Benjamin Fraser is Professor of Hispanic Studies and Head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese in the College of Humanities. He is Editor-In-Chief of Hispania, the flagship scholarly journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), Founding and Executive Editor of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Senior Editor of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies and Co-Editor of the Hispanic Urban Studies book series.
RESEARCH AREAS
Contemporary Spanish Peninsular & Latin American Film, Literature & Cultural Studies
Urban Studies, Cultural Geography and Spatial Theory
Cognitive Disability Studies, Health and Illness, Deaf Studies/Deaf Culture
Visual and Media Culture (Film, TV, Comics, Music, Photography, Painting, Videogames)
Continental Philosophy (Bergson, Lefebvre, Deleuze)
Tourism, Travel, Transportation and Mobility Studies
Digital Innovation and Scholarship in the Social Sciences and Humanities (DISSH)
PUBLICATIONS – SINGLE-AUTHORED BOOKS
Fraser, B. Visible Cities: Urban Images and Spatial Form in Global Comics. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. Under contract, post-review, final revisions in progress.
2019 Fraser, B. The Art of Pere Joan: Space, Landscape and Comics Form. Austin: University of Texas Press. Under contract, completed and forthcoming.
2018 Fraser, B. Cognitive Disability Aesthetics: Visual Culture, Disability Representations, and the (In)Visibility of Cognitive Difference. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2015 Fraser, B. Toward an Urban Cultural Studies: Henri Lefebvre and the Humanities. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Reviewed in Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 38, 2017
Reviewed in Social and Cultural Geography 17.2, 2016
Reviewed in Transnational Literature 9.1, 2015
2015 Fraser, B. Digital Cities: The Interdisciplinary Future of the Urban Geo-Humanities. Backingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
2014 Fraser, B. Antonio López García’s Everyday Urban Worlds: A Philosophy of Painting. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press.
Reviewed in Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies 1.2, 2017
Reviewed in Hispania 99.2, 2016
2013 Fraser, B. Disability Studies and Spanish Culture: Films, Novels, the Comic and the Public Exhibition. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
Selected as Open Access title: http://oapen.org/search?identifier=626357
Reviewed in Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 10.1, 2016
Reviewed in Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas 13.2, 2016
Reviewed in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 93.5, 2016
Reviewed in Bulletin of Spanish Studies 92.2, 2015
Reviewed in Hispanic Review 82.1, 2014
2013 Fraser, B. Understanding Juan Benet: New Perspectives. Fwd. by Malcolm Alan Compitello. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.
Reviewed in Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 39.2, 2015
Reviewed in Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 19, 2015
Reviewed in Bulletin of Spanish Studies 91.8, 2014
Reviewed in Hispania 97.3, 2014
Cited in the Spanish press in the Diario de León, 2013
2011 Fraser, B. Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience: Reading the Mobile City. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press.
Reviewed in Cincinnati Romance Review 28, 2014
Reviewed in Romance Quarterly 59.4, 2012
2010 Fraser, B. Encounters with Bergson(ism) in Spain: Reconciling Philosophy, Literature, Film and Urban Space. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, Studies in Romance Languages and Literatures, #295.
Reviewed in Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 16.1, 2015
PUBLICATIONS – EDITED BOOKS
2016 Fraser, B. (ed. & introd.). Cultures of Representation: Disability in World Cinema Contexts. New York: Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press.
Nominated by Columbia UP for SCMS Best Edited Collection Award 2017
Reviewed in Disability & Society 31.9, 2016
2014 Fraser, B. (ed. & introd.). Marxism and Urban Culture. Fwd. by Andy Merrifield. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield).
2012 Fraser, B. (ed. & introd.). Capital Inscriptions: Essays on Hispanic Literature, Film and Urban Space in Honor of Malcolm Alan Compitello. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta [Homenajes series #41].
2012 Fraser, B. and S. Spalding (eds.). Trains, Culture and Mobility: Riding the Rails. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield).
2012 S. Spalding and Fraser, B. (eds.). Trains, Literature and Culture: Reading and Writing the Rails. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield).
Reviewed in Cuadernos de Literatura 17.33, 2013
2011 Fraser, B. (ed. & introd.). La urbanización decimonónica de Madrid: textos de Mariano José de Larra y Ramón de Mesonero Romanos. Doral, FL: Stockcero.
2009 Fraser, B. (ed. & trans.). Deaf History and Culture in Spain: A Reader of Primary Sources. Fwd by Samuel J. Supalla. Washington D.C.: Gallaudet University Press.
