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Dr. Lisa Renee DiGiovanni

Professor
Modern Languages and Cultures/Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Morrison Hall 118 • M/S 1301
603-358-2986
http://keene.academia.edu/LisaDiGiovanni

EDUCATION
University of Oregon, Ph.D., Romance Languages

University of Oregon, Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies

Middlebury College, Master of Arts in Spanish

Northern Arizona University, Bachelor of Arts in Spanish

Dr. DiGiovanni's interdisciplinary research and teaching centers on representations of war and dictatorial violence in 20th - 21st century Spain and Latin America. She deals with narrative (novels, short stories, graphic novels) and films (fiction and documentary) that render visible the multiple traumas related to state repression and militaristic culture.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

20th – 21st Century Spanish Peninsular & Latin American Literature and Film

Social movements & military dictatorships in Spain, Chile & Argentina

Women’s & Gender Studies

Genocide Studies

The Spanish Civil War

LANGUAGES English: Native speaker Spanish: Fluent, near native skills Italian: Intermediate level

SCHOLARSHIP

Book (monograph in print):

  1. DiGiovanni, Lisa. Unsettling Nostalgia in Spain and Chile: Longing for Resistance in Literature and Film. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019.

Review: https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/2175

Description: This book proposes the concept of unsettling nostalgia to understand how authors and filmmakers represent memories of the pre-dictatorial pasts in Spain and Chile, as well as the leftist resistance to the military regimes of Francisco Franco (1939-1975) and Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).

Book Manuscript (second monograph) 2. DiGiovanni, Lisa. Militarized Masculinity in Spain and Chile: Memories of Violence through Film, Literature, and the Graphic Novel. University of Toronto Press. Forthcoming 2025.

Published Videographic Scholarship

  1. DiGiovanni, Lisa (2024). Forms of rage in Franco’s Spain. Teknokultura. Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales 21(1), 107-108. doi.org/10.5209/tekn.90203 https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/article/view/90203?fbclid=IwAR2z1PNJ2jNr6n5OQbrbKAdOtyfSdUminlg1mr5VyJyOdTEd73vr3VLry-g

  2. DiGiovanni, Lisa (2024). Guillermo del Toro’s Multiple Masculinities (forthcoming summer 2024) inTransition

  3. DiGiovanni, Lisa. 2021. Militarized Masculinity in Spain and Chile. 13 min. The Volunteer 2023 https://albavolunteer.org/2023/02/militarized-masculinity-audiovisual-scholarship-on-spanish-and-chilean-violence/

Book Chapters in Edited Volumes:

  1. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Militarized Masculinity and Patriarchal Power in Chilean Documentary” in A Companion to Chilean Cinema. eds.: Elizabeth Osborne and Vania Barraza. Tamesis Books. Forthcoming 2024.

  2. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Militarized Masculinity and the Perpetration of Violence in Chilean Documentary” in the Routledge Companion on Gender, Media and Violence eds.: Karen Boyle and Susan Berridge. 2024. 310-318.

  3. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “La piedra angular de la tortura: la masculinidad militarizada en El cine documental de Patricio Guzmán y de Marcela Said” in El cine documental histórico de Patricio Guzmán. ed. Jaime Céspedes. Peter Lang. 2022.

  4. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Torture, Masculinity, and Resistance in Chilean Documentary Film: Patricio Guzmán and Marcela Said” in Gender-Based Violence in Latin American and Iberian Cinemas, eds.: M. J. Gámez Fuentes, R. Maseda García and B. Zecchi. Routledge 2020. 109-125.
    Spanish translation published 2022.

  5. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Teaching Narratives of Women’s Inner Exile in Spain and Chile.” The Iberian and Latin American Transatlantic Studies Reader, eds. Cecilia Enjuto Rangel, Sebastiaan Faber, Pedro García Caro and Robert Patrick Newcomb. Liverpool University Press, 2019. 206-217.

  6. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Militarized Masculinity: Boys’ Socialization and the Postwar Graphic Novel of Carlos Giménez.” The Dynamics of Masculinity in Contemporary Spanish Culture, eds. Lorraine Ryan and Ana Corbalán, Routledge, 2017. 63-79.

