Office: Commonwealth Hall #15
Phone: (757) 594-8762
Email: benjamin.fraser@cnu.edu

Teaching Responsibilities
Spanish language, literature, culture and film

Research Interests
Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Literature

Detective Novel in Spain and Latin America

Visual and Popular Culture

Urban Theory, Cultural Geography & The Production of City Space

Literary, Film & Cultural Theory

Deaf Culture in Madrid and Latin America

Bergsonian Philosophy

Selected Scholarship

-“Un neuro-musicólogo antes de su tiempo: discursos actuales del sonido a través de dos cuentos

de Leopoldo Lugones.” Hispania 91.4 (2008): 795-804.

- “Madrid, Neoplasmic City: Disease and the Urban as Process in Tiempo de silencio.” Letras Peninsulares 21.1 (2008): 129-54.

- “Toward a Philosophy of the Urban: Henri Lefebvre’s Uncomfortable  Application of Bergsonism.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 26.2 (2008): 338-58.

- “A Snapshot of Barcelona from Montjuïc: Juan Goytisolo’s Señas de identidad, Tourist Landscapes as Process and the Photographic Mechanism of Thought.” In Spain is (Still) Different: Tourism and Discourse in Spanish Identity, Eugenia Afinoguénova, Jaume Martí-Olivella (eds.). Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield Inc., 2008. 151-84.

- “Baroja’s Rejection of Traditional Medicine in El árbol de la ciencia.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies 85.1 (2008): 29-50.

- “Manuel Delgado’s Urban Anthropology: From Multidimensional Space to Interdisciplinary Spatial Theory,” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 11 (2007): 57-75.

- “The Publicly-Private Space of Madrid’s Retiro Park & the Spatial Problems of Spatial Theory.”
Social and Cultural Geography 8.5 (2007): 673-700. (incl. photos).

- “Deaf Cultural Production in Twentieth Century Madrid,” Sign Language Studies 7.4 (2007): 431-57.