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Interdisciplinary Research Centre
 

Research

I have published extensively on modern literature, film, art, architecture, urban theory, queer theory, and immigration from Spain, Latin America, Hispanophone Africa, and Catalonia.  

My research interests include eighteenth to twenty-first century Spanish and Latin American literature, Catalan literature and film, Ibero-American cinema, photography, and art, Hispanophone Africa, theories of visuality, modernity, critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, feminist thought, queer theory, urban cultures, immigration, and post-colonial studies, among others.

Publications

Key publications: 

Significant Violence: Oppression and Resistance in the Narratives of Juan GoytisoloSpain Beyond Spain: Modernity, Literary History, and National Identity (with Luis Fernández Cifuentes); Passing Lines: Immigration and Sexuality (with Bill Johnson-González and Keja Valens); All About Almodóvar: A Passion for Cinema (with Despina Kakoudaki); a special issue of Catalan Review on Barcelona and modernity, and a special issue of GLQ (with Jonathan Katz) on lesbian theorist Monique Wittig.

Publications (from Symplectic)

Journal articles

2018 (Accepted for publication)

  • Epps, B., 2018 (Accepted for publication). Bernardo Atxaga: La escritura en dos cuadernos Quaderni Ibero Americani,
  • 2017

  • Epps, B., 2017. Desgarraduras del cuerpo y degolladuras de la voz: Emotividad, género y poder en El mismo mar de todos los veranos de Esther Tusquets InterAlia: a Journal of Queer Studies, v. 2017
  • 2016 (Accepted for publication)

  • Epps, B., 2016 (Accepted for publication). Modernity, gender and the spectre of coloniality in the "Moroccan Texts" of Carmen de Burgos and Aurora Bertrana Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea, v. 41
  • Epps, B., 2016 (Accepted for publication). L’extensió i l’escissió de la mirada colonialista: La ironia a les ‘impressions viatgeres’ d’Aurora Bertrana Rivista Italiana di Studi Catalani, v. 6
  • 2016

  • Epps, B., 2016. La insoportable levedad de los huesos: Memoria, emoción, y pedagogía en Chile, la memoria obstinada y Nostalgia de la luz de Patricio Guzmán CUADERNOS DE LITERATURA, v. XX
  • Epps, B., 2016. The Unbearable Lightness of Bones: Memory, Emotion, and Pedagogy in Patricio Guzmán’s Chile, La Memoria Obstinada and Nostalgia De La Luz Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, v. 26
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/13569325.2016.1229661
  • 2013

  • Epps, B., 2013. Convulsions, negacions, i alguna cosa més que paraules: Algunes notes entorn del cinema català Els Marges,
  • 2012

  • Epps, B., 2012. The entanglement of meaning: illness, literary history, and morality in four Catalan novels Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, v. 18
    Doi: 10.1080/14701847.2012.795682
  • 2010

  • Epps, B., 2010. To be (a Part) of a Whole: Consitutional Patriotism and the Paradox of Democracy in the Wake of the Spanish Consitution of 1978 Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, v. 44.3
  • Epps, , 2010. Learning from the Beginning Transition,
    Doi: 10.2979/trs.2010.-.103.144
  • Epps, B., 2010. Learning from the Beginning Transition An International Review, v. 103
  • 2009

  • Epps, B., 2009. Al sur y al este: Otra vertiente de los Estudios Transatlánticos Postcoloniales Estudios transatlánticos postcoloniales, v. Vol. 1
  • 2008

  • Epps, B., 2008. CHALLENGES AND RISKS, GUIDELINES AND PROMISES OF THE <i>QUEER</i> THEORY REVISTA IBEROAMERICANA, v. 74
  • Epps, B., 2008. Retos riesgos pautas y promesas de la teoria queer Revista Iberoamericana, v. LXXIV
  • Epps, B., 2008. RETOS, RIESGOS, PAUTAS Y PROMESAS DE LA TEORÍA <i>QUEER</i> <sup /> Revista Iberoamericana, v. 74
    Doi: 10.5195/reviberoamer.2008.5216
  • 2007

  • Epps, B. and Katz, J., 2007. Monique wittig's materialist utopia and radical critique GLQ-A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES, v. 13
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2007-001
  • Epps, B., 2007. Els Llocs d’enlloc: aspiracions utòpiques i limitacions materials del Pla Cerdà Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Geografia, v. 63
  • Epps, B., 2007. Retos y riesgos, pautas y promesas de la teoría queer Debate Feminista, v. 36
  • 2006

  • Epps, B., 2006. Robert C. Spires: An introduction Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, v. 40
  • 2006. Reflections on Self-Reflective Narrative in Spain: Realism, Experimentalism, and the Criticism of Robert Spires Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (St. Louis, MO), v. 40
  • Epps, B., 2006. Who Works Where: 'The State of Our Disciplines' in a Fragmented Global Frame Hispanic Issues On Line, v. 1
  • 2005

