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Isabel M. Estrada
Term Assistant Professor of Spanish
Isabel M. Estrada, term assistant professor of Spanish, joined the faculty of Barnard in 2003. Before coming to Barnard, she taught at Middlebury College, where her work as an adviser to students made her understand that mentoring is a fundamental part of the liberal arts education, an understanding that informs her teaching philosophy in the present.
Professor Estrada's current book-length project, entitled Visual Memory: The Documentary Genre and the Formation of National Identity in Democratic Spain (1995-2005), examines how a selected group of documentaries, made since 1995 for both film and television, informs the debate that centers on the so-called recuperation of memory of the Spanish Civil War and dictatorship. This work considers these documentaries to be discursive manifestations that have come to modify Spanish identity as it was conceived by the teleological historical project of the transition. Professor Estrada's analysis uncovers the theoretical bases and epistemological problems of the documentary genre in order to emphasize the interpretive possibilities that this genre poses.
Selected Publications
"Witnesses, Historians, and the Diffuse Zone of Memory: The Spanish Documentary Genre since 1995," in Perceptions of the Holocaust in Modern Spanish Culture, ed. D. Diner (Leipzig Studies on Jewish History and Culture, forthcoming 2009)
"Teaching Los Parentescos: Social Change and Narrative Experimentation," in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Carmen Martín Gaite, ed. J. L. Brown (PMLA, forthcoming 2009 )
"Casas Viejas: el grito del sur (1995) de Basilio Martín Patino: memoria, televisión y documental," in Historias de la pequeña pantalla. Representaciones históricas en la televisión de la España democrática, ed. Cueto, George, and López (Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, forthcoming 2008)
"Catalan Television Documentaries and the Negotiation of Memory in Democratic Spain: The Works of Dolores Genovés," Catalan Review 20 (2006)
"Transitional Masculinities in a Labyrinth of Solitude: Replacing Patriarchy in Spanish Film (1977-1987)," Bulletin of Spanish Studies 83 (2006)
"Cuéntame cómo pasó o la revisión televisiva de la historia española reciente," Hispanic Review (October 2004)
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EDUCATION:
B.A., Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
M.A., University of Michigan
M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
RELATED LINKS:
Department of Spanish and Latin American cultures
SPECIALIZATIONS:
Impact of Spanish Civil War and dictatorship on cultural production of literature, film, documentary, and television