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CURRICULUM VITAE
Jorge Pérez
Associate Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045-7590
785-864-1131
[email protected]
Education
Ph D. 2003
University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Spanish and
Portuguese. Dissertation: “El retorno de lo real: identidad nacional y
globalización en la narrativa española de los años 90”.
B.A. 1999:
University of Salamanca, Spain. B.A.in Spanish (Filología Hispánica).
B.A. 1998:
University of Salamanca, Spain. B.A.in English (Filología Inglesa).
Administrative Appointments
July 2015-present: Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Kansas.
Fall 2013: Interim Chair.
July 2012-June 2015: Associate Chair.
Academic Appointments
July 2010-present: Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Kansas.
Affiliated faculty: Center for European Studies, Center for Global and
International Studies, and Center for Latin American Studies.
July 2004-June 2010: Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Kansas.
Fall 2003-Spring 2004: Assistant Professor of Spanish, Seton Hall University.
Publications
Books
Confessional Cinema: Religion and Film in Spain’s Development Years. Completed book
manuscript under review. 325 pages.
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The Latin American Road Movie (co-edited with Verónica Garibotto). Under contract
with Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2016.
Cultural Roundabouts: Spanish Film and Novel on the Road. Lewisburg: Bucknell
University Press, 2011.
Special Issue
Spanish Popular Music Studies. Special Issue of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies
(Volume 10.2, 2009). Co-editor: Silvia Bermúdez.
Articles and Book Chapters
23. “Reconfiguring Precarious Landscapes: The Road Movie in Latin America” (with
Verónica Garibotto). The Latin American Road Movie. Forthcoming in Palgrave
Macmillan, 2016.
22. “Undressing the Opus Dei: Reframing the Political Currency of Destape Films.”
Forthcoming in Spanish Erotic Cinema. Ed. Santiago Fouz-Hernández. Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
21. “Flamenco Fusion, Cross-Cultural Coalitions, and the Art of Raising Consciousness.”
Forthcoming in Flamenco on the Global Stage: New Writings in Flamenco Dance
Studies. Ed. Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum, K. Meira Goldberg, and Michelle Heffner
Hayes. Jefferson: McFarland, 2015.
20. “Queer Traces in the Soundtrack of the Movida.” Back to the Future: Towards a
Cultural Archive of the Movida. Eds. William Nichols and Rosi Song. Madison: Fairleigh
Dickinson University Press, 2014. 135-154.
19. “Directoras españolas al volante: La road movie como viaje de concienciación ética”.
Gynocine. Teoría de género, filmología y praxis cinematográfica. Ed. Barbara Zecchi.
Zaragoza: Universidad de Zaragoza/University of Massachusetts, 2013. 129-159.
18. “Del cómic a la pantalla: Chuecatown y los irreverentes caminos de una adaptación
queer.” Teoría y práctica de la adaptación fílmica. Ed. Barbara Zecchi. Madrid: Editorial
Universidad Complutense, 2012. 179-204.
17. “The Queer Children of Almodóvar: La mala educación and the Re-Sexualization of
Bio-Political Bodies.” Studies in Hispanic Cinemas 8.2 (2011): 145-157.
16. “Vestida para medrar: Rocío Dúrcal y la modernidad por debajo de las rodillas”. Un
hispanismo para el siglo XXI : Ensayos de crítica cultural. Ed. Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego
y Alberto Villamandos. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2011. 81-101.
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15. “Los efectos transversales de la normalización: los debates sobre la Ley 13/2005.”
Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 44.2 (2010): 677-695.
14. “Pensamiento y no sólo acción: sobre la valiosa aportación peninsular a la teoría
queer”. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 35.1 (2010): 141-161.
13. “El cine español viste a la otredad femenina caribeña: Princesas y la ética de
solidaridad transnacional.” Cinema Paraíso. Representaciones e imágenes audiovisuales
en el caribe hispano. Ed. Rosana Díaz Zambrana y Patricia Tomé. San Juan: Isla Negra
Editores, 2010. 104-127.
12. “Introduction: Spanish Popular Music Studies.” Introduction to Special Issue Journal
of Spanish Cultural Studies. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 10.2 (2009): 127-133.