PUBLICATIONS – EDITED JOURNAL ISSUES
2015 Foster, D., Fraser, B., and VanPatten, B. (eds.). “Special Focus Issue: The Scholarship of Film and Film Studies.” Hispania 98.3 (2015): 384-606.
2013 Fraser, B. (ed.). “Reading Madrid: Perspectives from Urban Cultural Studies.” Guest-edited special issue of the International Journal of Iberian Studies 26.1-2 (2013): 3-102.
PUBLICATIONS – JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS
2019 Fraser, B. “Obsessively Writing the Modern City: The Partial Madness of Urban Planning Culture and the Case of Arturo Soria y Mata in Madrid, Spain.” Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 13.1, pp. forthcoming.
2018 Fraser, B. “Juan Benet, geógrafo cultural.” Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Humanísticos y Literatura xx, pp. forthcoming.
2018 Fraser, B. “Teaching ‘Mecanópolis’ (1913) from the Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Transport and Mobility Studies and Science Fiction Studies.” Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno. Ed. Luis Álvarez-Castro. New York: MLA. pp. forthcoming.
2018 Fraser, B. “El lenguaje visual innovador de Pere Joan: el pictograma analógico frente a la cultura digital en el cómic español contemporáneo.” Romance Studies 36.3, pp. forthcoming.
2018 Fraser, B. “Urban Difference ‘On the Move’: Disabling Mobility in the Spanish Film El cochecito (Marco Ferreri, 1960).” Freakish Encounters. Ed. Sara Muñoz-Muriana and Analola Santana. Hispanic Issues Online, vol. 20, pp. forthcoming.
2018 Fraser, B. “Miguel Brieva, quincemayista: Art, Politics and Comics Form in the 15-M Graphic Novel Lo que (me) está pasando (2015).” Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World 8.1, pp. 42-62.
2018 Fraser, B., A. Masterson-Algar and S. L. Vilaseca. “Cultural Studies, behind the scenes: Notes on the craft of interdisciplinary scholarship.” Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 5.1, pp. 3-14.
2018 Fraser, B. “Paco Roca’s graphic novel La casa (2015) as Architectural Elegy.” European Comic Art 11.1, pp. 87-106.
2018 Fraser, B. “Visual/Geo-Spatial Knowledge and the Digital Library: On the ‘Mutaciones’ Section of Agustín Fernández Mallo’s El hacedor (de Borges), Remake (2011).” Hispanic Studies Review 3.1, pp. 63-77.
2018 Fraser, B. “The Public Animal in Barcelona: Urban Form, the Natural World and Socio-Spatial Transgression in the Comic “Un cocodril a l’Eixample” (1987) by Pere Joan and Emilio Manzano.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 19.1, pp. 89-110.
2017 Fraser, B. “The City as Organizing Principle in 21st-Century Luso-Hispanic Studies.” Hispania 100.5, pp. 137-42.
2017 Fraser, B., C. Kresz and I. Swain. “Digital Barcelona: An Interdisciplinary Urban Cultural Studies Digital Project.” Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 4.1-2, pp. 195-206.
2017 Fraser, B. “A Biutiful City: Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Filmic Critique of the ‘Barcelona Model.’” The Barcelona Reader: Cultural Readings of a City. Ed. Enric Bou and Jaume Subirana Ortín. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. pp. 417-42. [Reprint of 2012 journal article in Studies in Hispanic Cinemas]
2017 Fraser, B. “Galdós, Subjective Realism and Comics Form: Nela (2013) by Rayco Pulido Rodríguez.” Entre la ética y la estética: Estudios en homenaje a Joan Gilabert. Ed. Nuria Morgado and Agustín Cuadrado. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta. pp. 205-19.
2017 Fraser, B. “The Modern City, 1850-1900: Urban Planning and Urban Culture in Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao.” The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies. Ed. Javier Muñoz-Basols, Laura Lonsdale and Manuel Delgado. London: Routledge. pp. 319-29.
2016 Fraser, B. “Filosofía urbana y movimiento (disciplinario): El pensamiento lefebvriano (bergsoniano) de Manuel Delgado Ruiz.” Filosofía y culturas hispánicas: Nuevas perspectivas. Ed. Nuria Morgado y Rolando Pérez. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta. pp. 257-70.
2016 Fraser, B. and J-P. van Arnhem. “A Collaborative Approach to Urban Cultural Studies and Digital Humanities.” Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries. Ed. John W. White and Heather Gilbert. West Lafayette: Purdue UP. pp. 151-78.
