joseba@joseba.net                                                      

 

Education:

 

1991

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature.

 

Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego

 

Dissertation: Cinematic Hyperspace. New Hollywood Cinema and Science Fiction Film: Image Commodification in Late Capital­ism. Dissertation Director: Professor Masao Miyoshi

 

 

1991

M.A. in Comparative Literature

 

Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego

 

 

1987

Licenciate Degree with Honors in Basque Philology

 

Facultad de Filología, Historia y Geografía, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain

 

Thesis: Deconstruction and Writing: Epis­temological and Historical Analysis of Semiotics. (In Basque) Thesis Director: Jon Juaristi Linacero

 

Teaching Experience (tenure track):

 

2005-pr.

Assistant Professor

 

Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

 

 

2001-05

Assistant Professor

 

Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, NV

 

 

2000-01

Assistant Professor

 

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

 

 

1994-99

Assistant and Associate Professor

 

Department of Spanish, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA

 

Teaching Experience (non-tenure track):

 

2000

Visiting Associate Professor

Spring

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

 

 

1997

Visiting Assistant Professor

Fall

Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY

 

 

1993-94

Visiting Assistant Professor

 

Program in Literature, Duke University, NC

 

 

1991

Lecturer of Comparative Literature

 

Department of English, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, México

 

 

1990

Teaching Assistant in Spanish Linguistics

Fall

Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego, CA

 

Publications:

 

Books:

 

2009

Vulgate of the Apocalypse. San Sebastian: Erein, 2009. (short story collection; in Basque).

 

 

2006

Remnants of the Nation: Prolegomena to a Postnational History of Contemporary Basque Literature. Bilbao: University of the Basque Country Press, 2006. (in Basque).

 

 

1992

From California with Love. San Sebastian: Elkar, 1992. (collection of newspaper essays; in Basque).

 

Edited Books:

 

2004

Empire and Terror: Nationalism/Postnationalism in the New Millennium. Eds. Begoña Aretxaga, Dennis Dworkin, Joseba Gabilondo, and Joseba Zulaika. Reno: Center for Basque Studies, 2004.

 

Edited Journals:

 

2001 

“The Hispanic Atlantic.” Monograph. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 5 (2001): 91-113.

 

Articles in Journals:

 

2010

“Indifference as Terror: On State Politics and Basque Literature in Globalization.” Oihenart. Language and Literature Notebooks. 25 (2010). (forthcoming).

 

 

2009

“Genealogía de la ‘raza latina’: para una teoría atlántica de las estructuras raciales hispanas.” Revista Iberoamericana: Otros estudios transatlánticos. Lecturas desde lo latinoamericano. Eds. Nina Gerassi-Navarro and Eyda M. Merediz. 75: 228 (2009): 795-818.

 

 

 

“Towards a Postnational History of Galician Literature: On Pardo Bazán’s Transnational and Translational Position.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 86 (2009): 49-69.

 

 

 

“Towards a Postmodern History of Basque Poetry: On Orality and Performance (From bertsopaperak of the Carlist Wars to Radical Rock and the Poetry of K. Uribe).” EGAN (2009): 1-47.

 

 

2008

“Imagining the Basques: Dual Otherness from European Imperialism to American Globalization.” Revista Internacional de Estudios Vascos: Imagining The Basques. Foreign Views of the Basque Country.  Eds. Jeremy MacClancy and Santiago Leoné. Monograph 2 (2008): 145-173.

 

 

 

“On the Centrality of Small Hibryd Genres: Notes on the Officialist Politics of the Novel and its Cinematic Incapacity.” EGAN 61.3/4 (2008): 21-59. (in Basque).

 

 

2007

“Globalizations and the Ghost of Multiculturalism: Biopolitics and the Polemics of Difference in Basque Literature and Culture.” EGAN 40.3/4 (2007): 5-35. (Reprinted in Etxeberria, Postmodernism and Globalization). (in Basque).

 

 

2006

“Spanish, Second Language of the Internet? The Hispanic Web, Subaltern-Hybrid Cultures, and the Neoliberal Lettered City.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. 31.1 (2006): 107-29.

