Faculty
Assistant Professor
Matthew J. Marr
Assistant Professor of Spanish
N-355 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 863-7613
mjm66@psu.edu
Ph.D., M.A. in Spanish (University of Virginia)
B.A. in Spanish and English (College of William & Mary)
Dr. Marr specializes in contemporary Spanish literary and cultural studies, with a particular emphasis on fiction, poetry, and cinema produced since Spain’s post-1975 transition to democracy and during its subsequent integration with the European Union. His scholarly work seeks to open up Peninsular studies to internationally comparative perspectives by positioning recent Spanish texts and cultural currents within a critical framework attentive to issues such as globalization, transnationalism, postmodernism, and transatlantic intertextuality.
The author of several articles and a monograph entitled Postmodern Metapoetry and the Replenishment of the Spanish Lyrical Genre, 1980-2000, he is currently beginning a second book on marginality and social conflict in Spanish cinema from the 1990s through the present. Before coming to Penn State in 2007, Dr. Marr held a faculty position at the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as visiting appointments at Northwestern University and Middlebury College.
For publications and courses see: http://www.personal.psu.edu/mjm66/.
