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Pilar Martinez-Quiroga

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Contact Information

4080 FLB
M/C 176
Urbana, IL 61801

Teaching Associate Professor

Research Interests

My research focuses on literary representations of communities of women from a multidisciplinary perspective that includes political, sociological, economic, philosophical, and anthropological issues, while paying special attention to instances of resistance, social change, and citizenship reflected in recent narratives written by Spanish women from a feminist and postcolonial perspective.

Education

PhD in Spanish Literature. Rutgers University
MA in Hispanic Literature. Rutgers University
BA in Hispanic Philology. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

Courses Taught

Spring 2020. SPAN 312 C. Modern Spanish Lit & Cultures. Migraciones en la literatura y cultura española
Spring 2020. SPAN 312 F. Modern Spanish Lit & Cultures. Migraciones en la literatura y cultura española
Spring 2020. SPAN 320 D. Spanish Cultural Studies II. Global Spain

Additional Campus Affiliations

Teaching Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Recent Publications

Martínez-Quiroga, P. (2022). “El nuevo ciudadano europeo”: Postnacionalismo, hiperrealidad y multiculturalismo en Farsa de Màrius Serra. Hispanic Research Journal, 23(2-3), 248-263. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682737.2022.2134661

Martínez-Quiroga, P. (2019). El exilio interior y sus máscaras: Voaxa e Carmín de Esther F. Carrodeguas. Romance Quarterly, 66(1), 43-57. https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2019.1565514

Martínez-Quiroga, P. (2018). La detective Bruna Husky de Rosa Montero: Feminismo, distopía y conciencia cyborg. Hispania, 101(2), 306-317. https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2018.0122

Martinez-Quiroga, P. (2017). Black, Black, Black by Marta Sanz: From "Hyperhysterical" Crime Fiction to Social Realism. In N. Vosburg, & N. L. Molinaro (Eds.), Spanish and Latin American Women’s Crime Fiction in the New Millennium: From Noir to Gris (pp. 17-30). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Martínez Quiroga, P. (2015). Una noche de novela: el 23 de febrero de 1981. Siglo XXI. Literatura y Cultura Españolas, (13), 15-38. https://doi.org/10.24197/sxxi.13.2015

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