Annabel Martín
Professor
Appointments
Professor of Spanish
Professor of Comparative Literature
Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexualities Studies
Founding Director, Gender Research Institute at Dartmouth (GRID)
Cofounder, Jahjaga Foundation (Prishtina, Kosovo)
Area of Expertise
Contemporary Spanish and European Cultural Studies,
Violence, the Arts, and Reconciliation in the Basque Context,
Mass Culture and Politics,
Nationalism, Dictatorship, and Terrorism,
Basque Terrorism and Restorative Justice,
Globalization, Tourism, and Immigration in Spain,
Feminism and Human Rights ,
Gender and Higher Education
Education
Ph.D. University of Oregon
M.A. University of Oregon
Licenciada Degree in English-Spanish Philology, Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
Publications
Books
· La gramática de la felicidad: Relecturas franquistas y posmodernas del melodrama. Madrid: Libertarias/Prodhufi (2005).
· Cartas transatlánticas: Un diálogo epistolar entre jóvenes sobre la violencia y la convivencia social en Euskadi y en EE.UU. / Transatlantic Letters: An Epistolary Exchange between Basque and U.S. Students on Violence and Community. Eds. Annabel Martín and Pilar Rodríguez. Bilingual Edition (Number 99 and 101 Cuadernos de Derechos Humanos). Bilbao/San Sebastián (Spain): U of Deusto P (2022). https://spanport.dartmouth.edu/news/2022/04/transatlantic-letters-epistolary-exchange-between-basque-and-us-students-violence-and (Open Access)
· Tras las huellas del terrorismo en Euskadi: Justicia restaurativa, convivencia y reconciliación. Co-edited with Pilar Rodríguez. Madrid: Dykinson (2019). https://www.dykinson.com/libros/tras-las-huellas-del-terrorismo-en-eusk…
Guest Editor:
· International Journal of Iberian Studies: Guest Editor of special issue on Basque Studies. Unspeakable Truths: Basque Political Violence, Reconciliation, and Community. IJIS 36.3 (2023). Published online Feb 2024 (10 essays). https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/ijis/36/3?fbclid=IwAR3en7NLtZLJWZqJUK1MFNTJXd1WlbVtfimDhLusCuKGPNe8lLUCwWwpX8c
· Humanities: Special issue Gender in Times of Crisis: A Multidisciplinary Conversation (2017). (13 essays). http://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/multidisciplinary_conversation
· Dissidences: Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism 4.8 (2012) with co-editor Txetxu Aguado. Special issue Reconciliation and its Discontents (19 essays): http://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/dissidences/vol4/iss8/
Selected Articles
· "Too Dense to See: Pili Zabala, GAL State Terrorism, and Restorative Justice" Chapter in Law's Violences in Contemporary Spanish Culture. Eds. Javier Krauel and Mónica López Lerma. In process (forthcoming 2026).
· "La literatura en tiempos de crueldad: Julia Otxoa, Miren Billelabeitia y el recogimiento de la palabra." Special number of Gran Place (ed. Felipe Juaristi) on Basque culture. (forthcoming 2025).
· "Lurra jaten egon naiz,harik eta lur haren barruan aitita-amamak abesten entzun ditudan arte." Julia Otxoa, Tos de perro (2021) eta memoria duina eta adiskidetzailea. Trad. Karlos del Olmo de "He estado comiendo tierra hasta que dentro de ella he oído cantar a mis abuelos." Julia Otxoa, Tos de perro (2021) y una memoria digna y conciliadora." Co-authored with Txetxu Aguado. Chapter in Egungo euskal mikrofikzioa. Microficción vasca contemporánea. Ed. Jon Kortazar. Leioa: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibersitatateko Argitalpen Zerbitzua (forthcoming Nov 2025).
· "Caminos de metamorfosis: Cuerpos, géneros y familias disidentes en 20.000 especies de abejas (Urresola), Tomboy (Sciamma) y Petite fille (Lifshitz)." Chapter in ¿Invisibles?: Trans-identidades en la España contemporánea. Ed. Ana Corbalán. Wilmington, Delaware: Vernon Press (forthcoming 2025).