11. “Driving with La Movida: The Rock ‘n’ Road Aesthetics of Loquillo’s Rock Ibérico.”
Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 10.2 (2009): 189-205.
10. “Spanish Women Behind the Wheel: Gendering the Transition to Democracy in
Vámonos, Bárbara.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 42.2 (2008): 215-236.
9. “The Spanish Novel on the Road: Mobile Identities at the Turn of the Century.”
Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea (ALEC) 33.1 (2008): 127-151.
8. “¡Hay que motorizarse!”: Mobility, Modernity, and National Identity in Pedro
Lazaga’s Sor Citroen.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 11 (2007): 7-24.
7. “Reckless Driving: Speed, Mobility and Transgression in the Spanish Rock ‘n’ Road
Novel.” Generation X Rocks. Ed. Christine Henseler and Randolph Pope. Vanderbilt UP,
2007. 153-169.
6. “The Soundscapes of Resistance: Notes on the Postmodern Condition of Spanish Pop
Music.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 7.1 (2006): 75-91.
5. “Suspiros de España: el inconsciente político nacional en la narrativa de José Angel
Mañas” España Contemporánea 18.1 (2005): 33-52.
4. “Nosotras que no escribimos como las demás: el proyecto autorial de Lucía Etxebarria
a la luz de los prefacios a sus obras.” Siglo XXI 3 (2005): 211-228.
3. “O club dos poetas vivos: Manuel Rivas, xograr dunha Galicia posmoderna.” Anuario
Grial de Estudos Literarios Galegos (2004): 86-95.
2. “El sabor amargo de la ciudad: Lima en La noche es virgen de Jaime Bayly.”
En gustos se comen géneros. Vol. II. Ed. Sara Poot-Herrera. México: Instituto de Cultura
de Yucatán, 2004. 351-370.
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1.-“El apocalipsis como destrucción de mundos ficticios: desenlace y cierre en Ensaio
sobre a cegueira.” Tinta Annex (2003): 31-38.
Book Reviews
12. Desenfocadas: Cineastas españolas y discursos de género, by Barbara Zecchi.
Barcelona: Icaria, 2014. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 48.3 (2014): 46-48.
11. Spanish Queer Cinema, by Chris Perriam. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,
2013. Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas 11.3 (2014): 310-312.
10. Queer Events: Post-Deconstructive Subjectivities in Spanish Writing and Film, 1960s
to 1990s, by David Vilaseca. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010. Journal of
Spanish Cultural Studies 14.3 (2013): 307-9.
9. The Mobile Nation: España cambia de piel (1954-1964), by Tatjana Pavlovic. Bristol:
Intellect, 2011. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 16 (2012): 337-38.
8. White Gypsies: Race and Stardom in Spanish Musicals, by Eva Woods Peiró.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 46.3
(2012): 601-603.
7. Crossing through Chueca: Lesbian Literary Culture in Queer Madrid, by Jill Robbins.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 89.4
(2012): 436-37.
6. Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture, by Yaw Agawu-Kakraba. Cardiff:
University of Wales Press, 2010. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 34.3
(2010): 587-88.
5. The Gaze on the Past: Popular Culture and History in Antonio Muñoz Molina’s
Novels, by Olga López-Valero Colbert. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2007. Studies in
20th and 21st Century Literature 34.1 (2010): 149-151.
4. Contemporary Spanish Cinema and Genre, edited by Jay Beck and Vicente Rodríguez
Ortega. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2008. Studies in Hispanic Cinemas 6.1 (2009): 7780.
3. The Censorship Files: Latin American Writers and Franco’s Spain, by Alejandro
Herrero-Olaizola. Albany: SUNY Press, 2007. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 86 (2009):
588-589.
2. Spain Is (Still) Different: Tourism and Discourse in Spanish Identity, edited by
Eugenia Afinoguenova and Jaume Martí-Olivella. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008.
Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 32.3 (2008): 550-52.
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1. Configuring Community: Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Community in
Contemporary Spain, by Parvati Nair. Leeds: Maney Publishing for the Modern
Humanities Research Association, 2004. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 84.3 (2007): 42425.
