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Marta Perez-Carbonell
Associate Professor of Spanish
Marta P茅rez-Carbonell focuses on contemporary Spanish cultural production. Her research studies novels and short fiction, which she approaches from a variety of frameworks, such as material culture studies, affect theory or urban studies.
Her first monograph, was published by Brill/Rodopi in their series Foro Hisp谩nico. She is interested in "crisis literature" memory, identity, and gender studies. She has published peer-reviewed articles on the works of Isaac Rosa, Juan Jos茅 Mill谩s, Rosa Montero, Nuria Labari and other contemporary Spanish authors in Hispanic Review, Anales de la Literatura Espa帽ola Contempor谩nea, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Hispanic Research Journal, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, among other publications.
She is currently co-directing an edited volume entitled Im谩genes de aflicci贸n - Literatura, cine y g茅nero; as well as directing a special issue on Rosa Montero's fiction for the literary magazine Turia.
In 2020, she was awarded Professor of the Year by the national collegiate honor society Phi Eta Sigma.
In 2024, she published her first novel, (Lumen), which will see the light in 10 other countries, including the UK, France, Italy, Germany, etc. In the US, it will be published by Riverhead Books in 2026.
- BA Spanish and Linguistics, University of Southampton, UK (2004)
- Licenciatura Filolog铆a Inglesa, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain (2007)
- MA, Translation and Interpreting, University of Westminster, UK (2008)
- PhD, Royal Holloway University of London, UK (2014)
- SPAN 470 Subject and the City - Imagined and Real
- SPAN 474 Short Fiction in Contemporary Spain
- SPAN 473 Contemporary Spanish Novel - from Dictatorship to Democracy
- SPAN 353 Modern Spain in Crisis
- SPAN 361 Advanced Composition and Stylistics
- CORE 191 Communities and Identities: Spain
Book
Leiden/Boston: Brill/Rodopi
Peer-reviewed articles
- "Mutual Exclusion and 别辫辞肠丑茅: Uncertainty in Javier Mar铆as's Recent Fiction," in Javier Mar铆as: 50 a帽os de literatura (1971-2021) Nuevas visiones. Grohmann, Alexis y Bertr谩n, Santiago (eds.) (2022), 125-138. Brill/Rodopi: Leiden/Boston.
- "Cultural Politics of the Emotions Portrayed in Sara Mesa's Fiction," Hispanic Review 89. 3 (2021), 293-313.
- 鈥淓l mestizaje de g茅neros literarios en los paseos neoyorquinos de Elvira Lindo,鈥 in Perspectivas sobre el futuro de la narrativa hisp谩nica: ensayos y testimonios. Lefere, Robin; D铆az Ruiz, Fernando y Morales Benito, Lidia (eds.) Am茅rica sin nombre, 45 (2020), 347-370.
- On Identity, or How Two Contemporary Spanish Novels Shape and Shake Up the Limits of the Self, Anales de la Literatura Espa帽ola Contempor谩nea 45.1 (2020), 97-116. Co-authored with Renee Congdon.
- '"Me gustan las cosas que son cosas": la representaci贸n de la violencia a trav茅s de Cosas que brillan cuando est谩n rotas de Nuria Labari, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 96:7 (2019), 1095-1111.
- Introduction: Representing Violence in Twenty-First-Century Spain: Novels, Film and Performance Arts, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 96:7 (2019), 1069-1073. Co-authored with David Jim茅nez Torres.
- Fragmented characters/Fragmented Narrative Voices: Textual and Extratextual Devices in Juan Jos茅 Mill谩s鈥檚 Desde la sombra (2016) and Isaac Rosa鈥檚 La habitaci贸n oscura (2013), Journal of Catalan Studies Vol. 1 (2019), 97-108.
- Who said what? Translated Messages and Language Interpreters in Three Texts by Javier Mar铆as and Almudena Grandes, Perspectives, 26:4 (2018), 612-623.
- Compulsive Translators: Are Narrators in Javier Mar铆as's Novel Beguiled by Language?' Hispanic Research Journal, 18:4 (2017), 338-35.
- Ghosts as storytellers: Absences and the Phantasmagorical Nature of Javier Mar铆as鈥檚 Narrators, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 93, 5 (2016), 495-509.
- Intralingual Translation in Tu rostro ma帽ana, by Javier Mar铆as, Aigne, 4 (2013).
Edited Volumes
- Representing Violence in Twenty-First-Century Spain: Novels, Film and Performance Arts, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 96:7 (2019), co-edited with David Jim茅nez Torres.
Non-refereed articles
- . Estudios del Observatorio/Observatory Studies, 76 (2022), 1-29
- 鈥Los enamoramientos y la tupida red que envuelve,鈥 Quimera, 424 (April 2019), 13-16.
Book Reviews
- Crear entre mundos. Nuevas tendencias en la metaficci贸n espa帽ola. (Valencia: Albatros, 2021), by Iana Konstantinova y Sabrina S. Laroussi (eds.). Symposium. Vol 77 (2023), no 1, 54-56.