· "Truthful Memories at the Memorial Site: Understanding Responses to Terrorism in Madrid." Co-authored with Txetxu Aguado. Chapter in Bridges Across Cultures 2024 Proceedings. Edited by HJ Manzari. Washington and Jefferson College and Università degli Studi della Tuscia. Published online March 2025:140-152.
· "Denaturalizing Cruelty: Maixabel Lasa, Victim and Peacemaker, in Zubiak (Jon Sistiaga and Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas, 2019) and Maixabel (Iciar Bollaín, 2021), International Journal of Iberian Studies (IJIS) 36.3 (2023): 245-258. Published online Feb 2024.
· "Coming Back from the Dead: Finding Justice for Joxi- An Interview with Pilar Zabala Antano." Co-authored with Txetxu Aguado. International Journal of Iberian Studies (IJIS) 36.3 (2023): 233-244. Published online Feb 2024.
· "Ethical Instances of Doubt: The Case of Yoyes on the screen-An Interview with Helena Taberna and Lur Olaizabal Lizarralde." Co-authored with Txetxu Aguado. International Journal of Iberian Studies (IJIS) 36.3 (2023): 259-270. Published online Feb 2024.
· "El envejecimiento y el turismo sexual femenino en Hacia el sur (2006) de Laurent Cantet y Paraíso: Amor (2012) de Ulrich Seidl." Co-authored with Txetxu Aguado. Chapter in Tecnologías de la edad: Imaginarios cinematográficos de la vejez. Eds. Raquel Medina and Barbara Zecchi. Granada: Editorial Comares, 2023 (175-186).
· "Vejez, deseo y sexualidad en La villa (2017) de Robert Guédiguian." Co-authored with Txetxu Aguado. Chapter in Tecnologías de la edad: Imaginarios cinematográficos de la vejez. Eds. Raquel Medina and Barbara Zecchi. Granada: Editorial Comares, 2023 (163-174).
· "Que la realidad no moleste: Helena Taberna, cineasta a la búsqueda de lo común." Chapter in Cineastas vascas. Ed. Pilar Rodríguez. San Sebastián: Euskadiko Filmategia Fundazioa-Fundación Filmoteca Vasca, 2022 (247-265).
· "Understanding Metabolized Violence: Intimate and Socio-Affective Ties of Terror in Basque Writer Edurne Portela's El eco de los disparos (2016) and Mejor la ausencia (2017) in "New Worlds of Fiction: Contemporary Basque Women Writers." Edited by Cristina Ortiz-Ceberio and Pilar Rodríguez. Special issue of Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures 76.2 (2022): 89-103.
· "The Future of the Dead: Reconciliation in PostETA Euskadi." Chapter in Rite, Flesh and Stone: The Matter of Death in Contemporary Spanish Culture, 1959-2020. Antonio Córdoba and Daniel García-Donoso (eds). Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt UP, 2021 (119-135).
· "Cine turístico y género: Cuerpos vacacionales, domesticados, inquietos y rebeldes." Chapter in La huella del turismo en un siglo de cine español (1916-2015). Ed. Antonia del Rey. Madrid: Síntesis, 2021 (71-90).
· "Los años sesenta: economía y cuerpo." Chapter in La huella del turismo en un siglo de cine español (1916-2015). Ed. Antonia del Rey. Madrid: Síntesis, 2021 (163-169).
· Thirty-Two film analyses pertaining to the 1950s-1960s or "desarrollismo" years in Antología del cine turístico español (1916-2015). Ed. Antonia del Rey. Madrid: Síntesis, 2021 (76-77, 86-87,110-111, 118-119, 137-138, 141-142, 156-157, 158-160, 163-164, 165-166, 169-170, 175-176, 177-178, 179-181, 186-188, 193-195, 196-197, 202-203, 212-213, 214-215, 220-221, 222-224, 237-238, 242-243, 244-245, 246-247, 250-251, 256-258, 268-270, 287-288, 295-296, 307-308). (72 pages)
· "The Power of Necropolitics: Affect Theory and Violence in Perspective." Co-authored with Cristina Ortiz-Ceberio. Revista de Investigaciones Feministas 11.2 (2020): 263-271. (U Complutense, Madrid). Special issue on Feminist Methodologies co-edited by Lisa Cuklanz and María Pilar Rodríguez.
