Labanyi

Jo Labanyi (born 1946) is professor emerita of Spanish at New York University. She specialises in the study of Spanish literature and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Biography Labanyi studied for her undergraduate degree at Oxford University, graduating with a BA in Spanish in 1967.

Labanyi was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005.

Select publications Labanyi, J. 1989. Myth and history in the contemporary Spanish novel. Cambridge University Press. Labanyi, J. 1995. Culture and gender in nineteenth-century Spain. Oxford University Press. Labanyi, J. 2000. Gender and modernization in the Spanish realist novel. Oxford University Press. Labanyi, J. 2010. Spanish literature : a very short introduction. Labanyi, J. 2012. A companion to Spanish Cinema