Patricia Keller ,
Assistant Professor of Spanish Literature

Patricia Keller, Assistant Professor of Spanish Literature, received her B.A. in Spanish and English Literature from the University of Kansas (2000) and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (2008). Her research and teaching interests are in the fields of modern and contemporary Spanish cultural studies, literature, and film. Currently she is working on a book manuscript that examines the relationship between ideology, spectrality, and visual culture in fascist and post-fascist Spain. Through multi-genre readings, her study looks at landscapes in 20th century Spanish newsreels, film, and photography as texts that reveal new ways of seeing the politics and poetics of place. Her work theorizes the ways in which visualizing Spanish modernity is intricately connected to an “aesthetics of haunting”—or the visual manifestation and subsequent cultural implications of depicting a place bound to and haunted by remnants of its traumatic past.      

She is beginning research for her second book project on Spanish New Wave Cinema.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Ghostly Landscapes: Film, Photography, and the Aesthetics of Haunting in Contemporary Spanish Culture  (manuscript in progress)

The New Wave: Spanish Cinema 1950-1975 (book project under research)

“Encountering the Unsightly: Reading [AIDS] History, Photography, and the Obscene” (forthcoming article co-authored with Jon Snyder, HIOL)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Contemporary Peninsular Literature and Culture
Fascist Technologies and Spectacles
Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
Film Studies, Film Theory, and Spanish New Wave Cinema
Galician Language & Literature
Theories of Landscape and Place
Photography as Text

RECENT COURSES

Perspectives on Spain (Fall 2008)
Narratives of Abandonment and Return in 20th C. Spain (Fall 2008)
Tradition and Rupture: Latin American Writing from Modernism to the Present (Spring 2009)
Spanish Cinema: The Sinister, the Satirical, and the Scandalous (Spring 2009)