NCID-2914
María del Carmen Caña Jiménez
Associate Professor of Spanish
Virginia Tech
Education/Degree:
1 Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures (UNC Chapel Hill)
About
A faculty member in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures since 2011, María del Carmen Caña Jiménez is an associate professor of Spanish and the author of 20 articles.
Caña Jiménez is the editor of Desafíos, diferencias y deformaciones de la ciudadanía: mutantes y monstruos en la producción cultural latinoamericana reciente (A Contracorriente, forthcoming in Fall 2020) and “Beyond Violence (Criticism) in Contemporary Hispanic Narratives and Cinemas” (Hispanófila 178, 2016). She also co-edited with Vinodh Venkatesh Horacio Castellanos Moya: El diablo en el espejo (Albatros 2016) and “Affect, Bodies, and Circulations in Contemporary Latin American Film” (Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 20, 2016). Caña Jiménez serves as the Latin American book review editor of Hispanófila.
Caña Jiménez also serves as faculty advisor, founder, and choreographer of Olé at Virginia Tech, the flamenco dance student organization. She has won several awards for her teac
Current Work
Several of Dr. Caña Jiménez's articles have focused on the issue of economic justice and structural violence in Latin America, especially in the Central American context. She examines literature, cinema, and other media to analyze how cultural production represents and deconstructs systems of precarity and exploitation. She is the co-editor of a forthcoming anthology on crises in Spanish-language television after 2008. She is currently writing a monograph on Argentine television fiction.
Research Area Keyword(s)
neoliberalism, central america, Latin America, cinema, television studies