ISBN
978-8-41-772913-4
Colección
Año
2019
Temática
Shining Signs of the Day. Spaces and Senses in Transatlantic Culture
Precio
15,00 €
Resumen:
Este libro recoge artículos sobre cómo la representación de y el compromiso con los sentidos han afectado a los medios de comunicación y su impacto psicológico, físico y estético en los espacios sociales. En este despliegue de crítica literaria, filosofía, estudios de cine y audiovisuales, teoría política, estudios de sonido, teoría del afecto, literatura universal y estudios urbanos, los autores han tratado una amplia variedad de temas, con objetos desde los barcos de vapor hasta los monopatines, textos desde Catulo hasta V de Vendetta, e incluso han replanteado la geografía cultural del Atlántico.
Editor
Bronislava Greskovicova-Chang
Directora de programas del Instituto de Investigaciones Afrolatinoamericanas de la Universidad de Harvard. Ha impartido clases de lengua y cultura española en la misma universidad, así como en Boston College. Es doctora en Estudios Árabes e Islámicos Contemporáneos por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Además, es licenciada en Filología Hispánica por la Universidad de Málaga, con Máster en Estudios Árabes e Islámicos Contemporáneos de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid y en Diplomacia y Relaciones Internacionales de la Escuela Diplomática de Madrid. Sus intereses intelectuales y académicos se centran en el estudio de género, las migraciones, la justicia racial y el bilingüismo.
Carlos Varón González
Carlos Varón González received his Ph.D. in Spanish Literature and Culture at Harvard (2015) and lectured on modern and contemporary Spanish literature, film, and popular culture (soccer, music, videogames) at Trinity College and New York University before joining the Hispanic Studies department at UC Riverside. He has published essays on post-foundational political theory and poetry in Spanish and Latin American culture on José Martí, Rubén Darío, María Zambrano, José Ángel Valente, or Giovanni Quessep. He co-edited Shining Signs of the Day: Senses and Spaces in Transatlantic Studies (Biblioteca Franklin-Universidad Alcalá de Henares, forthcoming) and was the managing editor of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies from 2016 to 2018. His book manuscript, on the idea of poetry in post-totalitarian culture, is entitled Malos tiempos para la lírica: poesía y cancelación del espacio público. His new project, exploring emotions as the conditions of possibility of different socio-political scenarios (nationalism, exile, populism, terrorism) is tentatively entitled “I Feel Your Pain: The Political Mobilization of Affect.”
David Yagüe González
David Yagüe González received his PhD in Hispanic Studies from Texas A&M University and his PhD in African American literature from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Before coming to MIT, he taught all levels of Spanish at Harvard University on and off for seven years and its study abroad programs first in Buenos Aires and then in Madrid, that he helped co-create.
Yagüe González’s pedagogical interest include Latinx literature and culture, visual arts in language education, and heritage language pedagogy.
Ana Yáñez Rodríguez
Lecturer in Spanish. She teaches primarily at intermediate through advanced levels, and leads 21G.713 Spanish Through Film. Prior to joining MIT in 2012, Yáñez Rodríguez taught at Harvard University and other institutions in the US.
She is a co-editor of Shining Signs of the Day. Spaces and Senses in Transatlantic Culture (University of Alcalá Press, 2019) and Wall to Wall: Law as Culture in Latin America and Spain (Vernon Press, 2021).
Yáñez Rodríguez’s pedagogical interests include film in language education, heritage language pedagogy, technology in the language classroom, and transatlantic studies.