Almudena Marín Cobos
Almudena Marín Cobos is a scholar of cultural studies, with a focus on Early Modern Iberian poetry, twentieth and twenty-first century Spanish cultural production, and Second Language Acquisition. Almudena received her PhD at Columbia University in 2020 with a dissertation on the processes of memorialization of the Spanish transition from Franco’s dictatorship to democracy in the aftermath of the 2008 economic recession. Her current research analyzes memory as a political project and a tool to create community, within the ongoing revival of global fascist populism; she is also exploring strategies of self-representation in seventeenth century Andalusian poetry. In her teaching, she connects students to the NYC urban and linguistic landscape, and encourages students to explore their creativity as a way to hone critical-thinking skills. Almudena has been involved in higher education in the US and abroad for over a decade, working towards making the classroom an equitable and inclusive space where dissent is encouraged as a way of gaining intellectual growth.
- PhD, Latin American and Iberian Cultures (Columbia University)
- Teaching Development Program (Center for Teaching and Learning, Columbia
- University)
- PhD, Hispanic Literatures (Universidad de Córdoba, Spain)
- BA, Spanish Philology (Universidad de Córdoba, Spain)
- Critical Pedagogy
- Climate Humanities
- Memory Studies, Post-dictatorial Societies
- Strategies of Self-fashioning & Socio-literary Field in Seventeenth-Century Poetry
«Climate Humanities in the L2 Classroom: Radical Possibilities for an Uncertain Future», The Radical Teacher. Co-authored with Francisca Aguiló Mora [forthcoming]
«Si son madres, tienen que ser amigas: Madres paralelas o la amistad como metáfora de la reconciliación nacional», Tiempo de amistad. Representaciones de su práctica en el cine español contemporáneo (2000-2022), coord. I. Domingo, Wilmington (DE), Vernon Press, 2024 [forthcoming]
«El discurso climático en la clase de español: reflexiones teóricas y dilemas éticos.» Sujetos y discursos: ideologías, acción social y propuestas críticas en la cultura y la educación contemporáneas, edited by Teresa Fernández Ulloa and Carlos Enrique Ahuactzin Martínez. California State University, Bakersfield & Instituto de Ciencias de Gobierno y Desarrollo Estratégico, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Co-authored with Francisca Aguiló Mora
«Proyectos de (no-)futuro: buscarse la vida durante la transición a la democracia», Studi Ispanici XLVII (2022), Special issue on “Sociología del trabajo: formas y condiciones laborales en la literatura hispánica”, pp. 406-421.
«Transitioning después de Franco: el sur como proyecto de futuro», Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 24 (2020), pp. 112-126.
Co-editor with Irene Domingo of the Special Section “Rebirths in Times of Crisis” of Volume 24 (2020) of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies.
Poster «“Thinking Communally:” A Creative Project Based on the Use of L2 as a Critical Tool», Center for Teaching and Learning, Columbia University (2019). Co-authored with Marta Ferrer.
«Dinámicas de trabajo vistas desde el tamiz de la crítica genética», Etiópicas 9 (2013): 147-166.
«Relaciones sociales y literarias en los impresos poéticos de Granada (1650-1665)», Bulletin Hispanique 115-1 (2013): 125-144.