Professor of Spanish and Women's and Gender Studies (on leave Winter 2021)
About
My teaching and research interests are focused on the literature, film, visual arts, and politics of the Iberian Peninsula. My work is broadly concerned with Modern and Contemporary Spain, Psychoanalysis, Political Theory, Feminism, and Women’s Studies. I am the author of Cultura herida: literatura y cine en la España democrática (Ediciones Libertarias, 2002) and La estela del tiempo: Imagen e historicidad en el cine español contemporáneo (Iberoamericna/Vervuert, 2011). I have also published extensively on authors and filmmakers such as Teresa de Jesús, Rosalía de Castro, Leopoldo 'Alas' Clarín, Miguel de Unamuno, Juan Goytisolo, Xosé Luis Méndez Ferrín, Ana Rossetti, Manuel Vazquez Montalbán, Luis Buñuel, Álex de la Iglesia, Mario Camus (among many others), as well on topics such as violence and memory, violence and the state, critical regionalism, the Spanish Civil War, the Francoist Dictatorship, and the Transition to Democracy. I have edited a monographic issue for Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies titled "Critical Interventions on Violence". Currently I am working on several projects, two of which will be books in the future:
Galicia y sus fronteras: Escritores, márgenes y el canon nacional (siglos xix y xx).
Spanish Documentary and the Politics of Critical Regionalism
Recent and Selected Publications
Cultura herida: literatura y cine en la España democrática. Editorial Libertarias/Prodhufi (2002). Introduction (pdf) http://www.libertarias.com
La estela del tiempo: Imagen e historicidad en el cine español contemporáneo (Iberoamericna/Vervuert, 2011.
Critical Interventions on Violence." Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies March 2002. Guest Editor. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/14636204.html
Feminismo y lo común: Nuevas formas de lo político.” Letras femeninas, August 2015
“Buñuel and Historical Reason”. Stone, Rob and Julian D. Gutiérrez-Albilla, (eds.) Companion to Luis Buñuel. London: Blackwell, Winter 2013.
“Sujeto político y militancia”. Colorado Review, Summer 2012.
Recent graduate courses taught:
Sujeto político y militancia.
Spanish Film and the Question of Temporality
Razón de Estado: Fascismo y cultura bajo el Franquismo
Culture, Psychoanalysis, History: Spain 1898-1992
The Question of War: Culture and Violence in Modern Spain
Peninsular Nationalism
Recent undergraduate courses taught:
Research Areas(s)
- Modern and Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film (19th-21st Iberian Studies), Psychoanalysis, Cultural and Political Theory, and Women's Studies
Affiliation(s)
- Romance Languages & Literatures
Award(s)
- John D’Arms Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award in the Humanities
- College of Literature, Science and the Arts/Office of the Vice President for Research Michigan Humanities Award, 2006.
