Sara J. Brenneis Assistant Professor of Spanish European Studies Faculty Member Film and Media Studies Faculty Member Amherst College P.O. Box 5000 Amherst, MA 01002 mobile: (413) 230-0007 Degrees Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Hispanic Languages and Literatures, 2007. M.A. B.A. University of California, Berkeley Hispanic Languages and Literatures, 2002. Wesleyan University Spanish, 1998. Publications Monograph Genre Fusion: A New Approach to History, Fiction, and Memory in Contemporary Spain. Purdue University Press, Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures no. 60. Forthcoming, under contract. Peer-Reviewed Articles Carlos Rodríguez del Risco and the First Spanish Voice from the Holocaust, History & Memory, Vol., 25, No. 1 (2013), forthcoming. Moral Ambiguity in Mauthausen: The Case of Mercè Rodoreda s Nit i boira, Letras femeninas, Vol. 38, No. 2 (2012), forthcoming. Montserrat Roig and the Thread of Historiography: From Els catalans als camps nazis to L hora violeta, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, No. 86 (2009), 659-673. Cinematic Barcelona: Catalan Identity in a Culture of Displacement, Catalan Review, Vol. 22 (2008), 19-34. Dictatorship Noir: Postwar Spanish History in Carlos Ruiz Zafón s La sombra del viento, Romance Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1 (January 2008), 61-73.
Sara J. Brenneis 2 Clarín s Animals: Reading Leopoldo Alas Short Fiction through the Darwinian Revolution, Hispanófila, No. 151 (September 2007), 37-51. Book Chapters El comboi dels 927 de Montse Armengou: La presencia y la violencia, Gynocine: Género y cine en España, Ed. Barbara Zecchi. Zaragoza: Universidad de Zaragoza. Forthcoming. La batalla de la educación: Historical Memory in Josefina Aldecoa s Trilogy, Mirrors and Echoes: Women s Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain, Eds. Emilie L. Bergmann and Richard Herr. Berkeley: University of California Press (2007), 136-148. Non-Academic Publications Mauthausen: A Spaniard s Tale, The ALBA Volunteer, July 2, 2012. (http://www.albavolunteer.org/2012/07/mauthausen-a-spaniard s-tale/) The Orphanage Flak Magazine, February 12, 2008. Teaching Experience Courses Spanish 5, Language and Literature Fall 2007, Fall 2008 Spanish 211, Readings in Hispanic Literatures Spring 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012 Spanish 352, Barcelona Fall 2007, Fall 2011 (Research Course) Spanish 389, Postwar Spain and the Novel Spring 2008, Spring 2010 Spanish 236, Spanish Cinema Spring 2008, Fall 2009 Spanish 392, Spanish Detectives and the género negro Fall 2008, Fall 2012 Spanish 355, Madrid Spring 2009, Spring 2012 Spanish 332, Women Writers of Spain Spring 2009 (Senior Seminar), Spring 2012 First Year Seminar 10, Exile in Spain and Latin America Fall 2009 Undergraduate Theses Directed Western Europe s Last Monument to a Dictator: The Valley of the Fallen and Contested Memory in post-franco Spain, Annemarie Iker 12 (European Studies) Academic year 2011-12. Thesis earned summa cum laude honors and was selected for the Post-Baccalaureate Summer Research Fellowship. La representación artística de la homosexualidad durante la transición: Una mirada a la literatura catalana y el cine vasco, Jeffrey Chambers 10 (Spanish) Academic year 2009-10
Sara J. Brenneis 3 Acogiendo a la tribu enemiga: La integración regional, estatal y europea de los inmigrantes sudamericanos desde la perspectiva española, Victoria Rduch 09 (Spanish) Academic year 2008-09 Conferences 21 st -century Spanish Life Writing from the Holocaust to be presented at the Modern Language Association Conference in Boston, January 3, 2013. Adventures in Mauthausen: The First Spanish Holocaust Narrative, presented, organized and chaired Spain and the Holocaust panel at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 20, 2012. El comboi dels 927 de Montse Armengou: La presencia y la violencia, presented at the GYNOCINE: Mujeres, Dones and Cinema Conference at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 27, 2011. Representations of Mauthausen at the Crossroads of Spanish Memory, presented at War, Dictatorship, and Memory: An International Symposium on Spain, at the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 15, 2011. Historiadores de sillón en la novela contemporánea española, presented at the I Congreso Internacional BETA at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain, February 9, 2011. Documenting Mauthausen: Contemporary Representations of the Holocaust in Spain, presented at the Modern Language Association Conference special session The Globalization of the Holocaust, Los Angeles, January 6, 2011. Seeking Truth in Fiction: Javier Marías, Almudena Grandes and the Armchair Historian, presented at the Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature in St. Louis, Missouri, October 30, 2010. Political (Dis)Engagement Amid the Nazis in Mercè Rodoreda s Nit i boira, presented at the Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica conference at the University of Texas, Austin, October 16, 2010. Historiography, Historical Fiction, or Both?: Trends in Contemporary Spanish Literature, presented at the Interdisciplinary Conference on History and Fiction at the University of West Georgia, November 13, 2009. Why is Spain in the Frame?: Guillermo del Toro, Mexico and Historical/Mythical Resistance, presented and chaired Latin American Studies Association (LASA) panel The Other Across the Ocean: Latin American Cultural Production in Contact with European Tides in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 14, 2009.
