海角社区

 

Elena Castro

Professor of Spanish 

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2001
Phone: 225-578-5178
E-mail: ecastro@lsu.edu
Office: 322 Hodges Hall

Area of Interest

Twentieth and twenty-first century Spanish Peninsular Poetry and Poetics, Gender and Sexualities, Women Studies. Twentieth and twenty-first century Spanish Peninsular Literatures, Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary approaches to Hispanic Literatures. Contemporary Latin American Poetry and Poetics.

Recent Teaching

Graduate

"Disidencias de g茅nero, disidencias sexuales. Representaciones y retos de las multitudes queer en el estado espa帽ol" (SPAN 7961)
La(s) mujer(es) y los procesos postidentitarios en la literature espa帽ola actual. De los postfeminismos y transfeminismos a los transnacionalismos. (SPAN 7961)
驴Qui茅n cuenta la historia? La Guerra civil y el franquismo. Lecturas desde el presente y el pasado. (SPAN 7961)
Identidades y deseos alternativos.  Lecturas queer de la poes铆a espa帽ola actual (SPAN-7961)
Introduction to Trans-Atlantic Queer Studies (CPLT 7120/SPAN 7970)
Poetas espa帽olas contempor谩neas (SPAN-7961)
Teor铆as dram谩ticas del teatro espa帽ol: el siglo XX (SPAN-7961)
Un deseo propio: relatos lesbianos en la narrativa contempor谩nea espa帽ola (SPAN 4064)
鈥淰oces olvidadas鈥�: las mujeres de la vanguardia espa帽ola (SPAN 4063)
Topics in Hispanic Cultural Studies (SPAN-4400)
Introduction to Hispanic Cultural Studies (SPAN-4400)
Topics in Interdisciplinary Studies 鈥淭he Promised Land. On Queer Bodies and Nations鈥� (CPLT 7140)
Special Topics in Women鈥檚, Gender & Sexuality Studies: 鈥淨ueer Affects and Emotions. Contemporary LGTBQ+ Cultures鈥�. (WGS 7500)
Special Topics in Women鈥檚, Gender & Sexuality Studies: 鈥淨ueering the Transnational: Conversations on Migration, Queer and Transgender Studies in the Iberian Peninsula鈥� (WGS-7500/SPAN-7970)
Special Topics in Women鈥檚, Gender & Sexuality Studies: 鈥淭rans-Atlantic Queer: Literary and Cultural Hispanism鈥� (WGS-7500/CPLT-7120/SPAN-7970)
Special Topics in Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies: 鈥淕lobal Trans: Conversations on Bodies and Borders. National, Queer and Transgender Studies鈥� (WGS-4500)
Special Topics in Hispanic Criticism: 鈥淩esearch Methods in Cultural and Literary Studies: A Queer Approach.鈥� (SPAN-7990)

Undergraduate

Literary Analysis (SPAN-3020)
Advance Conversation (SPAN-2156)
Advance Grammar and Composition (SPAN-3010)
Survey of Spanish Literature: XVIII Century to the Present (SPAN-3072)
Spanish Civilization (SPAN-3073)
Spanish Literature since 1936 (SPAN-4064)
Spanish Textual Commentary (SPAN-2155)
Topics in Hispanic Cultural Studies (SPAN-4400)
Introduction to Hispanic Cultural Studies (SPAN-4400)
Un deseo propio: relatos lesbianos en la narrativa contempor谩nea espa帽ola (SPAN 4064)
鈥淰oces olvidadas鈥�: las mujeres de la vanguardia espa帽ola (SPAN 4063)

Special Topics in Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies: 鈥淕lobal Trans: Conversations on National, Queer and Transgender Studies鈥� (WGS-4500)

Fellowships

Fellowship, Faculty Development Summer Institute, Communication Across the Curriculum Initiative. May 2018
SEC Fellow 2017-2018 in the Southeastern Conference Academic Leadership Development Program for Higher-Level Administration in Higher Education (SEC ADLP). Program Sponsored by the Southeastern Conference (SEC). 2017-2018.
Distinguished Visiting Research Scholar (by invitation), University of Barcelona, Barcelona Spain, Summer 2017.
Distinguished Visiting Research Scholar (by invitation), University of Barcelona, Barcelona Spain, Spring 2017.
Distinguished Visiting Research Scholar (by invitation), University of Barcelona, Barcelona Spain, Summer 2016.
Research Fellowship, 海角社区, Spring 2017.
Research Fellowship, 海角社区, Fall 2009.
Research Fellowship, 海角社区, Fall 2005.
NEH Summer Seminar Participant: 鈥淐ritical Approaches to Hispanic Poetry at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century鈥�. The University of Kansas, June 16-July 25, 2003.

