Kimberly A. Vega
Kimberly A. Vega
PhD, University of Virginia
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Teaching and Research Interests
She specializes in Spanish Iberian Film Studies; U.S. Latino Studies; Contemporary Latin American and Iberian Spanish Literature; and Realism and Naturalism in Spain. She has just completed an article on Amenábar’s Tesis and Assayas’ Demonlover, and has plans for another article on filmmaker Alex de la Iglesias’ Muertos de risa. She also actively engages in research on Puerto Rico and is currently working on a book about Midwestern Puerto Ricans in the United States.
Most Recent Publications:
"The 'Gateway' to the Antilles: Some Historical Considerations of Puerto Rican Place and Space." UFLR 16 (2007).
"The Colonized Subject in Self-Exile: Cultural Dislocation and Existential Angst in Mid-Twentieth Century Puerto Rican Literature." Ciberletras 10 (2003).
"Tina's Dilemma: The Transsexual as Allegory for Almodóvar's Law of Desire." Torre de Papel 10:1 (2000): 46-64.
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