Conference Papers and Invited Lectures
55. “Caught in Between: Traditional versus Modern in Spanish Cinema.” Southern
Missouri State University, September 2015. (Invited speaker)
54. “Reconfiguring Precarious Landscape: The Road Movie in Latin America.” Latin
American Studies Association Convention. San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 2015.
53. “De la peineta al hábito, o cómo adecentar la imagen de la folclórica.” From Sara to
Saritísima: A Tribute to Sara Montiel and Her Cultural Legacy. Real Colegio
Complutense at Harvard. Harvard University, April, 2015. (Invited speaker)
52. “Directoras españolas al volante: la road movie como viaje de concienciación ética.”
Cine-Lit VIII, Portland, 19-22 February, 2015.
51. “Mentoring, Memory, Reinvention: A Roundtable in Honor of Roberta Johnson.”
Presentation in a roundtable discussion. Modern Language Association Convention,
Vancouver, January 2015.
50. “¿De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de Estudios Ibéricos?” Modern Language
Association Convention, Vancouver, January 2015.
49. “Rethinking Secularization: Religion and Film in Spain.”17th Annual International
Conference, Mediterranean Studies Association, Marbella (Spain), May 2014.
48. “Confessional Cinema: Religion and Film in the Spanish Public Sphere.” Hall Center
for the Humanities, Resident Fellow Lecture, April 21, 2014, University of Kansas.
47. “Confessional Cinema: Religion and Film in the Spanish Public Sphere.” Society for
Cinema and Media Studies, Seattle, March 2014.
46. “Chus Gutiérrez al volante, o la road movie como viaje de concienciación ética”.
XXIII Congreso Anual de la Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina
Hispánica. Claremont Colleges, 10-12 October, 2013.
45. “Modernidad, movilidad e identidad nacional en la producción literaria y
cinematográfica gallega”, Iberian Studies Symposium, UCSB, May 16-17, 2013. (Invited
speaker)
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44. “Cine confesional: Religión y modernidad en la esfera pública del tardofranquismo.”
UCLA, May 15, 2013. (Invited speaker)
43. “The Discreet Charm of Mobility or the Blind Spots of Spain’s Road to Modernity”.
University of Miami, March 29, 2013. (Invited speaker)
42. “Queer Children in Spanish Cinema: Revamping Familiar Narratives” Society of
Cinema and Media Studies. Chicago, 6-10 March, 2013.
41. “Retorno al ‘docudrama’, o el viaje de ida y vuelta de la ‘película-ONG’”. MidAmerica Conference on Hispanic Literatures. University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 12-14
October, 2012.
40. “The Erotic Allure of Innocence: The Children of Almodóvar and the ReSexualization of Bio-Political Bodies” 2012 Conference of the Society of Cinema and
Media Studies. Boston, 21-25 March, 2012.
39. “From Conchita Piquer to Isabel Pantoja: Divas and the Spanish Cultural Imaginary.”
Presentation in a roundtable discussion. 2012 MLA Convention. Seattle, 5-8 January,
2012.
38. “La pasión según Margarita Alexandre: Notas sobre un original proyecto
cinematográfico”. Gynocine: Mujeres, Dones and Cinema Conference. University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, October 26-30, 2011.
37. “Rock ’n’ Road Songs: Traveling New Routes in Spanish Rock Music.” 2011 MLA
Convention. Los Angeles, January 6-9, 2011.
36. “Pensamiento y no solo acción: Sobre la valiosa aportación peninsular a la teoría
queer”. Symposium on Queer Hispanism-Espacio Gay. McGill University, November 1011, 2010. (Invited speaker)
35. “Vestida para medrar: Rocío Dúrcal y la modernidad por debajo de las rodillas”. MidAmerica Conference on Hispanic Literatures. Washington University, St. Louis. October
28-30, 2010.
34. “The Ethics of Nomadism: Penelope on the Spanish Road”. XX Congreso de la
Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica (AILCFH).
University of Texas, Austin, 14-16 October, 2010.
33. “It’s not All Good: Flamenco-Fusión, Cross-Cultural Coalitions and the Art of
Raising Consciousness”. Florida Gulf Coast University, 28 September 2010 (Invited
speaker)
32. “Cultural Roundabouts: Spanish Film on the Road.” 2010 Conference of the Society
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of Cinema and Media Studies. Los Angeles, California17-21 March, 2010.
