SUSAN MARTIN-MÁRQUEZ Professor Director, Cinema Studies Program  Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania M.A. University of Chicago Carpender Hall 202A (732) 932-9412 x 51 This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Prof. Martin-Márquez's Web Page

Professor Martin-Márquez's research and teaching center on modern Spanish Peninsular cultural studies and Spanish-language film.  She is also Director of Rutgers' Program in Cinema Studies, and teaches courses on "world cinema".  Her film-related books include Feminist Discourse and Spanish Cinema: Sight Unseen (Oxford UP, 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, advanced contract).  Her most recently completed book, Disorientations: Spanish Colonialism in Africa and the Performance of Identity (forthcoming, Yale UP), 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.