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
Judit R. Palencia Gutiérrez is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at California State University, Fullerton. She received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies at University of California, Riverside in 2022, with a focus on contemporary Spanish peninsular cultural studies. Her research interests include political philosophy, psychoanalysis, historical memory, transitional justice, trauma and memory, critical legal studies and critical pedagogies. Her latest publications focus on the politics of space, public art and transgenerational trauma. In her free time, she enjoys night photography, sports, 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
-Palencia Gutierrez, Judit R. “Why didn’t we know this before? Challenging the Culture of the Transition through the concentration camp at Castuera”. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies,Vol. 25:1, pp. 77-91
-Palencia Gutierrez, Judit. “Committed Pedagogy: Intersectionality in the Spanish Classroom”. Proceedings of IHSES 2023 – International Conference on Humanities, Social and Education Sciences. Edited by Mack Shelley, Mevlut Unal, and Sabri Turgut. 2023, pp. 481-488
-Palencia Gutierrez, Judit R. “Rinconete and Cortadillo: Outside of the Outside of Law”. International Journal of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. 01, Issue 06, 2023, pp. 47-57
-Cardona, Elena, Judit R. Palencia Gutiérrez, Gwendolen Pare, and Isabella Vergara. “Performance in the wake. Cuerpas ante lo político. An introduction”. Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, Issue 18, No. 3, 2022, pp. 1-10
-Palencia Gutierrez, Judit R. “La política del arte público: Una entrevista con Paula Calavera”. Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, Issue 18, No. 3, 2022, pp. 1-14
-Palencia Gutierrez, Judit. “Digital Humanities and Colonial Literature: The Reinvention of Space”. The International Journal of Humanities Education, Issue 20.1, 2022, pp. 53-66
- Palencia Gutierrez, Judit. “Rafael Chirbes’ En la orilla: Allegories of Cryptic Transgenerational Trauma”. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Issue 74.2, 2020, pp. 156-173
- Palencia Gutierrez, Judit. “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
-Palencia Gutierrez, Judit. “Speak Up! Fostering Oral Communication in the English Classroom Through Dialogic Musical Meetings”. Sino-US English Teaching. Volume 16, 4, 2019, pp. 143-152
