Summary

Mar Inestrillas is originally from Spain, with roots in Madrid and the northern coastal towns of Cantabria and the Basque Country. She received her B.A. in philosophy at the Universidad Complutense w88 online live casino Madrid. Soon after, she moved permanently to the U.S. and earned her Ph.D. in Spanish literature, language and culture from the Ohio State University (Columbus, OH). As a graduate student, she lived for a few months in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she led a group of American study-abroad students. She has traveled extensively in the U.S., Europe, Canada and Latin America. She returns to Spain regularly to conduct research and to present papers at international conferences. In 2012, she was granted an USAC visiting professorship at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid, Spain). Since joining the faculty at the University of Nevada, Reno in 2002, she has taught a wide variety of upper-division and graduate courses, published widely in her fields of interest and served the department and the University in many committees, including as a Spanish graduate director and interim director of the Latino Research Center.

Education

• Ph.D., Spanish literature and culture, Ohio State University, 2002
• M.A., Spanish literature and culture, Ohio State University, 1997
• B.A., Philosophy, Universidad Complutense (Madrid, Spain), 1991

Research interests:

• 20th- and 21st-century Hispanic literature and culture
• Post-Civil War/postmodern peninsular literature and film (1939+)
• Diaspora and exile; Film studies; Critical theory and cultural studies

Courses taught:

Graduate seminars

• Contemporary Hispanic Literature and Film
• Post-Civil War Peninsular Narrative and Film
• Critical Theory

Advanced undergraduate seminars

• 20th-21st Century Spanish Literature
• Spanish Film and Culture
• Spanish Women's Literature

Upper-division undergraduate courses

• Masterworks of Spanish Peninsular Literature (1700+)
• Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Literary Studies
• Spanish Culture
• Business Spanish
• Spanish Service Learning
• Intermediate and Advanced Spanish Composition and Conversation

Selected publications

Books

• Oro en la arena: Antología w88 online live casino escritores latinos en Nevada(EE.UU.), edited by Mar Inestrillas and Emma Sepúlveda-Pulvirenti. Editorial Pliegos, 2019.
• From Snowcaps to Desert Flats: An Anthology of Latino Writers in Nevada, edited by Mar Inestrillas and Emma Sepúlveda-Puvirenti. U of Nevada Latino Research Center Book Series, 2015. (Awarded an “Honor Mention&w88 online live casino; in the 2016 “International Latino Book Awards&w88 online live casino;)
• Huellas textuales del exilio: autobiografía w88 online live casino escritoras republicanas. Ediciones Asterión, 2010.
• Escritura desplazada: literatura w88 online live casino chilenas en la diáspora. Ediciones Asterión, 2009. (Selected by the Chilean Literary Project to be placed in every Public Library of the country)

Articles (peer-reviewed)

• “Sueños w88 online live casino cristal: Perspectiva desplazada y testimonio adolescente en Nada w88 online live casino Carmen Laforet.” Baquiana: Revista w88 online live casino Literatura, n^o 125-26.
• El cementerio w88 online live casino los sueños en El embrujo w88 online live casino Shanghai w88 online live casino Juan Marsé.” Crisis y muerte w88 online live casino el mundo hispano: Respuestas culturales, edited byEsther M. Alarcón-Arana, Peter Lang, 2020, pp. 37-62.
• “Fantasmas en el hogar: La experiencia ética/estética w88 online live casino las ruinas w88 online live casino la nación en Nada.&w88 online live casino; Espectros del poder: Representaciones y discursos w88 online live casino resistencia enliteratura y cine en los siglos XX-XXI, edited by JM Persánch and Fabricio Silva, Pliegos, 2019, pp. 137-49.
• &w88 online live casino;Biutiful: La órbita trágico-redentora w88 online live casino la belleza.” Respuestas cinematográficas a la crisis económica española w88 online live casino el siglo XXI, edited by María José Hellín and Helena Talaya, Editorial w88 online live casino la Universitat Oberta w88 online live casino Catalunya, 2018, pp. 73-81.
• “Espacio exterior/interior w88 online live casino Ventanas w88 online live casino Manhattan w88 online live casino Antonio Muñoz Molina.” Baquiana: Revista Literaria, vol. 18, 2017, pp. 127-44.
• “Paradigmas culturales hispanos: El impacto del cine transnacional en la visión w88 online live casino la cultura hispana.” La presencia hispana y el español w88 online live casino Estados Unidos: Unidad w88 online live casino la diversidad, edited by Rosa Tezanos-Pinto, Academia Norteamericana w88 online live casino la Lengua Española [ANLE], 2017, pp. 153-68.

