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BARBARA ZECCHI

CURRICULUM VITAE  - updated March 2026

Integrative Learning Center S443,
650 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01003

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Amherst MA 01003

bzecchi@umass.edu
 

 

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
 

Videographic Scholarship,  Visual Cultures, Aging Studies, Iberian and Latin American Cinemas, Film adaptations, Women Filmmakers, Gender Studies

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EDUCATION
 

  • Ph.D. Romance Studies (Spanish and Italian), University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Dissertation: The Representation of Rape and the Rape of Representation: Sexual/Textual Violence in Italy and Spain (Director: Lucia Re), 1998.

  • M.A. Italian Studies, University of California at Los Angeles, 1994.

  • M.A. Dept. of Literature, Spanish Literature, University of California at San Diego, 1990. Master Thesis: La incomunicación en la obra de Carmen Martín Gaite (Director: Susan Kirkpatrick).

  • Laurea (B.A.) Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati, Università  Ca' Foscari, Venezia, Italy, Tesi di Laurea: La primera traducción de la Commedia dantesca atribuida a Don Enrique de Villena. (Director: Marcella Ciceri) Cum Laude, 1986.

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Additional Professional Development

 

  • Videographic Criticism, Scholarship in Sound and Image Summer Institute, Middlebury College, 2019

  • Certificate in Screenwriting, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos I Madrid, Escuela de Guion de Madrid, 2016

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

 

University of Massachusetts Amherst (2005 - present)
Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies
Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese Programs

Affiliated Faculty: Modern European Studies Program

Rank: Full Professor

 

Administrative Appointments

  • Director Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies (2017-present)

  • Director, Graduate Certificate in Videographic Criticism (2024-present)

  • Co-Director Digital Humanities Initiative Program (2015-2018)

  • Director UMass Translation Center (2015-2017)

  • Interim Director of UMass Translation Center (2015-2014)

  • Director of the Spanish and Portuguese Unit, Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Cultures (2012-2017)

 

PROFESSIONAL DISTINCTION

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  • Elected Associate Member of the Academy of Motion Pictures of Spain (La Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España, AACCE) (In that capacity, I vote on the Goya Awards of Spain, Ariel Awards of Mexico, and on the film representing Spain at the Oscars)

 

EDITORSHIP
 

  • Co-Editor-in-Chief, [in]Transition, Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies (2023-ongoing)

  • Associate Member of Editorial Board of REGS (Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades)/JGSS (Journal of Gender and Sexuality Studies, known previously as Letras femeninas) (2022-ongoing)

  • Member of Advisory Board, Teknokultura, Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales (2023–ongoing)

  • Member Editorial Board Estudios LGBTIQ+, Comunicación y Cultura (2021-ongoing)

  • Member Editorial Board Index Comunicación- Revista Ciéntifica de Comunicación Aplicada (2018-ongoing)

  • Guest editor, Special Issue Right to Rage, Teknokultura, Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales (2023)

  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on “Gynocine” Ambitos feministas (Spring 2015)

  • Book Review Editor of Letras Femeninas (2002-09)

  • Member of the Editorial Board of Lecturas: Imágenes, Universidad de Vigo (2003-2009)

  • Member of the Editorial Board of Modern Languages Notes (MLN) Spanish Issue (2002-05)

  • Co-editor-in-Chief of Modern Languages Notes (MLN) Italian Issue (2002-05)

  • Consultant for World Literature and Its Time. Joyce Moss, ed. Detroit: Gale Group, Italian Volume (2002-2003). Spanish Volume (2001)

  • Book Review Editor of Mester (1991-92)

  • Co-Editor-in-Chief of Carte Italiane (1990-91)

 

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITIONS AND SCHOLARLY IMPACT

 

Visiting Appointments
 

  • Invited Scientific Coordinator for Summer School “Videographic Venice”, Venice International University, Italy, 2026 - 2028

  • Tandem Fellow, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Aarhus Universitat, Denmark, Spring 2023

  • Visiting Scholar, Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati,  Università degli Studi Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Italy, Fall 2023

  • Visiting Mentor, Scholarship in Sound and Image Summer Institute, Videographic Criticism Workshop, Middlebury College, Summer 2023

  • Visiting Professor, Másteres en Humanidades, Universitat de Girona, Spain, Spring 2018

  • Visiting Professor, Master di European Studies, Universitat de Valencia, Spain, Fall 2018

  • Visiting Professor, Dept. of Spanish, Mount Holyoke College, Fall 2017

  • Invited Member of Género, Estética y Cultura Audiovisual (GECA) Research Group, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, 2011- ongoing

  • Visiting Associate Professor, Dept. Romance Languages, Johns Hopkins University, 2002-2005 

  • Visiting Professor, Dept. Humanidades, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain, Fall Semesters 1999-2001

  • Visiting Professor, Instituto de la Mujer, Universidad de Valencia, Spain, Spring 2000

  • Visiting Professor, Cursos de Verano, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain, Summers 2000-2001

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Grants and Scholarships
 

  • 2026-2028  Humanities Research and Creative Laboratories Grant awarded by the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, University of Massachusetts Amherst for the Environmental Humanities Lab: Eco-Criticism & Eco-Praxis (Principal Investigator)

  • 2025 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Connections Grant, Canada Grant, awarded for the “Reframing the Argument” Workshop, at the University of Notre Dame (Project participant, PI: Coleen Laird)

  • 2023 Grant, Bando ARU, Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati, University, Ca’Foscari of Venezia, Italy Awarded for the position of “Visiting Professor e Visiting Scholar”

  • 2023  Grant for Professional Development in Teaching Program awarded for the Project “Teaching the Video Essay,” Teaching Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2023

  • 2023-2021  Research and Development Grant (I+D+i) awarded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain for the Project “Mediatización de la rabia de las mujeres: marcos de inteligibilidad y estrategias comunicativas de transformación politizadora”, (Project Participant, PIs: Sonia Núñez Puente, and Maria Jose Gamez Fuentes) R+D Spain PID2020-113054GB-I00.

  • 2021 Nominated for the Samuel F. Conti Fellowship, University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • 2015-2006    Principal Investigator, Grant from the Catalan and Mallorcan Government (Institut Ramon Llull) awarded as Academic coordinator for the Lectureship in Catalan Studies at the University of Massachusetts

  • 2015  Well-Come Trust Grant United Kindom, awarded for the “Cinema Age and Gender Conference, Aston University, Birmingham, UK, 2015 (Co-PI with Raquel Medina)

  • 2015  Grant of the Spanish Ministry of Education of Spain awarded for CinemAGEnder Conference, Aston University, Birmingham, UK, 2015  (Co-PI with Raquel Medina)

  • 2013-2009    Grant I+D of the Grups de Recerca de Catalunya (SGR) awarded for a three-year project on the Representation of the Female Body (“Cos i Textualitat”) renewal 2009-2013 Project Participant, PI: Meri Torras, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

  • 2012  Faculty Research Grant/Healey Endowment Grant, University of Massachusetts Amherst awarded to conduct research for Spanish Women Film Pioneers project

  • 2011  Grant from Program of Cooperation Between the University of Minnesota and the Spanish Ministry of Education awarded to conduct research in Spain

  • 2011  Grant from the Program of Cooperation Between the University of Minnesota and the Spanish Ministry of Education awarded for “Gynocine: Women and Film Conference”

  • 2011  Enhanced Sabbatical Funds awarded for the book project “Women Film Pioneers in Spain” University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • 2010  Seed Grant awarded for the project “The History of Spanish Cinema by Women (1898-1975)” The Digital Humanities Initiative, UMass

  • 2010  Book Publication Subvention Grant, awarded by the College of Humanities and Fines Art, University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • 2009  Faculty Research Grant/Healey Endowment Grant, University of Massachusetts Amherst awarded to conduct research in Spain  

  • 2009 Grant of the Program of Cooperation Between the University of Minnesota and the Spanish Ministry of Education awarded to conduct research in Spain for my book project Género, teoría y práctica cinematográfica

  • 2006-2009    Grant  I+D of the Grups de Recerca de Catalunya (SGR) awarded for a three-year project on the Representation of the Female Body (“Cos i Textualitat”) Project participant, Meri Torras PI, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

  • 2005-2008    Grant I+D from Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia awarded  for the research project "Imágenes del otro: construcción discursiva de la
inmigración en la literatura y el cine de la España contemporánea", University Carlos III of Madrid Project participant, Montserrat Iglesias, principal investigator 

  • 2006  Lilly Fellowship, Teaching Center, University of Massachusetts, Nominated

  • 2002-2005 Travel Grant (awarded six times), Department of Romance Languages, Johns Hopkins University

  • 1999-1996 Faculty Development Fund Grant (awarded nine times), Saint Mary’s College

  • 1995-1996 Dissertation Year Fellowship, Graduate School, University of California Los Angeles

  • 1993  Pre-Dissertation Award, Del Amo Foundation Scholarship, University of California Los Angeles

  • 1992  Lenard Travel Grant, University of California Los Angeles

  • 1987   Best Thesis of The Year Award, honoring outstanding theses written in Italy on Spain, awarded by the Spanish Embassy of Rome to conduct research in Spain for a year

  • 1986-1987   Scholarship of the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, Italy, Exchange Program with the University of California

  • 1984  Grant of the Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores of Spain to conduct research at the University of Salamanca

 

 

Honors

 

  • Video Essay “The Rhythms of Rage” Selected to be showcased at Museum of the Moving Image, New York, for “The Video Essay as the New Avant-Garde: Expanded Screens Series” January 2025

  • Video Essay “The Rhythms of Rage” Chosen for the Official Selection at Emani Art Experimental Film Festival, India 2025; Feminist Border Arts Film Festival, NM 2024; Marienbad Film Festival, Czech Republic 2024. Honorable Mentions at Adelio Ferrero Award on Video Essays, Alessandria, Italy 2024; and at Bordeaux Shorts Biennale, Le festival international du film minute et de court-métrage of Bordeaux, France, 2024.

  • Video Essay “The Rhythms of Rage” top-vote getter of the Sight and Sound ‘Best Video Essays of the 2024’ of the British Film Institute

  •  Video Essay “The Rhythms of Rage” top-vote getter in the “Best Video Essays of the Year 2024” by Polygon.com (a major American entertainment and gaming website that publishes news, reviews, features, and videos about video games and popular culture)

  • Selected as one of three videographic essayists whose work serves as a stylistic and methodological model for multiple videographic essays produced within the Ways of Doing project (Donaldson, Laird, Peirse, McLeod), https://waysofdoing.com/feminist-citational-exercises/

  • 4 Video Essays (“The Accented Sound of Camp”, “Filling (Feeling) the Archival Void: The Case of Helena Cortesina’s Flor de España” (2 mentions), “Being Dolls (or Not): Spinning Mothers and Daughters in Elena Ferrante’s Adaptations”, “The Accented Sound of Camp” (2 mentions)) selected for the  Sight and Sound Best Video Essays of the Year of the British Academy of Cinema, 2023

  • 5 Video Essays (“Filling (Feeling) the Archival Void: The Case of Helena Cortesina’s Flor de España” (3 mentions), “Improbable Dialogism or the Art of Flying”,  “Empowering the Accent: An (Accented) Video-essay”, “Breaking the Silence and Singing” (2 mentions), “TV Dictionary—Blob”) selected for the Sight and Sound ‘Best Video Essays of the Year of the British Academy of Cinema, 2022

  • 5 Video Essays (“A Fish with the Movie Camera: Lucrecia Martel’s Pescados as Metacinema”, “TV Dictionary — Bron/Broen (II)Sight and Sound”, “The Black and White Coffee Set”, “Silence and Words: Voice-over and Trauma in Coixet & Campion”, and “TV Dictionary — Marcella”) selected for the ‘Best Video Essays of the Year Poll’ of the British Academy of Cinema, 2021

  • Monograph Desenfocadas listed as “one of the 13 books that most influenced a decade” by Spanish daily newspaper Diario.es in December 2019.

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PUBLICATIONS 

 

Books
 

The Wrinkle of Film
B. Zecchi, & R. Medina, Co-Authors.

Liverpool University Press, Under Contract

 

Tecnologías de la edad: imaginarios cinematográficos de la vejez, 2023.

R. Medina, & B. Zecchi, Co-Editors
Granada: Editorial Comares. ISBN 978-8413695518.

 

Envejecimientos y cines ibéricos, 2021.

B. Zecchi, R. Medina, C. Moreiras-Menor, and P. Rodríguez, Co-Editors
Valencia: Editorial Tirant. ISBN-10, 8418802200.

 

Gender-Based Violence in Latin American and Iberian Cinemas, 2020.

R. Maseda and M.J. Gámez Fuentes, & B. Zecchi, Co-Editors
London & New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1138349473.

 

Tras las lentes de Isabel Coixet: Quince años de cine, compromiso y feminism, 2017.
B. Zecchi, Editor

Zaragoza: Publicaciones Universidad de Zaragoza. ISBN-10. 8416935734.

Reviewed by:

 

La pantalla sexuada, 2015

B. Zecchi, Author
Madrid: Editorial Cátedra, 2014. ISBN: 978-84-376-3287-2

Reviewed by:

 

Desenfocadas: cineastas españolas y discursos de género, 2014
B. Zecchi, Author    
Barcelona: Editorial Icaria, 2014. ISBN 978-84-9888-568-2.

