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Alejandro Yarza
Alejandro Yarza is a professor at the Spanish and Portuguese Department and core faculty at the film and media studies programme at Georgetown University, where he teaches Spanish film, contemporary Spanish literature and critical theory. His research deals with the relationship between culture and politics in Franco’s and Post-Franco’s Spain. He is the author of Un caníbal en Madrid: la sensibilidad camp y el reciclaje de la historia en el cine de Pedro Almodóvar (Libertarias/Prodhufi). He has recently published a study on Francoist totalitarian kitsch aesthetics titled, The Making and Unmaking of Francoist Kitsch Cinema: From Raza to Pan’s Labyrinth (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).
Contact: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University, 3700 O St. NW, ICC 400, Washington, DC 20057, USA.