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Carmen Moreno-Nuño

Education:
BA in Philosophy, Universidad de Granada, Spain, 1992
PhD., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2000
Research Interests:
Contemporary Spanish Literature and Cultural Studies
Education

BA in Philosophy, Universidad de Granada, Spain, 1992
PhD., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2000

Research

Areas of Specialty:

• Contemporary Spanish Literature and Culture

• Javier Marías

• The Spanish Civil War

• Visual Studies and Cultural Studies: Painting, Film, Comic-Strip, Photography, Press

• Myth Studies, War Studies, Trauma Studies, Memory Studies, Disinformation Studies

Selected Publications:

Selected Books

The Graphic Past: Comic and History in 21st-Century Spain. Co-edited with Elena Cueto and Heather Campbell-Speltz. Hispanic Issues On Line/HIOL. Vol. 31. Minnesota UP, 2023. https://cla.umn.edu/hispanic-issues/online/graphic-past-comic-and-histo…;

• Haciendo Memoria. Confluencias entre la historia, la cultura y la memoria de la Guerra Civil en la España del siglo XXI. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2019.

• Armed Resistance: Cultural Representations of the Anti-Francoist Guerrilla. Co-edited with Antonio Gómez López-Quiñones. Hispanic Issues On Line/HIOL. Vol. 10. Minnesota UP, 2012. http://hispanicissues.umn.edu/ArmedResistance.html 

• Las huellas de la Guerra Civil: Mito y Trauma en la narrativa de la España democrática Madrid: Libertarias, 2006.

Selected Articles

“Look up and Stop the Steal! What Los últimos de Filipinas Can Teach Us About Fighting the Dis-Info Ops of Vox España”. Anti-Disinformation Pedagogy: Understanding the Power of Manipulative Media and What We Can Do About. Eds. David Castillo and Bradley Nelson. Hispanic Issues. Minneapolis: Minnesota UP, 2024. https://conservancy.umn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/cc382db4-7437-4795-9d93-bf007a8bcf1e/content

“La adaptación de los clásicos literarios al cómic: La vida es sueño.” Co-author Moisés Castillo. Enseñar con el cómic. Dinámicas transversales y específicas del aula. Noelia Ibarra Rius and Álvaro M. Pons Moreno eds. Dykinson Editors. 2024. 151-67. https://www.dykinson.com/libros/ensenar-con-el-comic-dinamicas-transversales-y-especificas-del-aula/9788411708876/

“The Teaching of the ‘Dirty Past’ in the United States and Spain: A Comparative Analysis.” Journal of Academic Freedom. American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Eds. Michael Dreiling and Pedro García Caro. Vol. 14. 2023. https://www.aaup.org/JAF14/teaching-the-dirty-past

"“Buscando a Perséfone: Cenizas del cielo de José Antonio Quirós y Amama de Asier Altuna.” Cine rural: representación cinematográfica del campo hasta la España vaciada de hoy. Jorge González del Pozo ed. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. March, vol. 25. 2022.  135-154.

"Retrata 2-388 de Florencio Maíllo: arte de memoria para el desarrollo sostenible de la España rural.” Vereda Tropical: Homenaje a Enrico Mario Santí. Jorge Brioso y Sandra Rossi Brito eds. Casa Vacía. 2021. 201-216.

"When One Apocalypse is Not Enough: Representations of the End Times in Spanish Cinema (1962-2017)." Writing in the End Times: Apocalyptic Imagination in the Hispanic World. Eds. David Castillo and Bradley Nelson. Hispanic Issues On Line 23. 207-226. https://cla.umn.edu/hispanic-issues/online/writing-end-times-apocalyptic-imagination-hispanic-world

"Cómic femenino de guerra civil.” Dictatorships and Democracies (D&D). N. 9. 2021. https://raco.cat/index.php/Dictatorships-Democracies/article/view/390805/488555

“Documentales sobre el 15-M: una modalidad plural para una revolución plural.” Fotocinema. Vol. 17. Las revoluciones en el visor: intervención, persistencia, usos. Pascale Thibaudeau and Sonia Kerfa eds. 2018. 125-49. http://www.revistas.uma.es/index.php/fotocinema/index

 "Pasts in Conflict: Stylized Realism and its Discontents in Historical Memory Film". Legacies of Violence in Contemporary Spain: Legal, Political, and Cultural Implications of Franco's Mass Graves. Ofelia Ferrán and Lisa Hilbink eds. Routledge, 2016. 247-64.

“Criminalizing Maquis: Configurations of Anti-Francoist Guerrilla Fighters as Bandoleros and Bandits in Cultural Discourse”. Armed Resistance: Cultural Representations of the Anti-Francoist Guerrilla. Antonio Gómez López-Quiñones and Carmen Moreno-Nuño eds. Hispanic Issues On Line/HIOL. Minneapolis: Minnesota UP, 2012.http://hispanicissues.umn.edu/ArmedResistance.html

"The comic-strip of historical memory: An analysis of Paracuellos by Carlos Giménez, in the light of Persépolis by Marjane Satrapi and Maus by Art Spiegelman”. España en armas: Culture of Wars/War of Cultures. Ed. Antonio Gómez López-Quiñones.Vanderbilt Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies 4 (2009): http://ejournals.library.vanderbilt.edu/lusohispanic/viewissue.ph

Recent Invited Talks

2021   "La exhumación de Federico García Lorca: la memoria como exceso en la España del siglo XXI." University at Buffalo Zengierski Family Lectures in Spanish Literature and Culture. University at Buffalo. March.

2018    “La dificultad como hermenéutica: Tu rostro mañana de Javier Marías, u otra maldita novela sobre la guerra civil.” Narrativa de la Guerra Civil Española Conference. Ministerio de Cultura, Educación y Deporte. Centro de la Memoria Histórica, Salamanca. October.

2017   “La criminalización del maquis: configuraciones culturales de los guerrilleros anti- franquistas como bandoleros y bandidos.” University of Paris 8, Paris (France). June.

Editorial Work

Member of the Editorial Board of Revista de ALCES XXI: Journal of Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film.

Member of the Editorial Board of academic series Diálogos Peninsulares, Albatros Press.