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Cristina Santos

Cristina Santos , PhD, Associate Professor, Spanish

Cristina Santos received her doctorate from the University of Toronto with a specialization in contemporary Latin American women writers. Her current research and scholarship reflects an interest in investigating the “monstrous” depictions of women. From an inter-disciplinary and hermeneutical approach she investigates how these “aberrations” of “feminine” nature differ markedly--either in intelligence, social adjustment, and/or sexual behaviour--from what is considered to be within acceptable limits of women’s socio-cultural. An intrinsic component to her ongoing research into this dialogue of “monstrosity” is a discussion of the concept of a marginalized, denied, silenced, and censored feminine sexuality and its direct relationship with the construction of an authentic feminine identity as opposed to a socio-culturally defined one.

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Selected Publications:

Edited volumes:
Monstrous Deviations in Literature and the Arts. Cristina Santos & Adriana Spahr (eds.) Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2011. 304 pp+xii pp.

The Monster Imagined: Humanity's Re-Creation of Monsters and Monstrosity. Cristina Santos & Laura Davis (eds.) Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2010. 223 pp+xi pp.

Defiant Deviance: The Irreality of Reality in the Cultural Imaginary. Cristina Santos & Adriana Spahr (eds) New York: Peter Lang, 2006. 151 pp.

Authored:
Bending the Rules in the Quest for an Authentic Feminine Identity: Clarice Lispector and Carmen Boullosa. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. 157 pp.

Translation:
Morell, Arturo. De poli a diva…y de regreso / From Cop to Diva…and Back. Bilingual edition. Trans. Cristina Santos. Mexico City: Godot Intercultural, 2007. 85pp.

Research Interests:

Monster theory / Monsters

Monstrous Women

Feminist theory

Theory of alterity

Fairy tale rewritings

Contemporary Latin American Women Writers

MA Thesis Supervised:

D'angelo, Elizabeth C. 2011

Collective Violence: A Study of the Gendered and Socio-Economic Factors Behind Early Modern Italian and English Witch Hunts

Major Research Papers Supervised:

Allan, Jonathan A. 2007
A Theory of Influence and Phenomenology: Jorge Luis Borges Misreads Virginia Woolf

Cherniak, Elizabeth 2010
Men with Disabilities: Occupying the Space of Other, Masculinities and Sexuality in Auto/biographical Novels and Films

Chevalier, Laura 2010
Medusa Through the Eyes of Time

Manchego-Badiola, Piero 2012
On Martyrs, Myths and Motorcycles: Che as Mythical Icon in Ernesto Che Guevara’s The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey and Walter Salles’ The Motorcycle Diaries

McGuiness, Kevin 2007
Sebastian Queer Saint

Rangaratnam, Sarah 2010
Sexual Temptresses and Evil Queens: Fairy Tale Constructions of Widows in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century France

Zehentbauer, Janice 2007
Nothing Sacred: Women Writing Magic Realism

Major Research Papers: Second Reader

Baird, Miranda 2011
Unveiling the Mind, Body and Space: Exposing (In)Visible Borders Facing Maghrebian Women and Beurettes

Purdy, Laura 2011
“Actualized Desires”: A Comparative Study of the ‘Self’ and the Unconscious in Pan’s Labyrinth and The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

SCLA

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