professor martin-márquez's research and teaching center on modern spanish peninsular cultural studies and spanish-language film; she also offers courses on world cinema. her film-related books include feminist discourse and spanish cinema: sight unseen (oxford university press 1999) and the collaborative project, cinema and the mediation of everyday life: an oral history of cinema-going in 1940s and 1950s spain (berghahn books, forthcoming). her most recently completed book, disorientations: spanish colonialism in africa and the performance of identity (yale university press 2008), scrutinizes the anxious reformulations of national identity resulting from spaniards' post-enlightenment rediscovery of their medieval andalusi past, precisely at a time in which "scientific racism" rose to dominance. the study details how the conjunction of these two phenomena with spain's compensatory neo-colonial project in africa, as well as with the rise of peripheral nationalisms, produced a complexly-layered negotiation of identities that continues up until the present day.

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