31. “Galician Culture on the Road: Negotiating the Constitutional Consensus of 1978.”
Constitutional Spain II: Democracy and Culture 1978-2010.” Symposium held at UCSB,
February 12, 2010. (Invited speaker)
30. “Pedagogía de una nueva configuración familiar: a propósito del matrimonio entre
personas del mismo sexo en España.” 2009 MLA Convention. Philadelphia, December
27-30, 2009.
29. “La novela gallega en la carretera: Calzados Lola y la exploración de identidades
móviles”. IX Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Estudios Gallegos. Santiago de
Compostela (Spain), July 13-17, 2009.
28. “Driving Abroad: The Narcissistic Road Movie.” 62nd Kentucky Foreign Language
Conference. Lexington, Kentucky, 16-18 April, 2009.
27. “España [no] va bien: Flamenco-Fusión, Cross-Cultural Coalitions and the Art of
Raising Consciousness.” 40th Conference of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese
Historical Studies, Kansas City, Missouri, April 2-5, 2009.
26. “Las amistades peligrosas con la normalidad: sobre los efectos perversos de revisar la
Constitución española.” “Constitucional Spain: Democracy and Culture, 1978-2008.”
Symposium held at UCSB, February 27, 2009. (Invited speaker)
25. “Like a Rolling Stone: Queer Mobilities and Peninsular Hispanism.” Modern
Language Association Convention (MLA). San Francisco, 27-30 December 2008.
24. “Spanish Women Behind the Wheel: Seeking Alternative Communities on the Road.”
Modern Language Association Convention (MLA). San Francisco, 27-30 December
2008.
23. “Riding to the Beat of Flamenco: Fugitivas and the Andalusian Female Road Movie.”
College of Charleston, October 10, 2008. (Invited speaker)
22. “Spanish Women Hit the Road: Riding to the Beat of Flamenco in Fugitivas.”
University of Pudget Sound, April 10, 2008. (Invited speaker)
21. “The Discreet Charm of Mobility: Negotiating the Roundabouts of the Spanish Road
to Modernity.” España siglo XX/XXI: Diálogos en el Hispanismo Peninsular.”
University of Ottawa, March 27-29, 2008.
20. “Contemporary Spain on the Road: Mobile Identities at the Turn of the Century.”
Kansas State University. March 10, 2008. (Invited speaker)
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19. “Los aparatos prefatoriales y el retorno del autor: el caso de Lucía Etxebarría.” XVI
Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas. París, July 8-13, 2007.
18. “Nosotras que nos escribimos como las demás”: Los prefacios en la obra de Lucía
Etxebarría.” University of Missouri, Kansas City. April 19, 2007. (Invited speaker)
17. “Los mundos ficticios de Andrés Ibáñez.” 2007 NEMLA Convention, Baltimore,
March 1-4 2007.
16. “Highway to Heaven: Mobility, Modernity, and Spanishness in Sor Citroen.”
Memories of Modernities: International Conference on Hispanic Cinema. SUNY, Stony
Brook, November 10-11, 2006.
15. “Hispanic Culture on the Road: Mobile Identities and Transatlantic Bonds.” Kansas
City Art Institute, October 9, 2006. (Invited speaker)
14. “Cultural Roundabouts: Transatlantic Encounters in the Hispanic Road.” Rethinking
the Iberian Atlantic, University of Liverpool, April 19-22, 2006.
13. “Penelope on the Highway: Gender and Genre Redefinition in the Spanish Female
Road Novel”. North Eastern Modern Language Association (NEMLA). Philadelphia, 2-5
March 2006.
12. “Mobile Peninsular Masculinities: Between Insurgence and Compliance to the Status
Quo.” Modern Language Association Convention (MLA). Washington D.C., 27-30
December 2005.
11. “Reckless Driving: Gender Hierarchy on the Spanish Road”. Women and Creativity
Conference, Marquette University. March 10-12, 2005.
10. “La novela española en la carretera: cartografías imaginarias de lo nacional.”
Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture Conference, University of Louisville.