Awards & Honors

AATSP First Time Attendee Award 2006, Faculty Category, The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Summer 2006.
Most Accommodating Faculty/Staff Member Award, 海角社区, Office of Disability Services, Spring 2003.
Victoria Urbano Prize 1999 (premio de ensayo cr铆tico Victoria Urbano 1999) granted by the Asociaci贸n de literatura femenina hisp谩nica (ALFH), Fall-1999.
Excellence in Teaching Award, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2000.

SEC Academic Leadership Development Program Alumni Fellowship 2019-2020.

Award for Outstanding Faculty Contribution to the Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Program. Granted by the WGS Faculty for excellence in contribution to the WGS Program through research, teaching, and service to the program May 2018.

Grants Awarded

College of Humanities & Social Sciences Strategic Excellence Fund Grant 2019-2020. Project: Inviting to campus internationally -renown scholar in global sexuality studies, Sayak Valencia. 海角社区, Fall 2019. Amount: $2,000.

College of Humanities & Social Sciences Strategic Excellence Fund Grant 2017-2018. Project: 鈥淭rans Lives Lectures Series: talks by Jack Halberstam and Susan Stryker鈥�. 海角社区, Fall 2017. Amount: $1,500.

Manship Research Summer Fellowship, College of Humanities & Social Sciences, Louisiana State University, Summer 2016. Amount: $5,000

Summer Research Grant, College of Humanities & Social Sciences, 海角社区, Summer 2014. Amount: $5,000

Summer Research Grant, College of Humanities & Social Sciences, 海角社区, Summer 2012. Amount: $5,000

Research Grant, Program of Cultural Cooperation Between Spain and U. S. Universities, University of Minnesota, September 2009- September 2010. Amount: $5,000

Council on Research Summer Stipend, 海角社区, Summer 2003. Amount: $5,000

Research Grant, Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain and U.S Universities, University of Minnesota, September 2002-September 2003. Amount: $3,000

Conference Grant, Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain and U.S. Universities, University of Minnesota, Spring 2004.

Conference grant, Consejer铆a de Educaci贸n de la Embajada de Espa帽a, Education Project, Baton Rouge, Spring, 2004.

Selected Publications

Edited Volumes

Elena Castro. (Ed). Naciones incorporadas. Los proyectos nacionales y el control de los cuerpos en la Pen铆nsula e Iberoam茅rica. Letras Femeninas. A Journal of Women & Gender Studies in Hispanic Literatures & Cultures. Special Issue. 42.1 Summer-Fall 2016.

Books

Poes铆a lesbiana queer. Cuerpos y sujetos inadecuados. Barcelona: Icaria, 2014. 

Cos Textual- Sexual. Cuerpo sexual-textual. Inscripcions del design l猫sbic a la poesia  espanyola contempor脿nia. Inscripciones del deseo l茅sbico en la poes铆a espa帽ola contempor谩nea.  Barcelona: Sehen-UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), 2012 .
La subversi贸n del espacio po茅tico en el surrealismo espa帽ol, Madrid: Visor, 2008

Articles

鈥�Sexual dissidence and memoria hist贸rica in Donde nadie te encuentre, by Alicia Gim茅nez Bartlett鈥� in Transnational Discourses of Peripheral Sexualities in the Hispanic World. Eds. Michael Horswell and Nuria God贸n. Journal of Language and Sexuality. Special Issue 5.2 (Fall 2016): 182-196.                                  

"Representaciones y retos de las multitudes queer. La era posg茅nero en el Estado espa帽ol." Hacia una redefinici贸n del feminismo y los estudios de g茅nero en el siglo XXI. Eds. Margaret Frohlich and Ana Corbal谩n. Letras Femeninas, summer issue 2015 (forthcoming 2015.)