- El cine en el pensamiento y la creaci贸n de Javier Mar铆as. (Vigo: Academia del Hispanismo, 2019), by Carmen Mar铆a L贸pez L贸pez, Rilce38.1 (2022), 400-403
- Hombres en movimiento: masculinidades espa帽olas en los exilios y emigraciones 1939-1999. (Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, 2018) by Iker Gonz谩lez-Allende, Rilce 36.2 (2020), 824-828
- 鈥楾hus Bad Begins. The Intimate World of Javier Mar铆as鈥, Litro Magazine, 13 April 2016
Public Scholarship
- ,鈥 in Letras libres, 12 September 2022
- '', Letras libres, 20 October 2021
- ', The Objective, 18 September 2021
- 鈥, Litro Magazine, 20 June 2016
Selected Papers
- 'La marca personal de Rosa Montero: ciencia, literatura y vida,' in XXI Congreso de la Asociaci贸n Internacional de Hispanistas, at Neuch芒tel University (Neuch芒tel, 10-15 July 2023)
- 'Conversaciones literarias en el Observatorio: entrevista/encuentro con Rosa Montero,' Invited Lecture and Interview at the Observatorio de la lengua espa帽ola y las culturas hisp谩nicas en los Estados Unidos at Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 9 March 2023)
- 鈥淯n tributo al legado de Javier Mar铆as en los Estados Unidos,鈥 Invited Guest Lecture at the International Institute (Madrid, 1 December 2022)
- 鈥淐iencia, biograf铆a, literatura y vida: la marca personal de Rosa Montero,鈥 in Poder y Resistencia. III Congreso Internacional en los m谩rgenes de la literatura, at Salamanca University (Salamanca, 20-21 October 2022)
- 鈥淯n recuerdo y una mirada a Javier Mar铆as desde Estados Unidos,鈥 Invited Guest Lecture at Observatorio de la lengua espa帽ola y las culturas hisp谩nicas en los Estados Unidos at Harvard University (28 September 2022)
- 鈥,鈥 Interview at Club Tocqueville (16 September 2022)
- "The Depiction and Politics of an Empty Spain: Un amor (2020) by Sara Mesa and Contra la Espa帽a vac铆a (2021) by Sergio del Molino," in Politics of the Sayable. Framing Crisis and Conflict in Contemporary Spain, at Bangor University (Bangor, 1 April 2022)
- 鈥淟iteratures of the Crisis and Female Writing in Contemporary Spain,鈥 Invited Guest Lecture at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures in Lehigh University (Bethlehem, 29 October 2021).
- 鈥淗ow Fiction Changes Us: The Creative Process in Rosa Montero鈥檚 La loca de la casa (2003) and La rid铆cula idea de no volver a verte,鈥 in From Neuroscience to Structural Violence: The Cultural Production of Contemporary Spanish Female Writers Through Overlapping Lenses, at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (Virtual Edition, 22-24 April, 2021)
- 鈥淎utofiction and the Creative Process in Rosa Montero鈥檚 La loca de la casa (2003) and La rid铆cula idea de no volver a verte (2013),鈥 accepted for presentation at the Annual Conference of the Northeastern Modern Language Association, (Virtual edition, 11-14 March, 2021).
- 鈥淢utual Exclusion and Uncertainty in Javier Mar铆as鈥檚 Latest Fiction,鈥 accepted for presentation at the Conference on Javier Mar铆as by the Sub-Faculty of Spanish at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford (Oxford, 10-11 June 2019).
- 鈥淢谩s all谩 del humanismo: muerte y androides en la obra de Rosa Montero,鈥 accepted for presentation at the IV International Conference Visiones de lo fant谩stico: Las creadoras y lo fant谩stico at the Universidad Aut贸noma de Barcelona (Barcelona, 5-7 June 2019).
- 鈥淟enguaje literario y cinematogr谩fico: traducci贸n y adaptaci贸n de Bodas de sangre y La novia,鈥 Invited Guest Lecture at the Hispanic Studies Department in Hamilton College (21 February 2019)
- Coloquio internacional: hacia la narrativa hisp谩nica del futuro, Bruselas 2018 - 鈥楲os paseos neoyorquinos de Elvira Lindo: 驴una ficci贸n involuntaria?鈥
- Subjects and Limits of Extension in Contemporary Iberian culture, Cambridge 2017 - 'Fragmented identities and multiple voices in Juan Jos茅 Mill谩s's Desde la sombra and Isaac Rosa's La habitaci贸n oscura'
- BETA Annual Conference, Santander 2017 - 'La quiebra da un salto desde el margen: las voces de Nuria Labari y Nuria Rom谩n'
- AHGBI Annual Conference, Exeter 2015 鈥 鈥楾he space of the interpreted message: The role of language interpreters in the short stories of Javier Mar铆as and Almudena Grandes鈥 in The Space of Language: Interpreting, Translating, Performing
- AHGBI Annual Conference, Oxford 2013 鈥 鈥楾he unsaid and what does not happen in Mar铆as鈥檚 fiction鈥, in Absence, Ellipsis and Invisibility in Contemporary Spain
Contemporary Spanish Novel; Short Fiction; Translation Theory; Gender Studies; Urban Studies; Crisis Literature; Affect Studies
- Women in Spanish and Portuguese Studies
- Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland
- BETA: Asociaci贸n de j贸venes doctores en hispanismo
- Modern Language Association
- North Eastern Modern Language Association