Reviewed by:

  • Esther Gimeno Ugalde, International Journal Iberian Studies, 29.2 (2017), 189-191

  • Hernando Gómez Prada, Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies, 7.1 (2015), 106-107

  • Santiago Fouz-Hernández, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 92 (2015), 478-479

  • Mary Kate Donovan, Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas, 12.2 (2014)

  • Jorge Pérez, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 48.3 (2014), 46-48

  • Elena Oroz (2014): Secuencias 38, pp. 145-183.

  • Silvia Guillamón (2015): Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, 69.4 (2015), 230-232

  • Cineparatodas http://cineparatodas.wordpress.com/2014/06/11/discurso-de-genero-en-el-cine-autora-barbara-zecchi/

 

Gynocine: Teoría de género, filmología y praxis cinematográfica. 2013

B. Zecchi, Editor

Zaragoza: Publicaciones Universidad de Zaragoza. ISBN-10. 8415770855.

Reviewed by:

  • Mary Kate Donovan Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas, 12.2 (2014)

  • Susana Domingo Amestoy Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 92.4 (2015), 479-480

 

Teoría y práctica de la adaptación fílmica. 2012.

B. Zecchi, Editor
Madrid: Editorial Universidad Complutense. ISBN : 9788499381305.

Reviewed by:

  • María Camí-Vela Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, 38.2 (2014): 416-418

 

La mujer en la España actual: ¿evolución o involución? 2004.

J. Cruz, & B. Zecchi, Co-Editors
Barcelona: Icaria. ISBN: 978-84-746-705-6

Reviewed by:

  • María Dolores Nieto Alarcón,  Lectora, 10 (2004): 455–60

  • Lynn K. Talbot,  Letras femeninas, 32.2 (2005): 244-45

 

Sexualidad y escritura (1850–2000). 2002.
R. Medina & B. Zecchi, Co-Editors.
Barcelona: Anthropos. ISBN-10, 847658637X.
Reviewed by:

  • Yolanda Pascual Solé,  MLN, 120.2 (2005): 499-301

  • María Camí Vela , Symposium, 58.3 (2004): 194–97

  • Maria Matz, Letras Femeninas, 29.2 (2003): 226–28

  • Antonio Pedrós Gascón, España Contemporánea, 16.2 (2003):  119–22

  • Kathleen Doyle, MMLA, 36.2 (2003): 51-53. 

 

Benito Pérez Galdós, El amigo Manso, 2002
J.B.Monleon & B. Zecchi, Curators
Madrid: Akal, 2002. ISBN 10: 8446018896

 

 

Edited Special Issues of Peer-Reviewed Journals

 

2025. “Aging Stars” Special Issue of Screen Star Dictionary, vol. 15. Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays. [Guest editor].

 

2025. “Ecocriticism and Animal Studies” Special Issue of [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, 12.3 [Co-Editor and Co-Curator with Maria Pramaggiore].

 

2024. “Women and Aging” Special Issue of [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, 11.3 (2024). [Editor and Curator].

 

2024. “Con derecho a la rabia: Subjetividad y activismo” Special Issue of Teknokultura: Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales, 21.1. [Co-Editor with Diana Fernández-Romero].

 

 

Digital Humanities Projects

 

  • CinemAGEnder: Ageing Studies, Gender, and Visual Culture (co-founder and co-director),

  • Gynocine: Feminisms, Gender, and Cinemas (founder and director), www.gynocine.com

 

Articles, Video Essays, and Book Chapters (Peer-reviewed)

 

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2024). “‘The problem is the system’: Luis Rubiales, Jenni Hermoso and the sound of sealed lips” European Journal of Cultural Studies, doi:10.1177/13675494241276183

 

  • Fernández Romero, D. & Zecchi, B. (2024). “Con derecho a la rabia: Subjetividad y activismo” Introduction to Special Issue of Tecknokultura. Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales, 21.1, pp. 1-6, with Diana Fernández Romero, 2024, https://doi.org/10.5209/tekn.91901

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2023). “Being Dolls (or Not): Spinning mothers and daughters in Elena Ferrante’s adaptations (mins. 4:45), Tecmerin. Revista de Ensayos Audiovisuales, 11, 2023(1). ISSN: 2659-4269, https://tecmerin.uc3m.es/project/being-dolls-or-not-spinning-mothers-and-daughters-in-elena-ferrantes-adaptations/?lang=en
     

  • Zecchi, B. (2023). “Filling (Feeling) the Archival Void: The Case of Helena Cortesina’s Flor de España.” Feminist Media Histories, 9.4, 2023, pp.14-27 . https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2023.9.4.14
     

  • Medina, R. & Zecchi, B. (2023). «Todas las personas mayores son iguales, pero algunas son más iguales que otras: la diversidad del envejecimiento en el cine» co-authored with Raquel Medina, in Tecnologías de la edad: imaginarios cinematográficos de la vejez, Editorial Comares Granada, 2023.
     

  • Zecchi, B. (2022). «Veinte años en la escalera del celuloide: el doble reto de la ficción cinematográfica femenina (2000-2020)» In Brecha de género en el audiovisual español, Concha Gómez, ed. Tirant Editorial, Valencia, 2022.
     

  • Zecchi, B. (2022). «Ageing in Latin American Cinema» (co-authored with Raquel Medina) in Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film, Sarah Falcus, Heike Hartung, Raquel Medina, eds. (2022).
     

  • Zecchi, B. (2021). «Gendered Aging and Sexuality in Audiovisual Culture» Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging Springer, 2021, pp 1998–2003, first online 2022 (978-3-030-22009-9)
     

  • Zecchi, B. (2021). «Elena Jordi entre mito y realidad» In Elena Jordi: Una reina berguedana a la cort del paral.lel. Col.lecció Auró. Ambit de Recerques del Berguedà. Josep Cunill Canals, ed., 2021.
     

  • Zecchi, B. & Garwood, I. (2021). «Tv Dictionary on The Bridge/Bron/Broen» In Critical Studies in Television (CSTonline), https://cstonline.net/tv-dictionary-on-the-bridge-bron-broen-by-barbara-zecchi-and-ian-garwood/

 

  • Zecchi, B (2021). “The Black and White Coffee Set: Social/Racial Mobility in Ana Muylaert’s film Que horas ela volta”. [In]Transition - Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, 8.1, 2021.
     

  • Zecchi, B., Medina R., Moreiras-Menor, C., Rodríguez, M.P. (2021). «El envejecimiento en la sociedad. El envejecimiento en el cine”, en Envejecimientos y cines ibéricos (Barbara Zecchi, Raquel Medina, Cristina Moreiras-Menor, María Pilar Rodríguez, eds.) Editorial Tirant, Valencia.
     

  • Zecchi, B. (2021). «El neorealismo italiano importado (y feminizado) en España: Ana Mariscal y Segundo López, aventurero urbano»  Cine italiano y cine español: influencias, convergencias y contrastes Diálogos e influencias: cine y televisión en Italia y en España. Eduardo Urios-Aparisi and Giovanni Spani eds., Quod Manet, 2021.
     

  • Zecchi, B. (2020). «Technologies of Age: The Intersection of Feminist Film Theory and Aging Studies» (co-authored with Raquel Medina) Investigaciones Feministas. Special Issue on Feminist Methodologies , Lisa Cuklanz and María Pilar Rodríguez, invited editors Vol 11, Num 2, 2020, 251-261.
     

  • Zecchi, B. (2020). “Screening counter-violence: An introduction to giving account beyond memories of trauma»  (co-authored with Rebeca Maseda García, and María José Gámez Fuentes) in Gender-Based Violence in Latin American and Iberian Cinemas, Rebeca Maseda García, María José Gámez Fuentes, and Barbara Zecchi (Eds.) Routledge, 2020.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2020). «El cine, fábrica de misoginia» UTOPÍA Revista de Crítica cultural, Special Issue on Misoginy: Sobre el odio a las mujeres, Num. 5, 2020, pp. 61-69.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2019). “Gendered Aging and Sexuality in Audiovisual Culture”. In Dana Du and Matthew Dupre (eds), Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2019). «Vejez femenina y violencia sexual en el imaginario cinematográfico: de lo abyecto al envejecimiento positivo» Violencias y edad en los medios de comunicación, Eds. Francisco A. Zurian; M. Isabel Menéndez Menéndez; Francisco José García-Ramos, Colección “Estudios de Violencia de Género” Edicions UIB, Universitat de les Illes Balears, 2019, pp. 25-42.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2019). «Intervening In The Present: Catalan Cinema’s Radical Years (1968–1978)» Film Quarterly, Spring 2019, Vol. 72, Num. 3, pp. 69-77

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2019). «Flor de España o la historia de una desapropiación: Rescatando la película de Helena Cortesina» Presències i representaciones de la dona en els primers anys del cinema. 1985-1920. Àngel Quintana i Jordi Pons, eds. Museu del Cinema/Universidat de Girona, Girona, 2019, pp. 239-253.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2018). “Da vittima invisibile a sopravvissuta: le registe italiane rispondono alla violenza di genere” Rappresentare la violenza di genere, Marina Bettaglio, Nicoletta Mandolini, Silvia Ross, eds. Mimesis edizioni, Milano, 2018, pp. 159-192.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2018). “Mujeres y cine: Nombrar un corpus, rescatar un legado y definir un lenguaje propio” Representaciones de género en la industria visual, Editorial Osífragos, 2018, pp. 91-108.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2017). “La ‘Mirada Coixet’: Compromiso y feminismo”, in Tras las lentes de Isabel Coixet: Cine, Compromiso y Feminismo, ed. Barbara Zecchi, Zaragoza, Prensas Universitarias Zaragoza, 2017, pp. 13-33.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2017). "El terror hacia la mujer que mira: Voyerismo y abyección en Another Me" in Tras las lentes de Isabel Coixet: Cine, Compromiso y Feminismo, ed. Barbara Zecchi, Zaragoza, Prensas Universitarias Zaragoza, 2017, pp. 299-318.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2017). “Comedy as a Feminist Strategy: Spanish Women Filmmakers Reclaim Laughter” (transl., reprinted) Women's Authorship and Genre in Film and Television, Mary Harrod and Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, eds., Abingdon: Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2017). “Laura Mañá: irreverencia y desafío feminista desde el realismo mágico al realismo histórico”, Mujeres y cine español (2000-2015), Francisco Zurian, ed., Madrid: Fundamentos, 2017.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2017). "Sex After Fifty: The ‘Invisible’ Female Ageing Body in Spanish Women-Authored Cinema", Spanish Erotic Cinema, Santiago Fouz-Hernandez, ed., Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017, 230-250.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2017). "Le sirene nella semiperiferia mediterranea", Donne del Mediterraneo: Saggi interdisciplinari, Giovanni Spani, Marco Marino eds., Firenze: Società Editrice Fiorentina, 2017, 9-19.

 

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2015). “La ‘españolada’ al femminile”, Rassegna Iberística, 38.108, 2015: 41-62.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2015). “El cine de Pedro Almodóvar: de óptico a háptico, de gay a queer” Área Abierta, 15.1. Monográfico: Estudios sobre masculinidades, LGBTIQ y cultura audiovisual, 2015: 31-52.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2014). “Margarita Alexandre: una pionera bajo el signo de la excepcionalidad” Construyendo una mirada propia: mujeres directoras en el cine español (de los orígenes al año 2000), Francisco Zurián, ed. Madrid: Sintesis, 2014, 29-48.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2013). “Dos pioneras entre el teatro y el cine:  Helena Jordi y Elena Cortesina” Actas del II Congreso Internacional de Historia, Literatura y Arte en el Cine en español y portugués, Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca, 2013.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2013). “La comedia como estrategia feminista: la recuperación de la risa” Gynocine: Teoría de género, filmología y praxis cinematográfica, Barbara Zecchi (ed.), Universidad de Zaragoza: Colección sagardiana, estudios feministas, Zaragoza, 2013.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2012). “La adaptación multiplicada” Teoría y práctica de la adaptación fílmica, Barbara Zecchi, ed. Madrid: Editorial Complutense, 2012: 18-62.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2011). “La descorporització de l'embaràs al cinema de dones actual” A flor de text. La representació de la corporeïtat als llenguatges artístics, Noemí Acedo Alonso y Aina Pérez Fontdevila, eds. Barcelona, Ediuoc, 2011: 137-145.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2010). “Veinte años de inmigración en el imaginario fílmico español: hacia un espacio liminal” Imágenes de Otro: Identidad e Inmigración en la literatura y el cine, Montserrat Iglesias, ed. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 157-184

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2009). “Desde el ‘cine de mujeres’ a CIMA: ¿hacia un nuevo discurso fílmico femenino?” Boletín Hispano Helvético 13-14, 243-260.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2008). “Women Filming The Male Body: Subversions, Inversions and Identifications” Studies in Hispanic Cinemas 3. 3, 187-204.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2007). “La desapropiación de la escritora: de la angelización a la ginofagia” Lectora.  Revista de dones i textualitat 13, 241-249.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2007). “Insolación de Emilia Pardo Bazán: Intertextualidades y parodias, hacia una escritura de la igualdad” MLN 122. 2, 294-314.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2006). “Estrategias de elisión, inscripción y desexuación en la representación cinematográfica de la violencia contra la mujer” El doble filo de la navaja; violencia y representación” Fernando García Selgas, Carmen Romero Bachiller, eds.  Madrid: Trotta, 107-128.