 

 

 

“The State’s Body, the Intellectual and the Real/Subaltern: Autobiography and Neoliberal Ideology in Postnational Spanish Basque Culture (On Savater, Juaristi, and Onaindía).” Antípodas: Journal of Hispanic and Galician Studies 16 (2006): 183-227.

 

 

 

“Antonio Banderas: Hispanic Gay Masculinities and the Global Mirror Stage (1991-2001).” Studies in Twentieth- and Twenty First Century Literature 30:1 (2006): 209-33.

 

 

2005

“A Multicultural Atlantic Critique of European Universalism: Neonationalism from Derrida to Agamben.” Tropos 31 (2005): 8-53.

 

 

2004

“Geopolítica y aparato libidinal de los discursos reaccionario y liberal: Para una genealogía  no moderna de la obra de Mesonero Romanos y Donoso Cortés.” Res publica. Revista de filosofía política 6.13-14 (2004): 55-76.

 

 

 

“Seducció política, extraterritorialitat literaria i nuesa biogràfrica: Atxaga i la seva trilogia al·legòrica.” El contemporani: arts-història-societat 29 (2004): 39-43.

 

 

2003

“Historical Memory, Neoliberal Spain, and the Latin American Postcolonial Ghost: On the Politics of Recognition, Apology, and Reparation in Contemporary Spanish Historiography.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 7 (2003): 247-66.

 

 

 

"The Subaltern Cannot Speak But Performs: Women’s Public and Literary Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Spain." Hispanic Research Journal 5.1 (2003): 73-95.

 

 

 

“Savater and State Melancholia: On Spanish History and its Postnational State in Globalization” Revista de estudios hispánicos 37 (2003): 357-81.

 

 

 

“Posnacionalismo y biopolítica: Para una crítica multiculturalista del estado y su soberanía en Europa y el País Vasco (notas sobre Habermas y Agamben).” Inguruak: Revista de la federación vasca de sociología 37 (2003): 1-23.

 

 

 

"On the Postcolonial and Queer Origins of Basque Modern Literature. Rethinking Abbadie’s Legacy.” Research on Basque Grammar and Literature at the Threshold of the Twentieth Century. Iker - 14.2. Literary Issues. Eds. A. Arkotxa and L. Otegi. Bilbao: Euskaltzaindia, 2003. 81-88. (in Basque).

 

 

2002

"Postnationalism, Fundamentalism, and the Global Real: Historicizing Terror/ism and the New North American/Global Ideology." Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 3.1 (2002): 57-86.

 

 

2001

"The Global Phallus: On the Digital and Allegorical Economy of the Hispanic Subaltern in Hollywood Film." Discourse. 23.1 (2001): 4-24.

 

 

2000

"Itxaro Borda: Melancholic Migrancy and the Writing of a National, Lesbian Self." Anuario del Seminario Julio de Urquijo XXXIV-2 (2000): 291-314.

 

 

 

"And Oñederra Told the Snake: On Recent Literature by Basque Women and Their Social Impact" Hegats 28 (2000): 75-114. (in Basque).

 

 

1999

"Before Babel: Global Media, Ethnic Hybridity, and Enjoyment in Basque Culture." Revista Internacional de Estudios Vascos 44.1 (1999): 7-49.

 

 

 

"Travestismo y novela terrorista: deseo y masoquismo femenino en la literatura vasca postnacional." La balsa de la medusa 49 (1999): 45-76. (Reprinted in El hispanismo en los Estados Unidos. Discursos críticos/prácticas textuales. Eds. José M. del Pino and Francisco La Rubia Prado. Madrid: Visor, 1999. 231-254).

 

 

 

“Our Man in Hollywood: Antonio Banderas's Seduction.” Hopscotch 1 (1999): 70-77.

 

 

 

“Non-Literary Tendencies in Vogue.” Hegats 21-22 (1999): 15-27. (in Basque).

