James Mandrell

Title

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, Comparative Literature, Women's and Gender Studies, and Film Studies

Cultural Production
Italian Studies
Romance Studies
Women's and Gender Studies

Expertise

Modern and contemporary Spanish and comparative literature, film, and culture; US popular culture; gender and sexuality

Profile

Participates in Film Studies, Italian Studies, Latin American Studies, and Women's Studies. His current research focuses on food and fashion in nineteenth-century Spain and "queerness" in postwar US popular culture.

Degrees

The Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D.

The Johns Hopkins University, M.A.

Kalamazoo College, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	mandrell@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-3215
Office:	Rabb, 120a

Awards and Honors

National Endowment for Humanities Summer Fellowship (1993)

Marver and Sheva Bernstein Faculty Fellowship (1991)

American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant (1990)

Andrew Mellon Travel Grant (1989)

Courses Taught

COML	135b	Sexualities and Cinema
HECS	169a	Travel Writing and the Americas: Columbus's Legacy
HISP	181a	Autores, narradores y lectores
HISP	185b	España 200X
SPAN	109b	Introduction to Hispanic Cultural Studies
SPAN	140a	Topics in Poetry
SPAN	170a	Topics in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature
SPAN	170b	Seduction and Society, or Don Juan
SPAN	193b	Topics in Cinema: Global Latin American Cinema
SPAN	198a	Seminar in Literary and Cultural Studies
USEM	44a	I Spy: Ritual, Spectatorship, and Violence
WMGS	105b	Feminist Theories in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective
WMGS	205a	Graduate Foundational Course in Women's and Gender Studies

Scholarship

Mandrell,James. "Strangers in a Strange Land, or, We Are the World." ADFL [Association of Departments of Foreign Languages]. Modern Language Association, 2007 (forthcoming)

Mandrell, James. "'It couldn't happen here': A cross-cultural rhetoric [ for a special volume on safety edited by Lawrence R. Schehr]." South Atlantic Quarterly 107. 2 (2008): 321-37.

Mandrell,James. "'Como un hombre invisible': El imposible objeto del deseo." Manuel Vazquez Montalban: El compromiso con la memoria. Ed. Jose Colmeiro. London: Tamesis, 2007. 143-55.

Mandrell,James. "Representations of, and Reactions to, the Spanish Civil War." Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War. Ed. Noel Valis. New York: MLA, 2007. 506-12.

Mandrell,James. "Don Juan in Three Acts: Seduction Across Time and Space." Approaches to Teaching Spanish Golden Age Drama. Ed. Margaret Rich Greer and Laura R. Bass. Modern Language Assocication, 2006. 143-51.

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