Luisa Briones, Ph.D.

Department of Spanish

Education

Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies, Boston College, Newton, Massachusetts, 2013
M.A. Contemporary Culture: Literature, Artistic Institutions and Cultural Communication, Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset – Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 2021
M.A. Spanish as a Foreign Language (ELE), Bowling Green State University, Ohio, 2001
B.A. Filosofía y Letras (Filología), Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 1992

Practice Areas

Contemporary Spanish peninsular studies, interdisciplinary approach to literature, cinema and contemporary art of the XX and XXI centuries.

Publications and Media Placements

"El feminismo de María de Maeztu y su Residencia de Señoritas (1915-1936)." La mirada resistente al olvido. Mujeres y memorias de la España del siglo XX. Editorial Liceus. (2022).

"Tlatelolco, Cantinflas y el episodio de los cueros de vino (Don Quijote 35, I)." Imágenes de las Revoluciones de 1968. Centre D’Estudis Històrics Internacionals: Universitat de Barcelona, 2020. 25-30.

"En un lugar de España de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme..." Actas V Congreso Internacional de Historia y Cine: Escenarios del Cine Histórico. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto de Cultura y Tecnología, 2017.

"Idealizaciones y protestas políticas: la memoria histórica en Libertarias (1996) de Vicente Aranda." Memoria histórica y cine documental. Colección Film-Historia, núm. 18. Barcelona: Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2016.

"Los Quijotes de Gil, Gutiérrez Aragón, Welles y Gavaldón: nuevas aproximaciones teóricas." Teoría y práctica de la adaptación. Ed. Barbara Zecchi. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2012. 85-96.

"El Quijote y Cantinflas." El español integrador de culturas: ensayos. Turlock California: Orbis Press, 2012. 75-80.

"El papel de la mujer en La escopeta nacional (España, 1978): misoginia berlanguiana." Romance Review Boston College XIV (Fall 2004): 46-55.

Honors and Awards

"Beca Excelencia" Master in Contemporary Culture: Literature, Artistic Institutions and Cultural Communication, Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset, 2020-2021.

Teagle Foundation Grant Project Teaching and Learning with Museum Exhibitions: An Inter- Institutional Approach, Wellin Exhibition Margarita Cabrera in Spring, 2018.

Grant, Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center, Course Development on Theory and Practice of Social Change, Hamilton College, 2017.

Grant, Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi), "Recovering a Lost Memory: Digital Depictions of the Spanish Civil War and its Aftermath," Hamilton College, 2016.

Grant, PRAGDA Spanish Film Club Festival, Hamilton College, Spring 2016.

Certificate of Merit in Language Pedagogy given by the Faculty and the Dean of Hamilton College, 2008-2009.

Summer Research Grant, Center for International Partnerships and Programs, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, Boston College, Summer 2006.

Doctoral Fellowship, Boston College, 2002-2006.

Sigma Delta Pi National Collegiate Hispanic Honor, 2001.

Master Fellowship, Bowling Green State University.

Scholarship USA, Franklin Institute, Universidad de Alcalá, 1999.