    • Reprinted in  Herrera, Javier, Martínez-Carazo, Cristina (eds.) Hispanismo y cine. Madrid / Frankfurt, 2007, Iberoamericana / Vervuert.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2006). “Inconsciente genérico, feminismo y Nubosidad variable de Carmen Martín Gaite” Arbor 720, 2006: 527-535.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2005). “Idiosincrasias fílmicas del cuerpo de la mujer por la mujer” Los hábitos del deseo. Formas de amar en la modernidad, Carme Riera, Meri Torras, Isabel Clúa y Pau Pitarch, eds. Barcelona: Ediciones ExCultura, 133-139.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2005). “Reinventando el placer cinematográfico femenino: Rosario Pi, Josefina Molina y Judith Colell” Lecturas: Imágenes. Revista poética de cine 4, 187-213.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2005). “All About Mothers: Pronatalist Discourses in Contemporary Spanish Cinema” College Literature Review, 32.1, 146-164. 

 

  • Cruz, J & Zecchi, B. (2004). “Mujer y cine: Estudio panorámico de éxitos y paradojas” La mujer en la España actual:¿evolución o involución? Barbara Zecchi and Jacqueline Cruz, eds. Barcelona: Icaria, 315-351.

 

  • Cruz, J & Zecchi, B. (2004). “Maternidad y violación: dos caras del control sobre el cuerpo femenino” (with Jacqueline Cruz) La mujer en la España actual:¿evolución o involución? Barbara Zecchi and Jacqueline Cruz, eds. Barcelona: Icaria, 147-175.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2003). "La desheredada: historia de dos novelas" Actas del XXXIII Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana Universidad de Salamanca, 1685-1695.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2003). “Canción de cuna: del papel al celuloide” Lecturas: Imágenes. Revista de poética del cine 2, 423-437.

 

  • Zecchi, B. and Medina R. (2002). "La hermandad lírica, Bécquer y la ansiedad de autoría" Sexualidad y Escritura. Raquel Medina and Barbara Zecchi (eds.) Barcelona: Anthropos, 33-60.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2002). "Mujer, escritura y dictadura: el caso de El Ventanal" Las representaciones de la mujer en la cultura hispánica. K.M. Sibbald and R. de la Fuente Ballesteros, eds. Valladolid: Universitas Castellae, 2002: 423-438.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2001). "'Si te ata, no te quiere': violencia y status quo en el cine de Pedro Almodóvar" Lectura: Imágenes. Carmen Becerra, Manuel Angel Candelas, Antonio Chas, María Jesús Fariña, Beatriz Suárez, eds. Vigo, Spain: Universidade de Vigo, 2001: 319-333.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2000). "El ventanal: aporías de la mujer franquista" El Franquismo: El Régimen y la Oposición. Guadalajara: Archivo Histórico Provincial, 2000: 295-304.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (2000). "Domesticidad, feminismo doméstico y ¿posibles alternativas?" Autoras y Protagonistas. Textos de Mujeres y sobre Mujeres. Pilar Pérez Cantó and Elena Postigo Castellanos, eds. Madrid: Instituto de la Mujer, Universidad Autónoma, 2000: 441-460.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (1999). "Ne' Penelope, ne' Elettra: il canto di Maria Corti" Rivista di Studi Italiani, 17. 1, 1999: 308-27

 

  • Zecchi, B. (1999). "El ángel violado: desarticulación (masculina) y  articulación (femenina) de la violencia hacia la mujer en la literatura romántica" Mujer, sexo y poder en la literatura femenina iberóamericana del S. XIX Joanna Courteau, ed. Valladolid, Spain: Siglo XIX, 1999: 61-74.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (1996). "L'Oblò di Adriano Spatola: il racconto del racconto che non c'è" Italian Quarterly 33, 1996: 49-60.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (1995). "Poética de ida y vuelta: Los paseos americanos de García Lorca" Letras Peninsulares 7.2, 1995: 555-568.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (1994). "Maria Luisa Spaziani" Italian Women Writers, A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, Rinaldine Russell, ed. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994: 395-403.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (1993). "L'Ortis di Foscolo e le Cartas marruecas di Cadalso: coincidenze?" Romance Linguistics and Literature Review 6, 1993: 54-61.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (1992). "Il corpo femminile trampolino tra scrittura e volo. Enif Robert e Biancamaria Frabotta: settant'anni verso il tempo delle donne." Italica 69. 4, 1992: 505-518.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (1991). "El cobijo de la infancia en la obra de Carmen Martín Gaite" Mester: Special Issue on Women Writers 20. 2, 1991: 77-88.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (1991). "Appunti sulle due piu' antiche traduzioni allo spagnolo della Commedia," Carte Italiane 11, 1991: 21-30.

 

  • Zecchi, B. (1988). "La traduzione della Commedia dantesca attribuita a Enrique de Villena: Il Paradiso," Annali di Ca'Foscari  27. 1-2, 1988: 327-345.

Videographic Scholarship and Film/Video Productions (Non–Peer-Reviewed)

 

 

  • “Rachael’s Eyes” Fragments: A Journal of videographic form and method, Vol. 1, May 2025, https://fragments.video (videographic fragment)

 

  • “Cut to Sound #3: Magnetic Pulses” conceived and designed by Ariel Avissar, made with image clips selected by - and words written by - Barbara Zecchi, Cormac Donnelly, Merel Marjieh, Jeff Romero Middents, Jemma Penny, Adi Beck, Nilüfer Neslihan Arslan, and Colleen Laird, "Cut to Sound", 2025: https://www.arielavissar.work/cut-to-sound (collaborative video)

 

 

  • “Gloria/Remake” with collaborations by Colleen Laird, Libertad Gills, Evelyn Kreutzer, Ariane Hudelet, Emily Su Bin Ko, Veronika Hanakova, Jiri Anger, for the project “Indy Vinyl for the Masses”, coordinated by Ian Garwood, July 2023 https://indyvinyl.gla.ac.uk/
     

  • “Breaking the Silence and Singing” screened at the AEGS Conference Futuridades Feministas, Valparaiso, Chile, 2023, https://vimeo.com/777883826, included in the British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound list of Best Video Essays of the Year 2023.
     

  • “Singing Rage: Shakira and Rocío” (mins. 3:34), published in the project Mediatización de la rabia de las mujeres,  2023, http://remuvic.eu/#transferencia
     

  •  “Sophia Loren” (mins. 4), video for the Screen Stars Dictionary, edited by Ariel Avissar and Vicente Ortega Tecmerin, 2023, https://vimeo.com/828949703
     

  •  “Queering Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (mins. 3:48), screened in Aarhus, Venice, and Girona, 2025 https://vimeo.com/751386510
     

  • Love in the Time of Coronavirus: A Pandemigraph (4 min.), epigraph, https://vimeo.com/416999684 Also included in The Videographic Essay Podcast: thevideoessay.com/2020/04/29/episode-14-leigh-singer/), 2020.
     

  • What is an Accented Videoessay? (3.54 min.), https://vimeo.com/523317867 presented at SCMS, 2021, AUDIOVISUALCY: Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies and Video Essays, and Film Studies For Free Favourites, 2021.
     

  • Pandemic Kucha (A PechaKucha on Fernando Meirelles' s The Constant Gardener) (1 min.) https://vimeo.com/411949102,  in The Videographic Essay Podcast, 2020
     

  • The Wrinkle of Film, video-graphic essay, (11 min), 2020, https://vimeo.com/390816850
     

  • “Un giorno speciale, Take 1: The End”, Video-graphic essay produced out of the Workshop on VideoGraphic Criticism at Middlebury College, (11 min), 2019,  https://vimeo.com/355194313
     

  • “Un giorno speciale, Take 2:  The Mother” Video-graphic essay produced out of the Workshop on VideoGraphic Criticism at Middlebury College, 10 min, 2019, https://vimeo.com/355204729
     

  • “Un giorno speciale, Take 3: The Survivor” Video-graphic essay produced out of the Workshop on VideoGraphic Criticism at Middlebury College, 12 min, 2019 https://vimeo.com/355208104
     

  • “A Fish with the Movie Camera: Lucrecia Martel's Pescados as Metacinema”, 2019, min. 3.56, https://vimeo.com/602803281
     

  • ​​“Gloria and women's laugh: an epigraph”, Video-graphic essay produced out of the Workshop on VideoGraphic Criticism at Middlebury College, 2 min. (2019), https://vimeo.com/641286241
     

  • Emily Dickinson Translated Into Images: 6 Video-Graphic Essays, produced for the Amherst Arts Night Plus Open Mic and Featured Artists, presented at the Emily Dickinson Museum, November 7, 2019, https://vimeo.com/372259214
     

  •  The Hybridization of the Gaze, video-graphic essay, 2”, 2017, https://vimeo.com/257288339
     

  • La gynogula: Placer oral en el cine español dirigido por mujeres, video-graphic essay, 2017
     

  • Els amors dels gats, Fragment 36, in the collaborative El vídeo del minut 2016: Els amors. Film col·lectiu, Drac Magic Production, Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones de Barcelona, 2016, https://vimeo.com/172387753
     

  • Sexualidad después de los 50: la mujer invisible en el gynocine, video-graphic essay, 20”, 2016, https://vimeo.com/193061801
     

  • Miradas encadenadas: una lectura visual de Palabras encadenadas de Laura Mañá, video-graphic essay, 7”, 2016, https://vimeo.com/206493976
     

  • Mujeres en los orígenes del cine y el fuera de campo, 38”, 2015, https://vimeo.com/190416397
     

  • Margarita Alexandre: Una pionera detrás de la cámara, short documentary, 20 min., 2009, https://vimeo.com/205549707

 

Interviews, Reviews, and Encyclopedia Entries
 

  • Review of Maud Ceuterick’s video essay “Resilient Ageing Women: A Question of Performance” [in]Transition, 10. 3 • 2023 • Special Issue: Feminist Videographic Diptychs
     

  • Interview with Alfredo Cohen, “La gran pantalla, Festival Internacional de Cinema de les persones grans de Barcelona” co-authored with Raquel Medina, in Tecnologías de la edad: imaginarios cinematográficos de la vejez, Editorial Comares Granada, 2023, pp. 321-327
     

  • Interview with Mónica Lladó ad Carolina Guidoti, “Miradas a través del tiempo, Festival internacional de cine sobre envejecimiento de Uruguay” co-authored with Raquel Medina, in Tecnologías de la edad: imaginarios cinematográficos de la vejez, Editorial Comares Granada, 2023, pp. 327-335.

 

  • Book Review of Gender and Violence in Spanish Culture. From Vulnerability to Accountability, M. J. Gámez Fuentes & R. Maseda García (eds.), 2018, New York: Peter Lang, in European Journal of Women's Studies (2021)
     

  • Book Review of Jorge Pérez, Fashioning Spanish Cinema: Costume, Identity, and Stardom, Toronto University Press, 2021, endorsement requested by Toronto University Press and available at https://utorontopress.com/9781487509118/fashioning-spanish-cinema/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Review of Domènech, Conxita y Andrés Lema-Incapié, eds. Ventura Pons: una mirada excepcional desde el cine catalán. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2015. 360 páginas. ALCES XXI, Vol. 3 (2017)

 

  • Review of Sanz, Marta. Black, black, black. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2010. 333 páginas. Sanz, Marta. Un buen detective no se casa jamás. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2012. 315 páginas, in ALCES XXI, Vol. 2 (2015)

 

 

  • Book Review: Spanish Spaces: Landscape, Space and Place in Contemporary Spanish Culture, Ann Davis, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, vii +190 pp., in Intellect: Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas 11.2 (2014): 211-214.

 

  • Book Review: Imágenes del Eros: género, sexualidad, estética y cultura audiovisual by Francisco A. Zurian (ed.) Madrid: Ocho y Medio, 2012, 287 pp., in Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies, 5.1 (2013), 139-141.

 

 

 

 

  • Book Review: McKenna, Susan M. Crafting the Female Subject. Narrative Innovation in the Short Fiction of Emilia Pardo Bazán. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press” Hispanic Review, 79. 4 (2011): 682-685.

 

  • Book Review: “O’Connor, Patricia. Mito y realidad de una dramaturga española: María Martínez Sierra. Logroño: Ediciones Instituto de Estudios Riojanos, 2003” Letras Femeninas 32.2 (2006).

 

  • Book Review: “ Moreiras Menor, Cristina. Cultura herida. Literatura y cine en la España democrática” Madrid: Ediciones Libertarias, 2002, 286 pp.” Modern Language Notes (MLN) 119. 2 (2004). 

 

  • Book Review: "Carbayo Abengózar, Mercedes. Buscando un lugar entre mujeres: Buceo en la España de Carmen Martín Gaite. Málaga: Universidad de Málaga, 1998, 195 pp." Letras Femeninas 26. 1-2 (2000).