  7. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Return to Galicia: Nostalgia, Nation and Gender in Manuel Rivas’s Spain.” Memory-Nostalgia-Melancholy: Re-imagining Home in a Time of Mobility, ed. Maja Mikula, Cambridge Scholars, 2017. 15-34.

  8. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Modes of Silence and Resistance: Chilean Documentary and Gendered Torture.” Cinema and the State-Tortured Body, ed. Mark de Valk, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 177-206.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:

  1. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “La conquista misógina en la memoria posfranquista: La narrativa de Alberto Méndez.” Periphērica: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Literary History. Vol 1, No 1 (2019) online.

  2. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Visual Archives of Loss and Longing: Mi vida con Carlos by Germán Berger-Hertz.” Journal of Romance Studies 13.3 (2013): 62-74.

  3. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Memories of Motherhood and Militancy in Chile: Gender and Nostalgia in Calle Santa Fe by Carmen Castillo.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 21.1 (2012): 15-36.

  4. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Masculinity, Misogyny and Mass in Los girasoles ciegos by Alberto Méndez” Anales de la literatura española contemporánea, 37.1 (2012): 39-61.

  5. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Unsettling Nostalgia in Roberto Brodsky's Últimos días de la historia.” Chasqui 40.2 (2011): 108-124.

Collectively Authored Interviews in Peer-Reviewed Journals:

  1. DiGiovanni, Lisa and Pedro García-Caro. “The Uncertain Territory of Memory: A Conversation with Chilean Writer Roberto Brodsky.” World Literature Today 86.5 (2012): Web. Sept.-Oct. 2012.

Book Reviews:

  1. DiGiovanni, Lisa. Review of Gender and Memory in the Postmillennial Novels of Almudena Grandes de Lorraine Ryan. Routledge, 2021. Review for Revista de ALCESXXI. Journal of Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film. Forthcoming 2024

  2. DiGiovanni, Lisa. Review of Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World, Carl Fisher and Vania Barraza, eds. Wayne State University Press, 2020. Review for Revista de Estudios Hispánicos Tomo 56, Número 2, Junio 2022, 308-311

  3. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Documentary Turns in Latin America: A Review of Latin American Documentary Film in the New Millennium,” María Guadalupe Arenillas and Michael J. Lazzara, eds. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016. Review for A contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America, Vol. 14, Num. 1, Fall 2016, 364-372.

  4. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Memory Bridges: Review of Love and Revolutionary Greetings: An Ohio Boy in the Spanish Civil War,” Laurie Levinger Resource Publications, 2012. Review for The Volunteer, Dec. 2012, 21-22.

National Media Report

  1. “The Psychology of Putin and the Dangers of ‘Militarized Masculinity.’” Interviewed by Alia E. Dastagir at USA Today. Published Mar. 9, 2022 online. https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2022/03/09/putin-ukraine-invasion-militarized-masculinity-psychology/9426237002/?gnt-cfr=1

Podcasts and Interviews

  1. “Militarized Masculinities with Dr. Lisa DiGiovanni” Episode 15 • 16th April 2024 • Breaking Down Patriarchy • Amy McPhie Allebest https://breaking-down-patriarchy.captivate.fm/episode/militarized-masculinities-with-dr-lisa-digiovanni

  2. International Network of Genocide Scholars Spring 2024. Interview with Dr. Lisa DiGiovanni. https://inogs.com/impact/

Courses Taught

  1. Gender and Genocide in Latin America, HGS/WGS Special Topics

  2. Human Rights in Latin America HGS Special Topics

  3. Introduction to Spanish Literature

  4. Translation: Spanish Senior Seminar

  5. Women’s and Gender Studies 101:

  6. Revolution, War and After in Spain. Honors Humanities Course.

  7. Advanced Spanish Grammar

  8. Spanish Conversation and Composition

  9. Beginning and Intermediate Spanish

  10. Cultures of Spain

  11. Latin American Cultures

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