Sara J. Brenneis 4 Also starring Barcelona, as Itself: The City as Cinematic Backdrop to Displacement, presented at the conference on Contemporary Barcelona: Visual Cultures, Space and Power at the University of London, England, March 15, 2007. Disinterring History: Recuperating the Spanish Civil War in Javier Marías Tu rostro mañana, presented at the Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature in Madison, Wisconsin, October 5, 2007. Dictatorship Noir: Postwar Spanish History in Carlos Ruiz Zafón s La sombra del viento, presented at the Romance Studies Colloquium: Literature Matters in Eugene, Oregon, October 20, 2006. Total mexicanización: Exile Identity and the Literary Canon in the Works of Carlos Blanco Aguinaga, presented at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) 2006 Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15, 2006. Reimagining Cataluña: Montserrat Roig s Els catalans als camps nazis and L hora violeta, presented at the Conference on Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, May 13, 2005. Identity Crisis: Exile in the Writings of Carlos Blanco Aguinaga, presented at the Romance Language Graduate Student Conference on Transparent Borders: Movement, Migration, and Globalization in the Romance World at the University of Oregon, Eugene, November 6, 2004. La batalla de la educación: Historical Memory in Josefina Aldecoa s Trilogy, presented at the 20 th - Century Spanish Women Authors Conference at the University of California, Berkeley, March 6, 2004. Nothing to Gain, Nothing to Lose: The Reflection of Nada in La canción de las cerezas, presented at the Vanderbilt Colloquium on Latin American and Iberian Literature and Culture, April 3, 2003. Research Interests Spanish Representations of Mauthausen Contemporary Spanish and Regional Iberian Literatures Post-Spanish Civil War History and Historiography Theoretical Approaches to Fiction and History Testimony and Memory of Women and Exiles Historical Influences in Popular Spanish Culture Spanish Cinema Fellowships and Awards
Sara J. Brenneis 5 Amherst College Trustee-Faculty Fellowship Sabbatical Award, 2010-2011. Faculty Research Award Program, Large Grant, 2010. Faculty Research Award Program, Small Grant, 2008. Faculty Innovation Fund award, 2008. Service & Faculty Development War, Dictatorship, and Memory: An International Symposium on Spain Co-organized Five College symposium with Justin Crumbaugh (Mt. Holyoke) and Jacqueline Urla (UMass). October 13-15, 2011. Committee on International Education Academic years 2011-12, 2012-13. Orientation Advisor Fall 2011. Civic Engagement Scholars Reviewed applications for this Center for Community Engagement funding award, Spring 2010. Phebe and Zephaniah Swift Moore Awards Committee Faculty committee member under direction of Patricia Allen, Spring 2010 and Spring 2012. Folger Fellowships Committee Service on committee under chairmanship of John Rager, Fall 2008 and Fall 2009. Faculty Seminar on the Teaching of Writing Participated in semester-long faculty writing seminar under the direction of Jyl Gentzler, Fall 2009. Professional Affiliations Modern Language Association International Association of Feminine Hispanic Literature and Culture