February 24-26, 2005.
9. “Subjetividad post-nacional y (des)territorialización en la última narrativa peninsular:
Tokio ya no nos quiere de Ray Loriga.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference
(KFLC), Lexington, April 15-17, 2004.
8. “¿Rebeldes sin causa?: asedio crítico a la Generación X española.” Homage to Víctor
Fuentes. University of California, Santa Barbara. May 5, 2003.
7. “El sabor amargo de la ciudad: Lima en La noche es virgen de Jaime Bayly”. Congreso
Internacional de Comida y Literatura, Mérida (México). February 2003.
6. “El diálogo con la tradición en el realismo de finales del siglo XX: El Jarama de
Sánchez Ferlosio e Historias del Kronen de José Ángel Mañas”. 84th Annual Meeting of
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the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP). Rio de
Janeiro (Brazil), July 29th to August 4th, 2002.
5. “El club de los poetas vivos: poesía y cultura postmoderna en Manuel Rivas”. 3rd
Conference on Galician Literature, June 2002, UCSB.
4. “El apocalipsis como destrucción de mundos ficticios: desenlaces y cierres en José
Saramago”. 4th Annual Conference on Lusophone and Hispanic History, Literature, and
Culture, UCSB, April 18-19, 2002.
3. “La pervivencia de rasgos naturalistas en la novela española de los 90”. 17th MidAmerica Conference on Hispanic Literatures, University of Kansas, October 4-6, 2001.
2. “A jangada de pedra and Ensaio sobre a cegueira: Constructive Pessimism and Hope
for the Future”, XXIV Symposium on Portuguese Traditions, UCLA, April 2001.
1.-“Giving voice to the silenced: Lidia in O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis”. III
Lusophone Conference, UCSB, April 2001.
Conference Panels Organized
“Marginality, Precariousness, and Exclusion: the Latin American Road Movie” (with
Verónica Garibotto). Latin American Studies Association, Puerto Rico, 27-30 May, 2015.
“Mentoring, Memory, Reinvention: A Roundtable in Honor of Roberta Johnson” (with
Vicky Unruh). Modern Language Association Convention, Vancouver, January 2015.
“Revisiting Adult Narratives: Children and Adolescents in Hispanic Cinema” (with
Verónica Garibotto). Society of Cinema and Media Studies. Chicago, March 6-10, 2013.
“Idas y venidas: Exile, Migrations and Movements in Contemporary Spain” (with Silvia
Bermúdez). Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures. University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, October, 2012.
“Galicia Glocal.” IX Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Estudios Gallegos.
Santiago de Compostela (Spain), July 2009.
“Últimas tardes con el Generalísimo: Revalorizaciones críticas del tardo-franquismo.”
España siglo XX/XXI: Diálogos en el Hispanismo Peninsular. University of Ottawa,
March 27-29, 2008
“The Doing and Undoing of Masculinity in Contemporary Spanish Cultural Production.”
Modern Language Association Convention (MLA). Washington D.C., December 2005.
Awards and Honors
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Cramer Award for Research and Teaching Excellence. University of Kansas, 2015.
Man of Merit Distinction. Emily Taylor Center for Women and Gender Equity,
University of Kansas, 2013-2014.
W.T. Kemper Award for Teaching Excellence, University of Kansas, fall 2011.
Nominated by the KU senior class for the H.O.P.E. Award, fall 2011.
Center of Teaching Excellence Recognition for Graduate Teaching, University of Kansas,
May 2009.
Cramer Professorship for Research and Teaching Excellence. 2006-2008, University of
Kansas.
Chapter Award for Outstanding Faculty Member, 2005-2006. Phi Beta Delta, Honor
Society for International Scholars, University of Kansas.
Samuel Wofsy Memorial Award to the Outstanding Ph.D. student, 2003, UCSB.
Outstanding Teaching Award. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 2002, UCSB.
Grants and Fellowships
Hall Center for the Humanities Research Fellowship (spring 2014).
Faculty International Travel Grant. Hall Center for the Humanities, 2010.
Research Fund, Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spanish Ministry of Culture
and United States Universities, summer 2010.
General Research Fund, University of Kansas, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, and 2012.
