Dr. Luis (Iñaki) Prádanos-Garcia

Luis Prádanos García

Originally from Spain, Professor Prádanos did his undergraduate work in Spain and Italy, and completed his MA and Ph.D. in the US. In his free time he enjoys designing a permaculture food forest in his yard, playing racquetball, as well as reading, cooking, and playing guitar.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Spanish Language and Literature
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 2010

M.A., Romance Languages: Spanish Language and Literature
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 2006

B.A., Humanities
University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain, 2002

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Environmental humanities (environmental cultural studies, energy humanities, ecocritical theory, urban ecology, and critical posthumanism)
  • postgrowth economics and cultures
  • permaculture
  • ecofeminism
  • socio-environmental movements
  • transition design
  • contemporary Spain
  • global studies
  • new media and cinema studies
  • network and systems theory
  • ecological economics and political ecology
  • decolonial theory
  • culture and pedagogy of degrowth

COURSES TAUGHT AT MIAMI

Professor of Hispanic Contemporary Studies
Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Affiliate
Institute for the Environment and Sustainability

  • Socio- and Ecological Transitions in Post-2008 Spanish Culture
  • Spanish Urban Environmental Cultural Studies
  • Urban Futures: Imagining Livable Cities
  • Postcarbon Cultures: European Environmental Perspectives (Luxembourg)
  • Hispanic Social and Environmental Movements in the XXI Century
  • An Ecocritical Approach to Contemporary Spanish Culture (SPN 420)
  • Leadership for Sustainability (University of Calabria, Italy)
  • Cultural History of Spain II (SPN 352)
  • Introduction to Hispanic Literature
  • Grammar Review and Introduction to Composition (SPN 311) 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

A Companion to Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies. Tamesis Books. Ed. Luis I. Prádanos (forthcoming January 2023)

Contesting Extinctions: Decolonial and Regenerative Futures. Eds. Suzanne McCullagh, Luis I. Prádanos, Ilaria Tabusso and Cathy Wagner. Lexington Books. Environment and Society Series (2021).

Postgrowth Imaginaries: New Ecologies and Counterhegemonic Culture in Post-2008 Spain. Liverpool University Press (December 2018).

  • Reviewed in Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies.
  • Reviewed in Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos.
  • Reviewed in Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies.
  • Reviewed in Tropelías.
  • Reviewed in Teknokultura: Journal of Digital Culture and Social Movements
  • Reviewed in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.
  • Reviewed in Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment.
  • Reviewed in Cross Cultural Studies Review.
  • Reviewed in INTI: Revista de Literatura Hispánica.
  • Reviewed in Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea.
  • Reviewed in Romance Quarterly
  • Reviewed in CIC. Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación.
  • Reviewed in Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature.
  • Reviewed in Cuadernos de Literatura.

Guest Editor Special Issues

  1. “Ecología y estudios culturales ibéricos contemporáneos” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 23, 2019 
  2. “Humanidades ambientales: ecocrítica y descolonización cultural.” 452º Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada 21 (University of Barcelona), Summer 2019
  3. “South Atlantic Ecocriticism.” Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 8.1 (co-edited with Mark Anderson), Spring 2017
  4. “Ecocrítica Ibérica Contemporánea.” Letras Hispanas 13, Fall 2017

