Susana Domingo Amestoy
Department:
Latin American/Iberian Studies
Title:
Associate Professor
Location:
McCormack Hall Floor 04
Phone:
617.287.7550
Areas of Expertise
Latin American and Spanish cinema and literature, transatlantic studies, cultural studies, aesthetics, ethics, memory studies, and critical theory.
Degrees
PhD, Hispanic Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago
Professional Publications & Contributions
- “La estética comprometida de Pablo Perelman: del trauma y la historia al melodrama de La lección de pintura” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 99.10 (2022): 983-995.
- “De-familiarizing the Maid: Alicia Scherson’s Play.” Domestic Labor in 21st Century Latin American Cinema. Ed. Elizabeth Osborne and Sofía Ruiz-Alfaro, Palgrave Macmillan, (2020): 121-142.
- “The Blurred Image: The Aesthetics of Impunity in Pablo Larraín’s No and El Club.” ReFocus: The Films of Pablo Larraín. Ed. Laura Hatry, Edinburgh University Press, (2020):161-176.
- “Postmodern Realisms: Memory, Family, and the Collapse of the Nation in Fernando Leon de Aranoa’s Films,” in Collapse, Catastrophe and Rediscovery: Spain’s Cultural Panorama in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Ana Maria Medina et al. (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014), 111-132.
- “‘We are taking you to attend the birth of history’: Tlatelolco in Carlos Fuentes’s Los 68: Paris, Praga, México and Roberto Bolaño’s Amuleto,” Perífrasis: Revista De Literatura, Teoría Y Crítica 3.6 (2012): 42-53.
- Review of (Un)veiling Bodies: A Trajectory of Chilean Post-Dictatorship Documentary by Elizabeth Ramírez-Soto. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 99.2 (2022): 180- 181.
- Review of The Ghost of the Constitution: Historical Memory and Denial in Spanish Society, Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, by Joan Ramon Resina. International Journal of Iberian Studies 31.2 (2018): 135-136.
- Review of Encrucijadas globales: redefinir España en el siglo XXI, by José Colmeiro (ed.). International Journal of Iberian Studies, 29.3 (2016): 291- 292.
- Review of Gynocine: teoría de género, filmología y praxis cinematográfica, by Barbara Zecchi (ed.). Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 92.4 (2015): 481- 482.
Additional Information
Susana Domingo Amestoy teaches in the Language, Culture, and Society and Latin American Studies track and is a member of FORMA's editorial board, an annual, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to rethinking contemporary Latin American culture and theory. Her research focuses on the relationship between structures of power, politics, ethics, and aesthetics in Latin American and Spanish literature and visual art.