Newberry Library Consortium Grant, University of Kansas, Spring 2006.
Research Fund, Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spanish Ministry of Culture
and United States Universities, summer 2005.
New Faculty Research Grant, University of Kansas, summer 2005.
Fellowship for out-of-state tuition. University of California, Santa Barbara, 2000-2003.
International Student Fellowship, Occidental College, 1999-2000.
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Courses Taught
Undergraduate:
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Intermediate Grammar and Composition
Advanced Grammar and composition
Introduction to Textual Analysis and Critical Reading
Cultura y civilización de España
Modern Spanish Literature
Between Ethics and Aesthetics: (De)Constructing Identities in 20th Century
Spanish Literature
Literary and Cinematographic Representations of Barcelona”
20th Century Spanish Women’s Writers
Transatlantic Hispanic Cultures
A Cinema of Their Own: Screening Spanish National Identity
Minority Cultures in Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Spain
Mobility, Modernity, and National Identity in Spanish Cinema
Spanish Film and Literature on the Road to Modernity
Film and Literature in Post-2001 Argentina
Graduate:
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Gunfighter Spain: Violence, Power, and Cultural Resistance
Like a Rolling Stone: Mobile Identities in Contemporary Spanish Cultural
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Ni una, ni grande, sino plural: literatura y cine en la España democrática
Queering the Spanish Postwar Novel
The Discreet Charm of Modernity and Other Stories of Spanish Cinema
The Usual Suspects: Gender and Sexuality in 20th Century Spanish Literature and
Film
Director of Ph.D. Dissertations
-Rafael Valadez: “When the Literary Mutates and the Digital Emboldens: Transformations in Spanish Electronic Literature of the 21st Century (expected defense spring
2017)
-Megan Sheldon: “Cross-Cultural Queer Encounters: Women, Nation, and Queer Culture
in Contemporary Spain” (Defended April 2015).
-María García-Puente: “Erase de nuevo una princesa…: Las re-escrituras feministas de
cuentos de hadas en la España del tercer milenio” (Defended Summer 2014).
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-Arturo Meijide: “Alonso Quijano en el callejón del gato: las ficciones de los asesinos en
serie españolas.” (Defended April 2010).
Member of Ph.D. Dissertation Committees
- Jennifer Abercrombie: (Un)Natural Pairings: Uncanny, Marvelous, Fantastical, and
Cyborgian Encounters in Contemporary Central American and Caribbean Literature,
expected defense May 2016.
-Ian Gowan: “Working on and from within the Post-Crisis: Artistic Representations of
Claustrophobic Labor Spaces in Argentina (2001-2011)” (Defended May 2013).
-Hernán García: “La globalizacion desfigurada o la post-globalizacion imaginada en la
estetica cyberpunk mexicana.” (Defended May 2011).
-Tracie Amend: “The Adulteress in Spanish Tragedy (1830-1930)” (Defended May
2009).
-Kendall Whitney: “Wanderl[o]st: Lost Identities and Losing Place in the New World
(Dis)Order” (Defended April 2009).
-Jean Trujillo (reader, ongoing)
4th Reader in Ph.D. Dissertations
-Cayce Elder, “The Spanish Golden Age Throughout the Ages: Evolving Interpretations
and Identities.” Expected Defense, Spring 2017.
-Raciel Alonso: Expected Defense, Spring 2016.
-Regan Postma: “Freeways and Free Speech, Rail Cars and Rancheras: Geographic and
Linguistic Mobility in Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Cultural
Production.” (Defended May 2011).
-Adriana Tolentino: “Familias desmembradas y orfandades: representaciones de una
actitud posmoderna hacia la nación” (Defended December 2009).
-Alberto Fonseca: “Cuando llovió dinero en Macondo: Literatura y narcotráfico en
Colombia y México” (Defended May 2009).
PhD Advisory Committees
Chair:
Angélica García
Mirla González
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-Member:
César Silva
Yesenia López
Cristina Casas
PhD Comprehensive Exams
Gilles Viennot, Department of French and Italian (external member, December 2009).
