Education

Ph.D. Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley 2007

B.A. Wesleyan University 1998

Publications

Books:

 

Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: History and Representation. Co-edited with Gina Herrmann. University of Toronto Press, 2020.


Spaniards in Mauthausen: Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp, 1940-2015 (U Toronto P 2018)

Genre Fusion: A New Approach to History, Fiction, and Memory in Contemporary Spain (Purdue U Press 2014)

Journal Articles:

 

“The Death of Historical Memory? Javier Cercas’s El impostor versus the Legacy of Spaniards Deported to Nazi Camps,” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Issue 19.3 (2018), 365-81.


 


“Carlos Rodríguez del Risco and the First Spanish Voice from the Holocaust,” History & Memory, Vol. 25, No. 1 (2013), 51-76.


 


“Moral Ambiguity in Mauthausen: Mercè Rodoreda’s ‘Nit i boira,’” Letras femeninas, Vol. 38, No. 2 (2012), 217-229.


 

“Montserrat Roig and the Thread of Historiography: From Els catalans als camps nazis to L’hora violeta,Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, No. 86 (2009), 659-673.


 


“Cinematic Barcelona: Catalan Identity in a Culture of Displacement,Catalan Review, Vol. 22 (2008), 19-34.


 

 “Dictatorship Noir: Postwar Spanish History in Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s La sombra del viento,” Romance Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1 (January 2008), 61-73.


 


“Clarín’s Animals: Reading Leopoldo Alas’ Short Fiction through the Darwinian Revolution,” Hispanófila, No. 151 (September 2007), 37-51.


Book Chapters:

 

“Spain’s Mauthausen: Narratives of the Nazi Deportation of Spanish Republicans, 1946-2015,” Spain, World War II and the Holocaust: History and Representation. Eds. Sara J. Brenneis and Gina Herrmann. Forthcoming, University of Toronto Press.


 


“‘El comboi dels 927’ de Montse Armengou: La presencia y la violencia,” Gynocine: Teoría de género, filmología y praxis cinematogrática. Ed. Barbara Zecchi. Zaragoza: Universidad de Zaragoza (2013), 227-239.


 


La batalla de la educación: Historical Memory in Josefina Aldecoa’s Trilogy,” Mirrors and Echoes: Women’s Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain, Eds. Emilie L. Bergmann and Richard Herr.  Berkeley: University of California Press (2007), 136-148.


 

 

 

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