Cristina Casado Presa

2019 Washington College Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award

Education

• B.A. Filología Moderna: Inglés.  Universidad de León, Spain, 2000.
• Master in Spanish Language and Literature.  State University of New York at Buffalo, 2002.

• Ph. D in Romance Languages and Literatures: Literatures, Languages and

  Cultures of the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.

Areas of Research

• Representations of Witchcraft in Contemporary literature, cinema and culture
• The Fantastic
• Spanish Literature and Culture

• Gender Studies
• Cultural Studies
• Literary and cultural studies from a posthuman perspective
• Ecogothic

LATEST PUBLICATIONS:

EDITED VOLUMES

Co-editor with Dr. Imelda Martín-Junquera, University of León, Spain: “The Ecogothic as a Catalyst of Climate Emergency: The Impact of Monstrosity”. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses. (Forthcoming 2024)

Guest editor: Volume 43 (2021) of Estudios Humanísticos. Filología: "Aproximaciones a lo monstruoso y lo femenino: de lo “humano” a lo posthumano"/"Approaches to the Monstrous and the Feminine: from “Human” to  Posthuman":

http://revistas.unileon.es/index.php/EEHHFilologia

ARTICLES

“La imperecedera fascinación por la brujería: una exploración del universo   gráfico de Historias de brujas de Manuel Mota”. Folclore y Gótico: Entornos y   presencias sobrenaturales en Europa y las Américas.  Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch. (Forthcoming 2024)

"La reconceptualización de la bruja como heroína en las novelas de Maite Carranza". Estudios Humanísticos. Filología : "Aproximaciones a lo monstruoso y lo femenino: de lo “humano” a lo posthumano" Vol.  43 (Diciembre 2021) 123-137.

http://revistas.unileon.es/index.php/EEHHFilologia/article/view/7058/5659

“Y no vivieron felices para siempre: la reescritura del cuento de hadas y la problemática de la subjetividad femenina en Nueva historia de la princesa y el dragón de Carmen Resino”. Dramaturgia femenina actual. De 1986 a 2016. Feminismo/s, 30 (diciembre 2017): 31-46.

https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=6224686

“La bruja como paradigma de poder femenino en dos dramas españoles contemporáneos”. Monographic Review/Revista Monográfica XXVII: Lo oculto en la literatura Hispánica (2012):85-100. 

“El silencio como conflicto en un drama de Pilar Pombo”. Letras Femeninas, vol. 36 (2010):277-293. Print

BOOK CHAPTERS

“Monsters, Women, and Magic: Intersecting Hierarchies of Gender and Religion in The Witch”. Culture Wars and Horror Movies: Gender Debates in Contemporary  Cinema. London: Springer Nature. (Forthcoming 2024)

“Mother -Daughter Relationships in Contemporary Spanish Theater”. Trotman, Tiffany. Ed. TheChanging Spanish Family: Essays on New Views in Literature, Cinema and Theater. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, 2011. 198-214. 

BOOK REVIEWS:

Romero-González, Dámaris, Israel Muñoz Gallarte, y G. Laguna Mariscal (eds.), Visitors from Beyond the Grave: Ghosts in World Literature, Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade da Coimbra, 2019, 300 pp. Estudios Humanísticos. Filología : "Aproximaciones a lo monstruoso y lo femenino: de lo “humano” a lo posthumano" Vol. 43 (Diciembre 2021) 199-201.

Amend, Tracie. The Adulteress on the Spanish Stage. Gender and Modernity in 19th Century Romantic Drama. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. Hispanófila 178,(2015)  103 - 105.

Corbalán Vélez, Ana M. El cuerpo transgresor en la narrativa española contemporánea. Madrid: Libertarias, 2009. Nueva revista de literatura hispánica 13, 247-249. 

Booth, Stephanie and Tolz, Vera, Ed. Nation and gender in contemporary Europe. Manchester University Press, 2005. Hispanófila 150 (2005) 103-105. 

• RESEARCH GROUP:

GEHUMECO: Grupo de Investigación posthumanista en temas de género y Humanidades ambientales.

Aims of the group: Posthumanist research on Gender and Ecocriticism.

Affiliation entity: Universidad de León, Spain.

Courses Taught at Washington College

• All levels of Spanish Language.
• Introduction to the Literature of Spain.
• Culture of Spain through Cinema.
•  I am no Angel: Post-Franco Literature by Women.
• Occult Worlds: The Fantastic in the Literature and Culture of Spain.
•  Contemporary Spanish Theater.
•  Perspectives on the Spanish Civil War.
• Witches, Ghosts, and Vampires: Reflections on Strangeness and Otherness.
• Monstrous Creatures and Haunted Landscapes: A Comparative Analysis of the Gothic, Fantastic, and Horror.

Professional experience

Associate Professor of Spanish. Department of World Languages and Cultures, Washington College. Spring 2014-Present.

Associate Chair, Department of World Languages and Cultures, Washington College. Fall 2016-Spring 2017 and Fall 2020-Spring 2023.

Chair, Department of World Languages and Cultures, Washington College. 2017-2020.

Director of the Gender Studies Program. Washington College. Fall 2013-Spring 2019.

Assistant Professor of Spanish. Department of World Languages and Cultures, Washington College. Fall 2008-Spring 2014.       

Course coordinator for SPAN 255 (Conversational Spanish). Department of Romance Languages, UNC-Chapel Hill, fall 2007-Spring 2008.

Teaching Fellow. Department of Romance Languages, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2003-2008.

Teaching Fellow. Department of Romance Languages, SUNY-Buffalo, 2000-2002.