Luis González-Barrios, Ph.D.

Biography

Faculty Member Since 2016

Luis Gonzalez-Barrios, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor for World Languages and Cultures.

A specialist in contemporary Spanish literature and culture, Dr. González-Barrios completed his B.A. in humanities from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and his Ph.D. at Indiana University-Bloomington. Before joining Spelman College, he worked as a visiting professor at The College of William and Mary, Virginia, and at Bennington College, Vermont.

Most of his research to date has focused on analyzing the relationship between avant-garde art and politics from a transatlantic perspective, particularly during the two decades that preceded the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and its ramifications to the present. Dr. González-Barrios' research interests also include political theory, border studies and film and media studies, which have inspired a wide array of courses on contemporary topics such as migration and displacement, direct democracy, mass media and propaganda, and social activism through art.

Education

• B.A., Humanidades, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

• Ph.D., Hispanic Literatures, Indiana University-Bloomington

Courses Taught

• SFLS 354 Spanish Theater and Confinement: A Philosophical and Political Reflection on Reclusion

• SFLS 351 Daughters of the Trail: Female Writers and New Narratives in Spanish

• SFLS 454 African Americans and the Spanish Civil War

• SFLS 430 Federico García Lorca and His Time

• SFLS 425 Golden Age Prose: Renaissance and Baroque

• SFLS 350 Cinema and Social Change in Latin America

• SFLS 321 Global Hispanophone Civilization and Culture

• SFLS 308 Introduction to Cultural Studies in Spanish

• SFLS 312 Survey in Contemporary Peninsular Literature (XVIII-XXI)

Research Interests

• Contemporary Literatures in Spanish

• Avant-garde Studies

• Political Philosophy and Theory

• Transatlantic and Border Studies

Select Publications

Wifredo Lam en España (1923-1938): La lenta construcción del ‘caballo de Troya’ (Transmodernity, Fall 2021). (Merced, California, USA)

“La gitana y el Estado: Una lectura libertaria de ‘Preciosa y el aire’, de Federico García Lorca”. Vorágine, Revista Interdisciplinaria de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, Vol. 2 Núm. 4, Enero 2021, pp. 138-161. (Santiago de Chile, Chile)

"Días de ira (1930) de Helios Gómez: La encrucijada del artista revolucionario de entreguerras". Neophilologus (2019). (Leiden, Netherlands)

“La edad de oro de Luis Buñuel: El lenguaje fílmico de la anarquía”. Lenguaje, poesía y la búsqueda del sentido. Peter Lang, 2018. 70-89. (New York City, USA)