Book introduction

• “Latino Writers in Nevada: A Literary Expedition through the Desert Trope and the Postmodern Urban Space.&w88 online live casino; Introduction. From Snowcaps to Desert Flats: An Anthology of Latino Writers in Nevada. Edited by Mar Inestrillas andEmma Sepúlveda.Reno: U of Nevada Latino Research Center Book Series, 2015. pp. 17-44.

Book reviews

• “Alicia Galaz Vivar y su poesía feminista.&w88 online live casino; Invited review of Jaula gruesa para el animal hembra by Alicia Galaz Vivar, edited by Camilo Araya Fuentes and Zuleta Vásquez, Pampa Negra Ediciones, 2023. Vallejo & Company (Revista electrónica w88 online live casino arte y literatura), año X, 2024, vallejoandcompany.com/alicia-galaz-vivar-y-su-poesia-feminista/
• “Governing Immigration Through Crime.&w88 online live casino; Review of Governing Immigration Through Crime: A Reader. Edited by Julie A. Dowling and Jonathan X. Inda. BorderLines: Journal of the Latino Research Center, vol. 7, 2013, pp. 118-20.
• &w88 online live casino;Triple exposición sobre el exilio español: I.- Hacia el exilio, w88 online live casino salida.” Review of Hacia el exilio, by José María Naharro-Calderón and Beatriz García Paz (in colaboration with Nieves Yagüe Fernández and Agustín Garrigós Fernández). Laberintos: Revista w88 online live casino Estudios sobre los Exilios Culturales Españoles, vol. 14, 2012, pp. 373-76.

Book foreword

• “Foreword.&w88 online live casino;Grounded in Nevada: At Home in the Silver State: A Place-Based Literary Approach to English Language Learning, co-authored and edited byLee Olsen, Diana Brady-Herndon, and Catherine Wrucke, 1st ed.,The University of Nevada Press, 2024.

National and international conferences

• Travesía fronteriza w88 online live casino la mujer migrante en el film Babel (2006) w88 online live casino Alejandro González Iñárritu.” 43rd International Congress of ALDEEU: Desafíos y retos del mundo Hispano, Madrid, Spain, July 1-3, 2024.

• “Viaje sin regreso a Colonia Dignidad: La infancia infernal w88 online live casino Ilse en Cuando mi cuerpo dejó w88 online live casino ser tu casa w88 online live casino Emma Sepúlveda,” V Simposio Libros, Viajes, Viajeros y el Discurso w88 online live casino lo Extraño en América Latina, University of Turin, Italy, June 20-24, 2023. Participation by invitation only.
• “La expresión lingüística como forma w88 online live casino resistencia enCuando mi cuerpo dejó w88 online live casino ser mi casaw88 online live casino Emma Sepúlveda,” 50^th Anniversary Special Third Congress of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE): Miami, FL, May 18-21, 2023.
• “Deseo y ausencia en la autoficción en el marco w88 online live casino la escritura femenina en el exilio,” XXXI CILH. Congreso International w88 online live casino Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos, October, 21-22, 2022.

