Assistant Professor of Spanish and Iberian Studies Priscila Calatayud-Fernández works as an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Iberian Studies in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Georgia. She defended her dissertation, Inoperative Figures of Work (1930-2014), at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she also taught courses on Peninsular Cinema and Narrative. Priscila’s field of expertise is Modern and Contemporary Iberian Studies, with an emphasis on literature and film produced within the Catalan, Asturian, and Galician-speaking regions. Her primary research and teaching interests span 19th–21st century Iberian literatures, film studies, and literary theory, with a particular focus on women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and broader questions in critical theory. Her research focuses on representations of labor and work that interrogate and reinterpret key historical narratives of Spanish history, such as colonial wars, Second Republic, Civil War, Franco dictatorship, and Transition—offering a deeper understanding of contemporary social and cultural contexts. Her current research explores representations of workers and women’s labor, as seen in academic articles and her current book-length project, titled Aesthetics of the Unfinished. Finitude, Work, and Social Reproduction in Iberia. Alongside her work in film and narrative, she is currently researching other areas of interest, including street art performance festivals and contemporary circus companies in Spain that interrogate the boundaries between art, community, and politics. She also received a B.A. in Journalism from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, a B.A. in Literary Theory, and an M.A. in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language from the Universidad de Salamanca. She has served as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish at the Pennsylvania State University, as a Lecturer I at the University of Michigan, and as an Instructor and Cultural Program Coordinator at Colorado College. Priscila is a member of professional organizations, including the North American Catalan Society (NACS), the Spanish Documentary Cinema Association (DOCMA), the Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades (AEGS), and the Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cine Españoles del Siglo XXI (ALCES XXI).
