Sebastiaan Faber 

Sebastiaan Faber 

Areas of interest: Iberian Studies – Trans-Atlantic Studies – Hispanism – Latin American Studies – Spanish Cinema – Spanish Civil War – Spanish Politics

Sebastiaan Faber is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the Oberlin College. In 1995 he achieved his MA by the University of Amsterdam, with a thesis in Spanish Literature entitled Jaulas doradas y torres de marfil. La integración de los escritores españoles exiliados en México. In 1999 he gained his Ph.D. in Spanish and Spanish-American Literature, with a designated emphasis in Critical Theory, from the University of California; his final dissertation concerned Exile and Cultural Hegemony: Spanish Intellectuals in Mexico (1939-1975). He hold the Chair of Hispanic Studies at the Oberlin College from 2006 to 2010 and from 2016 to 2020.

Moreover, Sebastiaan Faber is the author of Exile and Cultural Hegemony: Spanish Intellectuals in Mexico, 1939-1975 (Vanderbilt University Press, 2002), Anglo-American Hispanists and the Spanish Civil War: Hispanophilia, Commitment, and Discipline (Palgrave, 2008), Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography (Vanderbilt University Press, 2018), and Exhuming Franco: Spain’s Second Transition (Vanderbilt, 2021), translated as Franco desenterrado. La segunda Transición española; he is co-editor of Contra el olvido. El exilio español en Estados Unidos (U de Alcalá, 2009), Transatlantic Studies: Latin America. Iberia, and Africa (Liverpool UP, 2019) and also of The Volunteer, a quarterly magazine published by the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA). He regularly contributes to Spanish and U.S. media, including CTXT: Contexto y Acción, La Marea, FronteraD, The Nation, Foreign Affairs, Conversación sobre la Historia, Jacobin, and Public Books.

His main contributions to the field of Iberian Studies include publications such as ‘Economies of Prestige: The Place of Iberian Studies in the American University’ (2008), and ‘Beyond the Nation: Spanish Civil War Exile and the Problem of Iberian Cultural History’ (2017), in The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies.

More information: Institutional website; Personal Website

Sebastiaan Faber’s publications in the IStReS database:

Faber, Sebastiaan. 2008. ‘Economies of Prestige: The Place of Iberian Studies in the American University.’ Hispanic Research Journal 9 (1): 7–32.

———. 2017. ‘Beyond the Nation: Spanish Civil War Exile and the Problem of Iberian Cultural History.’ In The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies, edited by Javier Muñoz-Basols, Laura Lonsdale, and Manuel Delgado, 427–38. London / New York: Routledge.

———. 2022. ‘Historia literaria y lógica burocrática.’ In España Comparada. Literatura, lengua y política en la cultura contemporánea, edited by Christian Claesson, I, 17–32. Constelaciones 3. Granada: Comares.

Iván Villarmea Álvarez

Iván Villarmea Álvarez

Areas of Interest: Film Studies — Film History — Iberian Cinemas — Portuguese Cinema— Spanish Cinema — Galician Cinema

Iván Villarmea Álvarez is an Assistant Professor of History of Film at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain) and Associated Researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Coimbra (Portugal). He is the author of Documenting Cityscapes. Urban Change in Contemporary Non-Fiction Film (2015) and co-editor the volumes Jugar con la Memoria. El Cine Portugués en el Siglo XXI (2014, with Horacio Muñoz Fernéndez) and New Approaches to Cinematic Space (2019, with Filipa Rosário). Founding member of the Compostela Film Society since 2001, he also contributes to the online film journal A Cuarta Parede since 2011 and has served as Vice-president (2020-2022) and Secretary (2022-2024) of the Association of Moving Image Researchers (AIM).

His most crucial contribution to the field of Iberian Studies is the introduction of the concept of “Iberian austerity cinema”, which he has developed in several publications related to his post-doc research project: “Crisis-scapes. Representations of the Great Recession in Iberian Films (2006-2021)”.

More information: Ciência Vitae, Academia.edu

Iván Villarmea Álvarez’s publications in the IStReS database:

Muñoz Fernández, Horacio, and Iván Villarmea Álvarez. 2014. ‘Un Cine Nacional para una Época Transnacional’. In Jugar con la memoria. El cine portugués en el siglo XXI., edited by Horacio Muñoz Fernández and Iván Villarmea Álvarez, 198–210. Shangrila. file:///C:/Users/Gabri/Downloads/Un_Cine_Nacional_para_una_Epoca_Transnac%20(4).pdf.

Villarmea Álvarez, Iván. 2018. ‘Rostros y espacios de la austeridad en los cines ibéricos (2007-2016)’. Iberoamericana 69 (17): 13–36. https://doi.org/10.18441/ibam.

———. 2019. ‘Paisagens Vividas, Trabalhadas, Truncadas. Iconografia da Periferia Urbana no Cinema Ibérico da Austeridade’. Rebeca. Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Cinema e Audiovisual 2 (8): 15–34. https://doi.org/10.22475/rebeca.v8n2.595.

———. 2020. ‘It Could Happen to You: Empathy and Empowerment in Iberian Austerity Cinema’. In Cinema of Crisis. Film and Contemporary Europe, edited by Thomas Austin and Angelos Koutsourakis, 150–63. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. file:///C:/Users/Gabri/Downloads/It_Could_Happen_to_You_Empathy_and_Empow%20(1).pdf.

———. 2022. ‘Historias de vida y paisajes alegóricos: estrategias de representación documental en el Cine Ibérico de la Austeridad’. Revista Cine Documental 24: 118–54.