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Leigh Mercer
Professor Leigh Mercer is Assistant Professor of eighteenth- to twentieth-century Spanish Literature and Culture at the University of Washington. She has published articles on the role of the museum in the formation of the middle class in nineteenth-century Spain, as well as on the evolution of dueling in modern Spain. Having recently completed a book manuscript on the intersections of class, gender and public space in nineteenth-century Spain, Mercer is working on a new project about the experimental films of the early silent era in Spain and their impact on avant-garde filmmakers of the 1920s. These experimental films include trick films, radical city views, and the earliest Spanish pornographic cinema.