Cristina Moreiras-Menor
· Kathleen M. Canning Collegiate Professor of Spanish and Women’s and Gender StudiesUniversity of Michigan · French and Italian
Active 1995–2024
About
Cristina Moreiras-Menor is a Professor of Spanish and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan, with a Ph.D. from the University of California-Davis obtained in 1994. Before joining the University of Michigan in 2002, she served as Assistant and Associate Professor of Spanish at Yale University from 1996 to 2002. She is an internationally renowned interdisciplinary scholar specializing in nineteenth to twenty-first century Iberian Studies, with particular emphasis on literature, film, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Galician Studies. Her research explores three interconnected areas of modern and postmodern Spanish cultural history: the origins, aesthetics, and politics of the Spanish civil war; culture and state formation during the Franco regime and their relation to contemporary cultural and institutional configurations; and the ideological construction of national culture in relation to regional, marginal, or peripheral nations on the Iberian Peninsula. Her work challenges the trivialization of the Spanish transition to democracy in recent Iberian Studies, emphasizing the cultural complexities of that period to better understand regional and national conditions today. Professor Moreiras-Menor has published extensively, including her first book, 'Cultura herida: Literatura y cine en la España democrática' (2002), which was among the first in Iberian Studies to integrate literature, film, and critical theory to examine modern and contemporary cultural and political history through the lens of cultural critique. Her second book, 'La estela del tiempo: Imagen e historicidad en el cine español contemporáneo' (2011), reflects on the representation of historicity in contemporary Spanish cinema, analyzing films from the late Franco dictatorship to the present to explore how cinema represents time, memory, and history. She has also contributed as a critical editor of Antonio Muñoz-Molina’s novel 'Beatus Ille.' Since arriving at Michigan, she has directed over twenty-five Ph.D. dissertations and received the John D’Arms Faculty Award for Distinguished Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities in 2014. Her academic leadership includes roles such as Department Chair, Graduate Chair, and Associate Chair within the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures.
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Awards & honors
- John D’Arms Faculty Award for Distinguished Graduate Mentori…
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