Assistant Professor of Spanish and Iberian Studies Priscila Calatayud-Fernández works as an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Iberian Studies in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Georgia. She earned her PhD at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, defending her dissertation Inoperative Figures of Work (1930-2014), and also taught courses there on Peninsular Cinema and Narrative. Her expertise focuses on Modern and Contemporary Iberian Studies, with special attention to literature and film from Catalan-speaking regions and other bilingual territories. Her research and teaching encompass 19th–21st century Iberian literatures, film studies, and literary theory, with particular focus on women’s and gender studies and the work of theorists such as Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Rancière. She explores representations of labor and work and how they interrogate and reinterpret key moments in Spanish history—including the First and Second Republics, the Civil War, the Franco dictatorship, and the Transition—situating them within contemporary social and cultural contexts. Her current monograph, Aesthetics of the Unfinished: Labor, Social Reproduction, and Finitude in Iberian Film and Literature, examines women’s labor in Spain and builds on her published articles. In addition to her work on film and narrative, she is also researching street art performance festivals in Spain that explore the intersections of art, community, and politics. She holds a B.A. in Journalism from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, a B.A. in Literary Theory, and an M.A. in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language from the Universidad de Salamanca. Priscila has worked as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish at Pennsylvania State University, a Lecturer I at the University of Michigan, and an Instructor and Cultural Program Coordinator at Colorado College. She is an active member of several professional organizations, including the North American Catalan Society (NACS), the Asociación Española de Cine Documental (DOCMA), the Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades (AEGS), the Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cine Españoles del Siglo XXI (ALCES XXI), the Associació de Professionals de Circ de Catalunya (APCC), and the Centre de Recerca en Arts Escèniques (CRAE). Publications Articles “Reproducción social y dolor en los cuentos de Luisa Carnés.” Confluencia. Article in-progress “Montajes del precariado en la España democrática.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies. Article under review “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 (December 2025) “El montaje com-partido en El año del descubrimiento de Luis López Carrasco.” Tropelías: Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada (September 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.” Journal of Gender and Sexuality Studies (December 2022) Chapters “Tras-tornar el documento: el desmontaje de la veritas en Queridísimos Verdugos y Casas Viejas de Basilio Martín Patino.” Chapter in-progress “El montaje inacabado en La soledad: una lectura a partir de Cultura herida y La estela del tiempo.” In Heridas y estelas en la cultura ibérica contemporánea. Editorial Comares. Chapter in-progress “Fragility and Codependence against the Violence of Law in La plaga (2013).” Peer-reviewed chapter. Vanderbilt University Press (Forthcoming 2027) “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) Courses Taught Peninsular Identities. From the Civil War to the Present (Graduate Seminar) Social Movements in Contemporary Iberia Literature and Crisis in Spain Feminist Struggles in Spain Through Literature and Film Thinking and Talking through Hispanic Cinemas Introduction to Literary Genres in Hispanic Literatures Research Research Areas: Latin American, Iberian & Latinx Studies