 

  • "Rape" entry for The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature. Rinaldina Russell and Marilyn Migiel eds. Greenwood Press: Westport Conn., 1997: 280-283.

 

  • "Feminism, 19th century" entry for The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature. Rinaldina Russell and Marilyn Migiel eds. Greenwood Press: Westport Conn., 1997: 88-90.

 

  • Interview: "Conversando con Mercedes Abad, Cristina Fernández Cuba y Soledad Puértolas: 'Feminismo y literatura no tienen nada que ver'." Mester Special Issue on Women Writers 20.2 ,1991: 157-165.
     

Ad Hoc Peer-Reviews

 

Teknokultura •  [in]Transition •  Tecmerin •  Feminist Media Studies  • Pasavientos  •  Hispanic Research Journal  • Alces XXI • Revista Investigaciones Feministas  •  Comunicación y Género  •  Caimán Cuadernos de Cine  • Letras Femeninas  •  Letras Hispanas  • Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos • International Journal of Iberian Studies • Bulletin of Hispanic Studies • Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies  •  Feminist Media Studies • Revista de Escritoras Ibéricas • Communication & Society  •  MLN Hispanic Issue •  MLN Italian Issue  •  Ambitos feministas  •  UNED Revistas Científicas • Romance Linguistics and Literature Review • Mester  • Carte Italiane


Translations

English to Spanish:

 

  • Felicity Aulino, «Rituals of care for the elderly in Northern Thailand: Merit, morality, and the everyday of long-term care» en American Ethnologist  43 pp. 91–102, ISSN 0094-0496, online ISSN 1548-1425. DOI: 10.1111/amet.12265 translated for Tecnologías de la edad: imaginarios cinematográficos de la vejez, Raquel Medina & Barbara Zecchi, eds. Editorial Comares, Granada, 2023.

  • Linn Sandberg, “Affirmative old age - the ageing body and feminist theories on difference” International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, Vol. 8.1. (2013), pp.11-40 translated for Tecnologías de la edad: imaginarios cinematográficos de la vejez, Raquel Medina & Barbara Zecchi, eds. Editorial Comares, Granada, 2023.

  • Paul Julian Smith, “Passion and Redemption: Aging in Almodóvar” , translated for Envejecimientos y cines ibéricos, Barbara Zecchi, Raquel Medina, Cristina Moreiras-Menor, Pilar Rodriguez, eds., Editorial Tirant, Valencia 2021

  • Nuria Triana Toribio, “Anyplace North America: On the Transnational Road with Isabel Coixet” Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, vol. 3.1 (2006), pp. 47-64, translated for Tras las lentes de Isabel Coixet: Quince años de cine, compromiso y feminismo. Barbara Zecchi, ed. Zaragoza, Publicaciones Universidad de Zaragoza (PUZ): Colección Vidas, 2017

  • Miscellaneous Translations for the UMass Translation Center, 2014-2017   

 

English to Italian:
 

  • Anti-racism statement by Julie C. Hayes, Dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, UMass Translation Center, 2020

  • Miscellaneous Translations for the UMass Translation Center, 2014-2017   

 

 

Miscellaneous Creative Work
 

  • Featured Artist: Paintings Exposition at the Amherst Arts Night Plus Open Mic and Featured Artists, presented at the Emily Dickinson Museum, Nov. 7, 2019
     

  • “Del piropo al feminicidio”, El derecho de voz/s, Catálogo Exposición Fotográfica, comisariada por Hernando Gómez Prada, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Nov. 2016, p. 4. (Translated into Italian in Rappresentare la violenza di genere, Marina Bettaglio, Nicoletta Mandolini, Silvia Ross, eds. Mimesis edizioni, Milano, 2018).
     

  • “Non so cosa mi ricorda questo sapore”, Poem collected in Un mar de poemas solidarios, desde la otra orilla, Valencia, 2012

 

 

KEYNOTES and INVITED LECTURES  

 

April 7, 2025 [Invited Lecture] “From text-based research to videographic criticism” Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese and the Poorvu Center, Yale University

Nov. 27-29 [Keynote] “Desde la estructura joven de la mirada a la visualidad presbioempática” Una habitación propia, un nombre propio, I Congreso internacional de mujeres en el audiovisual, Castellón, Spain

Nov. 15, 2024 [Keynote] “Sentir/Pensar la edad a través del videoensayo” University of Girona, Spain.


Nov. 14, 2024 [Invited Lecture] Presentation of the film 45 años by Andrew Haigh and Q&A at the Cinema Truffaut, Girona, Spain

June 13, 2024  [Keynote] “The Rhythms of Horror” at the II International Permanent Seminar Intersecting Perspectives on Spanish Media: Women and Horror, Campus Madrid-Puerta Toledo, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid.

 

May 31 2024, [Invited Lecture]  Three-year project “The Mediatization of Women's Rage” funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Rey Juan Carlos University campus in Fuenlabrada, Madrid.

 

17 April 2024, [Invited Lecture] “The Problem is the System”. Cultural Transformations workshop, devoted to Collaborative, Creative-critical and Participatory Research Methods. Aarhus Institute of Advanced studies, Aarhus, Denmark.

November 2-4, 2023, [Invited Lecture, with Cormac Donnelly] “In Dialogue: Embodying and Disembodying the Video Essayist’s Voice” for the conference “In the works: Makings and Unmakings of the Video Essay” at Lucerne School of Art and Design in Switzerland.

 

September 2023, [Invited Lecture] “Intersecciones: el video ensayo, el arte, la poesía, y el cine”  Dipartimento di Studi Comparati, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia.

June 2023 [Invited Lecture] “How to become an (accented) video essayist and not die in the attempt”, Solo presentation as Guest Mentor at the Workshop on Videographic Criticism, Middlebury College

November 2021: [Keynote] “Las arrugas del cine: de piel, performatividad y películas” 30th Conference of the Association of Gender and Sexualities Studies (AEGS/AGSS), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

 

October 2021: [Keynote] “Geronto-cinefilia: afectos, edad y cine de mujeres” Jornadas mujeres y cine en España, Universitat de València, Spain.

 

October 2021: [Keynote] “Cartografías del envejecimiento: el video-ensayo entre performatividad y afecto” for The International Conference of Hispanic Women Filmmakers (CIMCiH), https://www.cimcih.com/, Clark University

 

Abril 2021: [Invited Lecture] “Los estudios etarios” at Dartmouth College, for Txetxu Aguado’s class Eroticism, Love, and Sensuality in Hispanic Film.


March 2021: [Invited Lecture] “Pilar Miró: El Crimen de Cuenca” Presentation for the traveling exhibition La Mirada Horizontal organized by Mujeres y Cine (MYC), in collaboration with the Espacio Femenino of the Cervantes Virtual in Budapest, Bordeaux, Chicago, Lima, and Wien.

February 2021: [Keynote] “Video-graphic criticism in Italian and Spanish cinemas: Theory and Practice”

at the University of Alabama Languages Conference (UALC)

March 2020: [Invited Lecture with Raquel Medina], “CinemAGEnder: How Hispanic Cinemas Visualize Sexuality and Memory in Old Age” A colloquium with Barbara Zecchi and Raquel Medina, University of Connecticut, Humanities Institute, Dept. of Literatures, Cultures and Languages, Center of Aging, Women’s Gender and Sexualitites Studies.

March 2019: [Keynote] “Jóvenes cineastas y sororidad intergeneracional: empoderando el envejecimiento femenino” Cine-Lit 9 Conference, Portland State University and University of Oregon, Portland, Oregon

 

January 2019: [Invited Lecture] “Gynocine Project: los retos y los logros de un proyecto de las humanidades digitales”, Dept. of Spanish, Clark University

 

October 2018: [Invited Lecture] "Viejas de película: cine, envejecimiento y sexualidad femenina", Dept. of Spanish, University of Texas at Austin

August 2018: [Invited Lecture] Isabel Coixet’s retrospective for the MICGénero Festival,  Cineteca de Mexico, Ciudad de México
 

June 2018:  [Invited Lecture] round table “Otras cinematografías” Bib-Rambla Mosaic-Space, Cines del Sur Film Festival, Granada

April 2018: [Invited Lecture], “Feminismo y crítica cinematográfica” Universitat de Girona, Girona.
 

April 2018: [Invited Lecture] “Sexualidad después de los 50. La mujer invisible en el cine de autoría femenina”. Mesa redonda plenaria “Cine, género y autorías encarnadas” at the IV Congreso Internacional Los Textos del Cuerpo: Autoría Encarnadas” Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, Barcelona.

 

June 2017: [Invited Lecture]  "En la otra isla- documental de Sara Gómez, pionera del cine cubano" Escuela de fotografía Deriva, Granada, Spain

 

June 2017: [Invited Lecture], "Teoría y práctica del videoensayo", Department of General Linguistics and Literary Theory,  University of Granada, Granada, Spain

 

April 2017: [Keynote]"Viejas de película: el envejecimiento femenino en el cine español", 70th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington.

March 2017: [Invited Lecture] "La teoría fílmica feminista", at the Department of Filologia i comunicació,  University of Girona, Spain

 

Feb. 2017: [Guest Alvarez Seminar Trinity University] “The Women Film Pioneers of Spain”, “Contemporary Spanish Culture: Encounters and Transitions”, MAS: Mexico, The Americas, and Spain, Trinity University, Texas

 

Feb. 2017: [Invited Lecture] “Laura Maña’s Palabras encadenadas” Dept. of Spanish, Trinity University, Texas.

 

Nov. 2016: [Invited Lecture] “Iniciación a los Estudios Europeos e interdisciplinariedad” Máster en Interculturalidad, Comunicación y Estudios Europeos, Universitat de València, Spain

 

Nov. 2016: [Invited Lecture] “Mujeres en los orígenes del cine”, video-essay, presentation and Q&A with Nieve de Medina and Javier Costa, Academia de las Artes y de las Ciencias Cinematográficas, Madrid, Spain

 

Aug. 2016: [Keynote] “Cine y feminismo: intersecciones” Conferencia Magistral, Cátedra Ingmar Berman, Auditorio MUAC, UNAM, Ciudad de México, México

 

Aug. 2016: [Keynote] "Sexualidad Madura: la mujer invisible en el cine femenino”, MIC-Genero Film Festival, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.

 

July 2016: [Keynote] “La gynogula: cine y placer oral femenino” at the Seminario Internacional Literatura y Pecado Conference, Es Baluard, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

 

March 2016: [Lansdowne Lecture Series Visitor] “Pioneras de la cámara”, Dept. of Spanish and Italian, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
 

Nov. 2015: [Invited Lecture] “Teoría y práctica fílmica feminista” Conference “El Feminismo en España desde la transición a la actualidad” coordinated by Carmen Peña Ardid, University of Zaragoza, Spain.

 

Sept. 2015: [Invited Lecture] “Las pioneras de la cámara: un ensayo visual”, Dept. of Comparative Literatures, University of Ca’Foscari Venezia, Italy.
 

June 2015: [Keynote] “Women Film Pioneers: A Visual Essay”, First International Conference Women of the Mediterranean, Santa Anna Institute/College of the Holy Cross, Sorrento, Italy.

March 2015: [Distinguished Visitor Lecture] “Feminismo, Gynocine y el Cine español: el caso de Pilar Miró”, Aston University, Birmingham, UK.

July 2014: [Invited Lecture] “Cineastas españolas”, Bookstore La Central (with the participation of filmmakers Josefina Molina and Inés París), Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
 

June 2014: [Invited Lecture] “Desenfocadas: mujeres cineastas y discursos de género” at the Muestra de Cine and Mujeres of Pamplona
 

April 2014: [Invited Lecture] “Te doy mis ojos (Icíar Bollaín, 2004): Posibles salidas a la violencia de género", Dept. of Spanish, Mount Holyoke College.

November 2013 [Invited Lecture]  “La españolada en femenino”  one-day conference La Españolada. Limiti e condizioni,  Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy.
 

May 2013  [Keynote] “La piel de Almodóvar” Graduate Conference Almodóvar en evolución, University of Massachusetts Amherst
 

April 2013 [Invited Lecture] “Almódovar: de lo óptico a lo háptico” IV International Symposium GECA: Nuevas Masculinidades, Universidad Complutense, Madrid.

 

October 2012 [Invited Lecture] “Erotismo “invisible”: la mujer madura en el cine español de autoría  femenina' "Taller de erotismo y cine español", at Harvard  University.

June 2012   [Invited Lecture] “La inmigración en el cine dirigido por mujeres: esencialismo estratégico y crisis de enunciación” Seminar “Imágenes de la inmigración” Facultad de Comunicación y Documentación, University of  Granada.

March 2009  [Invited Lecture] “Desde el “cine con tetas” a CIMA: ¿hacia un discurso femenino?” Conversatorio, Dept. of Spanish, Brown University.

 

Feb. 2009  [Invited Lecture] “Cine femenino: Violencia y Placer”, Seminarios IESA-CSIC (Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados), Córdoba  

 

Feb. 2009  [Invited Lecture] “La representación de la violencia y la violencia de la representación: mujeres y cine” Las Tertulias del Ateneo,  Madrid

March 2007  [Keynote] “El cuerpo del otro: relaciones interraciales en el cine.” “Telling Bodies: Practices, Discourses, Looks” Conference, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.