Articles

  1. Castro, Azucena y Luis I. Prádanos. “Retos estéticos del postdesarrollo: imaginarios no extractivos y futuros postfósiles en medios culturales andinos.” Literaturas Latinoamericanas en el mundo. De Gruyter (forthcoming)
  2. “Energy Humanities: estudios críticos sobre energía y crítica cultural hispánica contemporánea.” Arte-factos para los estudios literarios. CISAN-UNAM (under review)
  3. “Repensar los estudios culturales españoles en tiempos de extinción masiva y declive energético.” Estudios Culturales Hispánicos 4 (forthcoming)
  4. “La ecología política urbana en Los asquerosos de Santiago Lorenzo.” Espacios y límites de la (in)justicia en la España contemporánea. Mónica López Lerma (ed.). Granada, Comares (under review)
  5. “Aprendizaje y ética del cuidado: reflexiones sobre pedagogías ecofeministas.” Journal of Contemporary Spanish Literature & Film (under review)
  6. “The Cultural Ecology of Tourism: Life-Capital Conflict in Post-2008 Spain.” The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain: Ideas, Practices, Imaginings. Edited by L. Elena Delgado and Eduardo Ledesma. Routledge (accepted)
  7. “Ecología política del turismo, memoria colectiva y novela gráfica: Todo bajo el sol de Ana Penyas” Hispanófila (forthcoming 2022)
  8. “Perspectivas críticas sobre energía y estudios culturales urbanos españoles: un ejemplo del potencial innovador de las humanidades ambientales.” Ecocríticas 2020: especies, alterhumanidad y naturaleza en diálogo. Iberioamericana-Vervuert (forthcoming 2023)
  9. “La pedagogía del decrecimiento: redefinir la educación en tiempos de crisis ecológica y social.” El Giro Transdisciplinar. Eds. Yolanda Echegoyen Sanz y Antonio Martín Ezpeleta. Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch, 2021 (forthcoming 2023)
  10. Foreword of Decentering the Anthropocene: Spanish Ecocritical Texts and the Non-Human. Edited by Maryanne L. Leone and Shanna Lino. University of Toronto Press (forthcoming 2023)
  11. “El optimismo cruel de la cultura dominante: ecocrítica y lenguaje poético.” Las cadenas que amamos. De la decadencia de occidente. Editorial Páramo, 2021.
  12. “El optimismo cruel de la cultura dominante: ecocrítica y lenguaje poético.” Las cadenas que amamos. De la decadencia de occidente. Editorial Páramo, 2021.
  13. “Ecología y estudios culturales ibéricos contemporáneos” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 23 (2019): 133-144. 
  14. “Ecocrítica: hacia una ecología política y poética (lenguaje poético, pluriversos y extinción).” Paraíso. Revista de Poesía 15 (2019): 27-34.
  15. “Energy Humanities and Spanish Urban Cultural Studies: A Call for a Radical Convergence.” Environmental Cultural Studies: Latin American and Iberian Studies, edited by Katarzyna Beilin et al. Hispanic Issues On Line 24 (Fall 2019): 27-45.
  16. Luis I. Prádanos and Jesús Pagán. “Foodtopía: un proyecto de transición ecosocial mediante una cultura culinaria contrahegemónica.” La nueva literatura hispánica 23 (2019): 141-155.
  17. “Humanidades ambientales: ecocrítica y descolonización cultural.” 452º Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada 21 (verano 2019).
  18. “Retos culturales españoles frente al imaginario dominante: la estética del decrecimiento o cómo narrar la crisis ecosocial.” ALCESXXI. Journal of Contemporary Spanish Literature & Film 3 (2016-2017): pp. 166-197
  19. Daniela Inclezan & Luis I. Prádanos. “Viewpoint: A Critical View on Smart Cities and AI.” Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 60 (2017): pp. 681-686.
  20. “Ecocrítica ibérica contemporánea y nuevos materialismos: introducción.” Letras Hispanas 13 (2017): pp. 156-164.
  21. Luis I. Prádanos and Mark Anderson. “Transatlantic Iberian, Latin American, and Lusophone African Ecocriticism: An Introduction.” Special issue on South Atlantic Ecocriticism. Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 8.1 (Spring 2017). 1-21.
  22. “Ecocrítica en los estudios literarios y culturales españoles contemporáneos: una tendencia emergente desesperadamente necesaria.” Nuevas tendencias literarias: el autor y su crítica (2000-2015). La nueva literatura hispánica 20 (2016): 281-298.
  23. “Spanish Cultural and Literary Criticism in the Age of the Anthropocene.” A Polemical Companion to Ethics of Life: Contemporary Iberian Debates.  Hispanic Issues On Line Debates 7 (University of Minnesota, 2016): 24-26.
