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Mario Santana is an Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, specializing in contemporary Iberian literatures with a notable focus on narrative and visual culture, including film and television. His research interests encompass literary historiography and critical theory, particularly hermeneutics, reception, gender studies, narratology, and systemic institutional approaches to literature and cultural studies. He analyzes individual cultural objects within their broader historical and social contexts, advocating for a nuanced understanding of multilingual cultural realities in the Iberian Peninsula and the interliterary relations connecting Iberia and Latin America. His teaching emphasizes rigorous analysis and interdisciplinary perspectives. Santana has written extensively on topics such as the Spanish-American New Novel and its reception in Spain, the history of translation, and the role of memory in contemporary fiction. He is a faculty coordinator for Basque and Catalan Studies at his university and is currently the president of the North American Catalan Society.
Department of Philosophy