鈥淒esig en tr脿nsit: amor, desamor i erotisme lesbi脿 a Habitaci贸n de hotel, de Cristina Peri Rossi鈥�  Acccions I reinvencions. Cultures l茅sbiques al tombat del sigle XX-XXI. Ed Meri Torras . Barcelona: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC): 2012. 133-43.
鈥淚dentidad queer en la poes铆a de Concha Garc铆a鈥� Ambito Feminista fall 2011: 59-69.
鈥淟esbian Identity: (Dis)appearing Act in Gloria Fuertes鈥� Poetry.鈥�  In the Words of Gloria Fuertes. Ed. Margaret H. Persin, Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2011. 82- 99.
鈥淚dentidad l茅sbica: ausencia y presencia en la poes铆a de Gloria Fuertes鈥� 鈥� Ellas y nosotras. Elina Norandi. Ed. Barcelona: Egales, 2009. 37-51.
鈥淧aloma por dentro. La colaboraci贸n interart铆stica de Lorca y Neruda en Paloma por dentro: el ejemplo de la met谩fora lineal鈥� Chasqui 37,1 (May 2008): 89-104.
鈥淎puntes de ciudades: Ana Rossetti y la visi贸n femenina del espacio urbano鈥� Poes铆a hisp谩nica contempor谩nea escrita por mujeres. Ed. Tina Escaja. Universitas Castellae v.10 (2007): 141-158.

鈥淏roadway, y el mundo Disney en Ana Mar铆a Moix y Katy Parra鈥漖 in United States in Hispanic literatures [Estados Unidos en las letras hisp谩nicas.] Ed. Txetxu Aguado and Loreto Busquets. Studi Ispanici. Special Issue. XLIV 2019: 261-275. (International Peer Review Journal published in Roma-Pisa).

鈥淟GTBQ+ Politics and Poetics in Jos茅 Infante y Txus Garc铆a鈥� [鈥淧ol铆ticas y po茅ticas LGTBQ+ . . . ] in Among Others. Queer Perspectives in Hispanic World. Eds. Rafael M茅rida (Spain), Jorge Luis Peralta (Argentina) & Lukasz Smuga (Poland). InterAlia. An International Journal of Queer Studies. Special Issue. 12. 2017: 21-39. (International Pee Review, Scholarly Electronic Journal, Open Access. Poland).

鈥淚ntroducction鈥� en Naciones incorporadas. Ed. Elena Castro. Letras Femeninas. A Journal of Women & Gender Studies in Hispanic Literatures & Cultures Special Issue. 42.1 (Summer-Fall 2016): 15-21.

Notable Activities

( keynote speaker) 鈥淭he Cultural Politics of Queer Art. How to make a technogender body and why it matters.鈥� As Guest speaker in the Queeramics 2019 International Symposium. October 9-11. College of Arts and Design, 海角社区. October 10, 2019.

(guest speaker鈥�) 鈥楽ale caro, se帽ores, ser poeta [queer]鈥�: La poes铆a de Gloria Fuertes y Txus Garcia,鈥� sponsored by the LGTBQ+ and feminist intellectual group 鈥淟os oficios terrestres鈥� and the Universitat de les Illes Balears. Palma de Mallorca, Spain, July 21, 2017.

(guest speaker)鈥淩etos de las multitudes queer. La era posg茅nero,鈥� in Summer Speakers Series 鈥淢y Body is a political Space鈥� organized by The Research Center for Theory, Gender and Sexuality, University of Barcelona, Spain. Barcelona, July 4, 2017.

(guest speaker) 鈥淟a poes铆a queer de los a帽os 70鈥� in Speakers Series 鈥淭he future of the revolt鈥� commemorating the 40th anniversary of the LGTBQ+ social activism in Spain. Organized by the European Research Project HERA 鈥淐RUSEV-Cruising the 1970s: Unearthing pre-AIDS/HIV Queer Sexual Cultures,鈥� sponsored by European Union. Madrid, Spain: June 26-27, 2017.

(guest speaker) 鈥淐uerpos (Trans)nacionales. Interseccioanalidad y Assamblage en Pornoburka, de Brigitte Vasallo鈥� at The Research Center for Theory, Gender and Sexuality, University of Barcelona, Spain, March 29, 2017.

