About
Dean Allbritton is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Director of the Center for the Arts and Humanities at Colby College. His work examines linkages between sex, sickness, and health in contemporary Spanish visual culture and adult media. In his humanities work, he is responsible for a number of campus-wide programs and initiatives in critical race and the environmental humanities. His monograph, Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain, explores the cultural history of HIV/AIDS in Spain through visual culture and ephemera of the time and was published by Liverpool University Press in May 2023. He has published articles in Porn Studies, The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Revista de estudios hispánicos, and Hispanic Research Journal, among others. Education
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 2011
Ph.D., Hispanic Languages & Literature
Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies
Concentrations: 20th Century Spanish Film & Culture, Gender Studies, Illness Studies
Dissertation: Live Cultures: Illness, Mortality, and Masculinity in Contemporary Spanish Film
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 2004
M.A., Spanish Literature and Language
Concentrations: 20th Century Spanish Novel, Gender Studies
Thesis: Ciudadanos sin patria: Hacia una novela queer española
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 2000
Studies in 20th Century Spanish Literature [Filología Española]
Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA, 2002
B.A. in Spanish with honors
Minors in European Union and Latin American Studies Publications
BOOKS
- Feeling Sick: The Early Years of HIV/AIDS in Spain. Liverpool University Press, 2023.
- Allbritton, Dean, Alejandro Melero, and Tom Whittaker, eds. Performance and Spanish film. Manchester University Press, 2016.
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
- “Unraveling Time: Queer Future and Trans Entanglement in Veneno”. The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain: Ideas, Practices, Imaginings, co-edited by L. Elena Delgado and Eduardo Ledesma. London: Routledge. (Forthcoming 2023)
- “The Spanish Obscenities of Bruce LaBruce”. Porn Studies, November 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2022.2101508
- “Introduction: approaching performance in Spanish film.” Performance and Spanish Film. Dean Allbritton, Alejandro Melero and Tom Whittaker, eds. Manchester UP, 2016, pp. 1-15.
- “Disabling Bardem’s body: the performance of disability and illness.” Performance and Spanish Film. Dean Allbritton, Alejandro Melero and Tom Whittaker, eds. Manchester UP, 2016, pp. 220-235.
- “It Came from California: The AIDS Origin Story in Spain.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 50.1, March 2016, pp. 143-66.
- “Timing Out: The Politics of Death and Gender in Almodóvar’s Volver.” Hispanic Research Journal, 16.1, 2015, pp. 49-64.
- “Recovering Childhood: Virulence, Ghosts, and Black Bread.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 91.6, 2014, pp. 619-36.
- “Prime Risks: The Politics of Pain and Suffering in Spanish Crisis Cinema.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 15.1-2, 2014, pp. 101-15.
- “Paternity & Pathogens: Mourning Men and the Crises of Masculinity in Almodóvar.” A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar. Marvin D’Lugo and Kathleen Vernon, eds. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, pp. 225-43.
- “On Infirm Ground: Masculinity and Memory in El mar.” Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities, 31.3, Summer 2012, pp. 58-70.
REVIEWS
- Review of Sex, Drugs, and Fashion in 1970s Madrid, by Francisco Fernández de Alba. Symposium (Forthcoming 2023).
- Review of Spain on Screen: Developments in Contemporary Spanish Cinema, ed. Ann Davies. Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas, 12.2, 2015, pp. 221-3.
- Review of Live Flesh: The Male Body in Contemporary Spanish Cinema, by S. Fouz-Hernández and A. Martínez-Expósito. Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, 5.1-2, 2009.
Memberships
European Network for Cinema and Media Studies
Modern Language Association
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
