JEWISH BUENOS AIRES

An NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers
Buenos Aires, Argentina
July 7 – July 25, 2014
Under the direction of David William Foster
Arizona State University

The seminar will focus on five major works of Argentine Jewish writers, basically from the twentieth century. Through a detailed examination of these…[Read more]

Two University Press books out in 2013:

Disability Studies and Spanish Culture: Films, Novels, the Comic and the Public Exhibition (Liverpool UP)
http://www.amazon.com/Disability-Studies-Spanish-Culture-Representations/dp/184631870X/

Understanding Juan Benet: New Perspectives (U South Carolina…[Read more]

Podcast series on the culture of cities launched with 5 conversational scholarly interviews at urbanculturalstudies.wordpress.com .
Cities discussed run from Madrid to Tokyo to LA/Hollywood to Valencia/Barcelona/Bilbao, and more.

Click there on the Urbanculturalstudies Podcasts page or look for us on iTunes and Internet Archive. More to follow!

I’ve just started a series of podcasts at:
UrbanCulturalStudies Podcasts
The first one is a conversational interview inspired by scholar Stephen Vilaseca’s recent article “From Graffiti to Street Art: How Urban Artists Are Democratizing Spanish City Centers and Streets,” originally published in the journal Trans…[Read more]