Concha Alborg

Concha Alborg is an American author originally from Spain. She taught Spanish literature at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for 29 years. Her work is relevant as an author who writes in English and Spanish, using both languages in some of her works. In addition, she is known for her attention to the female immigrant experience and the effects of living between two cultures and two languages.

Biographic Information

Concha Alborg was born in Valencia, Spain, in 1945 and grew up in Madrid during the years after the Spanish Civil War. Her father, Juan Luis Alborg, was a literary critic and historian of Spanish literature who emigrated with his family to the United States in 1961 when Concha was 16 years old. In 1982 she earned a Ph.D. in the College of Liberal Arts, Graduate Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1977 she received a Master of Arts in Spanish Literature at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. She finished her undergraduate studies in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia. Concha has two daughters and three grandchildren and lives in Philadelphia.

Publications

Concha has been described as an “amazing writer.” In conferences and writing workshops she has shared her knowledge about getting published, her creative process and the experience of having her relatives appear in her memoirs. Often Concha writes about issues of immigration between parents and their children and the feminine experience. Her work explores the contrasts existing amid the cultures of the United States and Spain and the need “to fill in the blanks.”

Concha Alborg had a long history of academic publications concentrating on women’s writings of the Spanish Postwar Generation before focusing on her own fiction and creative non-fiction. Her list of publications, including novels, short stories and memoirs is as follows:

Books

• My Mother, That Stranger. Letters from the Spanish Civil War. Sussex Academic Press, 2019.
• Divorce After Death. A Widow’s Memoir. Shorehouse Books, 2014.
• American in Translation: A Novel in Three Novellas. Indiana: Xlibris, 2011.
• Beyond Jet-Lag: Other Stories. New Jersey: Ediciones Nuevo Espacio, 2000.
• Una noche en casa. Madrid: Ediciones Huerga & Fierro, 1995.
• Cinco figuras en torno a la novela de posguerra: Galvarriato, Soriano, Formica, Boixadós y Aldecoa. Madrid: Ediciones Libertarias, 1993.
• Critical edition of Caza menor por Elena Soriano. Madrid: Castalia (Biblioteca de Escritoras), 1992.
• Temas y técnicas en la narrativa de Jesús Fernández Santos. Madrid: Gredos (Biblioteca Románica Hispánica), 1984.

Short Stories

• East Meets West. Letras Femeninas, XXXI 1 (2005): 221- 225.
• In Loehmann’s Dressing Room. Confluencias (2003): 121-125.
• Unos tomates de New Jersey. Textos, 4 (1996): 17-19.
• El gos. Monte Arabí 22 (1996): 61-66.
• La Gisela. Letras Femeninas, XXI. 1-2 (1995): 218-223.
• Al Club Náutico. Letras Femeninas, XVII. 1-2 (1991): 191-195.

Prizes and Distinctions

Concha Alborg received The Tengelmann Teaching and Research Award in 2008 at Saint Joseph’s University. In 2001-2002 she was awarded the Faculty Merit Award for Teaching and for Research in the years 1984-1985 and 1994-1995 also at Saint Joseph’s University. She participated in a Fulbright-Hays Seminar in Social and Economic Change in Central America: Costa Rica and Nicaragua in 1993. She was a Phi Beta Kappa Founding Member at Saint Joseph’s University in 2001. From 2009, the date of her academic retirement, the Concha Alborg Prize is awarded to a student in the Madrid Program at Saint Joseph’s University. There is additional information on her web page: www.conchaalborg.com

Additional Information

• Alborg, Concha. "Surviving Deceit after Death". Philadelphia.

• Alborg, Concha. How To Divorce Your Husband After Death. The Daily Basics. Search this book on

• Castillo, Debra A. (2005). "Latina or Americaniard" (PDF). Revista Canadiense de Estados Hispánicos. Otoño (30.1): 47–59.

External Links

• http://www.conchaalborg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Concha_Alborg_vita2014.pdf
• http://www.conchaalborg.com/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20150906111312/http://hss.unco.edu/confluencia/entrevistas_interviews.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20160319131731/http://www.happinessrecipe.net/forgiving-forgetting-comes-first/]
• http://humoroutcasts.com/2014/humoroutcasts-radio-interview-with-concha-alborg/

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