PhD, Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Washington University in St. Louis.
Dissertation: Postmemory and Gender in Contemporary Spain. Intergenerational Dialogues on the Spanish Civil War.
Since 2007, I am Assistant Professor of Spanish at a small college in Iowa, where I teach all levels of Spanish language, literature and culture. I have also taught an 8-week Honors Seminar in English, which adopted a memory studies approach and centered on 9/11, the Holocaust and the Spanish Civil War. Eventually, I hope to develop this course into a semester-long, interdisciplinary "capstone" class.
My research focuses primarily on contemporary Peninsular narrative and film, documentary film and new media.
Other interests include, as the title of this blog indicates, memory, amnesia and politics, and especially, postmemory and the transgenerational memory of traumatic historical events. I manage two blogs, this one and (Re) generando memorias,which focuses solely on the memorialist movement in contemporary Spain and is written primarily in Spanish.
For questions, comments or collaboration, you may contact me via the blog, using the comment feature, or by emailing me here.
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