 

 

1998

"Jon Juaristi: Compulsive Archaeology and the Basque Nationalist Primal Scene." Revista Internacional de Estudios Vascos 43.2 (1999): 539-554.

 

 

 

 

“Terrorism as Memory: The Historical Novel and Masculine Masochism in Contemporary Basque Literature.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 2 (1998): 113-46.

 

 

 

"Del exilio materno a la utopía personal: Política cultural en la narrativa vasca de mujeres." Ínsula 623 (1998): 32-36.

 

 

1997

 

“Masculinity’s Counted Days: Spanish Postnationalism, Masochist Desire, and the Refashioning of Misogyny.” Anuario de cine y literatura en español 3 (1997): 53-72.

 

 

1996

“Atxaga’s Psychoanalysis. Notes on the Development of Literature, Subjectivity, and the Public Sphere.” EGAN 48.2 (1996): 61-80. (in Basque).

 

 

1994

"Obabera." Hegats 8 (1994): 47-53. (in Basque).

 

 

 

"The Legacy of Modernism in Basque Literature. On Obabakoak.EGAN 46.2 (1994): 17-62. (in Basque)

 

 

1993

"Canon Formation in Contem­porary Basque Literature. On Etiopia." EGAN 45.2 (1993): 33-65. (in Basque).

 

 

1990

"Literary Criticism and Critical Theory: Their History and Archaeology." Anuario del Seminario Julio de Urquijo XXIV (1990): 21-51. (in Basque).

 

 

1987

"Poststr­ucturalism and Deconstruc­tion: Derrida's Deconstruction and Its Consequences in Semiotics and Literary Criticism." Arbola. Revista de infor­mación cultural de la Diputación de Vizcaya 10 (1987): 3-6. (in Basque).

 

 

1984

"Structural Analysis on the Symbology of Eighteenth-Century Popular Lyrical Poetry." EGAN 26.3/4 (1984): 9-68. (in Basque).

 

Articles in Books:

 

2011

“On the Spanish Primal Scene: The Double Gaze of Orientalism and Occidentalism in Andalucian and Basque Cinema.” Companion to Spanish Cinema. Eds. Tatjana Pavlovic and Jo Labanyi. New York: Blackwell. (accepted)

 

 

2010

“Towards a Postnational History of Galician Literature: Rereading Rosalía de Castro’s Narrative as Atlantic Modernism.” Contemporary Galician Studies: Between the Local and the Global. Eds. Kirsty Hooper and Manuel Puga. New York: Modern Language Association. (2010, forthcoming)

 

 

 

“Queer Euzkadi or a Marian Manifesto (Towards a Bastardized Independent Basque Country).” Disorganized Desires: Queer Readings in Basque Literature. Ed. Ibon Egaña. San Sebastian: Utriusque Vasconiae, 2010.  157-93. (in Basque)

 

 

2008

“On the Inception of Western Sex as Orientalist Theme Park: Tourism and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Spain (Carmen, Don Juan).” Spain is Different: Tourist Locations, Attractions, and Discourses in Modern Spanish Culture. Eds. Eugenia Afinoguenova and Jaume Martí Olivella. New York: Lexington Books, 2008. 19-61.

 

 

 

“State Narcissism: Racism, Neoimperialism and Spanish Opposition to Multiculturalism (on Mikel Azurmendi).” Border Interrogations: Crossing and Questioning Spanish Frontiers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Eds. Benita Sampedro and Simon Doubleday. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008. 65-89.

 

 

2007

“Olvidar a Galíndez: violencia, otredad y memoria histórica en la globalización hispano-atlántica”. Manuel Vázquez Montalbán: El compromiso de la memoria. Ed. José Colmeiro. London: Tamesis Books, 2007. 159-83.

 

 

2005

“Melodrama atlántico y migrancia materna. Apuntes sobre Todo sobre mi madre.” Almodóvar: el cine como pasión. Eds. Fran Zurián and Carmen Vázquez Varela. Cuenca: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 2005. 287-306.

