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Claudia Schaefer

Rush Rhees Professor

Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures

Professor of Film and Media Studies

Program head fall 2024, minors, transfers, and study abroad credit for minors, Take Five

PhD, Washington University in St. Louis

Office Location
418 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4251

Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 2:25-3:25 p.m.

Research Overview

Research Interests

  • Nineteenth-, twentieth- and twenty-first-century Hispanic literatures and cultures
  • Spanish cinema
  • critical theory
  • popular culture
  • the visual arts
  • Spanish modernity
  • the culture of science in Spain
  • surrealism in Spain
  • digital humanities

Courses Offered (subject to change)

  • SP 200:  Advanced Spanish Composition (Fall 2018)
  • SP 202:  The Forging of a Nation: Literary Ideas and Aesthetics from the Romantics to Democratic Spain (Spring 2018)
  • SP 205:  Spain: Past, Present, and Future (Spring 2017)
  • SP 249D:  Buñuel, Dalí, Lorca: Surrealism in Spain and Beyond (Fall 2018)
  • SP 249M:  Out of the Wings: Contemporary Spain on Stage (Spring 2016)
  • SP 272:  Postcards from Spain: Visitors, Observers, and Imaginary Geographies (Fall 2015)
  • SP 280:  The Transhispanic Supernatural: Ghosts, Witches, and Vampires in Film and Literature from Spain and Spanish America – co-taught with Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández (Spring 2017)
  • SP 281:  Other Worlds and Underworlds (Spring 2014)
  • SP 288:  Spanish Film (Fall 2014)
  • SP 292:  Politics, Portraits, Public Spaces: The Power of Photography in Spain and Spanish America (Fall 2014)

Selected Publications

Books and Monographs

  • Textured Lives: Women, Art, and Representation in Modern Mexico. U of Arizona P, 1992.
  • Juan Goytisolo: Del "realismo crítico" a la utopía. José Porrúa Turanzas, 1984. Ensayos.

Articles and Book Chapters

  • With Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández. "From Utopia to Uchronia: After-images of Revolutionary History in Contemporary Mexican Film." Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinema, vol. 13, no. 2, Jun. 2016, pp. 137-57. Ingenta Connect, .
  • "Parodying Paradise: When Mexican Buddy Films Turn Rudo y Cursi." Quarterly Review of Film and Video, vol. 30, no. 1, 2013, pp. 50-61. Taylor & Francis Online, .
  • "Revolution, Ideology, and the Eye of Cinema: El cometa as Mise en Abyme." Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, vol. 8, no. 1, Jan. 2012, pp. 37-49. Ingenta Connect, .

Honors and Activities

  • Book for Understanding the World award for "Bored to Distraction," Association of American University Presses, 2003
  • Book for Understanding the World award for "Danger Zones," Association of American University Presses, 1996