Oct.  2006 [Invited Lecture] “Consideraciones sobre la representación del otro en el cine femenino”, Carlos III University of Madrid.

Nov. 2004 [Invited Lecture] “Discurso feminista, cine y violencia: ¿qué hay de nuevo?” “Cultura, representaciones y violencia: Nuevos enfoques desde los estudios culturales sobre género y etnia” Symposium, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

 

Nov. 2003 [Keynote] “Reinventando el placer visual”, Conference “Cine y Literatura” Universidade de Vigo, Spain.

 

Nov. 2003 [Invited Lecture] “La evolución del placer visual en el cine femenino español” Seminario Cátedra de la Mujer, Universidade de Vigo.

May 2000  [Invited Lecture] “Mitificaciones y desmitificaciones de la maternidad en el cine contemporáneo español." "Curs Dones I Cinema," Institut Universitari D'Estudis de la Dona, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain.

 

 

 

LECTURES and CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

 

February 28, 2026 “Hearing old age through the videoessay” paper presented at the ACLA (American Comparative Literatures Association) The Difference Accent Makes seminar, organized by Pavitra Sundar and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan), Montreal
 

November 19, 2025 “Sebastián Leilo's two Glorias - Aging in translation” presented at the “Videographic Criticism Beyond MainstreamVisual Cultures: Encounters with the Unfamiliar” roundtable, LASA-Asia Conference, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

 

April 3, 2025 “Is this Ethical? Limits in Videographic Criticism: The Tens” presentation for “The VideoEssay in Pain: Confronting ethics in videographic criticism” -roundtable co-organized with Alan O’Leary for the Society in Media Studies Conference in Chicago

July 1, 2024 “Aging Stars: Sophia Loren and Isabella Rossellini” presented  at the Celebrity Studies Conference, for one of the three panels I co-organized with Jaap Kooijman and Vicente Rodríguez-Ortega “Videographic Criticism and Celebrity”, University of Amsterdam.

June 20, 2024  “Silent Vulnerabilities: Aging and Raging in the cinemas of the Global South” presentation at the panel “Video Essays in Times of Emergency: Interweaving Emotions across Environmental, Feminist, and Aging

Studies for the “Emergencies Conference – The European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS), Izmir Turkey

June 21, 2024, Chair and Organizer of the Panel, Videographic Crises, “Video Essays in Times of Emergency: Interweaving Emotions across Environmental, Feminist, and Aging Studies for the “Emergencies Conference – The European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS), Izmir Turkey
 

March 14-17 2024, Organizer and presenter at the Roundtable “Visualizing Rage through the Video Essay Intersectional Explorations of Women’s Anger in Contemporary Media”, presentation: “The Rhythms of Rage”, for the Society For Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Conference, Boston

November 15-18, 2023:  Session Organizer and Presenter “Subviertiendo (con éxito) el envejecimiento “exitoso”: otras formas de la vejez en los cines latinoamericanos y africanos a través del videoensayo” presentation for the session “Videoensayos que unen: Visibilizando lazos e intersecciones entre eventos fílmicos de África y de América Latina (cine narrativo, documental, y festivales), Latin American Studies Association Conference:  África y América Latina: Diálogos y conexiones, Ghana, Africa.

 

April 2023: “The accented video way of thinking” for the roundtable “The Accented Voice in Audiovisual Practices”, organized by Evelyn Kreutzer and Jeffrey Middents,  Society For Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Denver.

 

December 5-7, 2022: “El videoensayo como instrumento feminista: contribuyendo a la lectura de resistencia” presented at Futuridades Feministas XXXI, Congreso de la Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades (AEGS), 2022, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Viña del Mar, Chile.

 

November 2022: Roundtable: Practices, Pedagogies and Potentials, Chair: Catherine Grant, at the Symposium Videoessays and Academic Filmmaking, organized by Alan O’Leary and Mathias Bonde, https://arts.au.dk/en/aktuelt/arrangementer/vis/artikel/videoessays-and-academic-filmmaking-practices-pedagogies-and-potentials, Aarhus University, Denmark

 

November 2022: “The Accented Sound of Camp” video essay presentation at the Symposium “Videography: Art and Academia. Epistemological, Political and Pedagogical Potentials of Audiovisual Practices”, Hannover, organized by Maike Sarah Reinert, Evelyn Kreutzer, Anna-Sophie Philippi, and Kathleen Loock.


September 2022: “Turning Dolls” video-essay presented at the Conference Theory and Practice of the Video-essay, University of Massachusetts Amherst

April 2022: “Cuadecuc Video-Assaig Vampir” video-essay presented at the North American Catalan Society (NACS) conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

 

March 2022: “Filling (Feeling) the Archival Void: the case of Helena Cortesina’s Flor de España” presented at the SCMS 2022 conference for the panel P05: Digital Digging: Videographic Approaches to Archival Footage

 

March 2021: “The Accented Voiceover” presentation for the Roundtable “Videographic Criticism: Re-Voicing the Authoritative Voiceover” at the SCMS 2021 Conference, Boston.

 

March 2021: “Introduction of Chloé Galibert-Lainé’s Forensickness and Watching The Pain of Others” Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival, UMass Amherst

 

March 2020: “Decline Narratives, Successful Old Life and Affirmative Aging” Paper presented at the Seminar “Aging and Gender in Iberian and Latin American Visual Culture”, NeMLA conference Boston

 

March 2019: “Gynocine: A Digital Humanities Initiative Project” Roundtable Moderator/Coordinator, Cine-Lit 9 Conference, Portland State University and University of Oregon, Portland, Oregon

 

October 2018: “Older Women’s Sexuality in Female-Directed Cinema: Rememory, Memory Loss and Intermemory” a Videoessay for the Round Table Discussion: “Collective Memories and Forgetting”, UMass Memory Week of Memory and Forgetting, Neuroscience Dept., University of Massachusetts Amherst

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April 2018: “Viejas de película. Algunas consideraciones sobre sexualidad feminine y envejecimiento” VII Congreso Internacional de GECA, Universidad Complutense, Madrid

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Sept. 2017: “Envejecimiento y sensualidad háptica: la piel/película de Beristain y de Smirnoff” paper presented at the Latin American Women’s Filmmaking Conference, Senate House, University of London, UK

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​March 2017 "Helena Cortesina y Flor de España, rescatando un legado”, Paper presented at the International Conference  "Presencias y representaciones de la mujer en los primeros años del cine 1895-1920", Museu del Cinema, Girona, Spain.

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Aug. 2016: Opening Remarks, “La violencia de la representación: el compromiso feminista del audiovisual”, GenderLab, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico

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April 2016 “Sexualidad después de los 50 en el gynocine”, Spanish Cinema: Gender and Ageing Studies Conference, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

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March 2015 “Neus Ballús’s La Plaga”, Introduction and Presentation of the movie La plaga, at the 7th Edition of Catalan Film Festival with film director Neus Ballús and producer Pau Subirós.

  

March 2015 “Domestic Violence in Spanish Cinema”, presentation for the classes «Hispanic Film» and «Migrant and Transnational Cinema», Aston University, Birmingham, UK.

 

Februray 2015 «Tortura y Censura: El crimen de Cuenca (1979) de Pilar Miró», paper presented at CINE LIT VIII Portland, Oregon.

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July 2014 “La película perdida de Helena Cortesina: Flor de España o la leyenda de un torero (1921)” paper presented at the Avanca Cinema 2014 Film Festival, Avanca, Portugal.

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March 2014  “Carmen y Soleá: de Mérimée a Rosario Pi Brujas” paper presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Ideology, Politics and Demands in Spanish Language, Literature and Film: Images of Women in Hispanic Literature and Media. Online.

 

October 2013 "La experiencia sensorial del cine de Isabel Coixet" Paper presented at the XXIII AIFCFH Conference, Feminismo, Post-Feminismo and Neo-Feminismo, Clearemont Colleges, California.

 

June 2013 “Helena Jordi, una pionera entre el teatro y el cine” Paper presented at the 2nd Congreso Internacional de Historia, Literatura y Arte en el Cine en español y portugués, Salamanca, Universidad de Salamanca

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March 2013     Presentation of Patricia Ferreira’s movie Els Nens Salvatges  Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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March 2013  “El fuera de campo: cinco usos feministas”, paper presented at the NeMLA Convention, Boston.

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December 2012 “A History of Spanish Women’s Cinema” presentation of a Digital Humanities project for the Digital Humanities Initiative Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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October 2012:  Introduction to the One-day Conference “Spanish Cinema Today”, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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September 2012  “Las cineastas en la teoría” Paper presented for the Panel Teoría y práctica de la creación femenina at the IX Convegno Internazionale del gruppo Scrittrici e Scritture, Università di Sassari, Sardegna, Italy.

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July 2012     “El género filoháptico” paper presented at the II Simposio Internacional sobre ideología, política y reivindicaciones en lengua, literature y cine en  español, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Santander, Cantabria, Spain

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May 2012    "La piel que habitamos: Violencia y cuerpo femenino en el cine español actual" paper presented at the III International Symposium Representaciones del Cuerpo Dañado. Universidad Complutense, Madrid

 

March 2012        "Migraciones en el cine español: ¿universalización o esencialismo estratégico?" Paper presented at the 20th Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Linguistics: Migrating Through Alternative Spaces. University of Texas, Austin

 

February 2012  "Catalan Cinema: an intruduction" Introduction to the 4th edition of Catalan Film Festival, UMass Amherst

 

October 2011  “La comedia como estrategia feminista: la recuperación de la risa” paper presented at the Gynocine Conference, UMass Amherst

 

October 2011  “The History of Spanish Women’s Cinema:  a Digital Humanities Project” project presented at the Gynocine Conference, UMass Amherst

 

June 2011 “Lo spazio bianco di Francesca Comencini: il corpo materno ‘svuotato’ ” paper presented at the CSIS Conference in Venice, Italy

 

February 2011 “El cine de Isabel Coixet” Introduction at the III Catalan Film Festival, UMass Amherst

 

October 2010  “La ética de la mirada: violencia y escopofilia en el cine femenino español” Paper presented at the XX AILCFH Conference, University of Austin, Texas.

 

July 2010  “Cine de mujeres: hacia la concienciación de género” Paper presented at the XVII AIH (Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas) conference, Rome, Italy.

 

Feb. 2009  “La mujer que envejece en el cine español femenino” Congreso: "El cuerpo: objeto y sujeto de las ciencias humanas y sociales" Institución Milá y Fontanals, Barcelona

 

Sept. 2008   “El cuerpo ‘maduro’: la mujer invisible en el cine español”  European Film Conference, University of Texas, San Antonio

 

June 2008  “Ojos encadenados: representaciones fílmicas de la violencia doméstica” MMWW 2008, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

 

March 2008  “El sujeto inmigrante en el cine español” Curso de Humanidades. Imágenes de la inmigración en el cambio de siglo. Universidad Carlos III, Madrid

 

Octubre 2007  “Hibridismo y Otredad en el cine español femenino” XVII Congreso de la AILCFH, Mujeres transatlánticas. Cruces de lenguas. Zonas de encuentros. Sevilla, Spain

 

May 2007 Presentation of Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth” Encuentros/Encounters: New Cinema of Latin America and Spain, University of Massachusetts.

 

Feb 2007 “Diferencia y otredad en las imágenes de los inmigrantes. Identidad cultural y cuestiones de género sexual” invited speaker, Imágenes de la inmigración en la literatura y el cine contemporáneos, Curso de Humanidades, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid.

 

Nov. 2006 “La feminización de la violencia” Paper presented at Memories of Modernity. An International Conference on Hispanic Cinemas, Stony Brook Manhattan, New York.

 

April 2006 “Cuando las flores de otro mundo llegan a España: reflexiones sobre maternidad, migración y Icíar Bollaín” Paper presented at the Rethinking the Iberian Atlantic Confernce, Liverpool.

 

Nov. 2005  “Desexualizando y sexuando la violencia de género: Almodovar, Bollain y Mañá” paper presented for the panel “Representación de la violencia doméstica en la literatura y el cine español,” PAMLA conference, Pepperdine University.

 

Feb. 2005  “La desfeminizacion del arte,” paper presented at the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

 

Jan. 2005  “From Seduction to ‘Gynophagy:’ Engendering the Nineteenth-Century Literary Sphere,” paper presented at the Dept. Romance Languages, University of Florida, Gainesville.  

 

Nov. 2004 “Icíar Bollain’s Take My Eyes: Women and Film in Europe” Lecture presented at “Why Film Matters,” Film Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University

 

Mar. 2004  “El cuerpo de la mujer por la mujer” Paper presented at the International Congress “Los hábitos del deseo. Formas de amar en la modernidad,” Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

 

Nov. 2003 “Cine español femenino: panorama de éxitos y paradojas” Paper presented at the V Taller Internacional “Mujeres en el siglo XXI” Universidad de la Habana, Cuba.

 

July 2003  “Insolación de Emilia Pardo Bazán y el deseo femenino” Paper presented at the Conference Mulheres Más, Oporto, Portugal.

 

Nov. 2002  “Emilia Pardo Bazán: de Cava a Carmen” Paper presented at the SAMLA Conference, Baltimore.

