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Dr. Lisa Renee DiGiovanni

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

Interview and Video Essays

https://vimeo.com/user84946783

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

Women’s & Gender Studies

Genocide Studies

The Spanish Civil War

Videographic Scholarship

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

BOOKS

  1. DiGiovanni, Lisa. Militarized Masculinity in Spain and Chile: Remembering Violence through Film and Literature. University of Toronto Press. 2025.

  2. ---. Unsettling Nostalgia in Spain and Chile: Longing for Resistance in Literature and Film. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019 (previously Rowman & Littlefield, now Bloomsbury).

PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES

  1. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Militarized Masculinity and Patriarchal Power in Chilean Documentary” in A Companion to Chilean Cinema. eds.: Osborne and Barraza. Tamesis Books. Forthcoming 2026.

  2. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Militarized Masculinity and the Perpetration of Violence in Chilean Documentary” in the Routledge Companion on Gender, Media and Violence eds.: Boyle and 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. 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.: Gámez Fuentes, Maseda García and Zecchi. Routledge 2020. 109-125.

  5. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Teaching Narratives of Women’s Inner Exile in Spain and Chile.” The Iberian and Latin American Transatlantic Studies Reader, eds. Enjuto Rangel, Faber, García Caro and 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. Ryan and 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. 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. de Valk, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 177-206.

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

  1. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Cruel Laughter: Roberto Bolaño’s Dark Thread.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. Forthcoming 2026.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

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

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

PUBLISHED PEER-REVIEWED VIDEOGRAPHIC SCHOLARSHIP

  1. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Of Donkeys and Men.” [In]Transition. Volume 12 • Issue 3 • 2025 • Monographic Section on Ecocriticism and Animal Studies. https://doi.org/10.16995/intransition.16447

  2. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Guillermo del Toro’s Multiple Masculinities.” [In]Transition. Volume 11 • Issue 2 • 2024 https://doi.org/10.16995/intransition.16394

  3. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Forms of Rage in Franco’s Spain.” Teknokultura. Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales 21(1), 107-108. 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/tekn.90203

  4. DiGiovanni Lisa. “Toxic Masculinity, Rage, and Activism in Chile and South Africa.” Teknokultura. Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales, 1-2. 2024. https://doi.org/10.5209/tekn.95164

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

PODCASTS AND INTERVIEWS

  1. “Militarized Masculinities with Dr. Lisa DiGiovanni” Live on KBOO-FM Community Radio for Portland and beyond. Oregon. Dec. 23, 2025.

  2. “Lisa DiGiovanni on Memory. Evidence. Change.” Cohen Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Recorded Dec. 17, 2025; to be released Spring 2026.

  3. “Lisa DiGiovanni on the dangers of ‘Militarized Masculinity’ — and the leaders who thrive on it.” Interview with Jesse King WAMC Published December 4, 2025. https://www.wamc.org/show/51/2025-12-04/lisa-digiovanni-on-the-dangers-of-militarized-masculinity-and-the-leaders-who-thrive-on-it

  4. “Militarized Masculinities with Dr. Lisa DiGiovanni” Episode 15 • 16th April 2024 • Breaking Down Patriarchy • Amy McPhie Allebest. https://breakingdownpatriarchy.com/episode-15-militarized-masculinities-with-dr-lisa-digiovanni/

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

  6. “The Psychology of Putin and the Dangers of ‘Militarized Masculinity.’” Interviewed by Alia E. Dastagir at USA Today. Published Mar. 9, 2022, online.

  7. 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. 2012.

BOOK REVIEWS

  1. DiGiovanni, Lisa. Review of How the Military Remembers: Human Rights and Countermemories in Latin America. U. of Wisconsin Press, 2025. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. Forthcoming 2026.

  2. DiGiovanni, Lisa. Review of Lecciones del giro perpetrador en América Latina, 2010-2020. RIL Editores, 2025. Review for Pasado y Memoria. Universidad de Alicante. Forthcoming 2026.

  3. DiGiovanni, Lisa. Review of Gender and Memory in the Postmillennial Novels of Almudena Grandes. Routledge, 2021. For Revista de ALCESXXI. Journal of Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film. 2024

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

  5. DiGiovanni, Lisa. Review of “Documentary Turns in Latin America: A Review of Latin American Documentary Film in the New Millennium,” Palgrave MacMillan, 2016. For A contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America, Vol. 14, Num. 1, Fall 2016, 364-372.

  6. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Memory Bridges: Review of Love and Revolutionary Greetings,” Laurie Levinger Resource Publications, 2012. Review for The Volunteer, Dec. 2012, 21-22.

NATIONAL MEDIA REPORT/ OP-ED

  1. “Rightwing Nostalgia and Militarized Masculinity” Lucid. Forthcoming 2026.

BOOK ENDORSEMENTS

  1. DiGiovanni, Lisa. Endorsement Women, Memory, and Dictatorship in Recent Chilean Fiction. Gustavo Carvajal. University of Wales Press 2021

PUBLISHED CREATIVE SHORT FILMS

  1. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Mirrors” Fragments: A Journal of Videographic Form and Method. 2025 September 25 https://fragments.video/2025/09/25/mirrors/

  2. DiGiovanni, Lisa. “Toy Soldiers Are Not Innocent” Fragments: A Journal of Videographic Form and Method. 2025 Sept. 25. https://fragments.video/2025/09/25/toy-soldiers-are-not-innocent/

TEACHING: Keene State College 2013 - present (selected)

  1. Dystopic Fiction, Film & Genocide: This course explores the genocidal process through an analysis of dystopic representations in literature and film. Hosted internationally renowned Argentinian author of Tender is the Flesh Augustina Bazterrica. 2025.

  2. Fascism in Spain: This course draws from the fields of History, Gender Studies, Genocide Studies, Film, and Literature to illuminate the causes and consequences of fascism in Spain.

  3. Global Engagement Spain (Honors Program). This course provides students with an understanding of the socio-political events that have shaped modern Spain. As a culminating experience, we traveled to Madrid, Granada, Sevilla, and Córdoba.

  4. Gender and Genocide in Latin America: This course examines structures of power, histories of violence, the social construction of identities and their relationship to genocidal practices. Hosted internationally renowned author Cynthia Enloe.

  5. Memory and Human Rights in Latin America: This course examines the role of literature and film to expand our understanding of human rights.

  6. Introduction to Spanish Literature: This course introduces students to the histories of the Spanish-speaking world as represented through the Latin American short story.

  7. Translation: Spanish Senior Seminar: This course introduces students to the practice and theory of Spanish/ English translation.

  8. Women’s and Gender Studies 101: This introductory course explores key concepts including intersectionality, patriarchy, heterosexism, oppression and privilege.

Courses regularly taught:

  1. Advanced Spanish Grammar

  2. Spanish Conversation and Composition

  3. Beginning and Intermediate Spanish

  4. Cultures of Spain

  5. Latin American Cultures

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