Katarzyna Beilin
Assistant Professor, Ph. D., University of Chicago
Katarzyna Olga Beilin (Ph. D. University of Chicago, 1998) teaches contemporary Spanish narrative, film and culture. She has interdisciplinary interests in philosophy, psychology and the visual arts. In her first book, entitled Conversaciones literarias con novelistas contemporáneos (Tamesis, 2004), she interviews contemporary writers such as Ricardo Piglia, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Juan José Millás, Enrique Vila-Matas, José María Merino, Quím Monzó and Ray Loriga. She has published articles on these writers' works, on Adelaida García Morales' narrative, and on films by Victor Erice, Pedro Almodóvar, and Alejandro Amenábar. She has also published studies on general tendencies in recent peninsular narrative and film. Her second book is a novel, Meteory (Agawa 2005), and the third one Del infierno al cuerpo: otredad en la narrativa y cine peninsular contemporáneo (Libertarias, 2007), focuses on otherness in the contexts of ethics, subjectivity, realism and the fantastic genre. Her current project is tentatively entitled: The Wounded Eye: Discourses of Violence in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film.
