Laura Martins
Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park, 1996
Phone: 225-578-5173
E-mail: martins@lsu.edu
Office: 303 Hodges Hall
Area of Interest
Contemporary Latin American literature and film; Luis Bu帽uel鈥檚 works; cinema and human rights in Argentina, cinema and labor, cinema and visual arts, the poetry-film nexus; neoliberal culture in Latin America.
Recent Teaching
SPAN 7990 (鈥淟iterary Theory: Literatura/Sociedad. Temas y relatos hispanoamericanos鈥�); SPAN 4201 (鈥淐inema in Spanish. Escape from Hollywood鈥�); SPAN 7946: 鈥淎rchivos de la memoria. Violencia, olvido y continuidad. (Literatura y cine en el Cono Sur)鈥�
Selected Awards & Honors
鈥� 2022 Book:
Lo poe虂tico cinematogra虂fico. La imagen lucie虂rnaga de Gustavo Fonta虂n. Raleigh, NC: A Contracorriente | University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
--This book has been awarded the Premio Humanidades鈥擧onorable Mention by the Southern Cone Studies section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2023.
鈥� 2022 Manship Summer Publication Grant ($5,000), College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
鈥� 2021 Manuscript workshop funded by the Dean鈥檚 Mid-Career Manuscript Workshop Award ($600) at University of California-Irvine (UCI), June 22, 2021.
鈥� 2019 Research Fellowship. 海角社区, College of Humanities and Social Sciences (Spring semester).
鈥� 2017 Scholarship for Teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language [鈥淏eca ELE鈥潀ELE Scholarship], Salamanca, Spain, July 9鈥�15, 2017, sponsored by the Ministry of Education|Consejer铆a de Educaci贸n de Espa帽a|Ministerio de Educaci贸n.
鈥� 2016 Tiger Athletic Foundation President鈥檚 Award ($2,500)
鈥� 2015 Nicholson Award for Outstanding Faculty Member 鈥� 海角社区 College of Humanities & Social Sciences.
鈥� 2012 Summer Stipend Research Award. 海角社区, College of Humanities and Social Sciences ($5,000).
鈥� 2011 Manship Summer Research Fellowship, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, 海角社区 ($9,000).
鈥� 2007 Manship Summer Research Fellowship, College of Arts and Sciences, 海角社区 ($5,000).
Selected Publications
Lo poe虂tico cinematogra虂fico. La imagen lucie虂rnaga de Gustavo Fonta虂n. Raleigh, NC: A Contracorriente | University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
--This book has been awarded the Premio Humanidades鈥擧onorable Mention by the Southern Cone Studies section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2023.
New Readings in Latin American and Spanish Literary and Cultural Studies. Ed. L. Martins. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2014.
鈥淕ustavo Font谩n鈥檚 Films: On Faces, Specters, Fragments of Matter.鈥� The Film Archipelago: Islands in Latin American Cinema, edited by Francisco-J. Hern谩ndez Adri谩n and Antonio G贸mez. London: Bloomsbury鈥揃loomsbury, Film & Media|World Cinema (2021): 171-188.
鈥淎lgunas consideraciones sobre lo po茅tico cinematogr谩fico.鈥� Ic贸nica. Pensamiento f铆lmico (September 2019).
鈥淥jos abiertos, ojos entrecerrados.鈥� Car谩tula. Revista Cultural Centroamericana 92 (2019).
鈥淐茅sar Vallejo: o el lacerado de tempran铆a.鈥� Car谩tula. Revista Cultural Centroamericana 87 (2018).
鈥淧er-verse Latin American Women Poets鈥�. The Cambridge History of Latin American Women鈥檚 Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 504-525.
鈥淐ontra la museificaci贸n del mundo: La orilla que se abisma (2008) y La casa (2012) de Gustavo Font谩n.鈥� Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas 11 (2) (2014): 167-177.
鈥淒esciudadanizaci贸n: trabajo, identidad y pol铆ticas neoliberales en Argentina (El cine de Lisandro Alonso).鈥� New Readings in Latin American and Spanish Literary and Cultural Studies. Ed. L. Martins. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2014, 68-80.
"En contra de contar historias. Cuerpos e im谩genes h谩pticas en el cine argentino (Lisandro Alonso y Lucrecia Martel)". Revista de cr铆tica literaria latinoamericana. A帽o XXXVII, 73 (2011): 401-420.
鈥淐ine, pol铆tica y (post)estado. La libertad de Lisandro Alonso鈥�. Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos/Nouveau Monde Mondes Nouveaux/New World New Worlds. (脡cole des hautes 茅tudes en sciences sociales) 10 (2010). http://nuevomundo.revues.org/58374?lang=en
"Memorias del cuerpo (im谩genes que nos devuelven la mirada)". Cine y derechos humanos. Susana Sel (ed.) Buenos Aires: Instituto Multimedia DerHumALC, 2008, 77-91.
鈥淏odies at Risk: On the State of Exception. (Lucrecia Martel鈥檚 La ci茅naga [The Swamp].鈥� Argentinean Cultural Production during the Neoliberal Years (1989-2001). Carolina Rocha and Hugo Hortiguera, eds. New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2007, 205-15.
鈥淟uis Bu帽uel, or Ways of Disturbing Spectatorship.鈥� Luis Bu帽uel. New Readings. Peter Evans and Isabel Santaolalla, eds. London: British Film Institute (BFI), 2004, 187-197.
鈥淯n cine en contra de la opresi贸n y las microcristalizaciones fascistas y a favor de la imagen desbordada.鈥� Bu帽uel, Siglo XXI. Isabel Santaolalla et al, editors. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza & Instituci贸n Fernando el Cat贸lico, 2004, 327-333.
Notable Activities
Member of the ACE Internationalization Lab Committee | Ed Abroad subcommittee (2021-)
海角社区 HSS Faculty Senator (2019-)
Director of Undergraduate Studies (2005-2007, Spring 2015-Fall 2016, Spring 2020-Fall 2021); Undergraduate Advisor (1998-2001)
Director of Graduate Studies (2009)
Section Head (2003-2004)
Director of 海角社区 in Argentina (2014, 2015 and 2018)
Director of 海角社区 in Chile (2013)
Director of 海角社区 in Argentina (2006, 2007 and 2008)
Director of 海角社区 in Spain (Granada) (2004-2005)
Director of 海角社区 in Spain (Salamanca) (2002-2003)