 

 

2004

Performing Populism: A Queer Theory of Globalization, Terrorism, and Spectacle (on Lord of the Rings and 9-11-2001).Empire and Terror: Nationalism/Postnationalism in the New Millenium. Eds. Begoña Aretxaga, Dennis Dworkin, Joseba Gabilondo, and Joseba Zulaika. Reno: Center for Basque Studies, 2004. 237-64.

 

 

 

"Hertzainak’s ‘Kill the Father” and the Deadly Libido of Basque Culture.” In collaboration with Gabriel Villota Toyos. One More Song! 18 Pop Songs. Bilbao: Rekalde / Diputación de Vizcaya, 2004. 20-25. (in Basque)

 

 

 

“El estado-nación europeo global: para una redefinición posestructuralista de la teoría nacionalista clásica (Gellner y Anderson ).” El presente del estado-nación. Ed. Ander Gurrutxaga. Bilbao: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad del País Vasco, 2004. 129-45.

 

 

2002

“Uncanny Identity: Violence, Gaze, and Desire in Contemporary Basque Cinema.” Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain: Theoretical Debates and Cultural Practice. Ed. Jo Labanyi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 262-79.

 

 

 

"State Melancholia: Spanish Nationalism, Specularity and Performance. Notes on Antonio Muñoz Molina." From Stateless Nations to Postnational Spain / De naciones sin estado a la España postnacional. Eds. Silvia Bermúdez, Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, and Timothy McGovern. Boulder, Co.: Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, 2002. 237-71.

 

 

 

“Like Blood for Chocolate, Like Queers for Vampires: Border and Global Consumption in Rodríguez, Tarantino, Arau, Esquivel, and Troyano. (Notes on Baroque, Camp, Kitsch and Hybridization).” Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism. Eds.

Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé and Martin Manalansan. New York: New York University Press, 2002. 236-63.

 

 

 

"Histéricos con casta: Masculinidad y hegemonía nacional en la España de fin de siglo. 

(Para una arqueología feminista, torcida, marxista, poscolonial y posnacional del noventayochismo)." Género y escritura: 1850-2000. Eds. Barbara Zecchi and Raquel Medina. Barcelona: Anthropos, 2002. 120-61.

 

 

2000

“Bernardo Atxaga’s Seduction: On the Symbolic Economy of Postcolonial and Postnational Literatures in the Global Market.” Basque Cultural Studies. William Douglas et al., eds. Reno: Center for Basque Studies, 2000. 106-33.

 

 

1999

“Morphing Saint Sebastian: Masochism and Masculinity in Forrest Gump.” Meta-Morphing: Visual Transformation in the Culture of Quick Change. Ed. Vivian Sobchack. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 1999. 183-207.

 

 

1997

“Afterword to the 1997 Edition.” José de Vasconcelos. La raza cósmica. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1997. 99-117.

 

 

1995

"Postcolonial Cyborgs: Subjectivity in the Age of Cybernetic Reproduction." The Cyborg Handbook. Ed. Chris Gray. New York & London: Routledge, 1995. 423-32.

 

 

1990

"On Obabakoak: A Political Reading of a Topological Allegory." Memoriae L. Mitxelena Magistri Sacrum.  Ed. Joseba Lakarra. San Sebastián, Spain: Seminario de Julio de Urquijo, 1990. 926-51. (in Basque)

 

 

1983

"Roncales Dialect." Prolegom­ena to Basque Dialectology. Ed. J.M. Txillardegi.  Bilbao, Spain: Euskalerriko Unibertsitatea, 1983. 335-409. (in Basque)

 

Introductions to Books:

 

2008

“Introduction.” Postmodernism and Globalization. Ed. Gillermo Etxeberria. San Sebastian: Erroteta, 2008. 7-17. (in Basque)

 

 

2005

“The Antihumanist Subaltern Contribution of a Diasporic Discourse.” Exiled Cultures and Identities (Subaltern Nomadologies). Imanol Galfarsoro. Pamplona: Pamiela, 2005. 7-22. (in Basque)

 

 

1999

“Impossible Chronicle of A Monstruosity.” Bai…. Baina ez. Laura Mintegi. San Sebastian: Elkar, 1999. 9-14. (in Basque)