• “La filosofía del exilio en María Zambrano,” U Complutense w88 online live casino Madrid (Madrid, Spain). Invited by Prof. Stella Villarmea, Full Professor of Philosophy, to give an invited academic lecture and follow-up discussion (two days) in her class on “Spanish Women Philosophers in the 20^th Century by Spanish Women Philosophers.&w88 online live casino; October, 4-5, 2022.
• “ALBA en España: La ‘máquina w88 online live casino guerra’ y la épica del nomadismo.” XXX CILH-Seville, Spain. Congreso International w88 online live casino Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos. June 27-29, 2022.
• “Mujeres intelectuales en el exilio: María Zambrano,” U Complutense w88 online live casino Madrid (Madrid, Spain). Invited by Prof. Stella Villarmea, Full Professor of Philosophy, to give an invited lecture in her class on “Spanish Women Philosophers in the 20^th Century by Spanish Women Philosophers.&w88 online live casino; September 22, 2021.
• “La trágica diáspora w88 online live casino mujeres intelectuales en América,” XXVIII CILH Congreso International w88 online live casino Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos, June, 24-26, 2021.
• “El antihéroe quijotesco w88 online live casino El embrujo w88 online live casino Shanghai w88 online live casino Juan Marsé.” XXVII CILH Congreso International w88 online live casino Literatura Hispánica, Virtual Conference, March 5-6, 2021.
• Conventions and Conferences canceled and postponed worldwide in 2020 due to COVID-19.
• “A vueltas con el pasado en la primera narrativa w88 online live casino Carmen Laforet y su inmediata adaptación a la pantalla.” V Congreso International Historia, Arte y Literatura en el Cine en Español y Portugués (CIHALCEP): Universidad w88 online live casino Salamanca and Centro w88 online live casino Estudios Brasileños, Salamanca, Spain, June 26-28, 2019.
• &w88 online live casino;Biutiful (2010) w88 online live casino Alejandro González Iñárritu: Órbita trágico-redentora w88 online live casino la belleza.” CineLit 9: Mujer y Género (Women and Gender). The University of Oregon, Portland State University and Oregon State University, Portland, OR, March 9-11, 2019.
• “Voces que dan que hablar: Jóvenes narradores en la posguerra española.” IX Congreso Internacional w88 online live casino la Asociación Hispánica w88 online live casino Humanidades y la Universidad w88 online live casino Extremadura: Aportaciones y retos w88 online live casino la tradición cultural hispánica en una sociedad global. Cáceres, Spain, June 20-22, 2018.
• “Migración y marginalización w88 online live casino Nada w88 online live casino Carmen Laforet.” XXXVII Congreso Internacional w88 online live casino la Asociación w88 online live casino Licenciados y Doctores Españoles en Estados Unidos (ALDEEU): Diáspora española: Migración y exilios. Fundación Rei Alfonso Henriques, Zamora, Spain, July 18-21, 2017.
• “Condiciones w88 online live casino creación y publicación w88 online live casino Delirio y destino w88 online live casino María Zambrano desde su exilio en Cuba.” 2016 Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies (PCCLAS) Conference: The Global Diaspora and the Diffusion of Latin American Culture andSociety. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, October 29, 2016.
• “Al margen w88 online live casino la historia: Claves narrativas en la novela española contemporánea.” XXXVI Congreso Internacional w88 online live casino la Asociación w88 online live casino Licenciados y Doctores Españoles en Estados Unidos (ALDEEU): Español w88 online live casino Nueva York: Intersecciones hispánicas w88 online live casino EE.UU. / “Spanish in New York: Hispanic Intersections in the USA.&w88 online live casino; Cervantes Institute, New York City, NY, June 3-5, 2016.
• &w88 online live casino;From Snowcaps to Desert Flats: Latino Voices in Nevada.&w88 online live casino; Book presentation and panel discussion with selected Latino writers. 50th Western Literature Association (WLA) Conference: Visual Culture in the Urban West, Reno, Nevada, October 14-17, 2015.
• “Paradigmas culturales hispanos: El impacto cinematográfico w88 online live casino la unificación cultural hispana dentro del marco sociopolítico estadounidense.” 40th Anniversary Special Congress of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE): Hispanic Presence in and Spanish Language of the United States. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., June 6-8, 2014.
• “Spanish Cinema: Art and Culture in Contemporary Spain.&w88 online live casino; Invited Lecture. Department of International Languages, Literatures and Cultures. California State University, Chico, CA, October 25, 2013.
• “Let’s Play, Forget, and Survive: Spanish Post-Civil War Stories of Intimate Encounters and Gaming.&w88 online live casino; 38th Annual Meeting of the Southern Comparative Literature Association (SCLA): Gaming the System: The Global Stakes of Comparative Study. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, October 25-27, 2012.