Maite Zubiaurre

Professor, Spanish & Portugese and Joint Appointment in Germanic Studies
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
Phone: https://www.spanport.ucla.edu/person/maite-zubiaurre/
Email: zubiaurre@humnet.ucla.edu
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Keywords: Latin America, Gender, Literature

Professor Maite Zubiaurre initiated her career as literary translator from novels in German into Spanish for the publisher Alfaguara. She holds a degree in Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and taught at USC (University of Southern California), ITAM (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México), UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), and the University of Texas, Austin, before joining the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies (ELTS) at UCLA. She is core faculty and co-PI of the Urban Humanities Initiative (UHI), and a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Program in Digital Humanities. Her areas of expertise are comparative literature; gender and sexuality studies; urban studies; cultural studies; and migration studies.

Zubiaurre is the author of El espacio en la novela realista. Paisajes, miniaturas, perspectivas (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2000), a book-length study of the dialectics of space and gender in European and Latin American realist fiction, and of Cultures of the Erotic in Spain 1898-1939 (Vanderbilt University Press, 2012), the first scholarly monograph that analyzes the diverse visual and textual representations of the erotic in Spanish popular culture during the so-called “Edad de Plata” or Silver Age (1898-1936). Maite Zubiaurre’s adaptation and translation into Spanish of Cultures of the Erotic —Culturas del erotismo en España 1898-1939— was published by Cátedra in 2014.

Zubiaurre is the creator of a comprehensive virtual repository or erotic Wunderkammer (sicalpsis.humnet.ucla.edu), that serves as a digital companion to her scholarly monographs, Cultures of the Erotic/Culturas del erotismo. An ongoing comprehensive virtual archive of fin de siècle Spanish erotica, unique in its kind, it houses more than 500 images and a rich array of fully scanned texts, among them more than 100 works on sexology and sexual hygiene; close to 100 erotic magazines; around 120 magazines and works on nudism; and more than 240 erotic novelettes.