Lisa Di Giovanni | Keene State College (original) (raw)

My area of specialization includes 20th-21st century Latin American and Spanish Peninsular literature and film. My current work focuses on creative responses to the causes and consequences of torture in 20th century Spain and Chile and traces a link between militarized masculinity and the use of state violence as a method of social control.
In my first book, titled Unsettling Nostalgia in Spain and Chile (2019), I propose the concept of "unsettling nostalgia" to understand how authors and filmmakers represent memories of the pre-dictatorial pasts in Spain and Chile, as well as the leftist resistance to the military regimes of Francisco Franco (1939-1975) and Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).

EDUCATION
University of Oregon, Ph.D., Romance Languages, December 2008
Middlebury College, Master of Arts in Spanish, August 2001
Northern Arizona University, Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, 2000

EMPLOYMENT
Keene State College, Associate Professor of Spanish 2013- present

SCHOLARSHIP
Book (monograph in print):
1. DiGiovanni, Lisa. Unsettling Nostalgia in Spain and Chile: Longing for Resistance in Literature and Film. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019.

Book Manuscript (second monograph in progress)
2. DiGiovanni, Lisa. Militarized Masculinity in Spain and Chile: Torture and Resistance Through Film and Narrative.

Description: This book holds that until we connect the dots between masculinity, militarism, and violence, we cannot fully comprehend the causes and consequences of mass atrocity crimes.

Published Book Chapters in Edited Volumes:
3. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Torture, Masculinity, and Resistance in Chilean Documentary Film: Patricio Guzmán and Marcela Said” in Gender-Based Violence in Latin American and Iberian Cinemas, eds.: M. J. Gámez Fuentes, R. Maseda García and B. Zecchi. Routledge 2020. 109-125.

4. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Teaching Narratives of Women’s Inner Exile in Spain and Chile.” The Iberian and Latin American Transatlantic Studies Reader, eds. Cecilia Enjuto Rangel, Sebastiaan Faber, Pedro García Caro and Robert Patrick Newcomb. Liverpool University Press, 2019. 206-217.

5. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Militarized Masculinity: Boys’ Socialization and the Postwar Graphic Novel of Carlos Giménez.” The Dynamics of Masculinity in Contemporary Spanish Culture, eds. Lorraine Ryan and Ana Corbalán, Routledge, 2017. 63-79.

6. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Return to Galicia: Nostalgia, Nation and Gender in Manuel Rivas’s Spain.” Memory-Nostalgia-Melancholy: Re-imagining Home in a Time of Mobility, ed. Maja Mikula, Cambridge Scholars, 2017. 15-34.

7. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Modes of Silence and Resistance: Chilean Documentary and Gendered Torture.” Cinema and the State-Tortured Body, ed. Mark de Valk, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 177-206.

Published Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
8. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “La conquista misógina en la memoria posfranquista: La narrativa de Alberto Méndez.” Periphērica: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Literary History. Vol 1, No 1 (2019) online.

9. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Visual Archives of Loss and Longing: Mi vida con Carlos by Germán Berger-Hertz.” Journal of Romance Studies 13.3 (2013): 62-74.

10. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Memories of Motherhood and Militancy in Chile: Gender and Nostalgia in Calle Santa Fe by Carmen Castillo.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 21.1 (2012): 15-36.

11. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Masculinity, Misogyny and Mass in Los girasoles ciegos by Alberto Méndez” Anales de la literatura española contemporánea, 37.1 (2012): 39-61.

12. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Unsettling Nostalgia in Roberto Brodsky's Últimos días de la historia.” Chasqui 40.2 (2011): 108-124.

Collectively Authored Interviews in Peer-Reviewed Journals:
13. DiGiovanni, Lisa and Pedro García-Caro. “The Uncertain Territory of Memory: A Conversation with Chilean Writer Roberto Brodsky.” World Literature Today 86.5 (2012): Web. Sept.-Oct. 2012.

Book Reviews:
14. DiGiovanni, Lisa. Review of Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World, Carl Fisher and Vania Barraza, eds. Wayne State University Press, 2020. Review for Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (forthcoming)

15. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Documentary Turns in Latin America: A Review of Latin American Documentary Film in the New Millennium,” María Guadalupe Arenillas and Michael J. Lazzara, eds. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016. Review for A contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America, Vol. 14, Num. 1, Fall 2016, 364-372.

16. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Memory Bridges: Review of Love and Revolutionary Greetings: An Ohio Boy in the Spanish Civil War,” Laurie Levinger Resource Publications, 2012. Review for The Volunteer, Dec. 2012, 21-22.

Book Endorsements:
17. DiGiovanni, Lisa. Endorsement Women, Memory and Dictatorship in Recent Chilean Fiction. Gustavo Carvajal. University of Wales Press
Supervisors: Gina Herrmann

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