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Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, Chair of Hispanic Studies

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Sarah Thomas is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Hispanic Studies at Brown University. She specializes in contemporary Iberian cinema, literature, and visual culture, with a secondary interest in Latin American film. Her research explores cultural production from (post)-dictatorship societies with a focus on the representation of subjectivity, temporality, memory, and space. She also works in translation studies, gender and sexuality studies, and critical and film theory.

Her first book, Inhabiting the In-Between: Childhood and Cinema in Spain's Long Transition (University of Toronto Press, 2019; Spanish translation by Manuel Cuesta, Cátedra, 2024), examines how childhood becomes a lens for understanding political transformation as well as the ethical relationship between self and other, present and past. She is currently co-authoring a study with María Rosón (Complutense University of Madrid) on the audiovisual memory of female incarceration under Franco, and developing a new monograph that interrogates the social, religious, and political forces that shape representations of gender and suffering in modern Spanish cultural production.

She is also a literary translator from Spanish and Catalan whose work has been recognized by grants from PEN America and the National Endowment for the Arts. 

 

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