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Research Overview

Research Interests

• Nineteenth-, twentieth- and twenty-first-century Hispanic literatures and cultures
• Spanish cinema
• critical theory
• popular culture
• the visual arts
• Spanish modernity
• the culture of science in Spain
• surrealism in Spain
• digital humanities

Courses Offered (subject to change)

• SP 200:  Advanced Spanish Composition (Fall 2018)
• SP 202:  The Forging of a Nation: Literary Ideas and Aesthetics from the Romantics to Democratic Spain (Spring 2018)
• SP 205:  Spain: Past, Present, and Future (Spring 2017)
• SP 249D:  Buñuel, Dalí, Lorca: Surrealism in Spain and Beyond (Fall 2018)
• SP 249M:  Out of the Wings: Contemporary Spain on Stage (Spring 2016)
• SP 272:  Postcards from Spain: Visitors, Observers, and Imaginary Geographies (Fall 2015)
• SP 280:  The Transhispanic Supernatural: Ghosts, Witches, and Vampires in Film and Literature from Spain and Spanish America – co-taught with Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández (Spring 2017)
• SP 281:  Other Worlds and Underworlds (Spring 2014)
• SP 288:  Spanish Film (Fall 2014)
• SP 292:  Politics, Portraits, Public Spaces: The Power of Photography in Spain and Spanish America (Fall 2014)

Selected Publications

Books and Monographs

• Textured Lives: Women, Art, and Representation in Modern Mexico. U of Arizona P, 1992.
• Juan Goytisolo: Del "realismo crítico" a la utopía. José Porrúa Turanzas, 1984. Ensayos.

Articles and Book Chapters

• With Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández. "From Utopia to Uchronia: After-images of Revolutionary History in Contemporary Mexican Film." Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinema, vol. 13, no. 2, Jun. 2016, pp. 137-57. Ingenta Connect, .
• "Parodying Paradise: When Mexican Buddy Films Turn Rudo y Cursi." Quarterly Review of Film and Video, vol. 30, no. 1, 2013, pp. 50-61. Taylor & Francis Online, .
• "Revolution, Ideology, and the Eye of Cinema: El cometa as Mise en Abyme." Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, vol. 8, no. 1, Jan. 2012, pp. 37-49. Ingenta Connect, .

Honors and Activities

• Book for Understanding the World award for "Bored to Distraction," Association of American University Presses, 2003
• Book for Understanding the World award for "Danger Zones," Association of American University Presses, 1996