Dr. Nathaniel McBride

Education

• Ph.D. Spanish, with Film Studies Interdisciplinary Specialization, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University, 2025
  
  Dissertation Title: “Ecology and Time in Postwar Spanish Narrative”
  Committee: Eugenia Romero, Dionisio Viscarri, Catalina Iannone, Luis I. Prádanos
  
  
• M.A. Spanish, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University, 2022
• M.A. Spanish, Department of World Languages and Cultures, University of Toledo, 2020
• B.A. Spanish and French, Magna Cum Laude, Asbury University, 2018

Selected Publications

• “Cars Haunt Our Dreams: Spanish Film, Desarrollismo, and the Automobile.” TECMERIN: Journal of Audiovisual Essays. Forthcoming.
• “Sol, i de dol i Elegies de Bierville: Una transformació postmoderna ecològica.” Catalan Review, vol. 39, 2025, pp. 81–97. doi:10.3828/catr.39.5.
• “Melodrama as Utopia in The Silence of Others.” Hispanic Review, vol. 92, no. 3, Summer 2024, pp. 553–76. doi:10.1353/hir.2024.a948082

Presentations

Panelist

• “Embrace the New? An Ecocritical Analysis of El cochecito (1960) and La ciudad no es para mí (1966).” 78th Annual KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference, University of Kentucky. April 17-19, 2025.
• “Spanish Film, Desarrollismo, and the Automobile.” 25th Annual Hispanic and Lusophone Studies Symposium, The Ohio State University. March 21-22, 2025.
• “Postwar Spanish Literature is Fertile Ground for Postmodern Ecocriticism.” MMLA, Midwest Modern Language Association. Chicago. November 14-16, 2024.
• “Time, Gender, and Ecology in Los niños tontos and Entre visillos.” 77th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky. April 18-20, 2024.
• “Anarchic Grounding: Ecofeminist Anarchism in Sílvia das Fadas’s Light, Blaze, Fulgor.” MMLA, Midwest Modern Language Association. November 2-5, 2023.
• “Chronos Devouring Christ: Rethinking the Oedipal, Generations, and Time in Franco-Era Film.” Charles F. Fraker Conference, University of Michigan. October 6-7, 2023.
• “The Comic Way in Spanish Postwar Film: Pacifism, Humanism, and Feminism in Mare Nostrum (1948).” Greening Modern Languages Research and Teaching. March 23-25, 2023.
• “Early Modern Melodrama and Gender Identity in Lazarillo de Tormes, ‘La fuerza de la sangre,’ and Valor, agravio y mujer. 26th Annual Hispanic and Lusophone Studies Symposium, The Ohio State University. March 24-25, 2023.
• “Anti-Fascism or Anti-Francoism? Mare Nostrum (1948) as Feminist Humanism.” CILH: Congresos Internacionales de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos XXXI. October 21-22, 2022.
• “The Silence of Others: The Melodramatic Utopia of a Spanish Reckoning.” KFLC: The Languages, Literatures & Languages Conference, University of Kentucky. April 21-23, 2022.
• “Performing Spanish and Catalan Identities on 11-S: Utopias of Unity.” 25th Annual Hispanic and Lusophone Studies Symposium, The Ohio State University. March 25-26, 2022.
• “Indignation and Re-Polticization of the Spanish Civil War in Pa negre and Cremeu Barcelona!” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, University of Louisville. February 24-26, 2022.
• “Usos del pasado: apropiaciones y rescates desde la producción cultural moderna y contemporánea.” Jornadas ALCESXXI. June 20, 2021.

Research Forum Participant

• “Early Modern Melodrama and Gender Identity in Lazarillo de Tormes, “La fuerza de la sangre,” and Valor, agravio y mujer.” Hayes Advanced Research Forum, February 24, 2023.
• “Usos del pasado: apropiaciones y rescates desde la producción cultural moderna y contemporánea.” Jornadas ALCESXXI. June 20, 2021.

Invited Lecturer

• “Cinco horas con Mario: Ecología, el diálogo y la novela.” Guest Talk Organized by Dr. Angela Acosta, Davidson College. March 20, 2024.
• “Melodramatic Utopia in The Silence of Others.” Guest Talk Organized by Dr. Eugenia Romero, The Ohio State University. April 19, 2023.
• “Brava gente brasileira and También la lluvia.” Guest Talk Organized by Dr. Lisa Voigt, The Ohio State University. April 21, 2021.

Awards, Honors, and Grants

• 2024 - Arts and Humanities Graduate Research Small Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University, $671
• 2024 - Felice M. Grad Scholarship, Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures, The Ohio State University, $1000
• 2024 - Judith Marquis Rymer & Glenn Rymer Travel Fund, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University, $1000
• 2024 - Loann Crane Fund for Hispanic Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University, $500
• 2024 - Peninsular Literature Research Abroad fund, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University, $118

Professional Memberships

• AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish & Portuguese)
• MLA (Modern Language Association)
• Pi Delta Phi (National French Honor Society)
• Sigma Delta Pi (National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society)

Languages

• English, native speaker
• Spanish, near native fluency
• Catalan, advanced
• French, intermediate