  24. “Exploring the Political Ecology of Iberian Studies.” A Polemical Companion to Ethics of Life: Contemporary Iberian Debates.  Hispanic Issues On Line Debates 7 (University of Minnesota, 2016): 49-54.
  25. “Decolonizing the North, Decolonizing the South: De-growth, Post-development, and their Cultural Representations in Spain and Latin America” (book chapter). Transatlantic Landscapes. Environmental Awareness, Literature, and the Arts. Ed. José Manuel Marrero Henríquez (2016).
  26. “The Pedagogy of Degrowth: Teaching Hispanic Studies in the Age of Social Inequality and Ecological Collapse.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 19 (2015): 81-96.
  27. “Precariedad, crisis ecológica y optimismo cruel: reflexiones para salir del imaginario dominante en la cultura española contemporánea.” La imaginación hipotecada. Aportaciones al debate sobre la precariedad del presente. Eds. Palmar Álvarez-Blanco y Antonio  Gómez L-Quiñones. Madrid: Libros en Acción, 2016.
  28. “La enseñanza del español en la era del antropoceno. Hacia la integración de la sostenibilidad en las clases de español como lengua extranjera.” Hispania, 98.2 (2015)
  29. "How to Listen to the Pachamama's Testimonio: Lessons from Indigenous Voices." STTFCL 39.2 (2015)
  30. "Degrowth and Ecological Economics in 21st Century Spain: Toward a Posthuman Economy.” Special issue edited by kata Beilin and William Viestenz: Ethics of Life; Comtempary Iberian Debates. Hispanic Issues (Vanderbilt UP, 2016).
  31. "Global Discourses, Networks, and Digital Media in Recent Spanish Novesl." Ometeca, Journal on Science & Humantities in Hispanic Literature 20 (2016).
  32. "Iluminando el lado oscuro de la modrnidad occidental: colonialismo, neocolonialismo y metalepsis en "También la lluvia." Confluencia 30.1 (Fall 2014).
  33. "La degradación ecológia y social del espacio urbano en Instrucciones para salvar el mundo de Rosa Montero." Letras Femeninas 39.2 (Invierno 2013).
  34. “Toward a Euro-Mediterranean Socioenvironmental Perspective: The Case for a Spanish Ecocriticism.” Special issue edited by Serenella Iovino: Mediterranean Ecocriticism. Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 4.2 (Autumn 2013).
  35. “Notas sobre terrorismo postmoderno, sistemas y novela española actual.” L’Érudit franco- espagnol 3 (June 2013)
  36. “El multiperspectivismo narrativo de Saer: una lectura sistémica de Cicatrices” (book chapter). Latin American Community: Tradition, Transition, and Identity. Ed. Jeana Paul- Ureña and Juan Carlos Ureña, SFAS UP (2013)
  37. “Ecocrítica y epistemología subalterna en Eduardo Galeano.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 36.2 (invierno 2012)
  38. “Decrecimiento o barbarie: ecocrítica y capitalismo global en la novela futurista española reciente.” Special issue edited by Ursula K. Heise: The Invention of Eco-Futures. Ecocriticism and Science Fiction. Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 3.2 (Autumn 2012)
  39. “Writing an Engaged Novel in the Network Society: Belén Gopegui, Systemic Narratives, and Globalization” (book chapter). Global Issues in Contemporary Hispanic Women’s Writing: Shaping Gender, the Environment, and Politics. Ed. Estrella Cibreiro and Francisca López. Routledge (November 2012)
  40. “La mujer inmigrante latinoamericana en el cine español actual: hacia una identidad cultural relacional en Princesas (2005).” Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura 27.2 (Spring 2012)
  41. “Constructivismo y redes sociales multiculturales en Cosmofobia y Lo verdadero es un momento de lo falso de Lucía Etxebarria” CiberLetras: Journal of Literary Criticism and Culture 25 (July 2011)
  42. “Disfunciones de la memoria en ‘Funes el memorioso’ y Memento: Una lectura neurocultural.” Ometeca, Journal on Science & Humanities in Hispanic Literature 13 (2009): 174-85
  43. “Yo también hablo de la rosa y la teoría de sistemas de Luhmann.” Gestos 46 (Noviembre, 2008): 85-96
  44. “Narrative multiperspectivism in La conquista del aire by Belén Gopegui: Narrative Construction of Systemic Selves and Postfeminism.” Monographic Review/Revista Monográfica 23 (2007): 106-17
  45. “De lo fenomenológico a lo epistemológico: perspectivismo narrativo en Historia de un abrigo de Soledad Puértolas.” Letras Peninsulares 20.2 (Fall 2007): 315-29

Publications in the Media

  1. “How Did This Class Prepare You for Extinction?” Resilience.org (Post-carbon Institute) April 21, 2020.
  2. “La pandemia solo será pedagógica si ayuda a desplazar el imaginario dominante” 15/15/15 Revista para una nueva civilización 2020.
  3. “La crisis ecosocial no requiere ni catastrofismo apocalíptico ni tecno-optimismo” CTXT: Revista contexto 193 October 31, 2018.
  4. “Del hedonismo triste al decrecimiento feliz: hacia una imaginación política de la empatía” CTXT: Revista contexto 166 April 24, 2018.
  5. “Degrowth: Igniting the Political Imagination of Joy” U.S. Intellectual History Blog. March 14, 2017.
  6. “Teaching Limits to Enhance Creativity: The Pedagogy of Degrowth” Academe Blog. August 10, 2017.
  7. “Nos sale carísimo mantener a los ricos” El salmón contracorriente. May 4, 2017.
  8.  “An Economy Focused Solely on Growth Is Environmentally and Socially Unsustainable” The Conversation. April 7, 2015.
  9. “El problema de la obsesión con el crecimiento” El salmón contracorriente. July 29, 2015.

BOOK REVIEWS

  1. Review of Marrero Henríquez, José Manuel (ed.) Hispanic Ecocriticism. Peter Lang: Berlín, 2019. Pp. 249. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos3 (2020)
  2. Review of Fraser, Benjamin. The Art of Pere Joan: Space, Landscape, and Comics Form. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019. Pp. 303. European Comic Art 1 (2020)
  3. Review of Mecke, Jochen, Ralf Junkerjürgen, Hubert Pöppel (eds.) Discursos de la crisis: respuestas de la cultura española ante nuevos desafíos. Madrid/ Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2017. Pp. 298. Journal of Contemporary Spanish Literature & Film 3 (2016-2017)
  4. Review of Colmeiro, José (ed.) Encrucijadas globales. Redefinir España en el siglo XXI. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2015. Pp. 365. Journal of Contemporary Spanish Literature & Film 3 (2016-2017)
  5. Review of Giacomo D’Alisa, Federico Demaria, and Giorgos Kallis (eds.) A Vocabulary for a New Era. New York & London: Routledge, 2015. Pp. 220. Teknokultura. Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales 14.1 (2017)
  6. Review of Raquejo, Tonia y José María Parreño (eds.) Arte y ecología. Madrid: UNED, 2015. Pp. 370. Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment1 (2016)
  7. Review of Beilin, Olga Katarzyna. In Search of an Alternative Biopolitics. Anti-Bullfighting, Animality, and the Environment in Contemporary Spain. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2015. 305. Teknokultura. Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales 13.1 (2016)
  8. Review of Moreno-Caballud, Luis. Cultures of Anyone. Studies on Cultural Democratization in the Spanish Neoliberal Crisis. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2015. Pp. 305. Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales 12.3 (2015)
  9. Review of Pérez Orozco, Amaia. Subversión feminista de la economía. Aportes para un debate sobre el conflicto capital-vida. Madrid: Traficantes de sueños, 2014. Pp. 305. Letras Femeninas1 (2015)
  10. Prologue of Buzo Salas, Teresa. Las hijas de las horas. Gregal, 2015.
  11. Review of Marrero Henríquez, José Manuel (ed.) Literatura y sostenibilidad en la era del antropoceno. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Fundación canaria MAPFRE Guanarteme, 2011. Pp. 227. Ometeca 19/20 (2014/2015)
  12. Review of Forns Broggi, Roberto. Nudos como estrellas. ABC de la imaginación ecológica en nuestras Américas. Lima: Nido de Cuervos, 2012. 462. Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 4.2 (Autumn 2013)
  13. Review of Carmen Flys Junquera, José Manuel Marrero Henríquez and Julia Barella Vigal (eds.) Ecocríticas. Literatura y medio ambiente. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2010. Pp. 422. Ometeca 17 (2012)
  14. Review of Mora, Vicente Luis. Alba Cromm. Barcelona: Seix Barral, 2010. Pp. 263. Hispania3 (2012)
  15. Review of Pombo, Álvaro. La previa muerte del lugarteniente Aloof. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2009. Pp. 179. Hispania4 (2011)
  16. Review of Guelbenzu, José María. El amor verdadero. Madrid: Siruela, 2010. Pp. 580. Hipertexto 14 (2011)
  17. Review of González Sainz, J. Á. Ojos que no ven. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2010. Pp. 154. Hispania1 (2011)
  18. Review of Fernández Mallo, Agustín. Postpoesía. Hacia un Nuevo paradigma. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2009. Pp. 194. Ometeca 16 (2011)
  19. Review of Millás, Juan José. Los objetos nos llaman. Barcelona: Seix Barral, 2008. Pp. 245. Hispania4 (2009)
  20. Review of Ramírez, Manuel. España al desnudo (1931-2007). Madrid: Encuentro, 2008. Pp. 204. Letras Peninsulares2/21.3 (Fall/Winter 2008-2009)
  21. Review of Riverola, Emma. Cartas desde la ausencia. Barcelona: Seix Barral, 2008. Pp. 287. Letras Peninsulares2/21.3 (Fall/Winter 2008-2009)
  22. Review of Menéndez Salmón, Ricardo. Derrumbe. Barcelona: Seix Barral, 2008. Pp. 189. Hispania3 (2009)
  23. Review of Enrigue, Álvaro. Vidas perpendiculares. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2008. Pp. 234. Hispania2 (2009)
  24. Review of Trueba, David. Saber Perder. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2008. Pp. 520. Céfiro1/9.2 (2009)
  25. Review of Lozano Mijares, M.ª del Pilar. La novela española posmoderna. Madrid: Arco/Libros, 2007. Pp. 380. Hispania1 (2009)
  26. Review of Alonso de Santos, José Luis. La cena de los generales. Dir. Miguel Narros. Teatro Lope de Vega, Sevilla. 16 oct. 2008. Céfiro1/8.2 (2008)
  27. Review of Puértolas, Soledad. Cielo nocturno. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2008. Pp. 242. Hispania4 (2008)
  28. Review of Landero, Luis. Hoy, Júpiter. Barcelona: Tusquets, 2007. Pp. 400. Hispania 1 (2008)
  29. Review of Mora, Francisco. Una cultura basada en el cerebro. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2007. Pp. 191. Ometeca 12 (2008)
  30. Review of Millás, Juan José. Laura y Julio. Barcelona: Seix Barral, 2006. Pp. 190. Letras Peninsulares2/19.3 (Fall/Winter 2006-2007)
  31. Review of Bendahan, Esther. Déjalo, ya volveremos. Barcelona: Seix Barral, 2006. Pp. 239. Hispania4 (2007)
  32. Review of Mainer, José-Carlos. Tramas, libros, nombres. Para entender la literatura española, 1944-2000. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2005. Pp. 356. Hispania3 (2007)
  33. Review of Tizón, Eloy. Parpadeos. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2006. 143. Hispania 90.2 (2007)
  34. Review of Jiménez Lozano, José. Las gallinas del Licenciado. Barcelona: Seix Barral, 2005. Pp. 189. Hispania1 (2007)
  35. Review of Pombo, Álvaro. Contra natura. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2005. Pp. 561. Hispania4 (2006)
  36. Review of Puértolas, Soledad. Historia de un abrigo. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2005. Pp. 237. Letras Femeninas 1 (2006)
  37. Review of Bonilla, Juan. El Estadio de Mármol. Barcelona: Seix Barral, 2005. Pp. 253. Hispania3 (2006)
  38. Review of Izquierdo, Paula. La Falta. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2005. Pp. 207. Hispania 2 (2006)
  39. Review of García Sánchez, Javier. Ella Drácula (vida y crímenes de Erzsébet Báthory, la condesa sangrienta) Hungría, 1560-1617. Barcelona: Planeta, 2005. Pp. 389. Hispania4 (2005)

CREATIVE WORK

  1. “Fantasmas digitales.” Short Story. Céfiro 1/11.2 (2011)
  2. “Epílogo borgiano a Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela de Elena Poniatowska.” Short Story. Pegaso 3 (2009)
  3. “Sátiras de lo absurdo.” Short Story. Céfiro 1/6.2 (2006)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  1. “Repensar los estudios culturales españoles,” KFLC, University of Kentucky, 2022
  2. “A Systems View on Water: Prosperity in a Postgrowth Cultural Ecology,” 54th Comparative Literature Symposium, Perspectives on Water on the Llano Estacado, Texas Tech University, 2022
  3. “Retos estéticos del postdesarrollo,” Post-Global Aesthetics: 21st Century Latin American Literatures and Cultures, University of Cologne and University of Vienna, 2021
  4. “Pedagogía del decrecimiento: estrategias para incorporar cuestiones ecosociales en el aula de ELE,” I Jornadas Ciencias y Letras: El Giro Transdisciplinar, Universitat de València, 2020
  5. “Urban Postgrowth Imaginaries and Decolonial Paradises,” ASLE Thirteenth Biennial Conference, Paradise on Fire, University of California, Davis, 2019
  6. “The Agency of Urban Infrastructure in Post-2008 Spanish Culture,” KFLC, University of Kentucky, 2019
  7. “Postgrowth Imaginaries,” MLA, Chicago, 2019
  8. “Pedagogías transformadoras ante la crisis ecosocial,” Jornadas Pedagógicas ALCESXXI, University of Minnesota, 2018
  9. “Education and Degrowth in Turbulent Times,” 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Malmö (Sweden), 2018
  10. “Energy Humanities and Critical Urban Studies,” Environmental Humanities Conference, Universidad de Alcalá, 2018
  11. “Disaster Fiction and the Pedagogy of Catastrophe in The Impossible,” KFLC, University of Kentucky, 2018
  12. “ALCESXXI roundtable and workshop,” KFLC, University of Kentucky, 2018
  13. “Energy Humanities and Spanish Urban Cultural Studies: A Call for a Radical Convergence,” Urban Futures Symposium, Miami University, 2018
  14. “From the Pedagogy of Catastrophe to the Pedagogy of Degrowth,” ASLE Twelfth Biennial Conference, Rust/Resistance: Works of Recovery, Wayne State University, 2017
  15. “Cultura insurgente,” roundtable ALCESXXI. KFLC, University of Kentucky, 2017
  16. “Disaster Fiction and the Pedagogy of Catastrophe,” Colloque International EcoLitt. Écocritique: nouvelles territorialités, Angers (France), 2016
  17. “Politics and Aesthetics of Garbage in Post-2008 Spanish Culture” (panel organizer: Ecocritical Explorations in Iberian Contemporary Cultures). KFLC, University of Kentucky, 2016
  18. “The Political Ecology of Waste: Non-human Agency in Recent Spanish Cultural Manifestations” (Seminar: Nomadic Waste & Ecological Materiality in Neoliberal Space). ACLA, Harvard University, 2016
  19. “Alternative (Eco)Pedagogies” 35th Lilly International Conference on College Teaching, Miami University, 2015
  20. Research Workshop Organizer: “Ecocrítica y cultura española contemporánea en la era del antropoceno.” III Jornadas Internacionales de ALCESXXI, Soria (Spain), 2015
  21. “Los estudios hispánicos en tiempos de cambio climático, extinción masiva y colapso ecológico.” Los límites del Hispanismo. V congreso asociación Beta, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal), 2015
  22. “Los estudios culturales y literarios españoles en la era del antropoceno.” KFLC, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 2015
  23. “The Pedagogy of Unlearning: Successes and Shortfalls of Incorporating Ecological Literacy in Teaching, Research, and Service.” 34th Lilly International Conference on College Teaching, Miami University, 2014
  24. “Higher Education, Environmental Humanities, and Ecoliteracy: Teaching Hispanic Studies in the Anthropocene.” 88th SAMLA Sustainability and the Humanities, Atlanta, 2014
  25. “Degrowth and Ecological Economics in 21st-Century Spain: Toward a Posthumanist Economy.” MACHL, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014
  26. “Precariedad, crisis ecológica y optimismo cruel: reflexiones para salir del imaginario dominante en la cultura española contemporánea.” Congreso Internacional Literatura y Ecocrítica, Valladolid (Spain), 2014
  27. “El decrecimiento y sus manifestaciones culturales para salir del imaginario dominante,” Shattering Iberia: Cultural Responses to an Ongoing Crisis, UC Berkeley, 2014
  28. “Decolonizing the North, Decolonizing the South: De-growth and Post-development,” MLA, Chicago, 2014
  29. “Recent Spanish Non-fiction Books on Socioenvironmental Perspectives: Challenging the Mainstream Discourses in European Environmentalism,” ASLE Tenth Biennial Conference. Changing Nature: Migrations, Energies, Limits, University of Kansas, 2013
  30. “The Political Ecology of Iberian Studies,” Towards Iberian Studies: A conference, The Ohio State University, 2013
  31. “The Dark Side of Globalization and Decolonial Options in También la lluvia,” 14th Céfiro Annual Conference, Texas Tech University, 2013
  32. “Thinking Sustainability through an Ecology of Knowledge: De-growth, Slow Movement, Post-development, and Andean Indigenous Epistemologies,” Conservation, Restoration, Sustainability. A Call to Stewardship, Brigham Young University, 2012
  33. “Ecocrítica, redes y sistemas en la novela española reciente,” 66th RMMLA Annual Convention, Boulder, 2012
  34. “Colonialismo, neocolonialismo y metalepsis en También la Lluvia,” XV Forum for Iberian Studies, University of Oxford (UK), 2012
  35. “Current Theoretical Articulation of Critiques and Alternatives to the Unsustainable Global Capitalism in Mediterranean Europe,” 2011 Conference of the Rocky Mountain European Scholars Consortium, University of Utah, 2011
  36. “Global Discourses and Digital Media in Recent Spanish Novels,” 9th International Conference on New Directions on the Humanities, University of Granada (Spain), 2011
  37. “Ecological Justice and Border Thinking in Eduardo Galeano,” Where Have All the Wild Things Gone? Ecocriticism and Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Symposium, Texas Tech University, 2011
  38. “La ecocrítica de Eduardo Galeano en El libro de los abrazos,” 12th Céfiro Annual Conference, Texas Tech University, 2011
  39. “Multiculturalism and Globalization in Rosa Montero and Lucía Etxebarria,” AILCFH XX Annual Conference, University of Texas, 2010
  40. “Terrorismo e hiperrealidad: la mediatización del terror en el nuevo entorno tecnosocial,” XI Congreso Internacional de Literatura Española Contemporánea, University of A Coruña (Spain), 2010
  41. “Mujeres inmigrantes en el cine español actual,” 11th Céfiro Annual Conference, Texas Tech University, 2010
  42. “La representación del terrorismo postmoderno en la novela española del tercer milenio,” RMMLA 63th Annual Convention, Snowbird, Utah, 2009
  43. “¿Nueva novela española comprometida en el tercer milenio? Belén Gopegui, el yo sistémico y la globalización,” AATSP 91st Annual Conference in Albuquerque, 2009
  44. “Teaching the History of Contemporary Spain through its Cultural Manifestations,” Premier Poster Session, AATSP 91st Annual Conference in Albuquerque, 2009
  45. “Representations of Multiculturalism in Recent Spanish Novels: Systemic Narratives, Globalization, and Migration,” The 2009 Joint Conference on Migration, Border, and the Nation-Sate, The Texas Tech University Comparative Literature Program and the United States Association for Commonwealth Literatures and Languages Studies, Lubbock, 2009
  46. “El multiperspectivismo narrativo de Saer: una lectura sistémica de Cicatrices,” Latin American Studies Conference. Latin American Community: Linking, Moving, Transition, Identity, Stephen F. Austin State University, 2009
  47. “Belén Gopegui: la posibilidad de criticar el fundamentalismo del nuevo capitalismo,” I International Conference on Literature, Culture and Religion in the Hispanic World, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 2009
  48. “La deconstrucción del mito del sujeto moderno en El padre de Blancanieves,” IX Congreso Internacional de Literatura Española Contemporánea, University of A Coruña (Spain), 2008
  49. “Carballido y la teoría de sistemas: una interpretación sistémica de Yo también hablo de la rosa”(panel organizer: Systems Theory and Literature), 9th Céfiro Annual Conference, Texas Tech University, 2008
  50. “Postfeminismo y focalización: La conquista del aire de Belén Gopegui,” SCMLA 64th Annual Meeting, Memphis, 2007
  51. “Disfunciones de la memoria en ‘Funes el memorioso’ y Memento,” Literature and the Arts: Interdisciplinary Convergences within Luso-Hispanic Cultures, UCLA, 2007
  52. “La reconciliación del yo moderno y el yo postmoderno a través de la neurología en La conquista del aire de Belén Gopegui,” 8th Céfiro Annual Conference, Texas Tech University, 2007
  53. “Oralidad y perspectivismo en Klail City y sus alrededores de Rolando Hinojosa-Smith: de la intrahistoria oral a la novela,” 54th Annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, 2007
  54. “Postmodernidad en la Sonata de estío de Valle-Inclán,” Tierra Tinta Conference on Latin American, Spanish, and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, University of Oklahoma, 2006
  55. “De lo fenomenológico a lo epistemológico: perspectivismo en Historia de un abrigo de Soledad Puértolas,” AATSP 88th Annual Conference in Salamanca (Spain), 2006
  56. “Los silencios fenomenológicos en Soledad Puértolas,” 7th Céfiro Annual Conference, Texas Tech University, 2006

INVITED AND PLENARY TALKS

  1. “Innovación y liderazgo para la transición ecológica y social.” SUSI (Study of the U.S. Institutes for Student Leaders from the Western Hemisphere) Conference. 2022.
  2. “Education as if People and the Planet Mattered.” University of Helsinki. 2022.  
  3. “Postgrowth Imaginaries” (Invited Book Talk). "In-Between Normalities: Care, persistence and the (re)imagination of life" Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies Graduate Student Conference, University of British Columbia (Canada). 2021.
  4. “Hacia una redefinición crítica de los conceptos de innovación y liderazgo en el contexto de crisis ecológica y social.” SUSI (Study of the U.S. Institutes for Student Leaders from the Western Hemisphere) Conference. 2021.
  5. “Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies in the Age of Extinction, Inequality, and Energy Decline.” Keynote speech for “Green Hispanisms” Conference (Swansea University, Wales). 2021.
  6. “Repensar los estudios culturales españoles en tiempos de extinción masiva y declive energético.” Estudios Culturales Hispánicos, Universität Regensburg (Germany). 2021.
  7. “A Practical Guide to Decolonizing Education” (3 hours workshop). 8th Degrowth & Environmental Justice Summer School (Barcelona). 2021.
  8. “Political Ecologies and Postgrowth Futures.” The Western Center for Social Impact and Innovation. 2021.
  9. “Hacia una redefinición crítica de los conceptos de innovación y liderazgo en el contexto de crisis ecológica y social.” SUSI (Study of the U.S. Institutes for Student Leaders from the Western Hemisphere) Alumni Conference. 2021.
  10. “Postgrowth Imaginaries and the Political Ecology of Cultural Studies.”  Ohio State University. 2020.
  11. “Environmental Humanities and Degrowth in the Age of Extinction: Insights from Post-2008 Spain.” Wofford College. 2019.
  12. Invited responder and commentator in workshop “From the Coloniality of Natural Disaster to the Planthropocene: New Approaches to Planetary Crisis.” University of Erfurt (Germany). 2019.
  13. “Postgrowth Imaginaries and Environmental Humanities: Redefining Cultural Studies in the Age of Extinction.”  University of Chicago. 2019.
  14. “Environmental Humanities, Counterhegemonic Practices, and Postgrowth Futures.” University of Michigan-Dearborn. 2019.
  15. “Postgrowth Futures in Post-2008 Spain.” Texas Tech University, Keynote speech for Céfiro’s XX Annual Conference. 2019.
  16. “Discussing Postgrowth Imaginaries.” Durham University, Centre for Cultural Ecologies (UK). 2019.
  17. “Decrescere per Progredire: prosperita e crescita non sono compatibili.” Universita della Calabria (Italy). 2018.
  18. “The Pedagogy of Degrowth: Teaching as if People and the Planet Mattered.” North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2018.
  19. “Counterhegemonic Cultures in Post-2008 Spain and the Pedagogy of Degrowth. ” University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2018.
  20. “The Pedagogy of Degrowth: Teaching in the Age of Social Inequality and Ecological Collapse.” Georgia Tech University, School of Modern Languages. 2017.
  21. “Postgrowth Imaginaries & the Pedagogy of Degrowth.” Universität Zürich (ETH), Anthropocene Learning Lab (Switzerland). 2017.
  22. “Ecological Economics.” Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). 2017.
  23. “Disaster Fiction and the Pedagogy of Catastrophe.” Miami University (Department of Spanish & Portuguese). 2016.                        
  24. “The Pedagogy of Degrowth: Teaching Hispanic Studies in the Age of Social Inequality and Ecological Collapse.” University of Kentucky, Lexington. 2015.
  25. “Ecocrítica, humanidades ambientales y cultura española actual.” Universidad de Cádiz, Spain. 2015.
  26. “Ecological Thinking in Higher Education and the Pedagogy of Degrowth: Teaching (Hispanic Studies) in the Anthropocene.” University of California, Berkeley (department of Spanish & Portuguese). 2015.
  27. “Slow Food and Ecological Economics: What Global Capitalism Cannot See.” University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley Food Institute). 2015.
  28.  “Agriculture and Ecological Economics.” Institute for the Environment and Sustainability, Miami University. 2015.
  29. “The Pedagogy of Degrowth.” Seminar on Alternative Pedagogies, Center for Teaching Excellent, Miami University. 2015. 
  30. “Sustainable De-growth and Andean Indigenous Thinking: Surviving Globalization and Development.” Latin American Studies, Miami University. 2014.
  31. “Change the World with Your Fork: Slow Food, Sustainability, and Social Justice.” Geography and Spanish & Portuguese, Miami University. 2014.
  32. “Desarrollo, globalización y medioambiente.” University of Piura, Peru. 2013.
  33. “Eco-arte: hacer visible lo invisible.” School of Fine Arts, Piura, Peru. 2013.
  34. “Globalization, Violence, and the Food System: Perpetuating Social and Environmental Injustice.” Second Annual Food Film Series, Westminster College, Utah. 2012.
  35. “Leadership in Sustainability.” The Eleventh Annual Conference on Leadership, Westminster College, Utah. 2012.
  36. “Slow Food: The Revolution Begins on Your Plate.” “Of the Shelf” Series of Library Discussions, Westminster College, Utah. 2012.
  37. “Living Better with Less: Slow Food, De-growth Theory, and the Blind Spot of Global Capitalism.” The International Education Week, Westminster College, Utah. 2011.
  38. “Active Learning and Communicative Method: Strategies for Teaching Second Language in the 21st Century.” Workshop, Westminster College, Utah. 2010.
  39. “Narratology: From Genette to the New Trends.” Graduate Seminar (Literary Criticism), Texas Tech University. 2009 & 2010.
  40. “Engaging Students Actively.” Workshop, Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center, Texas Tech University. 2010.

AWARDS, HONORS, and GRANTS

  1. Prodesse Quam Conspici Award (in recognition of selfless service to support and advance the university and the Miami community), Miami University, 2022.
  2. Research Apprentice Award, Miami University Humanities Center, 2021-2022.
  3. Research Collaborative Award, “Approaching Extinction,” Miami University Humanities Center, 2019.
  4. Assigned Research Appointment, Miami University, Fall 2015.
  5. “Ecological Economics” Proposal funded by The John E. and Winifred E. Dolibois Fund, 2015.
  6. CFR Summer Research Award, Miami University, 2015.
  7. Summer Research Grant for New Tenure-Track Faculty, Miami University, 2014.
  8. Gore Research Summer Grant, Westminster College, 2013.
  9. Nominated for the Westminster College Leadership Award, 2013.
  10. Student-Faculty Undergraduate Research Travel Grant, Westminster College, 2011 & 2013.
  11. STARS star, named by the Environmental Center Sustainability Fellows using a tool known as the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System (STARS), Westminster College, 2011.
  12. TEACH (Teaching Effectiveness And Career EnHancement) Program Fellowship, sponsored by the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center at Texas Tech University, 2007-2008 (Awarded third place in the teaching portfolio contest).
  13. Outstanding Graduate Part-time Instructor Award, awarded by Texas Tech University Graduate School, 2005-2006.
  14. Member of the National Hispanic Honor Society Sigma Delta Pi, Alpha Phi Chapter (selected as a recipient of the Ignacio y Sophie Galbis Award for its outstanding activities realized during the 2005–2006 academic year; the Octavio Paz Award for promoting the study of the Hispanic language, literature and culture 2004–2007; the Certificate of Honor and Merit 2006–2007 and has been named an “Honor Chapter” for its outstanding activities in 2007–2008 and 2008–2009), 2005–present.
  15. Selected on five occasions to teach at Texas Tech Study Abroad Program in Seville (Spain), Spring 2005, Summer 2006, Summer 2007, Summer 2008, and Fall 2008.
  16. Erasmus Grant: 2000-2001 academic year at University of Messina, Italy, granted by University of Alcalá.
  17. Scholarship: 1998-2002, awarded by the Spanish government at University of Alcalá.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • Modern Language Association. 2007–present.
  • The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. 2011–present.
  • American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. 2005–present.
  • Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cine Españoles Siglo XXI. 2013–present.
  • Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica. 2006–present.

Publications are available on Academia.edu