2016 Fraser, B. “Comics Art, Urban Cultural Studies Method and Chris Ware’s Building Stories (2012).” Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 3.3, pp. 291-99.
2016 Fraser, B. “Art and Science in Pere Joan’s Nocilla Experience (2011).” International Journal of Comic Art 18.1, pp. 169-95.
2016 Fraser, B. “El cine, la ciudad, lo urbano: notas desde los estudios culturales urbanos.” Vademécum del cine iberoamericano: métodos y teorías. Ed. Eugenia Afinoguénova, Samuel Amago, Kathryn Everly. Hispanófila 177, pp. 263-76.
2016 Fraser, B. “Battling Voices: Schizophrenia as Social Relation in Abel García Roure’s Una cierta verdad [A Certain Truth] (2008).” Disability Studies Quarterly 36.2, no pag.
2016 Fraser, B. “Senescence, Alzheimer’s Dementia and the Semi-Subjective in Ignacio Ferreras’s Film Arrugas [Wrinkles] (2011).” Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 10.1, pp. 21-35.
2015 Fraser, B. “Rumbo a Almería: el terreno almeriense vendido y defendido en 800 balas de Álex de la Iglesia.” La retórica del sur: Representaciones y discursos sobre Andalucía en el periodo democrático. Ed. Antonio Gómez L-Quiñones and José Manuel del Pino. Sevilla: Ediciones Alfar, Serie Estudio sobre la Comunicación #207. pp. 265-89.
2015 Fraser, B. “The Future of Hispanic Studies: Disciplinary Challenges.” MIFLC Review 17, pp. 21-25.
2015 Fraser, B. “Our Urban Interiors: Recovering Use Value in the Prose Poems of Luis García Montero’s Una forma de resistencia (2012).” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 16.3, pp. 275-91.
2015 Fraser, B. “Madrid’s Gran Vía: An Urban Cultural History and Digital Project.” Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 2.1-2, pp. 205-13.
2015 Fraser, B. “Urban Railways in Buenos Aires: Spatial and Social Alienation in the Documentary Film El tren blanco.” Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies 5.2, pp. 5-22.
2014 Fraser, B. “Henri Lefebvre in Strasbourg: The City as Use Value in José Luis Guerín’s Dans la ville de Sylvie (2007).” Marxism and Urban Culture. Ed. B. Fraser. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield). pp. 43-61.
2014 Fraser, B. “Sensing Capital: Sight, Sound and Touch in Esteban Sapir’s La antena (2007).” Marxism and Urban Culture. Ed. B. Fraser. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield). pp. 63-86.
2014 Fraser, B. “Urban Cultural Studies—A Manifesto [part 2].” Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 1.3, pp. 343-56.
2014 Fraser, B. “Urban Cultural Studies—A Manifesto [part 1].” Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 1.1, pp. 3-17.
2014 Fraser, B., Larson, S., Compitello, M.A. “Notes on the Renegotiation of a Hispanic Studies Canon.” ADFL Bulletin [Association of Departments of Foreign Languages] 43.1, pp. 77-90.
2013 Fraser, B. “Madrid, Histological City: The Scientific, Artistic and Urbanized Vision of Santiago Ramón y Cajal.” Symposium: A Quarterly Journal of Modern Literatures 67.3, pp. 119-34.
2013 Fraser, B. “Madrid and Urban Cultural Studies.” International Journal of Iberian Studies 26.1-2, pp. 3-19.
2013 Fraser, B. “Disability Art, Visibility and the Right to the City: The Trazos Singulares [Singular Strokes] (2011) Exhibit at Madrid’s Nuevos Ministerios Metro Station.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 17, pp. 245-61.
2013 Fraser, B. “Diary of a Failed Spanish Capitalist: Individualism and the Ambivalent Critique of Pablo Sánchez’s El alquiler del mundo (2010).” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 90.6, pp. 679-96.
2013 Fraser, B. “Nikos Kazantzakis’s Bergsonian Spain: Connecting Philosophy, Spanish Literature and Cultural Landscapes.” Hispanófila 168, pp. 37-54.
2013 Fraser, B. “Salvador García Jiménez, ‘autor de minorías’: La novela Angelicomio (1981) y el modelo social de la discapacidad.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies 90.8, pp. 1339-1356.
2013 Fraser, B. “Feijóo on Mars: A Brief Note on the Literary Godfather of Spanish Science Fiction.” Dieciocho 36.1, pp. 37-50.
