Position Title
Associate Professor of Spanish
EDUCATION
PhD in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies (with honors)
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
2016-Current Associate Professor of Spanish, UC Davis.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
20th-21st-Century Iberian and Latin American Literatures and Cultures; Contemporary Spanish and Caribbean Crime Fiction; Cinema and Media Studies; Crisis Fiction; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Graphic Narratives; Illness Narratives; Maternal Narratives; Transatlantic Studies
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS
2019: Resisting Invisibility: Detecting the Female Body in Spanish Crime Fiction. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (May 2019). Winner of the 2017 Premio Victoria Urbino por Monografía Crítica from the Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies (AEGS).
2022: Crisis Unleashed: Crime, Turmoil, and Protest in Hispanic Literature and Visual Culture, edited by Diana Aramburu and Nick Phillips, Minnesota: Hispanic Issues On Line. https://cla.umn.edu/hispanic-issues/online/crisis-unleashed-crime-turmoil-and-protest-hispanic-literature-and-visual-culture
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS: 2019-2024
2024: “Between the Medical and the Maternal: Examining Prenatal Care in Recent Pregnancy Graphic Narratives”, Graphic Mothers: From Underground Comix to Autographics, edited by Marina Bettaglio, Demeter Press, forthcoming.
2023: “Defying Survivorship: María Hernández Marti and Javi de Castro’s Que no, que no me muero: y si me muero no es el fin del mundo.” ConSecuencias 4.1 (2023), pp. 5-20.
2023: “A Feminicide Vocation?: Examining the Gender Violence Crisis in Ana María Fuster Lavín’s La marejada de los muertos y otras pandemias.” In ¡Vivas nos queremos!: The Femicide and Gender Violence Epidemic in Puerto Rico and the Diaspora, edited by Diana Aramburu and Tania Carrasquillo Hernández, CENTRO Journal 35.2 (Summer 2023), pp. 291-312.
2023: Aramburu, Diana and Tania Carrasquillo Hernández. “From Victimization to Feminist Revolution: Performing Decolonized Bodies as Acts of Collective Rebellion in Puerto Rico.” In ¡Vivas nos queremos!: The Femicide and Gender Violence Epidemic in Puerto Rico and the Diaspora, edited by Diana Aramburu and Tania Carrasquillo Hernández, CENTRO Journal 35.2 (Summer 2023), pp. 7-29.
2022 “‘Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Cold’: The ‘mare defensora’ in Teresa Solana’s ‘Feina feta no fa destorb’ and Empar Fernández’s ‘El dia que vaig perdre el món de vista.’” In Crisis Unleashed: Crime, Turmoil, and Protest in Hispanic Literature and Visual Culture, edited by Diana Aramburu and Nick Phillips, Hispanic Issues On Line 29, pp. 142-159.
2022 Aramburu, Diana and Nick Phillips. “Introduction: Rethinking Crime Fiction in Times of Crisis: A Multinational Perspective.” In Crisis Unleashed: Crime, Turmoil, and Protest in Hispanic Literature and Visual Culture, edited by Diana Aramburu and Nick Phillips, Hispanic Issues On Line 29, pp. 1-21.
2021 “Celebrating Erotic Autonomy: Decolonizing Desire in Vanessa Vilches Norat’s ‘Del dulce olor de sus pechos.’” Confluencia Volume 36. 2 (Spring 2021): 103-115.
2021 “Exposing the Monstrous Double: The Body in Crisis in Meritxell Bosch’s Graphic Autobiography.” Women in Transition: Crossing Boundaries, Crossing Borders, edited by María-José Blanco and Claire Williams, Routledge, pp. 26-40.
2021 “‘El Estado opresor es un macho violador’: Performing Strategic Responses to Rape and Femicide in Anna Maria Villaonga’s ‘Las vergüenzas’ and Susana Hernández’s ‘El hombre del espejo.’” Ámbitos Feministas 10 (Winter 2021): 7-25.
2020 “Politicizing Vulnerability: Representing a Parental Crisis in Empar Fernández’s Mauricio Tedesco Stories.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 54.3 (October 2020): 703-723.
2020 “Reading from the Lesbian Detective Body: Queering Pleasure and Pain in Clara Asunción García’s Cate Maynes Novels.” Spanish Women Authors of Serial Crime Fiction: Repeat Offenders in the 21st Century, edited by Inmaculada Pertusa-Seva and Melissa A. Stewart, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 152-175.
2020 “Searching for Answers in Fiction?: Examining the Femicide and Gender Violence Crises in Literature Courses.” Hispania 103.3 (September 2020): 315-323.
2019 “Las caras invisibles de Barcelona: reescribiendo los espacios de la delincuencia en las novelas gris asfalto de Anna Maria Villalonga.” Papeles del crimen: mujeres y violencia en la ficción criminal, edited by María Xesús Lama, Elena Losada, and Dolores Resano, Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, pp. 91-102.
2019 Aramburu, Diana and Jeffrey K. Coleman. “Special Focus Introduction. Set Up and Shut Out: Immigration and Criminality in Contemporary Spanish Fiction.” Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature 43.2 (June 2019): Article 5. doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.2101
2019 “The Mother Narrative Transformed: Criminalizing the Immigrant Mother in Jordi Sierra i Fabra’s “Barrios altos.” Studies in 20th & 21stCentury Literature 43.2 (June 2019): Article 11. doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.2047
Forthcoming:
“A Curvy Revolution: Celebrating the Curvaceous Female Body in #Curvy by Covadonga D’lom and Flavita Banana.” Feminine Plural: Women in Transition in the Luso-Hispanic World, edited by María-José Blanco and Claire Williams, Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing series, Peter Lang.
Works in Progress:
Examining the madre rebelde: A Transatlantic Study of Prenatal and Postpartum Care in Contemporary Hispanic Fiction (book project)
“Undoing la gran familia puertorriqueña in Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro’s Crime Stories”
Between Bodies: Illness and Transformation in Hispanic Women’s Graphic Narratives (book project)
AI and the Future of the Human(ities): Teaching AI (with Michael Subialka)
Recent Courses:
Spanish 224 (graduate seminar): Examining the madre rebelde: A Transatlantic Study of Maternal Narratives in Contemporary Luso-Hispanic Fiction
Spanish 159: Writing Crime with a Feminine Twist: From Victimization to Feminist Empowerment in Contemporary Latin American Fiction
Spanish 142: Responding to 2008: Examining Crises in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Visual Culture
Spanish 224 (graduate seminar): Gender Violence, Victimhood, and Feminist Resistance in Contemporary Luso-Hispanic Fiction
Spanish 139: Contemporary Theater
Spanish 224 (graduate seminar): Between Bodies: Examining Illness Narratives in Contemporary Hispanic Literature and Film
Spanish 100: Principles of Hispanic Literature and Criticism
Spanish 137: Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Femicrime
Recent Committee Service:
L&S DEI Committee
Child and Family Care Administrative Advisory Committee (CFCAAC)
Graduate Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
DEI Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Honors and Awards:
- Accelerate Fellow Program, Center for Educational Effectiveness, UC Davis
- Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
- Award for Excellence in Service to Graduate Students, UC Davis Graduate Student Association 2018-2019, UC Davis
- Davis Humanities Institute Faculty Research Seminar
- Faculty Appreciation Certificate, Educational Opportunities Program, UC Davis
- Premio Victoria Urbino por Monografía Crítica, Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica