Spanish Faculty

Dr. Susan Larson

Charles B. Qualia Endowed Professor of Romance Languages
Ph.D., University of Arizona

susan.larson@ttu.edu

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Research Interests

Urban Studies, Cultural Geography and Spatial Theory, the Historical Avant-Garde, Spanish Film, Contemporary Spanish Literature

Courses Commonly Taught

Modernism / Modernity; Cultural Resistance in Social Space; The Death of the Novel in the Age of the Internet; The 'Other' Generation of 27; Advanced Readings in Critical Theory; Hispanic Cities; Spanish Cinema; U.S. Latino Politics and Culture; Space, Place and Culture; Language, Image, Power

Texas Tech Dissertations and
Current M.A. & Ph.D. Advisees

Andrew J. Cosper (2024)
Gender, Non-Human Agency and New Ruralism in Contemporary Iberian Fiction and Nonfiction
Lecturer, Texas Tech University
https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/items/eddc4f5c-f8dc-4e66-aeb2-6ebc6a3bf091

Gema Vela (2022) 
Familias en streaming:  
Discursos domésticos glocales en las series españolas de la post-televisión
Assistant Professor of Spanish (tenure-track) Middle Tennessee State University, 
https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/handle/2346/90271

David S. Foshee (2021)
Childhood and the Urban in Spanish Film of the 1950s
Assistant Professor of Spanish (tenure-track) Simpson College
https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/handle/2346/88666

Current Advisees: Isabel Almeida Trigo, Gadiel Góngora, Esperanza González Moreno, and Abdullah Al Saki

Recent Publications

 

• “Cultural Geographies in Spain: Landscape, Place and Space.” In The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain: Ideas, Practices, Imaginings. L. Elena Delgado and Eduardo Ledesma, eds. April 2025.
• “Lo privado, lo público y el ‘confort’ en la novela social española de finales de 1950: Entre visillos (Carmen Martín Gaite, 1958) y La piqueta (Antonio Ferres, 1959).” Tropelías: Revista deTeoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada 10 (2024): 127-137.
•  “Comfort, Consumerism and Domestic Space in the Late 1950s: The Role of Popular Cinema in Spain’s Environmental Cultural History.” In Ciudad y naturaleza. Aproximaciones desde la Historia medioambiental, Eduardo Prieto and Guiomar Martín, eds. Madrid: Ediciones Asimétricas, 2024. 68-79. 
• Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain. University of Toronto Press, 2024
• Language, Image and Power in Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice. Routledge, 2021.
• Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film. Intellect Books, 2021.
• “Nature, the Monumental and Urban Technological Networks in Víctor Moreno’s Edificio España (2012) and La ciudad oculta (2018) / Naturaleza, lo monumental y las redes tecnológicas urbanas en Edificio España (2012) y La ciudad oculta (2018) de Víctor Moreno.” ZARCH: Journal in Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism 16 (2021): 12-31.
• “La vanguardia en la arquitectura española (1920-1936):¿pro­yecto inacabado o proyecto indefinido?” In Las dos modernidades: Edad de Plata y Transición en España. Jordi Gracia and Domingo Ródenas de Moya, eds. Madrid: Visor Libros, 2021. 165-191.

Editorial Positions

Romance Quarterly
Executive Editor

Hispanic Urban Studies
Palgrave-Macmillan Book Series Co-Editor

Funding

In the Fall of 2021 Professor Susan Larson was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Spain. In the Spring of 2022 she held a residential fellowship at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies, an international research center of the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid and the Casa de Velázquez, the Madrid branch of the Écoles Françaises à L'Étranger. Her research has also been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, HISPANEX (the Program for Cultural Cooperation Between the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and United States Universities), and the Charles B. Qualia Endowment of Texas Tech University.

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