· "Palabras con piel, oídos que hablan: El tú-yo en los procesos de justicia restaurativa." Chapter in Tras las huellas del terrorismo en Euskadi: Justicia restaurativa, convivencia y reconciliación." Annabel Martín and María Pilar Rodríguez (Eds.). Madrid: Dykinson, 2019 (105-124).
· "La gramática de la duda: Opacidad y transparencia terrorista en El hombre solo de Bernardo Atxaga." Chapter in El mundo está en todas partes. La creación literaria de Bernardo Atxaga. Iker González-Allende and José Ángel Ascunce Arrieta (eds.). Madrid: Anthropos, 2018 (109-126).
· "Otras miradas." Prologue to Mujer y cine en España: Industria, Igualdad y Representación. Jorge González del Pozo (Ed.) Madrid: Wisteria, 2018 (9-14).
· "Crisis, Change, and the Humanities: Parameters of Discussion." Co-authored with Txetxu Aguado. Humanities (2017) http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/6/2/35/pdf
·"Searching for a Common Place: Thoughts on Crisis, Marginality, and Social Change." Co-authored with Txetxu Aguado. Humanities (2017) http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/6/2/40/pdf
· "The Desarrollismo Years: The Failures of Sexualized Nationhood in 1960's Spain." Spanish Erotic Cinema. Santiago Fouz-Hernández (ed). Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2017 (55-73).
· "Rutas de ciudadanía: Testimoniar la violencia terrorista en femenino." Chapter in Mujeres víctimas del dolor y la violencia terrorista. Pilar Rodríguez (ed.). Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2017 (49-69).
· "Turismo 'queer'?: La generación felpa o el cuerpo social del turismo." Viajes de cine. El relato del turismo en el cine hispánico. Antonia del Rey Reguillo (ed.). Madrid: Tirant lo Blanch Humanidades, 2017 (109-134).
· "Binomios éticos-ciudadano: Identidad y violencia terrorista." El arte frente al terror: El terrorismo en la literatura y el cine. Estudios para el recuerdo. María José Álvarez Maurín, Miriam López Santos, and Nuria Sánchez Villadangas (eds.). León, Spain: Universidad de León Publications, 2016 (194-201).
· "Vunerability and the Literary Imagination in the Basque Context: Julia Otxoa, Bernardo Atxaga, and Luisa Etxenike." Chapter in A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberia Peninsula (Vol 2). César Domínguez, Anxo Abuín, Ellen Sapega, and Dorothy Odartey-Wellington (eds). Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins B.V / Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée, 2016 (64-73).
· "Gender(ed) Matters in Communication/Media Studies: Integrating Curricular Innovation and Social Change in the Spanish Model." Co-authored with María Jesús Pando-Cantelli. Anàlisi: Quaderns de Comunicació I Cultura: 50 (2014): 39-53.
· "Gendered Logics of Violence: Skin and Cloth, Sutures and Memory. Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In (2011)." Special Number of Miríada Hispánica (U of Virginia) on "Global Almodóvar" edited by Cristina Martínez-Carazo (UC, Davis). Miríada Hispánica 8 (2014): 109-133.
· "Rethinking Tears and Excess: Melodrama in Spanish Filmmaking." Section Coordinator and Chapter Contributor on Melodrama to Spanish Film Companion. Jo Labanyi and Tatjana Pavlovic (eds.). London and New York: Blackwell, 2013 (224-240).
