Spanish and Portuguese at New York University

Jo Labanyi

Professor
B.A. 1967 (Spanish), Oxford.

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Areas of Research/Interest: Spanish literature and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries; film, especially that of the early Franco period; gender studies; popular culture; memory, especially in relation to the Spanish Civil War.

Select Publications: Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain: Theoretical Debates and Cultural Practice. OUP. 2002.
Gender and Modernization in the Spanish Realist Novel. OUP. 2000.
Spanish Cultural Studies: An Introduction. The Struggle for Modernity, co-edited with Helen Graham. OUP. 1995.
'Horror, spectacle and nation-formation: historical painting in late nineteenth-century Spain', in Visualizing Spanish Modernity, ed. Susan Larson and Eva Woods. Berg. 2005.
'Love, politics and the making of the modern European subject: Spanish Romanticism and the Arab world', Journal of Hispanic Research 5.3 (2004).
'The politics of the everyday and the eternity of ruins: two women photographers in Republican Spain (Margaret Michaelis 1933-7, Kati Horna 1937-8)' in Cultural Encounters: European Travel Writing in the 1930s, ed. Charles Burdett and Derek Duncan. Berghahn Books. 2002.
'Resemanticising feminine surrender: cross-gender identifications in the writings of Spanish female fascist activists', in Women's Narrative and Film in Twentieth-Century Spain, ed. Ofelia Ferrán and Kathleen Glenn. Routledge. 2002.
'History and hauntology; or, what does one do with the ghosts of the past?  Reflections on Spanish film and fiction of the post-Franco period', in Disremembering the Dictatorship: The Politics of Memory since the Spanish Transition to Democracy, ed. Joan Ramon Resina. Rodopi. 2000.
'Miscegenation, nation formation and cross-racial identifications in the early Francoist folkloric musical', in Hybridity and Its Discontents: Politics, Science, Culture, ed. Avtar Brah and Annie F. Coombes. Routledge, 2000.

Editorial Positions:
Founding Editor, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies.
General Editor, Remapping Cultural History book series, Berghahn Books