Pablo Restrepo Gautier
Associate Professor
Hispanic Studies, SLLC
- Contact:
- Office: CLE C248 restrepo@uvic.ca
- Credentials:
- PhD (UBC)
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Hispanic presence in the Pacific Northwest in the 18th century; colonial North Pacific navigation diaries and documentation; gender and narrative in 16th-, 17th-, and 18th-century Spanish literature; early modern Spanish drama and emblems.
Pablo Restrepo Gautier is an Associate Professor in the Hispanic Studies section of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures.
Bio
Dr. Pablo Restrepo Gautier specializes in early modern and 18th-century Spanish literature, with a current research focus on 18th-century maritime diaries and archival documentation from the Spanish presence in the Pacific Northwest. He is the author of a book on Spanish drama and emblems and has published articles and book chapters on early modern literature focusing on topics such as humour and gender, as well as an article on 20th-century Colombian narrative. Dr. Restrepo Gautier has presented his research at conferences across Canada and internationally, which includes teaching an invited virtual course in 2025 on the Spanish presence in the Pacific Northwest for the Seminario de Estudios Virreinales en el Mundo Hispánico. In addition to his research, he teaches Spanish language courses and actively incorporates the latest developments in language pedagogy and second-language acquisition into his classroom.
Selected publications
“El casamiento entre dos damas by Pedro de Navarro: Puzzling the Joy in Non-Heteronormative Relationships and Homoaffectivity from the Shadows of Early Modern Spanish Literary Texts” in Bodies beyond Labels: Finding Joy in the Shadows of Early Modern Spain, edited by Frederick A. de Armas and Daniel Holcomb, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2024, pp.138-156.
“Emblems and Wit in the Hispanic Baroque According to Baltasar Gracián.” The Ibero-American Baroque, edited by De Alba-Koch, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2022, pp. 247–272.
“Generation of 1927,” The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, 2018, https://www.rem.routledge.com/ [Expanded from 2016].
Selected presentations / talks / workshops
“El misionero copista: el diario del Fray Francisco Miguel Sánchez, misionero en Nutka,” LIII Congress of the Canadian Association of Hispanists, Toronto, ON, May-June, 2017.
“La ecdótica en la investigación sobre el incidente de Nutka (1789),” LV Congress of the Canadian Association of Hispanists, Vancouver, BC, June, 2019.
“Los Primeros Hispanos,” a documentary on the Spanish exploration of the Pacific Northwest in the 18th century. Host/Story Consultant, Produced by Telelatino and Lulofilms, Funded by the Canada Media Fund. Filmed in 2017; aired on October 5, 2019, on TLN and Univision.
“Inteligencia artificial en el aula de traducción: desafíos y oportunidades,” LIX Congress of the Canadian Association of Hispanists, Ottawa, Ontario, June 3, 2023.
“Entre castillos y ensaladas: la reconfiguración colonial de Nutka en manuscritos españoles del siglo XVIII,” XIII Jornadas Internacionales de Historia de España,” Buenos Aries, Argentina, online, September 6, 2024.
“España en territorios indígenas del Pacífico Norte,” Seminario de Estudios Virreinales en el Mundo Hispánico (Museo Nacional del Virreinato, México; Departamento de Historia, Universidad Iberoamericana, México; Facultad de Estudios Superiores Acatlán, Universidad Autónoma de México, México, University of Prince Edward Island, Canadá), June 2025.
Current research projects / information
Dr. Restrepo Gautier’s current research focuses on the transcription and analysis of 18th-century Spanish maritime diaries. This project examines historical ship logs and archival documentation to better understand the early European naval presence, navigation, and cross-cultural encounters in the Pacific Northwest.