Dr Celia Martin Perez

PhD

Lecturer, 19th century and modern Spanish culture

Contact details

Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies
Birkbeck, University of London
43 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PD
E-mail: celia.martin@bbk.ac.uk

Profile

Dr Celia Martín Pérez lectures in 19th century and modern Spanish culture. Her research focuses on the relations between gender, history and politics, with particular interest in the visual representations of historical subjects.

Her PHD examined the different cultural afterlives of the Spanish heroine Mariana Pineda across different media, including painting, theatre, television and biography. Martín Pérez’s thesis was published in Spanish in 2005, Representaciones culturales en torno a la figura de Mariana de Pineda, heroína liberal.

She has participated in international conferences and published several articles and book chapters, in English and Spanish, on cinema, television and painting.

Her current research focuses on the overlooked area of historical house museums as key elements in the shaping of identities. She has also lectured Spanish as a foreign language at various universities in London.

Selected publications 

‘Defying Common Sense: Casting Pepa Flores/Marisol as Mariana Pineda’, Tesserae: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies,  Volume 9 Number 2, 149-162

‘Madness, Queenship and Womanhood in Orduña´s Locura de amor (1948) and Aranda´s Juana la loca (2001)’, in S. Marsh and P. Nair (eds.), Gender and Spanish Cinema (Oxford/New York: Berg), 71-85

‘La producción cultural en torno a la figura de Mariana Pineda’ in A. Casares (eds.) Mariana Pineda. Nuevas claves interpretativas (Granada: Editorial Comares)

‘A Recycled Saint: Teresa of Avila on Spanish Screens (1961-1984-2007)’ in (ed.) Hispanic Visual Cultures (Forthcoming in 2010)

'Images of Women and Ideas of Nation in Nineteenth-century Spanish Historical Painting', The Journal of International Social Research - Women's Studies Issue (Forthcoming 2010).