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Iberian Soundscapes
Thursday February 2nd
12-2pm (EST) on Zoom [REGISTER HERE]
Organized by Victor Sierra Matute (Baruch College, CUNY) and moderated by Robert Myak (Princeton University)
Featuring:
Ana Fernández Cebrián (Columbia University) and Víctor Pueyo (Temple University) presenting “La voz de Vox o a qué suena el posmofascismo tres años después”
Pre-circulated materials: La voz de Vox o a qué suena el posmofascismo – El Cuaderno (elcuadernodigital.com)
Rosi Song (Durham University) presenting “Lost in Plain Sight: Gaspar Cassadó’s Iberian Legacy”
Pre-circulated materials will be distributed to those who register for the event.
Adam Mahler (Harvard University) presenting “The Ecopoetics of the Galician-Portuguese Pine Forest”
Speaker Bios
Rosi Song holds a Chair in Hispanic Studies at Durham University. A specialist in 20th and 21st century Spanish culture and literature, she is the author of Lost in Transition: Constructing Memory in Contemporary Spain(Liverpool UP, 2016) and the co-editor of Traces of Contamination: Unearthing Francoist Legacy in Contemporary Spanish Discourse(Bucknell UP, 2005) and Towards a Cultural Archive of la Movida: Back to the Future (Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2013). She is one of the Series Editors for Culinaria, a new book series from the University of Toronto Press on Food Studies and serves on the editorial board for Toronto Iberic Series as well. Her most recent book, co-written with Anna Riera, is A Taste of Barcelona. The History of Catalan Cooking and Eating (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019). She is currently engaged in a research impact grant from Durham University seeking to create a cultural and musical context from which Cassadó’s work can be discovered and studied in collaborations with professional musicians from the U.S., the UK and Europe.
Ana Fernández-Cebrián is an Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Iberian Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. She has published extensively on topics related to the ideological production and the transformations of the public sphere in contemporary Spain, with a special emphasis on literature, cultural studies, film, and media. Her first book, Fables of Development: Capitalism and Social Imaginaries in Spain (1950-1967), will be published in June by Liverpool University Press.
Víctor Pueyo Zoco is an Associate Professor and Graduate Chair in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Temple University (Philadelphia). He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures (Stony Brook University, 2010). His interests include Marxist and Post-Marxist critical theory, early capitalist ideological production in Spain and its colonies, and contemporary cinema and popular culture at large. He has published two books and over twenty articles on these fields. At this moment, he is working on his third book, tentatively entitled The Literature of the Commons.
Adam Mahler (Harvard U) is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in the poetries of medieval and early modern Spain and Portugal. Working comparatively across the many languages of the Iberian Peninsula, he researches theories and practices of lyric, rhetoric, and literary criticism. He has written on Iberian and Brazilian literature for Portuguese Studies, The Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, The Luso-Brazilian Review, La Corónica, Speculum, and, in Portuguese, for Colóquio/Letras, Portugal’s premier literary review. For his essay on literary unexemplarity in Dom Duarte’s Leal conselheiro, he received La corónica’s 2021 Nancy F. Marino Prize for best essay in Hispanomedieval Studies. His translation of Luz Pichel’s Cativa en su lughar, for which he was awarded a PEN/Heim 2022 Translation Fund Grant, will be published by Deep Vellum, in 2025.