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Marta Perez-Carbonell

Associate Professor of Spanish

Department/Office Information

Romance Languages
219B Lawrence Hall

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(315) 228-5770

Marta PĂ©rez-Carbonell focuses on contemporary Spanish cultural production. Her research studies novels and short fiction, which she approaches from a variety of frameworks, such as material culture studies, affect theory or urban studies.

Her first monograph,  was published by Brill/Rodopi in their series Foro HispĂĄnico. She is interested in "crisis literature" memory, identity, and gender studies. She has published peer-reviewed articles on the works of Isaac Rosa, Juan JosĂ© MillĂĄs, Rosa Montero, Nuria Labari and other contemporary Spanish authors in Hispanic Review, Anales de la Literatura Española ContemporĂĄnea, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Hispanic Research Journal, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, among other publications.

She is currently co-directing an edited volume entitled ImĂĄgenes de aflicciĂłn - Literatura, cine y gĂ©nero; as well as directing a special issue on Rosa Montero's fiction for the literary magazine Turia. 

In 2020, she was awarded Professor of the Year by the national collegiate honor society Phi Eta Sigma.

In 2024, she published her first novel, (Lumen), which will see the light in 10 other countries, including the UK, France, Italy, Germany, etc. In the US, it will be published by Riverhead Books in 2026. 


  • BA Spanish and Linguistics, University of Southampton, UK (2004)
  • Licenciatura FilologĂ­a Inglesa, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain (2007)
  • MA, Translation and Interpreting, University of Westminster, UK (2008)
  • PhD, Royal Holloway University of London, UK (2014)
  • SPAN 470 Subject and the City - Imagined and Real
  • SPAN 474 Short Fiction in Contemporary Spain
  • SPAN 473 Contemporary Spanish Novel - from Dictatorship to Democracy
  • SPAN 353 Modern Spain in Crisis
  • SPAN 361 Advanced Composition and Stylistics
  • CORE 191 Communities and Identities: Spain

Book

monograph

 Leiden/Boston: Brill/Rodopi

Peer-reviewed articles

  • "Mutual Exclusion and ±đ±èŽÇłŠłóĂ©: Uncertainty in Javier MarĂ­as's Recent Fiction," in Javier MarĂ­as: 50 años de literatura (1971-2021) Nuevas visiones. Grohmann, Alexis y BertrĂĄn, Santiago (eds.) (2022), 125-138. Brill/Rodopi: Leiden/Boston.
  • "Cultural Politics of the Emotions Portrayed in Sara Mesa's Fiction," Hispanic Review 89. 3 (2021), 293-313.
  • “El mestizaje de gĂ©neros literarios en los paseos neoyorquinos de Elvira Lindo,” in Perspectivas sobre el futuro de la narrativa hispĂĄnica: ensayos y testimonios. Lefere, Robin; DĂ­az Ruiz, Fernando y Morales Benito, Lidia (eds.) AmĂ©rica sin nombre, 45 (2020), 347-370. 
  • On Identity, or How Two Contemporary Spanish Novels Shape and Shake Up the Limits of the Self, Anales de la Literatura Española ContemporĂĄnea 45.1 (2020), 97-116. Co-authored with Renee Congdon.
  • '"Me gustan las cosas que son cosas": la representaciĂłn de la violencia a travĂ©s de Cosas que brillan cuando estĂĄn rotas de Nuria Labari, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 96:7 (2019), 1095-1111.
  • Introduction: Representing Violence in Twenty-First-Century Spain: Novels, Film and Performance Arts, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 96:7 (2019), 1069-1073. Co-authored with David JimĂ©nez Torres.
  • Fragmented characters/Fragmented Narrative Voices: Textual and Extratextual Devices in Juan JosĂ© MillĂĄs’s Desde la sombra (2016) and Isaac Rosa’s La habitaciĂłn oscura (2013), Journal of Catalan Studies Vol. 1 (2019), 97-108.
  • Who said what? Translated Messages and Language Interpreters in Three Texts by Javier MarĂ­as and Almudena Grandes, Perspectives, 26:4 (2018), 612-623.
  • Compulsive Translators: Are Narrators in Javier MarĂ­as's Novel Beguiled by Language?' Hispanic Research Journal, 18:4 (2017), 338-35.
  • Ghosts as storytellers: Absences and the Phantasmagorical Nature of Javier MarĂ­as’s Narrators, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 93, 5 (2016), 495-509.
  • Intralingual Translation in Tu rostro mañana, by Javier MarĂ­as, Aigne, 4 (2013).

Edited Volumes 

  • Representing Violence in Twenty-First-Century Spain: Novels, Film and Performance Arts, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 96:7 (2019), co-edited with David JimĂ©nez Torres.

Non-refereed articles

  • . Estudios del Observatorio/Observatory Studies, 76 (2022), 1-29
  • “Los enamoramientos y la tupida red que envuelve,” Quimera, 424 (April 2019), 13-16.

