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Nuria Cruz-Camara

Nuria Cruz-Cámara received her licenciatura in English Philology from the University of Salamanca (Spain), and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She joined the faculty of the University of Tennessee in 1999. Her specialization is 20th-century Spanish literature and culture, and she has published several articles in professional journals as Letras Femeninas, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Symposium, Crítica Hispánica, Revista Hispánica Moderna, and Hispanófila. Her monograph entitled El laberinto intertextual de Carmen Martín Gaite: Un estudio de sus novelas de los noventa has been published by Juan de la Cuesta—Hispanic Monographs.  Currently, she is working on women writers involved in politics during the first four decades of the 20th century, such as Margarita Nelken, Federica Montseny, Dolores Ibarruri (Pasionaria), and María Martínez Sierra.

Professor Cruz-Cámara teaches a variety of courses both at the undergraduate and the graduate levels. Recent courses include “Images of Women in Hispanic Literature and Film” (433),  “Modernity and Tradition in Spain” (461), “Post-war Spanish Literature” (543), “Generation 98 through Civil War” (542), and Surveys of Spanish literature (332, 334).

Selected Publications

  • El laberinto intertextual de Carmen Martín Gaite: Un estudio de sus novelas de los noventa (Juan de la Cuesta, 2008)
  • “Un icono femenino de la revolución: Heroínas de Federica Montseny.”  Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (in press)
  • “El simulacro desde el extrarradio: Barrio de Fernando León de Aranoa,” Bulletin of Spanish Studies 82 (2005): 59-73
  • “Matando al ángel del hogar a principios del siglo XX: Las mujeres revolucionarias de Margarita Nelken y Federica Montseny,” Letras Femeninas 30.2 (2004): 7-28
  • “Notas sobre un Bildungsroman posmoderno: Tocarnos la cara de Belén Gopegui,” Crítica Hispánica 26 (2004): 41-48
  • “La re-creación del romanticismo en La Reina de las Nieves de Martín Gaite,” Symposium 57 (2003): 81-92
  • “Novela rosa y final feliz en Nubosidad variable de Carmen Martín Gaite,” Ojáncano: Revista de Literatura Española 23 (2003): 3-23
  •   “‘Chicas raras’ en dos novelas de Carmen Laforet y Carmen Martín Gaite,” Hispanófila 139 (2003): 97-110
  • “¿Se movió la mujer tras la movida?.”  La mujer en la España actual: ¿Evolución o involución?.  Eds. Jacqueline Cruz y Barbara Zecchi.  Barcelona: Icaria, 2004.  267-95.
Nuria Cruz-Camara

Contact Information

Nuria Cruz-Camara
Associate Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
716 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville , TN 37996

Phone: (865) 974-7009
E-Mail: ncruzcam@utk.edu