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Ph.D., University of Oregon
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portugese, Comparative Literature, and
Women's and Gender Studies
Recent Scholarship:
"May We Rest in Peace: Basque Funerals of Utopia (The Case of Julio Medem
and Bernardo Atxaga)". Yearbook of Comparative Literature 52
(2007).
"Historia o memoria?: Debates falsos en la ciudad democrática" Quimera:
Revista de Literatura 279 (2007).
A book chapter on tourism, national identity, and gender "Subdesarrollo de
cinco estrellas: La guía identitaria del desarrollismo" in Cine y turismo:
Estrategias de Seducción. Antonia del Rey Reguillo (ed). Valencia, Spain:
Tirant lo Blanch Press, 2007.
La gramática de la felicidad: Relecturas franquistas y posmodernas del
melodrama. Madrid Libertarias/Prodhufi, 2005.
"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. Carme Riera, Meri Torras, Isabel Clúa, and Pau Pitarch,
editors. Asociación Civil Crítica de la Literatura y la Cultura
Latinoamericanas: Valencia, 2005.
"Andamios para una nueva ciudad: el efecto Guggenheim y las reescritura
posnacional," in Más allá de la ciudad letrada: crónicas y espacios
urbanos, Boris Muñoz and Silvia Spitta (eds.) Pittsburgh: Biblioteca de
las Américas (2003).
"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. Ofelia Ferrán and Kathleen Glenn, editors. New York:
Routledge (2002).
Interests:
Women and Mass Culture
Globalization/Immigration and Women
National Identity and Gender
Gender, Democracy and the City
Melodrama and Gender
Spanish Women Writers and Filmmakers.
Courses Taught:
Gender and Flags: National Bodies in Contemporary Spanish Film
Roots of Feminism
Tears, Love, Happiness: Feminine Territories/Feminist Readings
Contemporary Feminist Issues.
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