Assistant Professor & Chair · Dominican University
Yanire Marquez Etxabe
Ph.D.Spanish Language and Transcultural Studies
My work puts literature, critical theory, film, and gender studies in conversation across the Hispanic world.
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About
I am an Assistant Professor and Chair of Spanish Language and Transcultural Studies at Dominican University. I earned my Ph.D. in Hispanic Literary and Cultural Studies, with a concentration in Second Language Acquisition and Gender Studies, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I also received my master’s degree in Spanish at UIC, and completed my bachelor’s degree in Modern Languages and New Information Technologies at the University of Deusto (Spain) and the University of Manchester (England).
I also served on the executive committee of the Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies (AEGS) as its Graduate Student Representative.
- Position
- Assistant Professor & Chair
- Department
- Spanish Language and Transcultural Studies
- Institution
- Dominican University
- Doctorate
- Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
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Research
The interdisciplinary nature of my work establishes a conversation between literature, critical theory, film, and gender studies in the Hispanic world.
My research focuses on the work of contemporary Spanish women filmmakers from 1990 to the present.
How these films establish women’s own linguistic authority by adopting a haptic and sensorial aesthetic approach that offers new forms of representing and perceiving womanhood.
Areas of interest
- Contemporary Spanish women filmmakers
- Haptic & sensorial aesthetics
- Gender studies
- Critical theory
- Film & cultural studies
- Hispanic literature
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Teaching
In addition to film and cultural studies, I have extensive experience teaching Spanish to second-language and heritage learners.
- Spanish as a second language
- Spanish for heritage learners
Where I’ve taught
- 01Dominican University
- 02University of Illinois at Chicago
- 03Instituto Cervantes of Chicago
- 04Universidad de Deusto
- 05North Park University
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Education & Service
Ph.D.
Hispanic Literary and Cultural Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago
Concentration in Second Language Acquisition and Gender Studies
Master’s degree
Spanish
University of Illinois at Chicago
Bachelor’s degree
Modern Languages and New Information Technologies
University of Deusto, Spain · University of Manchester, England
Leadership & service
Chair
Spanish Language and Transcultural Studies, Dominican University
Executive Committee, Graduate Student Representative
Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies (AEGS)