 

Oct. 2002  “‘El dominio de los sentidos’ y ‘Five Senses’: sintiendo al femenino” Paper presented at the AILFH Conference, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana.

 

Oct. 2002  “El doble exilio de la mujer española: María Lejárraga” Paper presented at the congress “España laberinto de exilios,” University of Massachusetts.

 

Nov. 2001 “Canción de cuna: de María Lejárraga a José Luis Garci” Paper presented at the Second International Congress of Cinema and Literature organized by the Universidade de Vigo, Spain.

 

Feb. 2001  “Discursos de género en el cine español contemporáneo” Fifty Years of Literature and Cinema in  Spain (1950-2000), University of California, Irvine.

 

Feb. 2001 “All about mothers: the vindication of motherhood in contemporary  Spanish cinema”  paper presented at the Dept. of Spanish, California State University at San Bernardino

 

Oct. 2000 “Maternidad usurpada: la operación de la metáfora de Unamuno a Almodóvar” Paper Presented at the I International Conference: Women and Textuality. The representation of Women in Hispanic Literatures: the Turn of Last Century and/or the End of the Millenium" Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain.

 

June 2000  "La desheredada de Benito Pérez Galdós: historia de dos novelas" Paper Presented at the XXXIII Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, España.

 

Dec. 1999  “Maquillando la verdad. Cine, literatura y violencia." Paper Presented at the First International Congress of Cinema and Literature organized by the Universidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain.

 

Nov. 1999  “Aporías de la mujer franquista." Paper presented at the "IV Jornadas de Castilla-La Mancha sobre Investigación en Archivo: El Franquismo: El Régimen y la Oposición, Guadalajara, Spain.

 

 July 1999  "El Ventanal: contradicciones del discurso femenino de la Falange." Paper presented at the International Congress "Las representaciones de la mujer en la cultura hispánica," organized by the Universitas Castellae, Valladolid, Spain.

 

March 1999  "Domesticidad, feminismo doméstico y ¿posibles alternativas?" Paper presented at the "Primer encuentro Internacional New York University y Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid.

 

Apr. 1998  "Neo-neorealismo o post-neorealismo? Il caso donna." Paper presented at the meeting of American Association of Italian Studies, panel on Italian cinema, Chicago.

 

Dec. 1997  "Raping the Female Body (of Literature): Italo Svevo's Una vita." Paper presented at the Modern Language Association 1997 convention, panel on "Feminist Approaches to Italian Literature," Toronto.

 

Oct. 1997  "Ansiedad Fin de Siglo" Paper presented at the Letras Femeninas Hipánicas Conference, panel on 19th century Spanish Women Writers, University of Emory, Atlanta

 

April 1997  "La flor de mi secreto y los secretos de la postmodernidad española" Paper presented at the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Convention, panel on  Spanish film and fiction, Los Angeles.

 

Dec. 1996  "Mascolinizzare i Promessi sposi" Paper presented at the Modern Language Association 1996 convention, panel on "Manzoni Revisited", Washington DC

 

Oct. 1996  "Feminizando miradas: la hermandad lírica y el deseo femenino romántico" Paper presented at the conference "The Powers of Poetry," University of Oregon, Eugene.

 

Fall 1995  "El ángel violado" Paper Presented at the  Asociación de Letras Femeninas Hispánicas Conference, panel on 19th century Spanish women writers, Barnard College, New York.

 

Fall 1993  "Feminism and the Novel in nineteenth-century Italy." Paper presented at the Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, panel on Italian Feminism, Minneapolis.

 

Fall 1992  "The Language of Their Own: from Dante to the 'mutande'." Paper presented at the Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, panel on Italian Women Writers, Saint Louis.

 

Spring 1991  "El cobijo de la infancia en la obra de Carmen Martín Gaite." Paper presented at the conference "Female Discourses: Present, Past, Future," organized by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles.

 

Winter 1991  "A view of one's own: il film Domino di Ivana Massetti." Paper presented at the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast convention, panel on Italian cinema, San José.

 

Fall 1990  "Mujer ventanera, mujer escritora: Carmen Martín Gaite." Paper presented at the Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, University of Colorado, Boulder.

 

BOOK PRESENTATIONS

 

October 2021: Envejecimientos y cines ibéricos, with Raquel Medina and Cristina Moreiras-Menor, Guest moderator, Txetxu Aguado, Moderator Santiago Fouz Hernández, at Pleibéricos: Presentación de Libros de Estudios Ibéricos, https://pleibericos.wordpress.com/2021/09/17/octubre-2021/#more-726

November 2020: Co-moderadóra de Pleibéricos: Presentación de Libros de Estudios Ibéricos Num. 6, un especial sobre cine español con nuevos libros de Steve Marsh, Fiona Noble, José Luis Sánchez Noriega, Sarah Thomas y Tom Whitaker, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPDd7tT5f1g.
 

July 2020: presentation of Gender Based Violence at Pleibéricos: Presentación de Libros de Estudios Ibéricos num. 2, moderated by Santiago Fouz and Esther Gimeno, https://vimeo.com/490471297

 

August 2018: Tras las lentes de Isabel Coixet, with Adán Salinas, Cineteca Nacional de Mexico, Ciudad de Mexico.
 

Abril, 2018: Miradas de mujer. Cineastas españolas para el siglo XXI, with Francisco Zurian, book editor, other contributors to the volume and filmmakers Inés París, Chus Gutiérrez, Daniela Fejerman, Alicia Andreu.


July 2014:  Desenfocadas, with filmmakers Inés París and Josefina Molina, Libreria Central, Madrid

TEACHING
 

 Full-Time Teaching Positions

 

  • 2015- ongoing Full Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Unit, Dept. Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • 2011-2015 Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Unit, Dept. LLC, UMass Amherst

  • 2005-2011 Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Unit,  Dept. LLC, UMass Amherst

  • 1999-2002  Associate Professor, Dept. Modern Langs, Saint Mary's College of California.

  • 1996-1999  Assistant Prof., Dept. Modern Languages, Saint Mary’s College of California.

  • 1993-94  Instructor of Italian, University of California at Los Angeles, Extension.

  • 1991-93 Teaching Assistant of Spanish and of Italian, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese and Dept. of Italian,  University of California at Los Angeles.

  • 1986-89  Teaching Assistant of Italian, Department of Literature, University of California at San Diego.
     


Programs developed at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
 

  • Development and Launch of the Film Studies Major – Phase I approved by the Board of Higher Education in June 2024- Phase II approved by the Faculty Senate in 2025 - Fully approved Board of Higher Education in June 2025.

  • Development and Launch of the new Grad Certificate in Videographic Criticism (designed in collaboration with Johannes Binotto, University of Lucerne), 2023

  • Filmmakers of the 21st Century -Visiting Faculty Series-Film Studies Program, ongoing since 2018

  • Online Undergraduate Certificate in Film Studies, approved 2017

  • Minor in Catalan Studies, approved 2010

 

Classes Developed and Taught

 

University of Massachusetts

Undergraduate classes     

  • Latin American Cinema, taught in English

  • Iberian Cinemas, taught in English

  • From Book to Screen: Film adaptations (Spanish 432), taught in Spanish

  • Introduction to Lit. Analysis (Spanish 319) , taught in Spanish

  • Literary Currents in Spain (Spanish 321),  taught in Spanish

  • Culture and Civilization of Spain through Cinema (Spanish 415), taught in Spanish

  • Spanish Novel From Dictatorship to Democracy (Spanish 497B), taught in Spanish

  • Women, Literature and Cinema in Spain (Spanish 497WC), taught in Spanish

  • Survey of Spanish Cinema (Spanish/FILM 397PP), taught in English

  • Women’s World Cinema (FILM 497WC), taught in English

  • Women of Southern Europe: Film and Society (Spanish 397)

  • Women of Southern Europe: Film and Society (Italian 398), taught in Italian

Graduate classes

  • Videographic Fragilities

  • New Directions in Videographic Scholarship, team-taught with Daniel Pope and Ariel Avissar

  • Gender, Film, Theory, Practice (Film 607FF)

  • Professionalism and Professionalization (Span 597)

  • Age/ing Studies (Film 797)

  • The Gender of Genre (Spanish 797GG)

  • Cinema, Age, and Gender (Spanish 797AG)

  • Theory and Practice of the Video Essay (Spanish 697 VG)

  • Modern Peninsular Narrative (Spanish 597L)

  • Románticos y Románticas (Spanish 697A)

  • Women and Film (Spanish 797)

  • Realisms (Spanish 597R)

  • Survey of Spanish Cinema (Spanish 797G)

  • From Paper to Celluloid (Spanish 797SP)

  • Discursos de género y el canón  (Spanish 597U)

  • Catalan Cinema (Film/Spanish 597)

  • The films of Pedro Almodóvar (Spanish 797)

 

Mount Holyoke College

  • Spanish Women and Cinema 

 

Universitat de Valencia, Spain

  •  “Iniciación a los Estudios Europeos e interdisciplinariedad” Máster en Interculturalidad, Comunicación y Estudios Europeos, Universitat de València, Spain

  • “La formación de la mujer moderna” (Seminario de doctorado)

  • “Variaciones del tema de la maternidad en el cine contemporáneo español” (Seminario de doctorado)

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Cineteca Nacional Mexico

  • “Actualidad Crítica Cinematográfica: Feminismo, género y teoría queer” for Gender Lab students at the MICGénero film festival (Aug. 2018)

 

Universitat de Girona, Catalonia

  • “Iniciación a la teoría y crítica fílmica feminista” 10 hr for the Master Program (April 2018)

  • “Feminismo y cine: una introducción” 2-hr lecture- Undergraduate class (April 2018)

 

Johns Hopkins University

  • Realism, Naturalism and Verismo (graduate: Italian and Spanish)

  • Discursos de género en el s.XIX español: medicina, derecho y literatura (graduate: Spanish)

  • Women and Film: A Theoretical Approach (graduate: Spanish)

  • Pirandeledda: Luigi Pirandello and Grazia Deledda (graduate: Italian)

  • Modernism, Decadentismo and Futurism (graduate: Italian)

  • Nineteenth Century Women Writers (graduate: Italian)

  • From Paper to Celluloid: Film Adaptations (graduate/undergrad: Italian)

  • Survey of Italian Film (graduate/undergraduate: Italian)

  • Italian Women Directors (undergraduate: Italian)

 

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Undergraduate

  • "Mujer y Escritura: el siglo XIX" (Curso de Humanidades por Video Conferencia)

  • "Mujer y Escritura: teoría y práctica" (Curso de Humanidades)

Graduate

  • Feminismos (team-taught)

 

Universidad de Cádiz, Spain

  • “La mujer en la España actual” (Summer Course)

  • “Cine español; nuevos realizadores” (Summer Course)

 

Saint Mary's College of California

  • Survey Spanish Literature: Middle Ages to 18th Century (taught in Spanish)

  • Survey Spanish Literature: 18th Century to the Mid 20th Century (in Spanish)

  • Contemporary Peninsular Literature (in Spanish)

  • Culture and Civilization of Spain (in Spanish)

  • Special Topic: Federico García Lorca (in Spanish)

  • Special Topic: Spanish Cultural Studies: de la dictadura a la democracia (in Spanish)

  • Spanish and Italian Film (in English, Spanish and Italian)

  • Women's Studies: Spanish Women Writers (in Spanish)

  • Women's Studies: Italian Women Writers (in Italian)

  • Collegiate Seminar: Greek Thought (in English)

  • All levels of Spanish and Italian Languages

 

 

Workshops in Videographic criticism:

 

 “Videographic Venice: The Video Essay at the Intersection of Place and Practice”, a week long advanced workshop, open to grad students and faculty, at Venice International University, Co-organizer and Scientific Coordinator, in collaboration with Danielle Hipkins, https://www.univiu.org/study/summer-schools/videographic-venice, Summer 2026-2029

 

“Reframing the Argument: Videographic Criticism as Graduate Research Practice”, a week long advanced workshop for graduate students, at the University of Notre Dame —Co-organizer and Co-leader, with Coleen Laird, University of British Columbia, and Matthew Payne, University of Notre Dame, •      funded by a Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Connections Grant, June 9-15, 2025

 

“From Text-Based Research to Videographic Criticism” a 2-day workshop for undergraduate students, at Yale University, —Co-organizer and Co-leader with Giseli Tordin, March and April 2025.

 

“Introduction to the Video Essay”, 2-day workshop at Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, the Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Co-Organizer with Enric Bou, September 2023.

“Videographic Gestures and Surfaces, A Video Essay Workshop,” Università Ca Foscari, Venice,

Co-organized by Miriam de Rosa, with Johannes Binotto, February and April 2023

 

”Workshop in Videographic Criticism” - Scholarship in Sound and Image - Digital Liberal Arts Summer Institute - Middlebury College,  —Invited Mentor, Summer 2023.

“Video-ensayo: teoría, praxis, y pedagogía” Workshop organized by Michelle Farrell for the LASA Conference, America Latina y el Caribe: Pensar, Representar y Luchar por los Derechos, Vancouver Canada, May 2023

“Workshop in Scholarship in Sound and Image”, Middlebury College,organized by Jason Mittll and Catherine Grant,  Guest Mentor, July 15-30, 2023

 

 “The Accented Video Essay” workshop in the “Interrogating the Modes of Videographic Criticism” online conference, organized by Maria Hofmann, Kathleen Loock (Leibniz University Hannover), and Alan O’Leary (Aarhus University) —workshop organizer and co-convener, February 24-25, 2022.
 

