Annabel Martín

Associate Professor of Spanish
Joint Title in Comparative Literature and Women's and Gender Studies

Department of Spanish and Portuguese
6072 Dartmouth Hall

Hanover, NH 03755-3511

Office: 208 Dartmouth Hall
2008 Fall office hours: Wednesday 10 am to noon or by appointment
Telephone: (603) 646-2599

Fax: (603) 646-3695
E-mail: annabel.martin@dartmouth.edu

Licenciada Degree in English-Spanish Philology, Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
M.A. and Ph.D. University of Oregon-Comparative Literature (1994).

Primary Interests

• Cultural Studies: Mass Culture and Politics, Contemporary Urban Culture, Democracy and the Arts
• Contemporary Spain: Nationalism and Dictatorship, Tourism and National Identity, PostFrancoism, Basque Studies (Utopia and Terrorism)
• Film Studies: Melodrama and Memory, Spanish Cinema
• Gender Studies: Gender and Mass Culture, Globalization/Immigration and Women, Contemporary Spanish Women Writers/Filmmakers and Memory

Selected Courses Taught at Dartmouth

• The Lead Generation: Basque Terrorism and the Nation (Span 81)
• Cultural Studies: Resisting Theory? (CL 73/101)
• Tears, Reason, Cultural Memory (Span 89)
• Postmodern Cultural Production in PostFranco Spain (Span 63)
• Hollywood Revisited: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar (Span 7)
• Women and Nation in Contemporary Spanish Film (WGST 7)
• Tears, Love, Happiness: Feminine Territories/Feminist Readings (CL 29/WGST 46)
• The Cinematic City (CL 62)
• Roots of Feminism (WGST 20)
• Contemporary Issues in Feminism (WGST 21)
• Texts and Contexts (Span 31)
• Spanish Study Abroad, Barcelona, Spain

Selected Publications

Book

• La gramática de la felicidad: Relecturas franquistas y posmodernas del melodrama. Madrid: Libertarias/Prodhufi, 2005.

Selected Essays

• "May We Rest in Peace: Basque Funerals of Utopia (The Case of Julio Medem and Bernardo Atxaga). Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature (forthcoming 2007).
• "La inspiración franquista: huella y reformulación del teatro fin de siglo en el melodrama cinematográfico de la dictadura (el caso de Jacinto Benavente y Luis Lucia)." With Critical Acclaim: Drama, Performance and Reception in 19th Century Spain/Con gran aplauso: El teatro español del siglo 19. Marsha Swislocki (ed.). Madrid: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, (forthcoming 2007).
• "Miniskirts, Polka Dots, and Real Estate: What Lies Under the Sun?," book chapter in Spain Is (Still) Different: Touristic Subjects and Cultural Vistas. Eugenia Afinogénova and Jaume Martí-Olivella (eds). (Forthcoming Bucknell UP).
• "Paisajes de justicia maternal: el veto de eros en la polis del nacional-catolicismo," in Los Hábitos del deseo: Formas de amar en la modernidad, C Riera, et al. (eds.), (2005).
• "Basque Postnationalism, Identity Politics, and the Reconfiguration of Transgression in Arantxa Lazcano's Urte Ilunak (The Dark Years)," in Bridging Continents: Cinematic and Literary Representations of Spanish and Latin American Themes, N Glickman and A Varderi (eds.), special edited volume of Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana, 2 (2005) 95-108.
• A Corpse in the Garden: Bilbao's Postmodern Wrappings of High Culture Consumer Architecture," Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 7 (2003) 213-230.
• "Fictions of Equality: National Epic and Women Filmmakers during the Early Franco Regime," in Hispanic Issues: Women's Narrative and Film in Twentieth-Century Spain, O Ferrán and K Glenn (eds.), (2002) 59-74.

Additional Information

Annabel Martín is currently studying the cultural context surrounding the end of ETA terrorism in Spain; more specifically she is working with Basque artists (Bernardo Atxaga, Julia Otxoa, Ricardo Ugarte, Luisa Etxenike, Helena Taberna, and Julio Medem among others) on the link between the arts and democracy in the Basque Country in Modulations/Modulaciones/Modulazioak: Stategies of Reconciliation for the New Basque City (forthcoming). Annabel Martín is also a member of a research team at the Universitat de València (Spain) studying tourism and national identity and on the editorial advisory board of Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. Annabel is the 2005 recipient of The Karen E. Wetterhahn Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement.