Judit Palencia Gutierrez

Contact Information

Phone: (657) 278- 2510

Email: jpalenciagutierrez 

Contact Information

800 N State College Blvd, Fullerton, CA 92831

Department Address

Humanities H 830-G

Judit R. Palencia Gutierrez, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Biography

Dr. Judit R. Palencia Gutiérrez is Assistant Professor of Spanish at California State University, Fullerton. She received her PhD in Hispanic Studies at UCR with a focus on Contemporary Spanish Peninsular Cultural Studies. Professor Palencia Gutiérrez's research interests include literary theory, psychoanalysis, political philosophy, and film. She also works as managing editor for the Spanish Portuguese Review journal, from the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP). In her free time, she enjoys night photography, yoga, playing the drums and spending time with her pets Noam and Agustín.

Degrees

2022 Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies, University of California-Riverside. 

2018 M.A. in Hispanic Studies, University of California-Riverside.

2016 M.A. in Education, University of Oviedo, Spain.

2016 M.A. in Teaching, Western New Mexico University.

2015 B.A. in (Hons) European Studies, Institute of Technology Tallaght (now Technological University Dublin), Ireland. 

2015 B.A. in English, University of Oviedo, Spain.

Research Areas

- Historical Memory

- Transitional Justice

- Trauma studies

- Public Art

- Critical Legal Studies

- Critical Pedagogies

Publications

- "La política del arte público: Una entrevista con Paula Calavera". Liminalities. (Forthcoming)

- “Agujeros en el silencio. Renglones de memoria contra la impunidad del franquismo (2000-2020)”. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Issue 23.3 (Forthcoming) 

- "Digital Humanities and Colonial Literature: The Reinvention of Space”. The International Journal of Humanities Education, Issue 20.1, 2022, pp. 53-66

- “Rafael Chirbes’ En la orilla: Allegories of Cryptic Transgenerational Trauma”. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Issue 74.2, 2020, pp. 156-173.

- “Clavileño: Sub Specie Aeternitatis”. Reshaping Hispanic Cultures 2018. Instituto Cervantes Symposium on Recent Scholarship. Vol I. Literature. Rosana Hernández y Francisco Moreno-Fernández (eds.) 2019, pp. 53-65

- “Speak Up! Fostering Oral Communication in the English Classroom Through Dialogic Musical Meetings”. Sino-US English Teaching. Volume 16, 4, 2019, pp. 143-152.

- “Memorias del subdesarrollo: el intelectual en la Cuba post-revolucionaria”. Cronopio, 2019, Vol 87.