Priscila Calatayud Fernández

Priscila Calatayud-Fernández works as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish at the Pennsylvania State University. She defended her dissertation Labor Exploitation and Resistance in Spain: Inoperative Figures of Work (1930-2014) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she taught courses on Spanish language and Contemporary Iberian Studies focused on Film and Literature, Social Movements and Feminist Struggles. Priscila’s field of expertise is Modern and Contemporary Iberian Studies, emphasizing literature and film produced within Catalan, Asturian and Galician-speaking regions. Her current research explores representations of dispossessed and displaced workers and women’s labor from the 19^th and 20th centuries to the present in Spain in academic articles and her current book-length project. She also 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 I at the University of Michigan and as an Instructor and Cultural Program Coordinator at Colorado College.

Publications:

• “La temporalidad de la deuda durante la Gran Recesión en la novela En la orilla (2013) de Rafael Chirbes.” Periphērica: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Literary History (Forthcoming 2025)
• “El montaje com-partido en El año del descubrimiento de Luis López Carrasco.” Revista Tropelías (September 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