Academics - Isaias Fanlo

Education

April 2020	Doctorate Studies, Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies Dissertation: Staging a Queer Nation: Landscapes of Desire in Contemporary Catalan Drama Romance Languages and Literatures University of Chicago, USA
June 2006	Postgraduate, Direction and Management of Cultural Institutions, Businesses and Platforms IDEC, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
June 2004	Licenciatura/Máster en Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
June 2002	Licenciatura en Humanidades, especializado en Literatura Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Teaching and Research Interests

20^th – 21^st centuries Peninsular, Latin American and Latinx literatures and cultures; theatre, performance and scenic arts; media studies; queer theory and activism; history of photography.

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Selected Publications

*“Rewriting Race: The Angels in America* Scandal and New Representations of Blackness in Contemporary Catalan Drama.”** María Chouza; Esther Fernández; Jonathan Thacker, eds., The Unsafe Stage: Daring Adaptations, Creative Failures and Experimental Performances in Iberian and Transnational Contexts. Liverpool University Press, 2023.	Book Chapter
“Tot desestabilitzant la toponormativitat. Una aproximació a iniciatives de resistència queer en l’escena catalana contemporània.” Margalida Pons, ed., Estudis afectius a la cultura catalana. Biblioteca di Rassegna Iberistica, 2023.	Book Chapter
“Cuartos oscuros, barras de bar, pistas de baile y otras utopías queer en el teatro español contemporáneo.” Paola Bellomi; Claudio Castro Filho, eds., Entre el cuarto oscuro y la utopía queer: sexualidades no normativas en el teatro español contemporáneo. Peter Lang, 2022.	Book Chapter
“Queer Dignity. Intersections of Testimonial Queerness in Theatre, Performance, and the Visual Arts.” Sara Jones and Roger Woods, eds., The Palgrave Handbook of Testimony and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.	Book Chapter
*“El teatro del postolvido: No parlis amb estranys, de Helena Tornero.”* Talía. Revista de estudios escénicos, 4 (2022).	Article
“Jaime Gil de Biedma”, “Antonio Roig Rosselló”, “Andrés Caicedo”, “Jaime Manrique”, “David Vilaseca.” (5 chapters) Alfredo Martínez Expósito, ed., La vida iba en serio: autobiografías hispánicas de la diversidad sexual. Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2022.	Book Chapters
“Supervivència i utopia en el teatre queer i trans.” Marc Rosich, Teatre trans i altres textos no normatius. Barcelona: Comanegra, 2020.	Article
“Notes sobre el teatre de Guillem Clua.” Guillem Clua, Teatre reunit (2002-2019). Tarragona: Arola editors, 2020.	Article
“Joe Orton en set escenes.” Joe Orton. Tot el teatre I. Barcelona: Prometeu edicions, 2020.	Article
“Ética de lo obsceno: ideas en torno a la gentrificación del sida en las artes escénicas.” Rafael Mérida, ed., De vidas y virus: VIH/sida en las culturas hispánicas. Icaria Ediciones, 2019.	Book Chapter
“Malaltia, frivolitat, responsabilitat i transgressió: un diàleg (queer) amb Guillem Clua.” (Pausa.) Quaderns de teatre contemporani, 40 (2018).	Article
“Els invisibles i els silenciats: Algunes reflexions epistolars sobre qüestions racials i queer en el teatre català.” (Pausa.) Quaderns de teatre contemporani, 40 (2018). Co-written with Jeffrey K. Coleman.	Article
*El llibre rosa de gais i lesbianes*. Barcelona, Columna Edicions, 2004.	Monograph
“The Anal City.” Proceedings of the Seminar Villes symboles et symboles d’urbanité. Université de Paris XIII, France, 2002.	Article

Research & Upcoming Publications

La mirada invertida. Irrupciones de lo queer en la cultura española, latinoamericana y Latinx. (Upcoming project)	Monograph
Lo errático y lo obsceno (Forthcoming)	Monograph
“La pluma y la letra: Jaime Manrique, autobiografía literaria y comunidad queer en los Eminent Maricones.”	Article

Talks & Conference Presentations

2023	"Space, City, Culture, Normativity, Resistance: Queer Practices in the Rooftops of Barcelona." Modern Language Association 2023 Convention. San Francisco, 5-8 January.
2022	"La Taula / The Long Table" Coincidències/Teatre Lliure. Teatre Lliure, Barcelona. October 15-16. (Theatrical Performance) “La escena porosa: propuestas inmersivas y no convencionales contra la toponormatividad.” Cuarto Congreso Bienal del Iberian Theatre and Performance Network. Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático. Madrid, 6-9 July. “Queer Dignity: Intersections of Testimonial Queerness in Theatre, Performance, and the Visual Arts.” Queer Cultures Graduate Symposium. St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, 20 June. Keynote Speaker. “Sex And the City: Queer Statements in the Urban Landscapes.” Selwyn College, Cambridge, 13 June. “David Vilaseca y la autobiografía errática.” Coloquio Internacional Vergüenzas y orgullos de las masculinidades hispánicas disidentes. Colegio de España, Paris, 10 June. “Shadows, Albinos, and Monsters: A (Possible) Queer Reading of Ramon Vinyes’s Short Stories.” 18th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society. Amherst, MA, 15 April. “Monsters, Mutations, Hybrids: Performing the Crisis in Non-Conventional Spaces.” Modern Language Association 2022 Convention. Washington, DC. 9 January. “From Pitarra to Rosalia: Culture, Politics, and Catanyol in Contemporary Catalan Culture.” Modern Language Association 2022 Convention. Washington, DC. 8 January.
2021	"Trans representation and wellbeing in film." With Indigo Korres, Aitana Yanez Zambrano, Inma de Reyes, and Ren Clarke. Glasgow, CCA, 3 December. “Defying Toponormativity: A Queer Reading of the Performing Arts in Non-Conventional Spaces.” David Vilaseca Memorial Lecture. Royal Holloway College, London, 18 November. “Devenires: experiencia, tiempo, historia.” With Dieter Ingenschay, Rafael M. Mérida Jiménez, Alberto Mira, Jorge Luis Peralta, and José A. Ramos Arteaga. Oxford Brookes University, London, 5 October (Online). “La Taula. Memòria i passat.” Teatre Lliure, Barcelona. Co-organized with Coincidències. 6 July. *“Light, Darkness, and Queer Utopias in Lorca’s Sonnets of Dark Love* (and Biel Mesquida’s The Beautiful Country Where Men Desire Men).”** University of Cambridge, 7 January (Online).
2020	La Taula / The Long Table Teatre Lliure, Barcelona. October 14-16. (Theatrical Performance) *“D’Smiley* a Justícia: un respàs a la trajectòria de Guillem Clua.” Barcelona, QLit Festival de Literatura Queer, October 10. “Els homes i els dies: deu anys sense David Vilaseca.” Barcelona, QLit Festival de Literatura Queer, October 9. With Esteve Miralles and Eugènia Broggi. “Teatre en transició: gènere, sexualitat i mirada.”** Barcelona, Biblioteca Horta – Can Mariner, October 2. With Marc Rosich and Oriol Puig Taulé.

2019	“Paying Homage to Stonewall: Queer Artistic Representations of Resistance.” Lit & Luz Festival. Instituto Cervantes, Chicago. October 15. “Un espai propi: la importància dels centres LGBTI a Nova York, Chicago i Barcelona.” Centre LGTBI, Barcelona. September 10. “Tot alterant l’alteritat. La qüestió racial a l’escena catalana contemporània: debats, polèmiques i respostes.” 17th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society. University of Chicago. April 25-27.
2018	“Homofobia y gentrificación del sida en el teatro catalán.” Homofobias / Transfobias. Universitat de Barcelona. May 26. “Transteatre.” NOSaltres: cicle de teatre i gènere. Teatre Lliure (Gràcia), Barcelona. May 9. “Maricones eminentes: el amor en los tiempos del sida. Conversación entre Jaime Manrique Ardila e Isaías Fanlo.” Biblioteca Pública Municipal, Pereira, Colombia, March 5. “Building a National Theatre. Culture and Politics in Catalonia.” Conversation with Xavier Albertí (Artistic Director, Teatre Nacional de Catalunya). Cochrane-Woods Art Center, University of Chicago, January 30.
2017	“TransCatalunya: un replantejament de la nació i del gènere a través de les arts escèniques.” 16th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society. University of Bloomington, Indiana. May 18-20. “Voices of Catalonia: Performing Another Country.” Conversation with Núria Perpinyà. Regenstein Library, University of Chicago, April 20. *“La pluma y la letra: Jaime Manrique, la autobiografía queer literaria y la comunidad intergeneracional en los Eminent Maricones.”* Chicago Graduate Conference in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies, Northwestern University, Chicago. April 13-15. *“La autobiografía precaria: Cruising y deseo(s) en Todos los parques no son un paraíso, de Antonio Roig.”* Modern Language Association 2017 Convention. Philadelphia. January 5-8.
2016	“Afectividades precarias: fotografía y cruising. Arthur Tress, Duane Michals, Peter Hujar.” Residuos emocionales: regímenes y disidencias afectivas en el mundo moderno. Centre Dona I Literatura. Universitat de Barcelona. March 15-17.
2015	*“Smiley, de Guillem Clua, o l’erupció de l’esdeveniment queer en una comèdia (gai) clàssica.”* 15th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society. Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona. June 29-30 and July 1st.
2002	“The Anal City.” Villes symboles et symboles d’urbanité. Université de Paris XIII (Villetaneuse), March and April.
2001	“El Raval: un plan urbanístico.” Vivre et gérer la ville du troisième millenaire. Università degli Studi, Lecce, Italy. April.

Teaching

2019

SPAN 21619 / LACS 21619 / TAPS 21619 / GNSE 21619 – From Lorca to Lin-Manuel Miranda: Staging Latinidad. Fall Quarter

SPAN 23219 / LACS 23219 / GNSE 23419 – Leyes del deseo: miradas queer ibéricas, latinoamericanas y latinx. Spring Quarter.

2018

SPAN 26555 – Languages Across the Curriculum. Self-determination and Democracy in Spain: The Case of Catalonia. Fall Quarter. (As Language Assistant.)

2017

SPAN 15003 – Study Abroad Program in Spain. Intermediate Spanish / Culture in Barcelona. Winter Quarter.

2016

SPAN 13000 – Beginning Elementary Spanish (103). Fall Quarter

SPAN 21500 – Introduction to Literary Studies. Spring Quarter. (As Teaching Assistant.)

Language Assistantship: Spanish. Winter Quarter.

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