Fashion in Spain Roundtable
Featuring: Francisco Fernández de Alba (Wheaton College, MA), Nick Wolters (Wake Forest University) Inés Corujo Martín (New York City College of Technology, CUNY)
Chair: Ameya Tripathi (NYU)
Friday, April 12th from 11:30am-1pm on Zoom
Join us for this roundtable on fashion in the Spanish context. We will discuss how fashion affects us, the relationship between fashion and nation, gender, and cultural studies, and approaches researchers are developing towards the future of fashion studies.
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Presenters:
Francisco Fernández de Alba is the A. Howard Meneely Professor of Hispanic Studies at Wheaton College (Massachusetts, USA) where he teaches courses on modern and contemporary Spanish culture. He is the author of the award-winning book Sex, Drugs and Fashion in 1970s Madrid (U of Toronto Press, 2020), translated into Spanish in 2021, and the co-editor of three collections of essays. The most recent is Fashioning Spain: From Mantillas to Rosalía (Bloomsbury 2021). His articles and book chapters have appeared in the Transatlantic Studies Reader and Toward a Cultural Archive of la Movida, as well as in several peer-reviewed journals.
Inés Corujo Martín is Assistant Professor of Humanities at New York City College of Technology, City University of New York, where she teaches courses in Hispanic studies and fashion history. She recently collaborated in the edited volumes: Fashioning Spain: From Mantillas to Rosalía (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021), Teorías contemporáneas del arte y la literatura (Tecnos, 2022), and Mujeres y escritura subversiva durante el franquismo (Peter Lang, 2023). Her academic articles on Spanish fashion have appeared in several peer-reviewed journals, such as Lectora and Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades.
Nick Wolters is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He earned his MA in Spanish and French from the University of Delaware and completed his PhD in Spanish at the University of Virginia. Nick’s teaching and research interests include modern and contemporary Iberian literature and visual culture, masculinities studies, and film and television studies. His interdisciplinary work on these and related topics appears in peer-reviewed edited volumes and journals such as Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies and Romanic Review. His recent book, Masculine Figures: Fashioning Men and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century Spain (Vanderbilt University Press, 2023), studies cultural representations of men—from the student and the priest to the businessman and the heir—as signs of authorial self-fashioning among bourgeois novelists like Benito Pérez Galdós and Narcís Oller. In a second book project, tentatively titled “Man against Nature in Fin-de-Siècle Iberia,” Wolters will examine the heretofore underexplored relationship between masculinity and nature during the turn of the century in Spain and Portugal. The book will investigate how artists and intellectuals like Eça de Queiroz, Oller, Pereda, Casas, Rusiñol, and Valle-Inclán manufactured complementary and competing visions of modernity and manliness by aestheticizing the Iberian Peninsula’s diverse climates, landscapes, and peoples. He is also working on an English translation of Narcís Oller’s most successful novel in Catalan, La Papallona (The Butterfly, 1882), a novel which caught the attention of Émile Zola and was translated to Spanish and French in 1886.