Susan Divine

Associate Professor of Spanish

Education

B.A. Spanish and B.A. Anthropology from Iowa State University (2000).

M.A. and PhD. In Spanish from the University of Arizona (2008)

Research Interests

Susan Divine studies contemporary Spanish narrative in film and novels. She looks at the intersection between genre and representations of space and identity in national and global contexts.  

Courses Taught

Publications

“Itineraries of Protest in El vano ayer: Isaac Rosa on the Page and in the Streets.” Hispanic Research Journal. 

“Melodrama and Affect in Las chicas del cable” Crisis Unleashed: Crime, Turmoil, and Protest in Hispanic Literature and Visual Culture. Special Edition edited by Nick Phillips and Diana Aramburu Hispanic Issues, Vol. 29, 2022 Pgs 63 - 79.   

“The Environmental Humanities and the Urban: A Response to ‘Madrid Río, El Matadero and the Nature of Urbanization” co-authored with Benjamin Fraser. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies vol. 23. 2021 Pp. 191 – 196.   

“The Nature of Anxiety: Precarious City Lives in La piqueta and La trabajadora.” Ecozon@, vol. 9, no. 2, 2018, pp. 174-190. 

"Affect, Aliens, and Crisis in Nacho Vigalondo’s Extraterrestre.” Journal of Iberian Cultural Studies, vol. 30, no. 2, 2017, pp. 113-127. 

“Recuperating Losses: History, Spectacle, Motility in Julio Medem’s Room in Rome [Habitación en Roma].” Hispánofila, vol. 178, 2017, pp. 261-274. 

“Cityscapes and La Novela de Formación: Elvira Navarro in Valencia.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies, vol. 94 no. 1, 2016, pp. 447-488. 

“Reclaiming the City through Archive and Activism: an Interview with the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space MORUS.” Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, vol 1 no. 2, 2014, pp. 325-335. 

“Entrevista a Rafael Reig: “La literatura tiene que ser militante, y lo más militante posible.” Letras Hispanas, vol 9 no 2, 2014, pp. 76-84.  

"Hispanic cities on film: Urban theory in the freshman seminar." Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, vol. 15, 2011, pp. 61-76.