 

Articles Online:

 

2008

On the European Intersection of the Postnational and the Postcolonial: Notes on Minority Linguistic Literatures, the Postimperialist State and its Linguistic-Literary Ecology.” "Global Conversations: A Festival of Marginalized Languages." International Center for Writing and Translation. University of California, Irvine. www.humanities.uci.edu/icwt/globalconversations/Documents/gabilondo_irvinelecture.pdf

 

 

2006

“Global Subalternity, Exteriority, and Independence Day: Rethinking Hegemony, Radical Democracy, and Empire. Notes on Laclau-Mouffe and Hardt-Negri.” Papeles del Centro de Estudios sobre la Identidad Colectiva 21 (2006): 1-51. http://www.ceic.ehu.es/p285-content/es/contenidos/noticia/ceic_noticias_06/es_noticias/adjuntos/global_21.pdf

 

 

2001

“One Way Theory: On the Hispanic-Atlantic Intersection of Postcoloniality and Postnationalism and its Globalizing Effects.” Journal of Iberian and Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies. Vol.1. (2001). http://arachne.rutgers.edu/vol1_1gabilondo.htm

 

Book Reviews:

 

2002

Breve historia feminista de la literatura española (en lengua catalana, gallega y vasca). Vol. VI. Iris M. Zavala, gen.ed. Revista Internacional de Estudios Vascos 47:2 (2002): 639-643. (in Basque)

 

 

1999

Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial. Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham. Eds. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 3 (1999): 309-12.

 

 

1998

Post-Franco, Postmodern. Kathleen M. Vernon and Barbara Morris Eds. Hispanic Review 66 (1998): 373-75.

 

Literary Works:

 

1993

"I Never Stop at the Avenue." Imagínate Euskadi 1992. Bilbao, Spain: Banco Hispano Central, 1993. 68-77. (2nd prize, “Imajínate Euskadi” short story contest). (in Basque).

 

 

1992

"Madrid, New York, Tokyo." Revista Kultura 2 (1992): 117-28. (1st prize, “Ignacio Aldecoa” short story contest). (in Basque).

 

Works in Progress:

 

                   

Before Babel: A Cultural History of Basque Literatures.

 

 

 

The Barbarian Divide: Neoliberalism and Multiculturalism at the New European Border (Intellectuals, Migrants and Terrorists in Spain).

 

 

 

Atlantic Spain: For a Geobiopolitical History of Spanish Nationalism.

 

 

 

Performing the Global Hispanic Gaze: A Queer Archaeology of Cinema, Subject  Formation, Neoliberalism and Late Capitalism in the Hispanic Atlantic.

 

 

 

El día de la bestia: Spanish Blockbusters, Neonationalism, Abject Masculinity, and Global Repression.

 

 

 

“The Other Europe: Modern Historiography as Disciplinary Oblivion of Islam.”

 

 

 

The Persistence of the Lettered City across the Latin Americanist Divide: Foundational Fictions, Hybrid Cultures, and Subalternity from a Film-Studies Perspective. Notes on the Geopolitics and Epistemology of Melodrama.”

 

 

 

“Postcolonial Spain and the Atlantic Symbolic Order: On Postimperial Indifference and Fragmentation in Nineteenth-Century Hispanic Atlantic Culture. Notes on Costume Literature” (Costumbrismo) and Nostalgia.”

 

 

 

“Geo-bio-politics of the Gothic: On the Queer/ Inhuman Dislocation of Spanish/English Subjects and their Others (For a Definition of Modernity as a Geobiopolitical Fracture).”

 

 

 

“Masculine Castration as Hegemonic Discourse: A Geopolitical Analysis of Manuel Rivas and Jose Angel Mañas.”

 

 

 

“Global Hispanic Cinema: For an Atlantic Genealogy of Melodrama.”

 

 

            

"On the Globalization of Francoism: Barbarian History, Sado-Masochist Politics and Atlantic Melodrama. Notes on Torrente and All about My Mother."