University of Colorado Denver College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Bio:

Marisa's research area is Contemporary Spanish (Peninsular) literature, film and culture.  Her most recent book (forthcoming) is a study of the photographic medium in the narrative of Spanish contemporary author Antonio Muñoz Molina.

Recently, Marisa has been awarded a Colorado European Union Center of Excellence Curriculum Development Grant. This grant will assist her this summer in her research on themes of travel, exile and migration through current Spanish (Peninsular) literary texts, films, documentaries, critical theory, and other products of popular culture, such as television programs. The results of this research will benefit, not only the course : Espacios de lo intercultural: Españoles en el mundo y Destino España, (offered for the first time on Fall 2011), but also her future publications.

Selected Publications:

El medio fotográfico en la narrativa de Antonio Muñoz Molina. Academia Editorial del Hispanismo SLU. Vigo. Spain. Forthcoming.

“Ut pictura poesis”: Lo plástico y lo transitorio en la prosa azoriniana de La Voluntad (1902). Bulletin of Spanish Studies. Forthcoming.

“El texto, la piel y el recinto: En breve cárcel de Sylvia Molloy”. Actas del X CILH (Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica) Fondo Editorial del CILH, 2011. Forthcoming

 “The Heroic Figure of the Anarchist miliciana in the Spanish Civil War: Vicente Aranda’s Libertarias”. The Image of the Hero II: Proceedings of the 2010 Conference of the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery. (2010): 255-258

“Tractado de Amores de Arnalte e Lucenda de Diego de San Pedro: sobre la narración en primera persona”. Lemir. Literatura Española Medieval y Renacimiento. Universitat de Valencia. 14 (2010): 217-224

“La fotografía y la memoria en El jinete polaco de Antonio Muñoz Molina”. BBMP (Boletín de la biblioteca Menéndez Pelayo) LXXXIV (2008), 433-454

“La representación de la mujer en los orígenes de la ficción detectivesca española: El Clavo de Alarcón.” Las representaciones de Ia mujer en Ia cultura hispánica. Universitas Castellae. 7 (2002), 133-139

“La proximidad de los fantasmas. Beatus Ille y El jinete Polaco de Antonio Muñoz Molina.” Versants. 31 (1997), 77-106

Courses Taught:

UNHL 3995 - Cultures of Contemporary Spain, taught in University of Granada, Spain, Maymester 2011.

Introduction to the Study of Literature (in Spanish). (Fall 2009, Fall 2010)

Contemporary Spanish Culture and Institutions (in Spanish). (Spring, 2010)

Contemporary Spanish (Peninsular) Literature (in Spanish). (Spring, 2010)

Culture and Civilization of Spain I. (Spring, 2011)

Spanish Culture through Film and Narrative (Spring 2011)