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Bio

Silvia Colás Cardona's main area of interest is the representation of urban spaces in literature and film. She is particularly interested in how cities are portrayed in literature in times of major political and economic shifts/upheavals. She focuses primarily on the Cuban narrative of the Special Period and its written construction of the city of Havana. She has also researched Barcelona’s urban development since its nomination for the 1992 Olympic Games until today.

Silvia became fascinated with the history of cinema as an undergraduate student at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Film noir was always her favourite genre because of its strong element of social commentary. She is particularly interested in this genre because the hard-boiled novels that inspired these films also influenced Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and Leonardo Padura to write their detective novels, set up in Barcelona and Havana respectively.

Courses

• SPAN 249 - Intensive Intermediate Spanish
• SPAN 250A - Intermediate Spanish I
• SPAN 250B - Intermediate Spanish II
• SPAN 449 - Intensive Advanced Spanish
• SPAN 488 - Barcelona under Construction on Film

Selected Publications & Talks

•  All About the Divas: Margo Channing and Huma Rojo in Almodovar’sAll About My Mother. 37th Annual Colloquium of the Hispanic and Italian Studies. University of Victoria, October 13, 2023.
  
  
• Velázquez. La novela gráfica y el componente cultural en la clase de ELE. LVIII Congreso de la Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas, Virtual, June 2-5, 2022 
  
  
• Aplicaciones prácticas de los cursos EIDELE en el contexto académico. V Jornada de formación de profesores de español Universidad de Salamanca-Edinumen. Virtual, October 14-15, 2021
  
  
• La cabina (The Phonebooth): Censorship and Horror in the final years of Franco’s Dictatorship. Paper read for panel on “Film III Horror: La Cabina, Day of the Dead& The Cabin in the Woods”. PCA National conference 2021, Virtual, June 1-5, 2021.
  
  
• Panel organizer and presenter. Mi querida señorita: Género y censura en el cine español del tardofranquismo. Paper read for panel on “La incógnita travesti: arqueologías trans*, excentricidades del género y artes escénicas. España, siglos XV-XX”. LVII Congreso de la Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas, Virtual, June 1-4, 2021.
  
  
• Interseccions entre Barcelona i l’Havana: les construccions de l’espai urbà de José Luis Guerín i Carlos Garaicoa. 17th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (NACS), University of Chicago, April 27-29, 2019.
  
  
• Marketing Spain’s Difference: Depictions of Early Tourism in Bienvenido Mr. Marshalland El Verdugo.34^th Annual Colloquium of the Hispanic and Italian Studies Department: The Art of Cultural Tourism in the Hispanic and Italian World. University of Victoria, October 11^th, 2018.
  
  
• Tricky Cristina Barcelona: Teaching Cultural Literacy through Film. International Conference on Second Language Pedagogies (SLPC7), University of Victoria, June 25-26, 2018.
  
  
• Las tribus urbanas en Herejes. PCA/ACA National Conference 2015. New Orleans, April 1-4, 2015.