Book Reviews 

  • Crear entre mundos. Nuevas tendencias en la metaficciĂłn española. (Valencia: Albatros, 2021), by Iana Konstantinova y Sabrina S. Laroussi (eds.). Symposium. Vol 77 (2023), no 1, 54-56.
  • El cine en el pensamiento y la creaciĂłn de Javier MarĂ­as. (Vigo: Academia del Hispanismo, 2019), by Carmen MarĂ­a LĂłpez LĂłpez, Rilce38.1 (2022), 400-403
  • Hombres en movimiento: masculinidades españolas en los exilios y emigraciones 1939-1999. (Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, 2018) by Iker GonzĂĄlez-Allende, Rilce 36.2 (2020), 824-828
  • ‘Thus Bad Begins. The Intimate World of Javier MarĂ­as’, Litro Magazine, 13 April 2016 

Public Scholarship 

  • ,” in Letras libres, 12 September 2022
  • '', Letras libres, 20 October 2021
  • ', The Objective, 18 September 2021
  • ‘, Litro Magazine, 20 June 2016 

Selected Papers

  • 'La marca personal de Rosa Montero: ciencia, literatura y vida,' in XXI Congreso de la AsociaciĂłn Internacional de Hispanistas, at NeuchĂątel University (NeuchĂątel, 10-15 July 2023)
  • 'Conversaciones literarias en el Observatorio: entrevista/encuentro con Rosa Montero,' Invited Lecture and Interview at the Observatorio de la lengua española y las culturas hispĂĄnicas en los Estados Unidos at Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 9 March 2023)
  • “Un tributo al legado de Javier MarĂ­as en los Estados Unidos,” Invited Guest Lecture at the International Institute (Madrid, 1 December 2022)
  • “Ciencia, biografĂ­a, literatura y vida: la marca personal de Rosa Montero,” in Poder y Resistencia. III Congreso Internacional en los mĂĄrgenes de la literatura, at Salamanca University (Salamanca, 20-21 October 2022)
  • “Un recuerdo y una mirada a Javier MarĂ­as desde Estados Unidos,” Invited Guest Lecture at Observatorio de la lengua española y las culturas hispĂĄnicas en los Estados Unidos at Harvard University (28 September 2022)
  • “,” Interview at Club Tocqueville (16 September 2022)
  • "The Depiction and Politics of an Empty Spain: Un amor (2020) by Sara Mesa and Contra la España vacĂ­a (2021) by Sergio del Molino," in Politics of the Sayable. Framing Crisis and Conflict in Contemporary Spain, at Bangor University (Bangor, 1 April 2022)
  • “Literatures of the Crisis and Female Writing in Contemporary Spain,” Invited Guest Lecture at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures in Lehigh University (Bethlehem, 29 October 2021).
  • “How Fiction Changes Us: The Creative Process in Rosa Montero’s La loca de la casa (2003) and La ridĂ­cula idea de no volver a verte,” in From Neuroscience to Structural Violence: The Cultural Production of Contemporary Spanish Female Writers Through Overlapping Lenses, at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (Virtual Edition, 22-24 April, 2021)
  • “Autofiction and the Creative Process in Rosa Montero’s La loca de la casa (2003) and La ridĂ­cula idea de no volver a verte (2013),” accepted for presentation at the Annual Conference of the Northeastern Modern Language Association, (Virtual edition, 11-14   March, 2021).
  • “Mutual Exclusion and Uncertainty in Javier MarĂ­as’s Latest Fiction,” accepted for presentation at the Conference on Javier MarĂ­as by the Sub-Faculty of Spanish at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford (Oxford, 10-11 June 2019).
  • “MĂĄs allĂĄ del humanismo: muerte y androides en la obra de Rosa Montero,” accepted for presentation at the IV International Conference Visiones de lo fantĂĄstico: Las creadoras y lo fantĂĄstico at the Universidad AutĂłnoma de Barcelona (Barcelona, 5-7 June 2019).
  • “Lenguaje literario y cinematogrĂĄfico: traducciĂłn y adaptaciĂłn de Bodas de sangre y La  novia,” Invited Guest Lecture at the Hispanic Studies Department in Hamilton College (21 February 2019)
  • Coloquio internacional: hacia la narrativa hispĂĄnica del futuro, Bruselas 2018 - ‘Los paseos neoyorquinos de Elvira Lindo: Âżuna ficciĂłn involuntaria?’
  • Subjects and Limits of Extension in Contemporary Iberian culture, Cambridge 2017 - 'Fragmented identities and multiple voices in Juan JosĂ© MillĂĄs's Desde la sombra and Isaac Rosa's La habitaciĂłn oscura'
  • BETA Annual Conference, Santander 2017 - 'La quiebra da un salto desde el margen: las voces de Nuria Labari y Nuria RomĂĄn'
  • AHGBI Annual Conference, Exeter 2015 – ‘The space of the interpreted message: The role of language interpreters in the short stories of Javier MarĂ­as and Almudena Grandes’ in The Space of Language: Interpreting, Translating, Performing
  • AHGBI Annual Conference, Oxford 2013 – ‘The unsaid and what does not happen in MarĂ­as’s fiction’, in Absence, Ellipsis and Invisibility in Contemporary Spain

Contemporary Spanish Novel; Short Fiction; Translation Theory; Gender Studies; Urban Studies; Crisis Literature; Affect Studies

  • Women in Spanish and Portuguese Studies
  • Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland
  • BETA: AsociaciĂłn de jĂłvenes doctores en hispanismo
  • Modern Language Association
  • North Eastern Modern Language Association

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