Works in Progress
· Annabel Martín is currently studying the cultural context surrounding the end of ETA terrorism in Spain and the role the arts play in processes of reconciliation. Her focus is on the ways the ethos driving restorative justice practices between victims and victimizers of both Basque ETA and Spanish GAL political violence offer alterative models of social interaction grounded in shared notions of vulnerability and human rights. Deep gratitude for the generosity of human rights activists and victims Maixabel Lasa, Pili Zabala, and Iñaki García Arrizabalaga.
International Activities
· Annabel Martín is a member of several international reserach groups including CITUR (Cine y Turismo) at the Universitat de València (Spain) studying tourism and national identity, GECA (Género, Estética y Cultura Audiovisual) and CinemAGEnder. She is a former advisary board member of the 11 university-EU Horizon 2020 project "GEARING Roles" on gender equality, chaired the Advisory Board of ARES (Anti-Feminist Resistances), a consortium of Spanish scholars studying antifeminist public discourse in media and communication, an advisory board member of the journal Feminism(s) of the Research Institute for Gender Studies at the Universitat d' Alacant (Spain), of the International Journal of Iberian Studies, and of Revista de ALCES XXI: Journal of Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film. Annabel Martín is also a co-founder and board member of the Jahjaga Foundation (Kosovo) dedicated to peace, human rights and gender, and in 2019 held the Bernardo Atxaga Chair of Basque Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center (NY) (Instituto Etxepare-Gobierno Vasco).
Selected International Keynotes
· "El género, lo común, y las democracias cuidadoras." Keynote address at the Basque Institute for Women (Emakunde) at the presentation of the Institute's "Estrategia 2030 para la Igualdad de Mujeres y Hombres en la Comunidad Autónoma Vasca" (2030 Strategy for Gender Equality Between Women and Men in the Basque Autonomous Community) under the auspices of commemorating the contributions of the outgoing President of the Basque Country, Iñigo Urkullu, and his government's policies for gender equality. Vitoria-Gasteiz, (February 2024).
· "Las artes y la mediación: Rutas para la convivencia." Keynote address discussion at seminar Euskal eta irlandarrak idazleak indarkeria osteko garaian: Komunitate eraldatuak / Escritoras vascas e irlandesas en tiempos de post violencia: Comunidades en transformación. Summer Course UPV-EHU (Universidad del País Vasco-Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea), San Sebastián (July 2023).
· "Triángulos de odio y de perdón." Talk and roundtable discussion with Maixabel Lasa and Iñaki García Arrizabalaga (Basque victims of terrorism and leaders in restorative justice) at University of Deusto, San Sebastián (December 2022).
· "The Future of the Dead: Reconciliation in Post-ETA Euskadi." Opening keynote address at Remembering/Imagining Terror in Europe Conference at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK (September 2022).
· "Lo común desde el feminismo." Keynote address at Resistencias Antifeministas Conference at Universidad de Deusto, San Sebastián (June 2022).
Selected Seminars
· Spain Reset!: Rethinking Democracy and Culture
· Indignant Spain: Crisis and New Social Movements Today
· Bullets and Letters: Basque Terrorism and the Arts
· Miniskirts and Polkadots: Beach Beauties and Dictatorship
· Hollywood Revisited: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar
· Art and Gender: A Different Gaze?
· The Humanities and Human Rights: Gendered and Textual Alliances
· Times of Crisis: Neoliberalism, Gender, and Change
· Love and Space: Places for Feminism
· Family Matters: Gender Reversals and Community in Almodóvar
· The Cinematic City
· New Families on the Screen
Awards
· Mellon Research and Professional Development Award, Dartmouth College (2024)
· The Manley Huntington Award for Newly Promoted Faculty, Dartmouth College (2023)
· Friedman Family Fellowship, Dartmouth College (2023)
· Awarded Medal from Kosovo Constitutional Court for Distinguished Support of Democracy in Kosovo (2022)
· Held the Bernardo Atxaga Chair / Cátedra of Basque Studies at City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center (2019)
· Dean of the Faculty Mentoring Award, Dartmouth College (2017)
· Co-Founder, Jahjaga Foundation (President Atifete Jahjaga, Kosovo) (2017)
· The Karen E. Wetterhahn Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement, Dartmouth College (2005)
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