CV – Anna Casas Aguilar

EDUCATION

PhD, University of Toronto, Spanish, 2013. Dissertation: “Fathers to a Fatherless Nation: From Abjection to Legacy in Spanish and Catalan Autobiographies After Franco”
MA, University of Toronto, Spanish, 2009; Collaborative Program in Women and Gender Studies
DEA (Diploma de Estudios Avanzados), University of Barcelona, Romance Languages, 2008
BA (Licenciatura), University of Barcelona, Spanish (Filología Hispánica), 2006

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Assistant Professor, Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2016-present
Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, USA, 2015-2016
Aldyen Hamber Research Fellow, Gender and Women’s Studies Program and Adjunct Professor, Department of International Studies, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada, 2014-2015
Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA, 2013-2014

PUBLICATIONS

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

“Feminine and Failed Suicides in Spanish Cinema.” Revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos, vol. 42. no. 2, 2018, pp. 379-399. Co-authored with Claire Ranstrom.
“El simbolismo del cabello en la obra de María Luisa Bombal.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, vol.95, no. 4, 2018, pp. 435-449.
“Hacia una nueva subjetividad: la figura del padre en la novela sentimental y La Celestina.” Celestinesca, vol. 40, 2016, pp. 53-72.
“Subjetividad lingüística e identidad masculina en los textos autobiográficos de Carlos Barral.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 49. no. 3, 2015, pp. 481-502.
“Espectros de la paternidad y disolución de fronteras en Biutiful de Alejando González Iñárritu.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, vol. 16, no. 2, 2015, pp. 179-191.
“Houses, Objects, and the Politics of Inheritance in Josep Maria de Sagarra’s Vida Privada.” Romance Quarterly, 61, no. 4, 2014, pp. 268-278.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

“Architecture and Empire in Historia de la linda Melosina (1485).” Footprints of Mélusine, edited by Melissa Ridley Elmes, Misty Urban and Deva Fall Kemmis, Brill Academic Publishing, 2017, pp. 109-131.
“La Barcelona de Clara Janés: duelo, melancolía, herencia invisible.” Secretos y verdades en los textos de Clara Janés, edited by Nadia Mékouar-Hertzberg, Peter Lang, 2014, pp. 29-48.
“Che faró senza Eurídice: figuras masculinas e identidad femenina en las obras de Clara Janés.” El fuego invisible, edited by Anne M. Pasero, Ayuntamiento de Ávila, 2012, pp. 184-192.
“Els nens i l’exili a l’obra de Teresa Pàmies.” El exilio republicano de 1930 y la segunda generación, edited by Manuel Aznar Soler and José Ramón López García, Renacimiento, 2011, pp. 1027-1034.

Book in Progress

Fatherhood in Spain after Dictatorship. Manuscript to be submitted in Summer 2018. 240 pages.

Editorial Work

Book Reviews

Bermúdez and Roberta Johnson, Silvia, editors. A New History of Iberian Feminisms. University of Toronto Press, 2018. University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 89, no. 3, 2021, pp. 543-544.
Bermúdez, Silvia. Rocking the Boat: Migration and Race in Contemporary Spanish Music. University of Toronto Press, 2018. Revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos, vol. 43, no. 2, 2019, pp. 477-479.
Gómez, María Asunción. La madre muerta. El mito matricida en la literatura y el cine españoles. The University of North Carolina, 2016. Revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos 41. núm 3, 2017. 674-675.
Maestre, Antoni. Essències d’estil. Aproximació a la narrativa breu de Sergi Pàmies. Publicacions de la Universitat d’Alacant. 2012. Catalan Review, vol. 29, 2015, pp. 132-134.

AWARDS

Wall Scholar, University of British Columbia, 2018-2019
Bridge Funding, University of British Columbia, 2017
Hampton Emerging Scholar Research Grant, University of British Columbia, 2017
Social Sciences and Humanities Seed Grant, University of Northern British Columbia, 2015
Collaborative Education, Leadership, and Innovation in the Arts (CELIA) Fellowship, Wright State University, 2014
College of Liberal Arts Faculty Research Grant, Wright State University, 2014
Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2012-2013
Ontario Graduate Fellowship, Government of Ontario (declined), 2012-2013
Avie Bennett Scholarship, University of Toronto, 2009-2010
Government of Catalonia, Doctoral Research Fellowship 2008-2011 (held Jan.-Oct. 2008)

TEACHING

University of British Columbia

Graduate

SPAN 530:Inventing the Nation: Nationalisms and Pluralisms in Contemporary Spain, 2017
SPAN 550: Tourism, Gender and Environment in the Hispanic World, 2017

Undergraduate

SPAN 301: Advanced Spanish, third-year Spanish course, 2017
SPAN 430: Survey of Peninsular Literature and Culture from 1700 to the Present, 2017
SPAN 221: Introduction to Literary Analysis in Spanish, 2017
SPAN 406: Breaking the Mold: Gender Representation(s) in Hispanic Literature and Culture, 2016
SPAN 358: Introduction to Spanish Civilization and Culture, 2016

Whitman College

SPAN 402: Sex in the Movies: Gender and Sexuality in Spanish Cinema
SPAN 343: Critical Thinking and Academic Writing: Fiction/Essay/Literary Criticism
SPAN 306: Advanced Spanish through Content: Paternities
SPAN 305: Advanced Spanish through Content: Arts after Crisis. Mexico, Argentina and Spain

University of Northern British Columbia

Graduate

Undergraduate

Wright State University

ADVISING

Committee member, Marina Stuparik and Larissa Clotildes, MA Thesis, Department of History, University of Northern British Columbia, 2015-2016
Committee member, Chloe Kaplan, Abby Seethoff and Jenna Stanley, Senior Thesis, Department of Spanish, Whitman College, 2015-2016
External examiner, Natàlia Oriol Fuguet, Stefano Satta and Zhang Xiaomei, MA Thesis, Department of Romance Languages, Universitat de Barcelona, 2015
Committee member, Sophia Iliopulos, Honors Thesis, Department of Global and International Studies, University of Northern British Columbia, 2015

Service to the Community

Journal Article Reviewer for Catalan Review (2017), Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos (2017), Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (2016), Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies (2016), Cincinnati Romance Review (2014).
Board member, North American Catalan Association 11ENTREVISTA (2017-2021)
Interview for radio program Cultura que ladra at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. “Carlos Barral,” May 30, 2017.
Green College Leading Scholar, University of British Columbia, 2017-2019.
Organizer and speaker, “PhD. Now What?” Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies, University of British Columbia, November 18, 2016 and Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto, October 2, 2016.
Co-author, “Religion and Auteurism in The Revenant,” September 16, 2016. On-line.
Interview for CBC radio program Daybreak North. “The Revenant Roundtable at UNBC,” Interview by Carolina de Ryk, 7 minutes, March 14, 2016.
Interview, “Traducir es un esfuerzo y una responsabilidad. Entrevista a Clara Janés” Pasavento. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 4, no. 1, 2016, pp. 219-223. On-line.

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