Priscila Calatayud Fernández

Priscila Calatayud-Fernández works as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish at the Pennsylvania State University. She defended her dissertation at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she taught courses on Spanish language and Contemporary Iberian Studies focused on Film and Literature. 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 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.

Recent 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)

Pronouns:

• She/Her/Hers