Cristina Moreiras-Menor


Name: Cristina Moreiras-Menor

Title(s):

  • Associate Professor of Spanish
  • Associate Professor of Women's Studies

Contact Information: 734.647.2475 , moreiras@umich.edu

Website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/rll/deptdir/facultybios/moreirasmenor.html

International Institute Affiliation(s):

  • CES-EUC
  • WCED

Department Affiliation(s):

  • Romance Languages & Literatures
  • Women's Studies

Education Background: Ph.D. University of California-Davis, 1994

World Area(s) of Study/Interest:

  • European Studies

Related Countries:

  • Spain

Research/Teaching Specialization: Modern and Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film, Psychoanalysis, Cultural and Political Theory, and Women's Studies

Area/Int'l Course(s) Taught: Culture, Psychoanalysis, History: Spain 1898-1992; The Question of War: Culture and Violence in Modern Spain; Peninsular Nationalism; Shadows of a Dictatorship: Memory and Literature in Democratic Spain; Spain from the Margins: Peninsular Literatures and Cultures; Spanish and Latin American Women Writers; Culture and Immigration

Publications:

  • "Critical Interventions on Violence: An Introduction". 2002. (Refereed Journal Article)
  • "War, Post-War, and the Reactionary Fabrication of Identity". 2007. (Refereed Journal Article)
  • "Modernity's Violence: Clarín's Short Stories and the Occlusion of Origins". 2002. (Refereed Journal Article)
  • "Spectacle, Trauma, Violence in Contemporary Spain". 2000. (Refereed Journal Article)
  • "Antonio Muñoz Molina, Beatus Ille". 2006. (Refereed Journal Article)
  • Cultura herida: literatura y cine en la España democratic . 2002. (Authored Book)