2012 Fraser, B. “Materialism and Enigma: Juan Benet’s ‘Syllabus,’ Compitello’s ‘Socio–Poetic’ Methodology and Cultural Studies Pedagogy.” Capital Inscriptions: Essays on Hispanic Literature, Film and Urban Space in Honor of Malcolm Alan Compitello. Ed. B. Fraser. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta. pp. 79-91.
2012 Fraser, B. “Visualizing Spain’s Enlightenment: The Marginal Universality of Deafness.” Sociability and Cosmopolitanism: Social Bonds on the Fringes of the Enlightenment. Ed. Scott Breuninger & David Burrow. London: Pickering & Chatto. pp. 27-45.
2012 Fraser, B. “The ‘Sidewalk Ballet’ in the Work of Henri Lefebvre and Manuel Delgado Ruiz.” The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs. Ed. S. Hirt and D. Zahm. London & New York: Routledge. pp. 24-36.
2012 Fraser, B. and S. Spalding. “The Speed of Signs: Train Graffiti, Cultural Production and the Mobility of the Urban in France and Spain.” Trains, Culture and Mobility: Riding the Rails. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield). pp. 27-57.
2012 Fraser, B. “A Biutiful City: Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Filmic Critique of the ‘Barcelona Model.’” Studies in Hispanic Cinemas 9.1, pp. 19-34.
2012 Fraser, B. and A. Fuoto. “Manchester, 1976: Documenting the Urban Nature of Joy Division’s Musical Production.” Punk & Post-Punk 1.2, pp. 139-54.
2012 Fraser, B. and C. Méndez. “Espacio, tiempo y ciudad: La representación de Buenos Aires en El Eternauta.” Revista Iberoamericana 78.238-239, pp. 57-72.
2012 Fraser, B. “Into the Chilean Mines: The Dialectics of Land and Work in Baldomero Lillo’s Sub– terra” A Contracorriente 9.2, pp. 248-81.
2012 Fraser, B. “Hacia un costumbrismo espacial: Larra y la ciencia–ficción de la vida cotidiana en Sin noticias de Gurb (Mendoza) y Plutón BRB Nero (De la Iglesia).” Letras Hispanas 8.1, pp. 48-61.
2012 Fraser, B. “Baldomero Lillo’s Underground Literary Modernism.” The Latin Americanist 56.3, pp. 75-99.
2012 Fraser, B. “On Nocilla and the Urbanization of Consciousness: Multiplicity & Interdisciplinarity in Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Fragmented Trilogy.” Hispania 95.1, pp. 1-13.
2011 Fraser, B., M.A. Compitello, and E. Romero. “An AJHCS Editorial Position Paper: A Modest Proposal on Peer Review.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 15, pp. 11-22.
2011 Fraser, B. “Ildefons Cerdà’s Scalpel: A Lefebvrian Perspective on Nineteenth–Century Urban Planning.” Catalan Review 25, pp. 181-200.
2011 Fraser, B. “Why the Spatial Epistemology of the Videogame Matters: Mētis, Video Game Space and Interdisciplinary Theory.” Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds 3.2, pp. 93-106.
2011 Fraser, B. “Re–Scaling Emotional Approaches to Music: Basque Band Lisabö & the Soundscapes of Urban Alienation.” Emotion, Space and Society 4, pp. 8-16.
2011 Fraser, B. “Toward Autonomy in Love and Work: Situating the Film Yo, también (2009) within the Political Project of Disability Studies.” Hispania 94.1, pp. 1–12.
2010 Fraser, B. “The Art of Engineering: The Bridge as Object and Method in Juan Benet’s Fiction.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 11.2, pp. 167–90.
2010 Fraser, B. “Spain, 1795: A Reconsideration of Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro (1735–1809) and the Visual Language of the Deaf.” Dieciocho 33.2, pp. 259–78.
2010 Fraser, B. “Hacia una teoría de lo desconocido: La aportación visual de Vacas de Julio Medem a la filosofía.” Hispanic Research Journal 11.4, pp. 353–69.
2010 Fraser, B. “The Work of (Creating) Art: Judith Scott’s Fiber Art, Lola Barrera and Iñaki Peñafiel’s ¿Qué tienes debajo del sombrero? (2006) and the Challenges Faced By People with Developmental Disabilities.” Cultural Studies 24.4, pp. 508–32.
2010 Fraser, B. “The Ills of Aerial Photography: Latin America from Above.” Chasqui: revista de literatura latinoamericana 39.2, pp. 70–84.
2009 Fraser, B. “The ‘Kind of Problem Cities Pose’: Jane Jacobs at the Intersection of Pedagogy, Philosophy and Urban Theory.” Teaching in Higher Education 14.3, pp. 265–76.
