Francie Cate-Arries

Professor of Hispanic Studies

Office: Washington Hall 206
Phone: (757) 221-3672
Email: [[afcate]]

Areas of Specialization

As a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, Cate-Arries wrote a book, Spanish Culture behind Barbed-Wire: Memory and Representation of the French Concentration Camps, 1939-1945 (Bucknell UP, 2004). This past year, she published strategies for teaching the testimonies authored by veterans of the French internment camps for Spanish refugees (see Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War. Ed. Noel Valis, MLA, 2007). Recent scholarship  includes an article about the commemorative literature of the March 11, 2004 Madrid terrorist bombings, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, and the discourse of free speech in a free society (see MVM: El compromiso con la memoria. Ed. José Colmeiro;  Tamesis, 2007). Her 2007 MLA panel presentation, "Performing the Memory of Trauma: Madrid, March 11, and the Spanish Civil War," was based on field research done in the summer of 2005 in the company of three W&M students, who worked as research interns at Madrid´s prestigious Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, with Dr. Cristina Sánchez Carretero´s "Archivo del Duelo" project. Cate-Arries´ forthcoming essay, "Ione Robinson and the Art of Bearing Witness: Picturing Trauma among the Ruins of War," treats the American artist´s depictions of Barcelona refugees in 1938. Cate-Arries´exhibition catalogue piece for the March 2007 show of Ione Robinson´s Spanish Civil War drawings, refugee camp photographs, and portraits of the "Niños de Morelia," appeared with the exhibit in Santiago de Compostela, the first time in 70 years that Robinson´s civil war artwork has been made public in Spain.

Background

Francie Cate-Arries (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison) , 2007 recipient of the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia´s Outstanding Faculty Award, has taught at the College since 1986. She is a specialist in contemporary Spanish cultural studies, and has published on a wide range of Spanish writers and visual artists like Federico García Lorca, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Remedios Varo and especially exile authors of the Spanish Civil War. She regularly serves as one of the Resident Directors for the W&M Summer Program in Cádiz, supervising on-site undergraduate research projects about contemporary topics in today´s Spain related to, for example, women´s issues, cinema, immigration, historical memory, music, commemorative cultures, and youth cultures(http://web.wm.edu/as/news/index.php?id=8543) She co-directs "W&M Semester in Sevilla" program (est. 2007), which includes an innovative "International Service-Learning Internship" opportunity for qualified students. Her courses--both Freshman and Advanced Seminars,  include: "Imagining Madrid: Cityscapes in Transition, 1808-2008"; "Memory Works: Words and Images of the Spanish Civil War," "Spain (Un)Censored: Spanish Cinema Under Franco"; and "Imagine Another World: Spanish Art & Society, 1898-1936." Recent graduates of her  "Senior Research Seminar," Pamela Sertzen (W&M´07) and Kristin  Corcoran (W&M '08) won in consecutive years the Juan Espadas Prize for Best Undergraduate Essay, sponsored by MACLAS (Mid-Atlantic Conference of Latin American Studies) .

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Publications

Spanish Culture Behind Barbed-Wire: Memory and Representation of the French Concentration Camps, 1939-1945 (2004). Francie Cate-Arries, author

2005 "Honorable Mention" recipient of the Modern Language Association's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for outstanding book published in English in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures & cultures. --"A remarkable research project on an important and neglected topic, this book makes public the record of Spanish refugees who had crossed the border following the Civil War, only to find themselves interned in concentration campus during World War II. It is impressive as a historical document, but it is also the work of a sensitive, analytical, and theoretically informed reader of literature. The combination of these elements and the diverse gifts of the author make the study spellbinding and moving, in short, an impeccable work of scholarship. Its historical and literary gap-filling merits close attention and acclaim."--Citation by MLA Selection Committee

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