Modern Languages & Literatures

Katy Ross

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Areas of expertise

Twenty and twenty-first century peninsular Spanish literature and film

Women's Literature

Immigration Studies

Film Studies



Education

PhD, University of Texas 2004
MA, University of Kansas 1997
BA, Davidson College 1995

Courses: Fall 2009

Paideia Seminar 1A
Spanish I
Cont Peninsular Lit:19th to Pr

Research

20th and 21st century Spanish women's writing

Spanish film since 1992


Professional Work


Publications

Journal articles

·         ¡Mami qué buena estás! Representations of the Immigrant Woman in I love you baby.  Letras femeninas 34.1 (Summer 2008):  217-229.

·         Trauma, Violence and Pornography:  Un mal año para Miki by José Ovejero.  Letras hispanas 5.1 (Spring 2008).  http://letrashispanas.unlv.edu/vol5iss1/Bourland_Ross.pdf. 

·         The Postfeminist Question in Almudena Grandes's Atlas de geografía humana.  Monographic Review/Revista Monográfica XXIII (Fall 2007):  93-105.

·         Carmen de Icaza:  Novela Rosa as Feminist Discourse?  Letras peninsulares 18.1 (Spring 2006):  99-108.        

·         Ser mujer hoy en día:  una entrevista con Esther Tusquets.  Confluencia 20.2 (Spring 2005):  214-20.

·         Paloma Pedrero:  el escape de los roles tradicionales de la mujer. Romance Notes 43.3 (2003):  279-284. 

Chapter in an edited volume

·         The Changing Faces of Motherhood:  Lucía Etxebarria's Un milagro en equilibrio  (M)Othering the Nation: Constructing and Resisting National Allegories through the Maternal Body.   Ed.  Lisa Bernstein.  London: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.  147-158.

·         Sex, Drugs, and Violence in Lucía Etxebarria's Amor, curiosidad, prozac y dudas. Novels of the Contemporary Extreme.  Ed. Alain-Philippe Durand.  London: Continuum Publishing, 2006.  153-62.


Seminars & Presentations

·       Mujer, inmigración e identidad:  El último patriarca de Najat El Hachmi.  Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades IV Congreso Internacional, Sevilla, Spain, June 24-27, 2009.

 

  • Is Spain Still Spanish?  Bigas Luna's Yo soy la Juani.  SCMLA, San Antonio, Texas, November 6-8, 2008.  Winner of The 2008 Bill L. and Gerre D. Andrist Award for Hispanic Gender Studies.

·         From Feminism to Post-Feminism:  Acts of Violence in Alicia Giménez-Bartlett's Ritos de muerte (1996).  61st Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 17-19, 2008.  Co-presented with student Violeta Gómez.

·         Jamón, jamón and Yo soy la Juani:  Bigas Luna's Changing Notion of Spanishness. Second International Conference on Spanishness in the Spanish Novel and Cinema of the 20th-21st Century, Denton, Texas, March 14-15, 2008.

·         The Erotic Quest Romance:  Lucía Etxebarria's Nosotras que no somos como las demás.  XXXIII Congreso Anual de Literaturas Hispánicas, Indiana, Pennsylvania, October 19-21, 2007.

·         ¡Mami qué buena estás! Representations of the Immigrant Woman in I love you baby.  60th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 19-21, 2007.

·         Maternal Instinct Does Not Exist:  Representations of Motherhood in Two Works by Lucía Etxebarria.  XXXII Congreso Anual de Literaturas Hispánicas, Indiana, Pennsylvania, October 6-7, 2006.

·         ¿En qué consiste ser madre?:  Representaciones de la figura materna en Un milagro en equilibrio de Lucía Etxebarria.  Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades IV Congreso Internacional, Madrid, Spain, June 24-27, 2006.

·         The Post Feminist Question in Almudena Grandes's Atlas de geografía humana.  59th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 19-21, 2006.

 
·         9/11, Technology, and Pornography: Un mal año para Miki by José Ovejero.  2006 Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, February 22-24, 2006.

 
·         Esther Tusquets:  Women and Fairy Tales in El amor es un juego solitario.  58th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 21-23, 2005.

Honors & Awards

The 2008 Bill L. and Gerre D. Andrist Award for Hispanic Gender Studies for "Is Spain Still Spanish?  Bigas Luna's Yo soy la Juani." 2008.

Groups & Affiliations

MLA

SCMLA

ACTFL