(guest speaker) 鈥淗alberstam鈥檚 work and Trans Bodies鈥� Round Table/Panel Discussion with Jack Halberstam under the title of 鈥淐ossos trans鈥� (Trans Bodies). Centre de Cultura Contempor谩nia de Barcelona (CCCB). Barcelona, Spain, March 9, 2017.

(guest speaker) 鈥淟a poes铆a (in)visible de Gloria Fuertes: 鈥榮ale caro, se帽ores, ser poeta鈥� [lesbiana]鈥� at Hamilton College, (Madrid Campus) & Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Madrid, Spain. November 24-25, 2014.

(Guest Speaker in seminar) 鈥淪ubjetividades queer en la poes铆a espa帽ola鈥� Part I. Universidad Aut贸noma de Barcelona, Spain. Seminario del Master Oficial de estudios de g茅nero y sexualidad. October 22, 2012.
(Guest Speaker in seminar) 鈥淪ubjetividades queer en la poes铆a espa帽ola鈥� Part II. Universidad Aut贸noma de Barcelona, Spain. Seminario del Master Oficial de estudios de g茅nero y sexualidad. October 23, 2012.
(Guest Speaker) "La poes铆a (in)visible de Gloria Fuertes: 'sale caro, se帽ores, ser poeta [lesbiana] '" International Symposium 鈥淧oetas del 50, Textos y contextos鈥�, Universitat de les Illes Balears (proyecto I+D+I del MICINN 鈥渓as poetas del 50, textos y contextos鈥� ref. FFI2010-19435)  October  25,26,27, 2012.

(Guest Speaker ) 鈥淓n su propia voz: identidad lesbiana en la poes铆a de Gloria Fuertes鈥� Universidad de C贸rdoba, Spain, April 26, 2011.

(Guest Speaker) 鈥淓l g茅nero (en) cubierto: performatividad y juego de m谩scaras en la poes铆a de Lucia S谩nchez Saornil鈥� Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain. April 19,  2011

(Guest Speaker) 鈥淩epresentaciones y retos de gays y lesbianas鈥�, Universidad Aut贸noma de Barcelona, Spain, April 14, 2011

(Guest Speaker) 鈥�(Des)haciendo el g茅nero: la poes铆a lesbiana de la posguerra espa帽ola. Primer encuentro de Escritoras S谩ficas, Universidad Nacional  Aut贸noma de Mexico. Mexico D.F. November 24-26, 2010.

(Guest Speaker) 鈥淐uerpo textual-sexual. Inscripciones del deseo l茅sbico en la poes铆a espa帽ola contempor谩nea.鈥� Corpograf铆as II: G茅nero, otredad y diferencia. Universidad Aut贸noma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. April 12-15, 2010.

(Guest Speaker) 鈥淟a poes铆a de Concha Garc铆a. Una lectura queer鈥�. Conference on Spanish and  Hispanic-American Poetry. Wake Forest University. April 9-10, 2010.

(Guest Speaker in seminar) 鈥�(Des)haciendo el g茅nero: poes铆a lesbiana espa帽ola鈥� Part II. Universidad Aut贸noma de Barcelona, Spain. Seminario del Master Oficial de estudios de g茅nero y sexualidad. December 1, 2009.

(Guest Speaker in seminar) 鈥�(Des)haciendo el g茅nero: poes铆a lesbiana espa帽ola.鈥� Part I. Universidad Aut贸noma de Barcelona, Spain. Seminario del Master Oficial de estudios de g茅nero y sexualidad. November 30, 2009.

(Guest Speaker)  鈥溾�楥hicas raras: voces l茅sbicas en la Espa帽a (pre)republicana鈥� Fundaci贸n Francesca Bonnameison, Barcelona, Spain. October 23, 2009.

(Guest Speaker) 鈥淰oces (im)posibles: pensamientos y miradas de escritoras lesbianas鈥� Fundaci贸n Entred贸s, Madrid, October 17, 2009.

(Guest Speaker) 鈥淟a narrativa lesbiana actual. Reflexiones sobre su evoluci贸n desde los a帽os 60 hasta nuestros d铆as鈥� Fundaci贸n Francesca Bonnameison, Barcelona, Spain. September 18, 2009.

(Guest Speaker) 鈥淟a poes铆a de Gloria Fuertes鈥� Wester Kentucky University, mayo 5, 2009.