Priscila Calatayud Fernández

Priscila Calatayud-Fernández works as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish at Pennsylvania State University. She defended her dissertation Labor Exploitation and Resistance in Spain: Inoperative Figures of Work (1930-2014) in 2019 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she taught courses on Spanish language and Peninsular Studies focused on Social Movements and Feminist Struggles. Priscila’s field of expertise is Modern and Contemporary Iberian Studies, with an emphasis on literature, film, and performing arts produced within Catalan-speaking regions. Her current research explores Iberian cultural representations of dispossessed and displaced workers during the late 19th and 21st centuries in articles and in her current book-length project. She received a B.A. in Journalism from Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, a B.A. in Literary Theory, and an M.A. in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language from Universidad de Salamanca. She also served as a lecturer at the University of Michigan and as an instructor and cultural program coordinator at Colorado College.

Publications:

• “El montaje com-partido en El año del descubrimiento de Luis López Carrasco.” Revista Tropelías (forthcoming 2024)
• “Transgresión y soberanía en O todos o ninguno (1975-76) del Colectivo de Cine de Clase.” Peer-reviewed chapter in volume on Memoria cultural y memorias periféricas de la Guerra Civil española y el franquismo. Estudios sobre novela, memoria femenina, memoria LGTBIQ+ y memoria multimedia. Editorial Peter Lang (July 2024)
• “Montaje, imagen-escombro y disenso en Vikingland (2011) de Xurxo Chirro.” In “‘Ruinas Modernas’: Untimely Spaces and Multiple Temporalities in Modern & Contemporary Spanish Culture.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (February 2024)
• “La desarticulación feminista del mito del progreso en Tea Rooms: Mujeres obreras.” Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades (December 2022)

Pronouns:

• She/Her/Hers