Txetxu Aguado
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Office Hours: by appointment
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Department(s)
Spanish and Portuguese
Education
- Licenciado Degree, Euskal Herriko Universitatea
- M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Selected Publications
65. "Truthful Memories at the Memorial Site: Understanding Responses to Terrorism in Madrid." Bridges Across Cultures (Submitted)
61. "Spanish State Terrorism: Writing the History of its Violence." International Journal of Iberian Studies (IJIS) 36.3 (2023). (Peer reviewed).
56. "Huidas imposibles: El envejecimiento y el turismo sexual femenino en Hacia el sur (2006) de Laurent Cantet y Paraíso: Amor (2012) de Ulrich Seidl." Co-written with Annabel Martin (Dartmouth College). Tecnología de la edad. Imaginarios cinematográficos de la vejez. Eds. Raquel Medina & Barbara Zecchi. Granada, Spain: Comares, 2023: 175-86. (Peer reviewed)
47. "Otra política visual de la representación sexual: el porno feminista de Erika Lust." Pasavento. Revista de Estudios Hispanos VI, I (invierno 2018): 43-60. (Peer reviewed)
Selected Works & Activities
Book: Sexualidades disidentes: un acercamiento fílmico desde la prostitución y la pornografía. Madrid: Dykinson, 2019. Despite my critique of prostitution and pornography in their widely normalized manifestions, this study also addresses the intelectual and concrete spaces these practices open in exploring and elaborating non-patriarchal sexualities.
Book: Tiempos de ausencias y vacíos: escrituras de memoria e identidad. Deusto University Press-Publicaciones de la Universidad de Deusto (Bilbao, Spain). Fall 2010. A study of the interrelations between memory and identity in the Spain of the Transition and post-Transition historical period.
Book: La tarea política: narrativa y ética en la España posmoderna. Barcelona: Montesinos-El Viejo Topo, 2004. A rethinking of postmodern subjectivities and their ethical positionings in literary texts by Juan Goytisolo, Rosa Montero, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán y Jorge Semprún.