  • Epps, B., 2005. La ética de la promiscuidad: Reflexiones en torno a Néstor Perlongher Iberoamericana: América Latina-España-Portugal, v. 5
  • Epps, B., 2005. Between Europe and Africa: Modernity, race, and nationality in the correspondence of Miguel de Unamuno and Joan Maragall ANALES DE LA LITERATURA ESPANOLA CONTEMPORANEA, v. 30
  • 2004

  • 2004. Barcelona and Modernity Catalan Review: International Journal of Catalan Culture, v. 18
  • 2003

  • Epps, B., 2003. Hispanismo, generalísimo Lateral: Revista de Cultura, v. 10
  • Epps, B., 2003. Before Postnationalism: Supernationalism, Modernisme , and Catalonia Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, v. 7
    Doi: 10.1353/hcs.2011.0175
  • Epps, B., 2003. The texture of the face: logic, narration, and figurative details in Remedios Varo Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, v. 4
    Doi: 10.1080/143620032000117789
  • 2002

  • Epps, B., 2002. Space in Motion: Barcelona and the Stages of (In)visibility Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, v. 6
  • 2002. Barcelona and the Projection of Catalonia Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, v. 6
  • 2001

  • Epps, B., 2001. Battered Bodies and Inadequate Meanings: Violence and Disenchantment in Juan José Millàs's Visión del ahogado Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, v. 5
    Doi: 10.1353/hcs.2011.0124
  • 2000

  • Epps, B., 2000. The Melancholy of Literature; Or the Discredit of Holding On Nuevo Texto Crítico, v. 13
  • Epps, B., 2000. Writing in accessible language: Benet, Goytisolo, Galdos REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS HISPANICOS, v. 34
  • Epps, B., 2000. 'Modern' and 'Moderno': Modernist Studies, 1898, and Spain Catalan Review: International Journal of Catalan Culture, v. 14
  • 1998

  • Epps, B., 1998. Significant Violence: Oppression and Resistance in the Narratives of Juan Goytisolo, 1970-1990 The Modern Language Review, v. 93
  • 1997

  • Epps, B., 1997. Le Corps 'techno-ascétique': Guibert, le sida et l'art de la maîtrise de soi Revue des Lettres Modernes: Histoire des Idees et des Litteratures, v. 1326-1334
  • 1996

  • Epps, B., 1996. States of desire: Homosexuality and nationality (Juan Goytisolo , Reinaldo Arenas and the "plumas" metaphor in Spanish) Revista Iberoamericana, v. 62
  • Epps, B., 1996. States of desire: Homosexuality and nationality (Juan Goytisolo , Reinaldo Arenas and the "plumas" metaphor in Spanish) REVISTA IBEROAMERICANA, v. 62
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.5195/REVIBEROAMER.1996.6260
  • Epps, B., 1996. Technoasceticism and Authorial Death in Sade, Kafka, Barthes, and Foucault Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, v. 8
  • 1995 (Published online)

  • Epps, B., 1995 (Published online). Figuración, narración, liberación : el método paranoico-crítico de Salvador Dalí. Revista de lenguas y literaturas catalana, gallega y vasca, v. 4
    Doi: 10.5944/rllcgv.vol.4.1994.5721
  • 1995

  • Epps, B., 1995. Traces of the Flesh: Land, Body, and Art in Clarín's <i>Doña Berta</i> Revista Hispánica Moderna, v. 48
  • Epps, B., 1995. Proper conduct: Reinaldo Arenas, Fidel Castro, and the politics of homosexuality JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY, v. 6
  • EPPS, B., 1995. GROTESQUE IDENTITIES, WRITING, DEATH, AND THE SPACE OF THE SUBJECT (BETWEEN MONTAIGNE,MICHEL,DE AND ARENAS,REINALDO) JOURNAL OF THE MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION, v. 28
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.2307/1315242
  • Epps, B., 1995. Criticism Unconcluding: Reading Mark Millington's 'On Location': The Question of Reading Crossculturally Siglo XX/20th Century, v. 13
  • 1994

  • Epps, B., 1994. Figuración, narración, liberación : el método paranoico-crítico de Salvador Dalí Revista de lenguas y literaturas catalana, gallega y vasca, v. 4
  • 1993

  • Epps, B., 1993. Recalling the Self: Autobiography, Genealogy, and Death in <i>Sonata de otoño</i> Journal of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, v. 5
  • 1992