2009 Fraser, B. “Narrating the Organic City: A Lefebvrian Approach to City Planning, the Novel & Urban Theory in Spain” Journal of Narrative Theory 39.3, pp. 369–90.
2009 Fraser, B. “The Bergsonian Link Between Emotion, Music and Place: From the ‘Motion of Emotion’ to the Sonic Immediacy of the Basque Band Lisabö.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 10.2, pp. 241–62.
2009 Fraser, B. “Imagen, materia, cine: Bergson, Deleuze y Cinelandia de Ramón Gómez de la Serna.” Hispanic Review 77.4, pp. 449–70.
2009 Fraser, B. “Modernist Liquidity Meets Liquid Modernity: From the Occult Stories of Leopoldo Lugones to The Fluidity of Modern Urban Life” English Language Notes 47.2, pp. 85–94.
2009 Fraser, B. “Undergraduates and Hispanic Sleuths: The Importance of University Cor(ps)e Requirements in a Liberal Learning Curriculum.” In Murder 101: Essays on the Teaching of Detective Fiction, Ed. Ed Rielly. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press. pp. 38–50.
2008 Fraser, B. “Madrid, Neoplasmic City: Disease and the Urban as Process in Tiempo de silencio.” Letras Peninsulares 21.1, pp. 139–64.
2008 Fraser, B. “Baroja’s Rejection of Traditional Medicine in El árbol de la ciencia.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies 85.1, pp. 29–50.
2008 Fraser, B. “Un neuro–musicólogo antes de su tiempo: discursos actuales del sonido a través de dos cuentos de Leopoldo Lugones.” Hispania 91.4, pp. 794–804.
2008 Fraser, B. “Reconciling Film Studies & Geography: Adolfo Bioy Casares’s La invención de Morel.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 41.1, pp. 153–68.
2008 Fraser, B. “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. Ed. Eugenia Afinoguénova and Jaume Martí–Olivella. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Inc. pp. 151–84.
2008 Fraser, B. “What is Liberal Learning?: Lessons on Pedagogy from Spain’s Institución Libre de Enseñanza.” Proteus: A Journal of Ideas 25.1, pp. 9–17.
2008 Fraser, B. “Why Don Fulgencio Entrambosmares del Aquilón’s ‘Apuntes para un tratado de cocotología’ belongs in the Spanish Cultural Studies curriculum—followed by a concise argument to the contrary: A manuscript by the great–great grandson Entrambosmares, translated from the original with editor’s notes.” Céfiro 8.1–2, pp. 21–35.
2008 Fraser, B. “Toward a Philosophy of the Urban: Henri Lefebvre’s Uncomfortable Application of Bergsonism.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 26.2, pp. 338–58.
2007 Fraser, B. “Madrid’s Retiro Park as Publicly–Private Space & the Spatial Problems of Spatial Theory.” Social and Cultural Geography 8.5, pp. 673–700.
2007 Fraser, B. “San Sombrèro: A Land of Carnivals, Cocktails and Coups: Henri Bergson’s Theory of Laughter and the Problems of Travel Guide Humour.” Journeys: International Journal of Travel & Travel Writing 8.1–2, pp. 117–27.
2007 Fraser, B. “Manuel Delgado’s Urban Anthropology: From Multidimensional Space to Interdisciplinary Spatial Theory.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 11, pp. 57– 75.
2007 Fraser, B. “Deaf Cultural Production in Twentieth–Century Madrid.” Sign Language Studies 7.4, pp. 431–57.
2007 Fraser, B. “Unamuno and Bergson: Notes on a Shared Methodology.” Modern Language Review 102.3, pp. 753–67.
2006 Fraser, B. “The Space in Film and the Film in Space: Madrid’s Retiro Park and Carlos Saura’s Taxi.” Studies in Hispanic Cinemas 3.1, pp. 15–33.
2006 Fraser, B. “Narradores contra la ficción: La novela detectivesca como estrategia política.” Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 25, pp. 199–219.
2005 Fraser, B. “On Mental and Cartographic Space: Belén Gopegui’s La escala de los mapas, Bergson and the Imagined Interval.” España Contemporánea 18.1, pp. 7–32.
2004 Fraser, B. “Problems of Photographic Criticism and the Question of a Truly Revolutionary Image: The Photographs of Mario Algaze, Juan Rulfo and Manuel Alvarez Bravo.” Chasqui: revista de literatura latinoamericana 33.2, pp. 104–22.
