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Ph.D. Spanish Literature, The Pennsylvania State University, 2020
M.A. Spanish Literature, The Pennsylvania State University, 2016 B.A. Spanish, The Pennsylvania State University, 2013 B.A. Comparative Literature, The Pennsylvania State University, 2013 Research Interests: 20th-21st-century Spanish Peninsular literature and culture, cinema and media studies, visual and print cultures, modernist aesthetics, the historical avant-garde, experimental literature, metafiction and self-reflexive aesthetics, fantastic literature, kiosk literature, modernist screen-writing practices, philosophy (primarily Hegelian, and Sartrean phenomenological ontology), and digital humanities. Books, under preparation: Her curent book project, Writing for New Literacies: Film Culture and Moving-Image Storytelling in Silver Age Spain (1896-1930) , argues that the new storytelling medium of silent film and its accompanying film culture served as a forceful impetus for the expansion of literary genres in the early 20th century in Spain. As cinema’s moving images impelled modernist writers to rethink narrative expression, film fan culture rendered urgent the emergence of radically new types of cultural authority. The production of new genres of storytelling--metafictional prologues, film scripts and novel-films—spoke to an expanding body of cinema-literate readers, now including women and adolescents. Adapting to a new ‘film literacy,’ these experimental literary-cinematographic texts launched inquiries into notions of audience, narration, genre, and medium through their unusual styles, formats, and narrative techniques. In so doing, they challenged the nature of reading and writing, interrogated the multifaceted ways of telling a story, and elicited new demands of critical involvement from the reader—a now new reader-viewer. Ultimately, they advanced a new manner of intellectualized consumer reading, one that blurred the divide between high and lowbrow culture, or between the (literary) intellectual and the (filmic) consumer. Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles: "When Fiction is Stranger than Truth: Metaliterary Preoccupation and Philosophical Burlesque in Locos: A Comedy of Gestures (1936)," Modern Language Notes, Vol. 138, No. 2 (March 2023): 323-342. DOI: 10.1353/mln.2023.a915370 (Abstract) "Unmasking the Metropolis: An Interrogation of Modernity in Orfeu Negro/Black Orpheus (1959)," Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies , Vol. 9, No. 2 (2023): 245-270. DOI: 10.1353/mln.2023.a915370 (Abstract) "On Being (Social), Selfhood, and the Creative Experience in Clara Janés' Vilanos (E-mails) (2004)," Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Vol. 99, No. 8 (2022): 1293-1319. DOI: 10.1080/14753820.2022.2139495 (Abstract) "Cinema as Method: Re-vision in Ramón Gómez de la Serna's Film Script Cifras (1930)," Modernism/modernity, Vol. 29, No. 4 (2023): 717-740. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2022.0036. (Abstract) "Writing for New Literacies: Pío Baroja's Novela Film (1929)," Revista Hispánica Moderna, Vol. 76, No. 1 (June 2023): 73-93. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/rhm.2023.0003 (Abstract) " ' Salve, risueña mentira': Cosmic Hyperbole, Confession, and Historical Consciousness in Ramón del Valle-Inclán's Sonata de invierno (1905)," Bulletin of Spanish Studies (2019): 1-17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2019.11 "The Possibility of Becoming in Pedro Almodóvar's Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1988) and Los abrazos rotos (2009)," Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 96.2 (2019): 181-199. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2019.11 |