Priscila Calatayud-Fernández

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 defended her dissertation, Inoperative Figures of Work (1930-2014), at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she taught courses on Peninsular Cinema and Narrative. Priscila’s field of expertise is Modern and Contemporary Iberian Studies, with an emphasis on literature and film produced within the Catalan, Asturian, and Galician-speaking regions. Her current research explores representations of workers and women’s labor from the 19th and 20th centuries to the present in Spain, as seen in academic articles and her current book-length project, titled Aesthetics of the Unfinished. Finitude, Work, and Social Reproduction in Iberia. She also received 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. She has served as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish at the Pennsylvania State University, as a Lecturer I at the University of Michigan, and as an Instructor and Cultural Program Coordinator at Colorado College. Priscila is a member of professional organizations, including the North American Catalan Society (NACS), the Spanish Documentary Cinema Association (DOCMA), the Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades (AEGS), the Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cine Españoles del Siglo XXI (ALCES XXI), and the Modern Language Association (MLA).

Selected Publications

Articles

“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)

“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

“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) 

Selected Courses Taught

Social Movements in Contemporary Iberia 

Literature and Crisis in Spain 

Feminist Struggles in Spain Through Literature and Film 

Thinking and Talking through Hispanic Cinemas: Neoliberalism, Violence, and Resistance 

Introduction to Literary Genres in Hispanic Literatures: Literatures of Resistance