Professor Brad Epps

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 Goytisolo; Spain 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. 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

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

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. Learning from the Beginning Transition An International Review, v. 103

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

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. RETOS, RIESGOS, PAUTAS Y PROMESAS DE LA TEORÍA QUEER  Revista Iberoamericana, v. 74
Doi: 10.5195/reviberoamer.2008.5216

Epps, B., 2008. CHALLENGES AND RISKS, GUIDELINES AND PROMISES OF THE QUEER THEORY REVISTA IBEROAMERICANA, v. 74

Epps, B., 2008. Retos riesgos pautas y promesas de la teoria queer Revista Iberoamericana, v. LXXIV

2007

Epps, B., 2007. Retos y riesgos, pautas y promesas de la teoría queer Debate Feminista, v. 36

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

2006

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

Epps, B., 2006. Robert C. Spires: An introduction Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, v. 40

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. The texture of the face: logic, narration, and figurative details in Remedios Varo Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, v. 4
Doi: 10.1080/143620032000117789

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

2002

2002. Barcelona and the Projection of Catalonia Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, v. 6

Epps, B., 2002. Space in Motion: Barcelona and the Stages of (In)visibility 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. 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

Epps, B., 2000. The Melancholy of Literature; Or the Discredit of Holding On Nuevo Texto Crítico, v. 13

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
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

Epps, B., 1996. States of desire: Homosexuality and nationality (Juan Goytisolo , Reinaldo Arenas and the "plumas" metaphor in Spanish) Revista Iberoamericana, v. 62

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. Criticism Unconcluding: Reading Mark Millington's 'On Location': The Question of Reading Crossculturally Siglo XX/20th Century, v. 13

Epps, B., 1995. Traces of the Flesh: Land, Body, and Art in Clarín's Doña Berta 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

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 Sonata de otoño 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 Matador and Labyrinth of Passion

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 Law of Desire

2007

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

2006

Epps, B., 2006. Vampires, Mestizas, 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 Plumas de España

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 Paisajes después de la batalla

1997

Epps, B., 1997. The Cold Furnace of Desire: The Site of Sexuality in Volverás a Región

1996

Epps, B., 1996. The Ecstasy of Disease: Mysticism, Metaphor, and AIDS in Las virtudes del pájaro solitario

1995

Epps, B., 1995. Virtual Sexuality: Lesbianism, Loss, and Deliverance in Carme Riera's 'Te deix, amor, la mar com a penyora'

Epps, B., 1995. Figuring Hysteria: Disorder and Desire in Three Films of Pedro Almodóvar

1992

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

1991

Epps, B., 1991. The Space of Sexual History: Reading Positions in El cuarto de atrás and Reivindicación del Conde don Julián

Epps, B., 1991. The Space of Sexual History: Reading Positions in El cuarto de atrás and Reivindicación del conde don Julián

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

Research

Publications

Publications (from Symplectic)

2018 (Accepted for publication)

2017

2016 (Accepted for publication)

2016

2013

2012

2010

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1995 (Published online)

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2013 (No publication date)

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