Mentor for the “Videography Mentorship Program”, part of the symposium “Videography: Art and Academia. Epistemological, Political and Pedagogical Potentials of Audiovisual Practices”, an international symposium about «Epistemological, Political and Pedagogical Potentials of Audiovisual Practices», organized by Maike Sarah Reinert, Evelyn Kreutzer, Anna-Sophie Philippi, and Kathleen Loock, Mentee: Rodrigo Campos, Filmuniversität Babelsberg, November 2-4, 2022
 

“Making a videoessay: Hands on practical training in videoessay-making for academics and graduate students”, November 8, 2022, at Aarhus Universitet, Denmark, organized by Alan O’Leary.


“The Accented Video Essay” workshop organized for the “Interrogating the modes of videographic criticism” Symposium, https://cc.au.dk/poetics-of-videographic-criticism/interrogating-the-modes-of-videographic-criticism, February 2022, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark, online.


“Actualidad Crítica Cinematográfica: Feminismo, género y teoría queer” 8-hrs workshop co-taught with B. Ruby Rich, for Gender Lab students at the MICGénero film festival, August 2018, Cineteca de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico.

International Workshop “Aging Studies and Visual Culture” at the University Complutense of Madrid (2017)

Co-organized with Raquel Medina from Aston University,  and Francisco Zurian from Universidad Complutense.
 

"El desarrollo profesional y académico en la investigación en comunicación audiovisual y publicidad" at the VII Workshop Internacional de Investigación “Trabajar, enseñar e investigar en Cultura Audiovisual” , January 2016, organized by Francisco Zurian, Universidad Complutense, Madrid

 

Graduate Advising

 

Direction of PhD Dissertations


University of Massachusetts​

  • Joseph Johnson -ongoing

  • Laura Caballero -ongoing

  • Sandra Galván: Un vínculo empoderante: Madres e hijas en la cinematografía ibérica contemporánea (to be defended in Spring 2026)

  • Eva Álvarez-Vázquez: El lado más oscuro de la modernidad española:desindustrialización y narrativas culturales contrahegemónicas (Defended with Honors, Spring 2026)

  • Celia Sainz: Videographic Ecocriticism: Environment, Affect and Iberian Audiovisual Cultures (Defended with Honors, May 2025)

  • Nick Pezzote: Memories ad Trauma of an Absent Past – Women Filmmakers in Argentina (Defended 2023)

  • Christina Beaubien: Surrogate Histories; Women Demystifying the Franco-Female during the Spanish Transition (Defended 2020)

  • Maribel Rams: Subaltern identity and historical memory in contemporary Spain as represented in film, autobiography and testimonio (Defended 2016)

  • Dolores Juan Moreno: Mesa para dos: La gastronomía en la poesía y en el cine españoles (Defended with Honors 2015)

  • Eva París-Huesca, Associate Professor, Ohio Wesleyan University: Noir genre in contemporary female Spanish novel and cinema (Defended with Honors, 2015)

  • Javier Venturi: Memoria y olvido: los ecos de las voces infantiles en el cine español contemporáneo (proposal defended in 2012, student passed before completing the dissertation)

  • Marta del Pozo, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth: Towards a posthumanist reenchantment: Poetry, Science and New Technologies  (defended with Honors, 2012)

  • Jason Cumming: La arquitectura de la memoria: un análisis de la estructura narrativa en cinco novelas contemporáneas  de España (Defended, 2010)

 

Direction of MA Theses


University of Massachusetts

  • Pablo Arenas Filardi -ongoing

  • Celia Sainz: Cinema Turns: Catalan Creative Documentary (2021)

  • Maria Guarino: Shopping for Vibrators with my Abuela #Space #Representation and #Latinidad in @JanetheVirgin (2020)

  • Elisabet Pallàs: Carmen(es) y Lola. El continuo generacional de la educación de la mujer desde la novela y el monólogo teatral de Cinco horas con Mario hasta la película Función de noche (2016)

  • Albert Asunción: La imposible serenidad de Michi Panero, Una historia y análisis de El Desencanto, documental creativo en el tiempo de la transición (2015)

  • Gorka Maiztegui Análisis del proceso de adaptación de las galas del difunto de Valle Inclan (2014)

  • Irene Melé Ballesteros: Elena Jordi y el mito de Thais (2013)

  • Emily Spring:  Protesting Between the Lines: Carmen Martín Gaite's frustration in Writing vis-à-vis 1950s Francoist Censorship (2013)

  • Iván Cavielles-Llamas: De otros a nosotros: El cine español sobre
inmigración y su camino hacia una visión pluricultural de España (1990-2007) (2008)

  • Marta del Pozo: Soldados de Salamina: ‘Terapias’ para después de una guerra (2007)

 

Member of Dissertation, MA Thesis and Exams Committees

 

University of Massachusetts, Programs in Spanish and Portuguese

Mario Garrido Marin (Member, Comps Exams, 2026) * Carla Suarez Vega (Dissertation defense, 2025) * Laura Caballero (Chair, Comps Exams, 2024) * Beatriz Vegas (Member of committee Comps Exams, 2023) * Virginia Correia (Chair, Comps Exams, 2024) *  Gina Malagold (Dissertation defense, 2023) * Eva Alvarez (Chair, Comps Exam, 2021) * Celia Sainz (Chair, Dissertation Proposal Defense, 2021) *  Maria Guarino (Chair, Comps Exams, 2020) * Celia Sainz (Chair, Comps Exams, 2020) *  Nick Pezzotte (Chair, Dissertation Proposal Defense, 2020) * Gina Malagold (Member, Dissertation Proposal Defense, 2019) *  Pilar Osorio (Member, Disseration Defense, 2019) * Sandra Galván (Chair, Comps Exams 2019) * Elisabet Pallas (Proposal Defense, 2019) * Carla Suárez Vega (Comps. Exams, 2018) * Elisabet Pallas (Comps. Exams, 2018) * Ramiro García Olano (Dissertation Defense, Spring 2017) * Pau Cañaveral (Dissertation Defense, 2018) *  Pilar Osorio (Dissertation Proposal, Fall 2016) * Dolores Juan Moreno (Dissertation Proposal, Fall 2015) * Maribel Rams (Dissertation Proposal, Fall 2015) * Aida Roldan (Comps, Spring 2015) * Gorka Maiztegui (Dissertation Proposal, Fall 2015) * Dolores Juan Moreno (Comps, Fall 2014) * Danielle Boveé (Master Exam, Fall 2014)* Christina Beaubien (Comps, Spring 2014) * Rossano Dalle Valle (Dissertation Proposal, Spring 2014) * Gorka Maiztegui (Comps, 2014) * Irene Melé Ballesteros (MA Thesis Defense, 2013) * Maribel Rams (Comps, Spring 2013)* Emily Spring (Master Thesis Defense, Spring 2013) * María Twardy (Spring 2012) * Sonia Battle (Thesis Defense UMass 2012) * Luis Loya (Dissertation Defense Spring 2011) * Javier Venturi (Major Exam, Spring 2010) * Jason Cumming (Major Exam, Fall 2008) * Marta del Pozo  (Major Exam, Fall 2007) * Eva París-Huesca (Minor Exam, Spring 2010) * Maria Hogan (Minor Exam Fall 2010) * Ramiro García-Olano (Minor Exam Spring 2010) * Sonia Battle (Proposal Defense UMass 2010) * Darío Sánchez-González (MA exam, Spring 2010) * Slav Gretchen (Minor Exam Spring 2008) * María Twardy (Dissertation Proposal Spring 2010) * José Madiedo (Minor Exam Spring 2010) * Rossano Dalla Valle (MA exam, Spring 2009) * Luis Loya (Major Exam Fall 2009) * María Twardy (Major Exam, Fall 2008) * Iván Cavielles-Llamas (Master Thesis defense 2008)* Kelsey Camire (Major Exam Fall 2007) * María Twardy (Minor Exam UMass, 2007) * Marta del Pozo (Minor Exam UMass, 2007) * Jason Cumming (Minor Exam UMass, 2007)

 

University of Massachusetts, Program in Comparative Literature
Nefeli Forni (Dissertation Defense, 2026) *  Nefeli Forni (Comps Exam, 2021) *  Lara Matta (Comps Exam, Spring 2013) * Daniel Pope (PhD Dissertation defense, Spring 2013) * Daniel Pope (Comps Exam, Fall 2011) * Lucía Prada (MA Thesis defense, Spring 2009)

 

University of Illinois Chicago
Yanire Marquez (Dissertation committee, Summer 2019, Comps Exam, Spring 2015)

 

Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona
Miriam Sanchez Manzano (Dissertation Committee, Presidenta del Tribunal, Feb. 2026)

Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona

Katarzyna Paszkiewicz (Dissertation committee, Fall 2014)

 

Universitat de València

Silvia Guillamón (Dissertation committee, Fall 2011)

Jorge Belmonte Arocha (Dissertation committee, Summer 2013)

Diana Marcela Rodríguez Clavijo (Dissertation committee, Summer 2017)

 

Universidad de Granada

Juan Jose Feria Sánchez (Dissertation Committee, Presidenta del Tribunal, Spring 2026)
Amy Dolin Oliver (Dissertation committee, Spring 2013)

Mario de la Torre Espinosa (Dissertation committee, Summer 2015)

 

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Nasima Akaloo (Dissertation committee, Summer 2012)

 

Mount Holyoke College

Emmalie Moseley (MA Honor Thesis, Spring 2009)

 

Johns Hopkins University

Anne de Laire Mulgrew (Dissertation committee, Spring 2005) * Sara Annunziato (Comps Exam, Fall 2005)

 

Saint Mary’s College of California

Lisa McKibbin Spanish and Italian Cinema (Honor Thesis Director, Spring 2001)

 

 

Teaching Awards

 

  • Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Nominated 2023, 2022, 2017

  • Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Massachusetts, Nominated 2015-16, 2006-07

  • Exceptional Merit Award, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Recipient 2016

  • Student Choice Award, Residential First Year Experience (RFYE), Recipient 2006

  • Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, St Mary’s College of California, Recipient 1999

 

 

SERVICE

 

University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

Committee Work
 

Standing Committees, Dept Languages Literatures and Cultures, University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Personnel Sub-Committee, Spanish and Portuguese Unit
    (Member 2005-ongoing, Chair 2017-2018 )

  • Personnel Committee, Dept. of Languages Literatures and Cultures
    (Member 2008-2009)

  • Graduate Studies Committee, Spanish and Portuguese Unit
    (Member 2005-ongoing, Director 2015-2016, 2010-2012, 2006-2009)

  • Catalan Studies Program Committee
    (Chair 2006-2015)

  • International Studies Committee, Spanish and Portuguese Unit
    (Chair 2005-12)

  • Undergraduate Study Abroad Program in Granada
    (Chair 2006-2017)

  • Graduate Exchange Program with the University of Granada
    (Chair 2013-2017)

  • Undergraduate Studies Committee, Spanish and Portuguese Program
    (Member 2014-2015)

  • Executive Committee, Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
    (Member 2012-2017)

 

Standing Committees, Interdepartmental Programs, University of Massachusetts

  • Digital Humanities Initiative Program Steering Committee 
    (Member 2011-2018, Co-Chair 2015-2018)

  • Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies Steering Committee 
    (Member 2011-2017, Director 2017-ongoing)

  • Graduate Certificate Advisory Committee, Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies
    (Member 2012-2017)

  • Modern European Studies Program Steering Committee (MES)
    (Member 2005-2008)


Standing Committees, University of Massachusetts

  • Campus Physical Planning Council
    (Member 2014-2015)

  • Committee on Overseas Programs and Exchanges (COPE)
    (Member 2009-2012)

 

Ad Hoc Committees

  • Member, Committee to explore the merge of Department of Art and the Arts Extension Services (Fall 2025)

  • Reviewer, Applications Summer Dissertation Completion Fellowship for SBS and HFA doctoral students for the Graduate School (2024)

  • Chair, Search Committee, for the position of Clerk IV, Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies (2022)

  • Consultant, Search Committee, Film Studies Assistant Professor position, Dept. Communication (2021)

  • Member, Search Committee for the Ass Director of Bachelor Degree Individual Concentration (BDIC) (2020)

  • Member, Search Committee for the position of Lecturer in Catalan Studies (2018)

  • Member, Search Committee for the position of Accountant I for Journalism and Film Studies (2018)

  • Member, Personnel Sub-Committee, Spanish and Portuguese Unit, Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

  • Member, Search Committee, Position in Translation CPE, LLC (Fall 2016)

  • Member, Search C., Position in 19th-21st c. Iberian Studies,  Spanish and Portuguese Unit (Fall 2014)

  • Member, Search Committee, Position in Early Modern Spanish Lit.  Spanish and Portuguese Unit (Fall 2010)

  • Member, Search Committee, Position in Italian Cinema, French and Italian Unit (Fall 2010)

