Research

Susan Larson specializes in twentieth-century Spanish narrative and is currently engaged in research on questions of modernity and the social and cultural implications of urban planning, particularly in Madrid. Her current project, a book co-authored with Malcolm Compitello on the politics and social consequences of the urban policies of the PSOE (Partido Socialista Obrero Español) between 1982 and 2000, has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Areas of Specialty

• Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature
• Film Studies
• Cultural Geography

Selected Publications

• Visualizing Spanish Modernity. Oxford: Berg Press, 2005.
• Visualizing Spanish Modernity. Oxford: Berg Press, 2005.
• La rampa. By Carmen de Burgos. Critical Edition. Buenos Aires: Stockcero, 2006.
• Constructing and Resisting Modernity: Madrid 1900 - 1936. Madrid: Vervuert / Iberoamericana, 2009.

Recent Articles

• Cinematic Hybridity and New Ontologies of the Camera in Nemesio M. Sobrevila’s “cine retaguardia.” Hispanic Research Journal 9.4 (2008): 339-53.
• "Nemesio M. Sobrevila, Walter Benjamin, and the Provocation of Film." Studies in Hispanic Cinemas 4.2 (2007): 107-120.
• Peripheral Modernities of the Spanish Novel. Volume 52, Number 3 of the Romance Quarterly, Summer 2005. Guest Editor.