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Gema Pilar Pérez Sánchez Gema Pilar Pérez Sánchez 100 Edgewater Drive, Apt. 307 Department of Modern Coral Gables, FL 33133 Languages and Literatures Tel.: (305) 668-1554 University of Miami P.O. Box 248093 Coral Gables, FL 33124-4650 Tel.: (305) 284-4858 Date: January 6, 2017 E-mail: gema@miami.edu Education Ph.D. Romance Studies, Cornell University, May 1998. Major Field of Specialization: Twentieth-century Spanish literature (narrative). Secondary Fields: Film theory, cultural, women’s and queer studies. M.A. English Literature, Bucknell University, Spring 1992. Major Field of Specialization: Anglo-American and French Feminist Theory and Queer Studies B.A. Music Performance-Flute (Título Profesional de Grado Superior en Flauta Travesera), Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, Spain, Spring 1990. Studies towards a Licenciatura en Filología Hispánica, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain. Fall 1985-Spring 1987. Academic employment University of Miami (1999-present) Associate Professor, tenured, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures (also affiliated with Graduate School, Center for Latin American Studies—now The Miami Institute for the Americas—and Women’s and Gender Studies Program). June 2005-present. Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures (also affiliated with Graduate School, Center for Latin American Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies Program). Fall 1999-Spring 2005. Fordham University, Rose Hill and Lincoln Center Campuses (1996-1999) Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures (also affiliated with Literary Studies, Women’s Studies, and Latin American and Latino Studies Programs). Fall 1996-Spring 1999. Tenure-track Instructor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Fall 1996-Spring 1998. Cornell University (1992-1996) John S. Knight Writing Program. Instructor, Fall 1995. Department of Near Eastern Studies. Teaching Assistant, Summer 1995. Department of Romance Studies. Instructor, Fall 1994-Spring 1995. History of Art Department. Reader, Fall 1994. Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics. Teaching Assistant, Fall 1993-Spring 1994 Bucknell University (1990-1992) Department of Modern Languages. Teaching Assistant, Fall 1990-Spring 1991. Pérez-Sánchez CV - 2 Academic employment (continued) Other Institutions (1988-1990) Fundación Ponce de León/Asociación Cultural Hispano-Norteamericana, Madrid, Spain. Part-time Instructor of English as a Foreign Language. December 1988-July 1990. Teaching and research interests Modern and Contemporary Spanish literature Contemporary Spanish film, photography, and sequential art Cultural studies Migration studies Literary theory Queer theory Transnational Queer Activism Languages Bilingual, Spanish / English; Italian, advanced reading and comprehension skills, intermediate speaking skills; French, Portuguese, Galician, intermediate comprehension and reading skills, beginner speaking skills. Publications Books Queer Transitions in Contemporary Spanish Culture: From Franco to la Movida. SUNY Press for the SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture, 2007. Reviews: Gerard Coll-Planas. Feminist Review 94 (2010): 170–172. Print. Virginia Newhall Rademacher. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 10.3 (Sept. 2009): 375-77. Print. Antonio López-Quiñones. ALEC (Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea) 34.1 (2009): 371-76. Print. David Vilaseca. Hispanic Review 76.4 (Autumn 2008): 465-68. Print. Sandra Kingery. Letras Femeninas 34.1 (Summer 2008): 255-57. Print. David William Foster. Hispania 91.3 (September 2008): 607-08. Print. Carlos Jerez-Farrán. Iberoamericana 8.31 (September 2008): 218-21. Print. Ellen Gil-Gómez. ImageText: Interdisciplinary Comic Studies 4.2 (Winter 2008). Web. Book manuscripts in progress: Transnational Queer Affects, Homonormativity, and Immigration in Contemporary Spanish Culture. In progress. Abstract: The existing scholarship about contemporary Spanish literary and filmic representations of immigration to Spain from Sub-Saharan and North Africa and from Latin America has approached this rich contemporary cultural corpus by addressing Spain’s colonial and postcolonial relationships to the immigrants’ regions of origin (Campoy-Cubillo, Flessler, Martin-Márquez, Nair, Ugarte); by employing decolonial and border studies perspectives (Nair, Ricci, Sanjuán-Pastor); by examining linguistic tensions between minority languages and ethnicities, such as Catalan and Tamazight/ Amazigh (Celaya, Ricci, Sanjuán-Pastor, Song); or by focusing on the intersection of gender and migratory status (Ballesteros, Everly, Folkart). Keeping these previous approaches in mind, my book not only examines how historical memories of colonialism