  • Member, Search Committee, Position in Applied Linguistics, Spanish and Portuguese Unit (Fall 2008)

  • Member, Search Committee for the Director of the International Programs Office (IPO) (Fall 2007) 

  • Member, Search Committee, TT Position in Sociolinguistics, Spanish and Portuguese Unit (Fall 2007)

  • Member, Search Committee, Lecturer Position in Applied Linguistics, Spanish and Portuguese Unit (Fall 2006)

  • Member , Search Committee, Lecturer Position in Sociolinguistics, Spanish and Portuguese Unit (Fall 2006)

 

Five-College Consortium

  • Member of the 5 College Film Council (2014-2017, 2020-ongoing)

 

Service in Other Institutions

  • Director and Founder of Johns Hopkins University Semester Program in Madrid, Spain at Carlos III University (2002-05)

  • Member of the Columbia University-Barcelona Consortium Board, Johns Hopkins University (2003-05)

  • Director and Founder of the SMC-University of Cádiz Summer Program (Summer 2000-Summer 2001)

  • Director and Founder of the SMC-University Carlos III of Madrid Semester Program (Fall 1999-2000-2001)

  • Core faculty of  the Curso de Estudios Hispánicos (CEH), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (1999-2002)

  • Core faculty of the Experimental Program, Humanidades por Videoconferencia, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Fall 2000-01)

  • Director and Founder of the first SMC Summer Program in Madrid (Summer 1998)

  • Member, Women's Studies Advisory Board, and Women's Studies Committee, Saint Mary's College (1997-98)

  • Member, Film House Committee, Saint Mary's College (1997-98)

  • Member, MLA Search Committee for the Dept. of Modern Languages, Saint Mary's College (1996)               

 

Service to the Profession

 

Film Festivals Curatorial Work – Festival Programming and Festival Juries

 

  • Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival, Executive Director, (since 2024 -every Spring, ongoing)

  • MIC Género Film Festival, Retrospective on Isabel Coixet, Cineteca Nacional de México, México (Aug. 2018)

  • UMass Catalan Film Festival – Founder and Co-organizer (since 2006 -every year, ongoing)

  • UMass Latin American Film Festival - Co-organizer (since 2016 -every year, ongoing)

  • International Film Festival Cines del Sur, Granada, Spain - Member of the Jury, Flecos Awards, 10th edition (June 2016)  

  • MIC Género, Muestra Internacional de Cine con Perspectiva de Género, Member of the Jury, Gender Lab, Ciudad de México (August 2016)

  • International Film Festival Cines del Sur, Granada, Spain - Member of the Jury, 8th edition (June 2014)

 

 

Organization of Conferences and Symposia
 

  • “The Theory and Practice of the Video Essay” International Conference on Video Graphic Criticism, University of Massachusetts (Fall 2022)

  •  “Spanish Cinema: Gender and Ageing Studies”, International Conference at Aston University, Birmingham, UK (April 2016), Co-organizer with Raquel Medina

  •  “Almodóvar in Evolución”, Symposium, University of Massachusetts Amherst (May 2013), Co-organizer  with Giseli Tordin and Christina Beaubien

  •  “Spanish Cinema Today”, International Symposium, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Oct. 2012)

  • “Gynocine Conference: Mujeres, Dones and Cinema,” International Conference, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Oct. 2011)


Organizations of Invited Talks, Film Studies, UMass Amherst, Panels, and Roundtables at Conferences
 

  • Organizer of the Visiting Filmmakers Series, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Invited participants: Dayna McLeod (2025), Ariel Avissar (2023), Johannes Binotto (2022), Chloé Galibert-Laine (2022), David Casals-Roma (2021), Natalia Cabral (2021), Patricia Montoya (2018). 

  • 2025: Talks by Dayna McLeod, Colleen Laird, Johannes Binotto, Will DiGravio, Christian Keathley, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

  • 2024: Talks by Frans Weiser, Enric Bou, and Diana Fernández Romero, at UMass Amherst, 2024

  • Organizer of the roundtable “Videographic Encounters” at the LASA Conference in Australia, November 2025

  • Co-Organizer of three panels on Stars Dictionary at the Celebrity Studies Conference, Amsterdam, Summer 2024

  •  Organizer of the two panels «El video-ensayo como instrumento feminista: (I) Contribuyendo  a la lectura de ‘resistencia’ (II) Visualizando la producción de las directoras», Futuridades Feministas,
    XXXI Congreso de la Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades (AEGS), 2022,
    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, 5, 6 y 7 de diciembre, 2022 Valparaíso-Viña del Mar, Chile

  • Co-organizer of the talks by filmmakers Elena Martin, Carla Simón and Meritxell Colell, and actor Sergi López, for the 13th Catalan Film Festival, UMass Amherst, November 2020

  • Organizer of the talks by Santiago Fouz Hernandez, Durham Univesity; Steven Marsh, Univ. Illinois; Carla Subirana, Filmmaker, and Imma Merino, Univ. Pompeu Fanra, for my online Catalan Cinema Grad Class, UMass, Amherst, Fall 2020

  • Organizer of the Aging Studies Series, UMass Amherst (February, 2020), Talks by Dolores Juan Moreno, Clark University, “Hambre de más: estudios etarios alrededor de la mesa”, and Raquel Medina, Aston University, “"Otro modo de mirar al Alzheimer: los pequeños placeres de Liberto"

  • Co-organizer of the Master Class by film critic Imma Merino, UMass Amherst (November 2019)

  • Co-organizer of the Master Class by Catalan filmmaker Eva Vila, UMass Amherst (November 2019)

  • Co-organizer of the Master Class by Catalan filmmaker Montse Armengou, UMass Amherst (May 2018)  

  • Co-organizer of the talk by Sebastiaan Faber, UMass Amherst (May 2018)  

  • Co-organizer of the Master Class by writer and translator Liz Castro, UMass Amherst (May 2018)

  • Co-organizer of the Master Class by filmmaker Susan di Giacomo, UMass Amherst (May 2018)

  • Co-organizer of the Master Class by Cuban filmmaker Ana Alpizar, UMass Amherst  (November 2018)

  • Organizer and chair of the Panel on Aging Studies and Cinema at Latin American Women’s Filmmaking Conference, Senate House, University of London, UK

  • Co-organizer of the “Two days with Film Director Carla Subirana”, UMass Amherst (April 2017)  

  • Co-organizer of the “Two days with Film Director Montse Armengou”, Mount Holyoke College- Umass Amherst (March 2017) 

  • Organizer of the talk by Raquel Medina "Aging Studies and Cinema" UMass Amherst (March 2017)

  • Co-organizer of the talk by Concha Gómez "Colita" University of Massachusetts Amherst (November 2016)

  • Co-organizer of the International Workshop Aging Studies and Visual Culture, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain (October 2016) 

  • Co-organizer of the 1st International Conference Cinema Age Gender, Aston University, Birmingham, UK (April 2016)

  • Co-organizer (with Guillem Molla) of the “Two Days with Film Director Neus Ballús” event (for the 6th edition of the Catalan Film Festival and the Saint Jordi Week), University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst Cinema (March 2015)

  • Organizer of the talk by Maribel Rams and film director Francisco Zamora "Documental creativo", UMAss Amherst (April 2015)

  • Co-organizer (with Guillem Molla) of the “Two Days with Film Director Judith Colell” event (for the 6th edition of the Catalan Film Festival and the Saint Jordi Week), University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst Cinema (April 2014)

  • Organizer of the talk by Spanish dramatist Diana de Paco for the Spanish and Portuguese Lecture Series, UMass Amherst (April 2014)

  • Organizer of the talk by Marta Segarra, University of Barcelona, for the Spanish and Portuguese Lecture Series, UMass Amherst (Sept. 2013)

  • Co-organizer of the Round Table on Women’s Spaces, at the NeMLA Conference (April 2012)

  • Co-organizer of the double panel “Teoría y práctica de la creación femenina” at the IX Convegno Internazionale del gruppo Scrittrici e Scritture, Università di Sassari, Sardegna (Sept. 2012)

  • Co-organizer of the Fall Semester one-credit Workshop on Digital Cultures (guests speakers Concha Gómez and Domingo Sánchez Mesa), Smith College (Fall 2012)

  • Co-organizer of a 3-day Workshop on Modern Spanish Drama, at the

      University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with Diana de Paco, Virtudes Serrano, and Mariano de           Paco (Spring 2012)

  • Co-organizer (with Jordi Dosaiguas) of the talk by Catalan Film Director Ventura Pons, for the IV Catalan Film Festival: Gay and Lesbian Cinema, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Spring 2012)

  • Organizer of the 5-day Workshop on Screenwriting with Film Director Inés París, UMass and Smith College (Fall 2011)

  • Organizer of the talk by Margarita Lobo, Filmoteca de España, Madrid, for the Spanish and Portuguese Lectures Series, Dept. Languages, Literatures and Cultures, UMass, Amherst (Fall 2011)

  • Organizer of the talk by Raquel Medina, University of Aston, “Diario de un inmigrante” University of Aston, England, for the Spanish and Portuguese Lectures Series, Dept. Languages, Literatures and Cultures, UMass, Amherst (April 2010)

  • Chair of the Panel “Historicizing Feminisms and Its Plurality” of the Conference Voices From the in-Between Conference, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (April 2010)

  • Co-organizer (with Júlia Llompart) of the II Catalan Film Festival,  University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Spring 2010)

  • Organizer of the talk by Silvia Guillamón, University of  Valencia, “Feminidad y lógica sacrificial en el cine bajo el franquismo: en torno 
a 'De mujer a mujer' (Luis Lucia, 1950)" for the Spanish and Portuguese Lectures Series, Dept. Languages, Literatures and Cultures, UMass, Amherst (May 2009)

  • Co-organizer (with Andreu Pedró) of the I Catalan Film Festival, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Spring 2008)

  • Organizer of the talk by Catalan writer Josep Navarro, for the Spanish and Portuguese Lectures Series, Dept. Languages, Literatures and Cultures, UMass, Amherst (Nov. 2008)

  • Chair of the Panel, Identidad/Otredad, AILCFH Congress, Mujeres Transatlánticas, Cruces de Lenguas. Zonas de encuentros, Sevilla (Oct. 2007)

  • Chair of the Panel Cuerpo y Arte at the Congress Los Textos del Cuerpo, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (Fall 2007)

  • Organizer of the talk “Del tropo a la tropa: colonialismo, escritura de guerra y enunciación metafórica en Diario de un testigo de la guerra de África” by Nil Santiáñez, Saint Louis University for the Spanish and Portuguese Lectures Series, Dept. Languages, Literatures and Cultures, UMass (Fall 2007)

  • Chair and organizer of the Panel “Cine con tetas” at the conference Memories of Modernity, Stony Brook Manhattan (Nov. 2006)

  • Organizer of the “Officina Novecentesca” Italian Graduate Students Seminar, Johns Hopkins University (2003-2005)

  • Chair of the Panel “A Mulher Contracorrente nos Anos 20 em Espanha”, at the I Congresso Internacional Mulheres Más, Oporto, Portugal (2003)

  • Chair and organizer of the panel “Placer visual: 25 años después” at the AILF conference, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana (Oct. 2002)

  • Chair of the panel “Women’s Issues in Latin American Culture” at the Latin American Studies Round Table Conference, at California State University, San Bernardino (Apr. 2002)

  • Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Curso de Estudios Hispánicos: Organizer of the round table “From Dictatorship to Democracy: Oral History,” –-Guest Speakers: Julia Plancha Serra, una republicana de noventa años and Prof. Vicente Carmona, University of Southern California (Fall 2000)          

  • Universidad de Cádiz: Organizer of a talk on “Spanish Women Poets” -–Guest Speaker: Jacqueline Cruz, Univerity of Oregon (Summer 2000)

  • Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Curso de Estudios Hispánicos: Organizer of a talk on “Domestic Life during the Second Republic” –-Guest Speaker: Vicente Carmona, Louisiana State University (Fall 1999)

  • Saint Mary’s College Summer Program in Madrid: Organizer of a talk on “Spanish Theater under Dictatorship,” --Guest Speaker: José Monleón, University of California at Los Angeles (Summer 1998)

  • Saint Mary's College: Organizer of a panel on "Italian Feminism,"-- Guest Speaker: Italian Feminist Activist Adriana Cavarero, University of Verona (Fall 1997)

  • Saint Mary's College: Organizer of "a night about Nobel Prize Winner Dario Fo," –Guest Speaker: Angelica Forti-Lewis, SUNY (1997)

  • Chair and Organizer of the panel "Sex, Screens, Soccer, Spaces and Secrets: Postmodern Spanish Culture." at the Modern Language Association 1997 Convention, Toronto (dec. 1997)

  • Chair and Organizer of the panel "Spanish Colonized Voices in the Twentieth Century: Africa, the Canaries and the Spanish 'metropolis'" Modern Language Association 1996 convention, Washington DC (dec. 1996)

  • Co-chair and organizer of the panel "La revolución de la mirada femenina: sexualidad y poesía en la España del XIX y XX," at the congress "The Powers of Poetry," University of Oregon, Eugene (Oct. 1996)

  • Organizer of the “First Graduate Conference on Italian Culture,” University of California, at Los Angeles (Spring 1990)

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