Isabel Estrada

Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures

Main Affiliation

Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures

Additional Departments/Affiliated Programs

Media and Communication Arts

Office

NAC 5/223

Email

iestrada@ccny.cuny.edu

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Isabel Estrada

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Ph.D., Columbia University; M.A., University of Michigan; B.A., Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. Dr. Estrada is the author of El documental cinematogr谩fico y televisivo contempor谩neo: memoria, representaci贸n y formaci贸n de la identidad democr谩tica espa帽ola (Tamesis 2013), which examines how a selected group of documentaries made since 1995 for both film and television inform the debate centered on the so-called 鈥渞ecuperation of memory鈥 of the Spanish Civil War and dictatorship.  She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Expanding Spanish Cinema: New Forms of Social Life in the Twenty-First Century. This research project addresses the 2008 financial and political crisis in Spain in order to explain both how the situation has been portrayed by a new generation of filmmakers, and how their practices attempt to create new forms of social life

 

Prof. Estrada has published articles in refereed journals such as Modern Language Notes, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Studies in Hispanic     Cinemas, Hispanic Review, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Espa帽a Contempor谩nea, Catalan Review, and Revista Hisp谩nica Moderna. She has also  contributed to the volumes Approaches to Teaching the Works of Carmen Mart铆n Gaite (2013), Perceptions of the Holocaust in Modern Spanish Culture (Leipzig Studies on Jewish History and Culture, 2009), and Historias de la peque帽a pantalla: Representaciones hist贸ricas en la televisi贸n de la Espa帽a democr谩tica (2008).

 

Education

Columbia University, New York, NY
PhD in Modern Peninsular Literature
M.Phil. in Peninsular Literature

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
M.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish),
        
Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
B.A. in English Literature (Licenciada en Filolog铆a Inglesa)

Research Interests

Memory Studies
Twentieth-century Spanish Literature
Film and Media
The Spanish Civil War

Publications

Books:

 

  •   [Liverpool University Press, 2024].
  • Digital Annotated Edition.
  • El documental cinematogr谩fico y televisivo contempor谩neo: memoria, sujeto y formaci贸n de la identidad democr谩tica Espa帽ola [Tamesis Book 2013]
  • Reviewed in:
    • Revista de Estudios Hisp谩nicos XLIX. 2, 2015, pp. 181-183
    • Bulletin of Spanish Studies XCII. 6, 2015, pp. 1035-1036
    • Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas 12.3, 2015, pp. 311-316
    • Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 16.1, 2015, pp. 199-122
    • ALCES XXI: Journal of Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film 2 (2014-2015), pp. 409-417 

 

Articles in peer-reviewed edited collections:

 

  • 鈥淎udiovisual Production on the Republican Deportation and Spain as Haven of the Nazis,鈥 World War II and the Holocaust: History and Representation, edited by Gina Herrmann and Sara Brenneis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 519-535.
  • "Re-politicizing documentary footage from the 罢谤补苍蝉颈肠颈贸苍 in Spain: images, representation and the digital age." Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies II. 2 (2018):267-283.
  • "Con mucho arte: la supermodernidad barroca en los videodelirios de Mar铆a Ca帽as." La ret贸rica del sur: Representaciones y discursos sobre Andaluc铆a en el periodo democr谩tico. Eds. Jos茅 M. del Pino and Antonio G贸mez L-Qui帽ones (Alfar: Sevilla, 2015). 327-353.
  • "Victimhood in Contemporary Spanish Documentary: The Politics of Agency in Jaime Camino's La vieja memoria (1978) and Los ni帽os de Rusia (2001)." With Melissa Gonz谩lez. (Re)viewing Creative, Critical and Commercial Practices in Contemporary Spanish Cinema, Eds. Fernando J. Canet and Duncan Wheeler. Bristol UK: Intellect Books 2014. 165-176.
  • "Analyzing Los parentescos (2001) and Preparing Students for Creative Writing." Approaches to Teaching the Works of Carmen Mart铆n Gaite. Ed. Joan L. Brown. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2013. 173-180.
  • "Residuos y memoria en el palimpsesto urbano del siglo XXI: En construcci贸n de Jos茅 Luis Guer铆n (2001)." Literatura y Comunicaci贸n. Ed. Miguel Nieto Nu帽o. Madrid: Castalia, 2010. 387-402.
  • "To Mauthausen and Back: The Holocaust as a Reference in Spanish Civil War Memory Studies." The Holocaust in Spanish Memory. Historical Perceptions and Cultural Discourse. Eds. Antonio G贸mez L-Qui帽ones and Susanne Zepp. Leipzig: Leipziger Universistatsverlag, 2010. 37-50.
  • "Casas Viejas: el grito del sur (1995) de Basilio Mart铆n Patino: memoria, televisi贸n y documental." Historias de la peque帽a pantalla. Representaciones hist贸ricas en la televisi贸n de la Espa帽a democr谩tica. Cueto, George, L贸pez, eds. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert (2009) 197-216.

 

Articles in peer-reviewed journals:

 

  • "'Democrazy' in Spain: Cinema and New Forms of Social Life in the Twntieth-First Century." MLN 132.2 (2017): 386-406.
  • "El cine espa帽ol en la era de la reproducibilidad tecnol贸gica: Mar铆a Ca帽as y la d-generaci贸n." Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hisp谩nicos. 38.2 (Winter 2014): 295-313.
  • "The Recuperation of Memory in Regional and National Television Documentaries: The Epistemology of Les fosses del silenci (2003) and Las fosas del olvido (2004)." Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 11.2, 191-209.
  • "Catalan Television Documentaries and the Negotiation of Memory in Democratic Spain: The Works of Dolors Genov猫s." Catalan Review vol. 20.1&2 (2006) 117-130.
  • 'Transitional Masculinities in a Labyrinth of Solitude: Replacing Patriarchy in Spanish Film (1977-1987)." Bulletin of Spanish Studies. LXXXIII, no 2 (2006) 265-280.
  • "Gender and Political Transitions: Jos茅 Luis Garci's Solos en la madrugada." Studies in Hispanic Cinema 1.3. (2004) 137-150.
  • "Cu茅ntame c贸mo pas贸 o la revisi贸n televisiva de la historia espa帽ola reciente." Hispanic Review. (October 2004): 547-564.
  • "Victimismo y violencia en la ficci贸n de la Generaci贸n X: Matando dinasaurios con tirachinas de Pedro Maestre." Ciberletras: Journal of Literary Criticism and Culture. January 2002.
  • "En el estado de Juan Benet: humor y postmodernidad." Espa帽a contempor谩nea XIV-2 (oto帽o 2001): 7-30.
  • "(Re)configuraciones de la identidad masculina en "Nunca llegar谩s a nada" y "Por los suelos" de Juan Benet". Romance Languages Annual (1998): 548-555.
  • "Subversi贸n y conservadurismo: el discurso g贸tico femenino en El caballero de las botas azules de Rosal铆a de Castro". Letras Femeninas XIV (1998):81-94.
  • "'Sopla y adivina': En la penumbra como parodia del deseo". Revista Hisp谩nica Moderna XLIX-1 (Junio 1996):121-135.