and prior migrations to the Iberian Pérez-Sánchez CV - 3 Publications (continued) Book manuscripts in progress (continued) Peninsula might influence the current responses of Spanish writers, filmmakers, and visual artists to the immigrant Other, but it also analyzes specific anxieties about race, sexuality, and nationhood that are intricately woven into notions of Spanish masculinity, the “branding” of Spain abroad, and Spain’s insertion into a neoliberal paradigm. Through the theoretical concepts of “homonationalism” (Puar) and “pinkwashing” (Abuminah, Schulman, Spade), I address the unique confluence, around the turn of the century, of positive legal gains for LGBT Spaniards with actively racist policies and practices against immigrants, by analyzing, among other works, Juan Goystisolo’s memoirs (2002 [1985-1986]), Carlos Molinero’s film, Salvajes (2001), Cecilia Barriga’s documentary El camino de Moisés (2003), Juan Bonilla’s novel Los príncipes nubios (2003), Lucía Etxebarria’s novel Cosmophobia (2007), Brigitte Vasallo’s novel PornoBurka (2013), Mikel Rueda’s film A escondidas (2015), and two photographic series by gay visual artist, David Trullo. By doing so, I argue that analyses of contemporary Spanish cultural responses to immigration cannot be separated from an exploration of how “homonormative” (Duggan) pressures, “homotional” (Álvarez) cartographies, and queer constitutive affects (Ahmed) “assemble” (Puar) in discourses about immigration and LGBTQ culture in Spain. Queer In/Visibilities: Literary and Visual Public Interventions in Twenty-First Century Spain. Book project. Abstract: In this book, I study the intersection of literary, visual, and activist discourses and transnational mobilizations in Spain around the passing of Law 13/2005 of July 1, 2005, which legalized same-sex marriage, and Law 3/2007 of March 15, 2007, which allowed transgender citizens to change their genders and names in the National Registry without proof of sex- reassignment surgery. I examine important literary, theoretical, and visual art works that engage both in significant aesthetic innovations and in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activism around the time of the passing of these laws. I focus specifically on works that depict or were actually created through affective transnational connections (be it among activists, writers, or artists) among Spaniards and Latin Americans and/or US-Latinos/as—connections that lead to new activist strategies and greater political awareness, but also to forms of aesthetic experimentation. I analyze especially the works of those LGBT visual artists and writers who were directly engaged in activism at the turn of this century, such as lesbian photographers Cabello/Carceller and gay male photographer David Trullo; writers Eduardo Mendicutti and Álvaro Pombo; Colombian-Spanish filmmaker Cecilia Barriga; and queer theorists Beatriz (Paul B.) Preciado, Raquel Lucas Platero, Javier Sáez, Francisco Vidarte, and Sejo Carrascosa. Guest Editor Special Issue Guest co-editor, with Brenna Munro, special issue on “Thinking Queer Activism Transnationally.” The Scholar & Feminist Online (Barnard Center for Research on Women). 15.1 (Summer 2017). Submitted. Essays Essays in Peer-Reviewed Journals “David Trullo’s Queer Revisionist Photography: Negotiating Spain’s Homonationalism and the Marketing of LGTBQI Human Rights as Commodities in Latin America.” Journal of Language and Sexuality. 5.2 (2016): 197-221. Pérez-Sánchez CV - 4 Publications (continued) Essays in Peer-Reviewed Journals (continued) “El humorismo gráfico de Maitena Burundarena: de lo local a lo global; de los estereotipos a la subversión” Revista Iberoamericana. Special issue: “Entre el margen y el canon: pensamientos discursivos en torno al cómic Latinoamericano” 77.234 (Jan.-March 2011): 87-110. “Transnational Conversations in Migration, Queer, and Transgender Studies: Multimedia Storyspaces.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 35.1 (Fall 2010): 163-84. “El franquismo, ¿un regimen homosexual?” (Translation, adaptation, and revision of “Franco’s Spain, Queer Nation?”). Orientaciones 7 (Special Issue on “Represión franquista”) (June 2004): 29-48. “Franco’s Spain, Queer Nation?” LatCrit Symposium joint issues of the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (Vol. 33.3, Winter 2000): 359-403 and the Michigan Journal of Race & Law (Vol. 5, Winter 2000): 943-87. Requested for translation and adaptation to Spanish by the peer-review journal Orientaciones for their special issue no. 7 “Represión bajo el franquismo.” (June 2004): 29-48. Essays in Peer-Reviewed Edited Books “Pinkwashing.” Lucas Platero, María Rosón, Esther Ortega, eds. Barbarismos queer y otras esdrújulas. Submitted. 2,000 words short essay. “What Happens on the Other
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