Chair of Master Examination
Spring 2013: Mirla González
Spring 2012: Nathan Presnell
Xóchitl Delgado
Spring 2010: Matías Beverinotti
Spring 2007: Megan Sheldon
Spring 2006: Marta Carrera Maestre
B.A. Honors Thesis Committees:
-Erin Birney (director, 2009).
-Ava Azad (2010)
-Ignacio Carvajal (2010)
B.A, University Honors Advisor
Erin Eifler
Service
University of Kansas:
Departmental Service:
2015-: Department Chair.
2014-2015: Chair of Graduate Studies Committee.
2014-2015: Faculty Evaluation Committee.
2013: Acting Chair (fall)
2013: Faculty Evaluation Committee.
2013: Member of Graduate Studies (fall).
2012-present: Associate Chair, Dept. Spanish and Portuguese.
2008-2013: Chair of Graduate Admissions Committee.
2011-2012: Member of Graduate Studies Committee.
2011-2012: Member of Study Abroad Committee.
Fall 2009: Member of Latinoamericanist Search Committee.
2008-2010: GRASP faculty representative.
2009-2010: Library Representative.
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2006-2008: Member of Graduate Admissions Committee.
2006-2007: Member of Study Abroad Committee.
2007-2008: Member of Graduate Studies Committee.
Fall 2007: Member of Search Committee for Visiting Professor in Peninsular Literature
Fall 2005: Member of Brazilianist Search Committee.
2004-2006: Member of Awards Committee.
2004-2006 Member of Graduate Studies Committee.
College and University Service:
2015: General Research Fund Committee.
2014-2015: Chair of Faculty Compensation Committee.
2014-2015: Senior Administrative Fellows Program.
2014-2015: Member of Humanities Working Group, Center for Undergraduate Research.
2014: Member of Search Committee for Director of Student Academic Services, CLAS.
2014: New International GTA Semester-long Program. Leading the session “Your
Culture & Your Students.”
2014: International Graduate Student Orientation. Leading the session “The US
Classroom” August 2014. Repeated on August 2015.
2013-2014: School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Action Committee.
2013-2014: Faculty Senate Compensation Committee.
2013: Office of Admissions KU Preview, September 2013.
2013: General Research Fund Committee.
2012: Director of Summer Language Institute in Buenos Aires.
2012: Member of Search Committee for Director of Undergraduate Research
2012: Hall Center’s Graduate Summer Research Award Committee.
2012: Participation in “Inside the Classroom”. Invited Lecture for Junior Day, April 27.
2012: Participation in the Graduate Studies Panel “The Campus Interview”, February 10.
2010-2013: Member of College Academic Council (CAC).
2011-2014: Faculty Advisor Swim Club
2011: Director of Summer Language Institute in Barcelona.
2011: New GTA Orientation, August 15, 2011. Leading the session “Teaching in the
U.S.” for new international GTAs. Repeated on August 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015.
2011: Participation in the “Promotion and Tenure Panel for New Faculty”. March 15.
2011: Reviewer for the 2011 Midwest Association of Graduate Schools Distinguished
Master’s Thesis Competition
2009-2014: College Faculty Panelist Academic Misconduct Hearings.
2007: Hall Center Debicky Travel Grant Committee.
2006: Director of Summer Language Institute, Barcelona.
2005-2007: Department Ambassador at the Center of Teaching Excellence.
Seton Hall University:
2003-2004: Co-Chair of the Program Review Committee (in charge of creating selfassessment dossier).
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Service to the Profession:
2010-2013: MLA Delegate Assembly, Representative for the 20th Century Division of
Spanish Literature.
(2006- ): Editorial board member of Coastal Review.
Reviewer for:
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (2013)
Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (2012, 2013, 2015)
Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
Letras Hispanas (2013, 2014)
Trans-Modernity (2014)
Reviewer of an essay for the volume Crónicas de Españas: de cómo América descubre a
la Península en el siglo XXI.
Reviewer of Tenure and Promotion cases for:
Colorado State University
Middlebury College
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Membership in Professional and Academic Organizations
Modern Language Association
Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Mediterranean Studies Association
Latin American Studies Association
Language Skills
Spanish: native speaker.
English: near-native proficiency.
French: Reading knowledge.
Portuguese: Reading knowledge.