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Research Experience
My field of specialization is 20th-21st Centuries Spanish and Latin American literatures and cultures, with a special focus on disability studies and women’s and gender studies. My Ph.D. dissertation, titled Rethinking disability in Spain and Latin America: Hispanic cultural production of authors with functional diversity in the 20th and 21st centuries, explores the representation of disabilities in the cultural production of contemporary Hispanic authors with disabilities. Unlike many current investigations that study disabilities in normative culture or works created by abled authors, my dissertation investigates how creators with disabilities represent themselves and whether they question or accept the discourses of the ableist society that marginalizes them. Through the analysis of the interconnection of disabilities with multiple categories such as gender, sexuality, race, age and social class, in the six chapters I analyze various types of works –documentaries, poetry, memoirs, comics and juvenile fiction– created by a wide-range of authors, from the canonical Jorge Luis Borges and Frida Kahlo to less well-known authors such as Isabel Franc, Raúl Aguirre, and David Sánchez. For the theoretical framework, I use the Spanish theory of Functional Diversity that studies disability as being part of a spectrum of experiences of the human reality, thus not relating people with disabilities to lack or illness, but emphasizing their difference or “diversity” as a positive value that enriches society. I also rely on relevant disability studies theorists such as Benjamin Fraser, Martha Nussbaum, Amartya Sen, and Javier Romañach.
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Publications
As a part of my research on disabilities, I have published an article about the experience of sexuality in women with disabilities in Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades, aa well as a book review essay about the social relations of children with functional diversity. I have also published three articles related to my other fields of interest: a co-authored article about a digital humanities approach to the Spanish American novel in Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, an article on Basque terrorism in a novel by Luisa Etxenike in the Basque journal Sancho el Sabio, and a book chapter in an international outlet about the double exile that Cecilia G. de Guilarte experienced after the Spanish Civil War. Furthermore, my interview with Javier de Isusi −a prominent comic-book writer− appeared in Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. In addition, I have presented at eleven national and international conferences. My research productivity and academic performance have been recognized with multiple grants and awards from my Department and the Office of Graduate Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. For my future research, I will focus on analyzing works of authors with intellectual disabilities and memoirs of mothers with disabilities to continue publishing in peer-reviewed journals, both in the US and in Spain and Latin America.
Educacion socioemocional inclusiva....pdfHispania Dec 2023_Fuente.pdf“Educación socioemocional inclusiva de los jóvenes con diversidad funcional en Experiencias desde otro punto de vista, de Jessica Martín.” Lo que segrega también nos conecta, coordinated by Romina Grana, Dykinson, 2022, pp. 414-34.
"Entre la humillación y la lucha: Masculinidad y discapacidad en Cartas desde el infierno (1996), de Ramón Sampedro." Hispania, vol. 106, no. 4, 2023, pp. 579=92.
Detecting Modernismo s Fingerprint A Digital Humanities Approach to the Turn of the Century Spanish American Novel.pdfEliminando invisibilidades.pdf“Detecting Modernismo’s Fingerprint: A Digital Humanities Approach to the Turn of the Century Spanish American Novel.” Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, vol. 51, no. 2, 2018, pp. 195-204. doi:10.1080/08905762.2018.1540577.
“Eliminando invisibilidades: La sexualidad de las mujeres crip en Yes, we fuck!.” Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades, vol. 45, no. 1, 2019, pp. 11-32. Special issue on Re-imagining Female Disabilities in Luso-Hispanic Women’s Cultural Production, edited by Esther Fernández and Victoria Ketz.
La niña algodón.pdfSOBREVIVIR EN LA ZONA MUERTA.pdfRev. of La niña algodón, by David Sánchez y Raúl Aguirre. El Guiniguada: Revista de investigaciones y experiencias en Ciencias de la Educación, vol. 29, 2020, pp. 180-85.
“Sobrevivir en la zona muerta: La voz de las víctimas en El ángulo ciego, de Luisa Etxenike.” Sancho el Sabio: Revista de cultura e investigación vasca, no. 42, 2019, pp. 119-140.
Entrevista a Javier de Isusi.pdf"La voz femenina en el exilio: trauma, memoria y resiliencia en Un barco cargado de..., de Cecilia G. de Guilarte.pdf"'Mi lector ideal es alguien como yo, pero con el que pueda encontrarme en lo que nos une y no en lo que no separa.' Entrevista a Javier de Isusi". Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, vol. 20, 2016, pp. 155-171.
"La voz femenina en el exilio: trauma, memoria y resiliencia en Un barco cargado de... de Cecilia G. de Guilarte". en Agencia, historia y empoderamiento femenino, 2018, pp. 143- 158.
revista-deusto-no-121-invierno-negua-2014.pdfrevista-deusto-no-122-primavera-udaberria-2014.pdfrevista-deusto-no-123-verano-uda-2014.pdf“La transmisión del conocimiento.” Revista Deusto, no. 121, 2013, pp. 22-23.
“El perfil de los universitarios.” Revista Deusto, no. 122, 2014, pp. 16-17.
“La universidad y el empleo.” Revista Deusto, no. 123, 2014, pp. 20-21.