Luis MARTIN-CABRERA - Ph.D. (University of Michigan) ON LEAVE WI08 Primary Office: LIT 433 Primary Phone: (858) 822-3468 Email: lmartincabrera@ucsd.edu

Assistant Professor of Peninsular and Latin American Literature and Culture: TransAtlantic Studies, Spanish Film, Critical Pedagogy, Cultural Theory. Luis Martín-Cabrera is an Assistant Professor of Peninsular and Latin American Literature and Culture (Transatlantic Studies). He received a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Michigan, an M.A. in Spanish and Portuguese from Yale University, and a B.A. in Spanish and French from the University of Salamanca (Spain). Professor Martín-Cabrera is currently working on a transatlantic study of detective fiction published during the post-dictatorship period in Spain and the Southern Cone. He is also co-author of a textbook (Mas allá de la pantalla: el mundo Hispano a través del cine. Forthcoming from Heinle and Thompson) to teach Spanish through films. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: “Antagonismos postcoloniales: de la conversión cultural en La vida aquí al cosmopolitanismo radical de Princesas”. Forthcoming in Josebe Martínez e Ileana Rodríguez (eds). Postcolonialidades históricas: in/visibilidades hispanoaméricanas, colonialismos ibéricos. Madrid: Anthropos. With Daniel Noemi. “Class Conflict, State of Exception and Radical Justice in Machuca by Andrés Wood”. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 16:1, (2007), p.p. 63-80. “Apocalipses Now: The End of Spanish Literature? Reading Payasos en la Lavadora as Critical Parody”. Forthcoming in Randolph Pope and Christine Henseler eds. Generation X Rocks: Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film and Rock Culture. Minneapolis: Hispanic Issues, University of Minnesota Press. Winter 2006. “El No-Lugar: una lectura transatlántica de la memoria en Galíndez de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán”. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 40: (2006), p.p.537-561 Más allá de la pantalla: El mundo hispano a través del cine. Co-authored with Silvia Pessoa and Fabiana Sacchi. Boston: Heinle & Thompson, 2005. “Postcolonial Memories and Racial Violence in Flores de Otro Mundo”. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 3:1, (2002): 43-56. “Nuevas representaciones culturales en la España postolímpica: El día de la bestia de Alex de la Iglesia.” Convergencias Hispánicas: Selected Proceedings and Other Essays on Spanish and Latin American Literature, Film, and Linguistics. Ed. Elizabeth Scarlett and Howard B. Scott. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta, 2001. 79-92.