  • EPPS, B., 1992. THE POLITICS OF VENTRILOQUISM, CAVA REVOLUTION AND SEXUAL DISCOURSE IN 'CONDE JULIAN' MLN-MODERN LANGUAGE NOTES, v. 107
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.2307/2904740
  • EPPS, B., 1992. THIEVISH SUBJECTIVITY - SELF-WRITING IN GENET,JEAN AND GOYTISOLO,JUAN REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS HISPANICOS, v. 26
  • Book chapters

    2018

  • Hart, SM. and Epps, B., 2018. LGBTQ Poetry
  • 2017

  • Epps, B., 2017. (Inter)national spectres: Cinema in mid-twentieth-century Iberia
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.4324/9781315709895
  • 2016

  • Epps, B., 2016. Askance, athwart, aside: The queer plays of actors, auteurs and machines
  • 2015

  • 2015. African Poetics in Spain: Um Draiga and the Voices of Contemporary Saharawi Poetry
  • 2015. Abderrahman El Fathi: An Averroist Perspective of His Poetry
  • 2013 (No publication date)

  • Epps, B., 2013 (No publication date). Los avatares de la evidencia en la fotografia de guerra de Agusti Centelles y Contaataque de Ramon Sender
  • Epps, B., 2013 (No publication date). The Space of the Vampire: Materiality and Disappearance in the Films of Ivan Zulueta
  • 2012

  • Epps, B., 2012. Echoes and Traces: Catalan Cinema, or Cinema in Catalonia
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781118322765.ch3
  • 2009

  • Epps, B., 2009. Blind Shots and Backward Glances: Reviewing <i>Matador</i> and <i>Labyrinth of Passion</i>
  • 2008

  • Epps, B., 2008. 'No todo se perdió en Cuba': Spain between Europe and Africa in the Wake of 1898
  • Epps, B., 2008. In Praise of Indiscretion: Pedro Almodóvar's <i>Law of Desire</i>
  • 2007

  • Epps, B., 2007. Modernisme in Catalonia
    Doi: 10.1075/chlel.xxi.60epp
  • 2006

  • Epps, B., 2006. Vampires, <i>Mestizas,</i> Rogues, and Others: Figuring Queerness with Gloria Anzaldúa and Luis Zapata
  • 2005

  • Epps, B., 2005. Spanish prose, 1975–2002
    Doi: 10.1017/chol9780521806183.056
  • Epps, B., 2005. Keeping Things Opaque: On the Reluctant Personalism of a Certain Mode of Critique
  • 2004

  • Epps, B., 2004. The Queer Case of <i>Plumas de España</i>
  • 2003

  • Epps, B., 2003. Questioning the text
    Doi: 10.1017/ccol0521771277.012
  • 2002

  • Epps, B., 2002. Solitude in the City: Victor Catala with Merce Rodoreda
  • Epps, B., 2002. The Cadaver of Progress: Death and Putrefaction in the Modernist Catalan Novel
  • 2001

  • Epps, B., 2001. The Fetish of Fluidity
  • 1999

  • Epps, B., 1999. A Writing of One's Own: Carme Riera's Qüestió d'Amor Propi
  • 1998

  • Epps, B., 1998. Sexual Terror: Identity and Fragmentation in Juan Goytisolo's <i>Paisajes después de la batalla</i>
  • 1997

  • Epps, B., 1997. The Cold Furnace of Desire: The Site of Sexuality in <i>Volverás a Región</i>
  • 1996

  • Epps, B., 1996. The Ecstasy of Disease: Mysticism, Metaphor, and AIDS in <i>Las virtudes del pájaro solitario</i>
  • 1995

  • Epps, B., 1995. Figuring Hysteria: Disorder and Desire in Three Films of Pedro Almodóvar
  • Epps, B., 1995. Virtual Sexuality: Lesbianism, Loss, and Deliverance in Carme Riera's 'Te deix, amor, la mar com a penyora'
  • 1992

  • Epps, B., 1992. Hysterical Histrionics: Entertainment and the Economy of Mental Health in <i>What Have I Done to Deserve This?</i> and <i>Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown</i>
  • 1991

  • Epps, B., 1991. The Space of Sexual History: Reading Positions in <i>El cuarto de atrás</i> and <i>Reivindicación del conde don Julián
  • Epps, B., 1991. The Space of Sexual History: Reading Positions in <i>El cuarto de atrás</i> and <i>Reivindicación del Conde don Julián</i>
  • Books

    2016

  • Epps, B., 2016. Foreword: Empathy, ambivalence, and the movement of critique: A prologue
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.4324/9781315566023
  • Other publications

    2015

  • 2015. African Immigrants in Contemporary Spanish Texts: Crossing the Strait
  • 2009

  • 2009. All about Almodóvar: A Passion for Cinema
  • 2005

  • 2005. Spain Beyond Spain: Modernity, Literary History, and National Identity
  • Professor of Spanish, and Head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
    Professor Brad  Epps

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    (0)1223 335015, or (0)1223 761820

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