Isolina Ballesteros

Professor

Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

Department: Modern Languages & Comp Lit

Areas of expertise:

Email Address: isolina.ballesteros@baruch.cuny.edu

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Education

Ph.D., Hispanic Literature, Boston University

Licenciatura in French Philology, Language & Literature, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

SemesterCourse PrefixCourse NumberCourse Name
Spring 2024SPA4050Intro to Hispanic Literature
Spring 2024SPA4115Imgs Of Women Spnsh
Fall 2023FLM4900Critical Approaches to Film
Fall 2023WSM4900Topics in Women's Studies
Fall 2023SPA4001Advanced Oral Communication II
Spring 2023SPAN87200ST: Hispanic Literature
Spring 2023SPA4050Intro to Hispanic Literature
Fall 2022SPA4001Advanced Oral Communication II
Fall 2022SPA4183Spanish Film
Fall 2022FLM3002History of Film II
Spring 2022SPA4115Imgs Of Women Spnsh
Spring 2022FLM4900Critical Approaches to Film
Spring 2022SPA4050Intro to Hispanic Literature
Fall 2021SPA4001Advanced Oral Communication II
Fall 2021FLM3002History of Film II
Spring 2021FLM4100Immigration Cinema
Spring 2021CMP4100Immigration Cinema
Spring 2021LACS4100Immigration Cinema
Spring 2021SPA4050Intro to Hispanic Literature
Fall 2020FLM4900Critical Approaches to Film
Fall 2020SPA4125Modern Spanish Short Story
Fall 2020SPA4001Advanced Oral Communication II
Spring 2019SPA4001Advanced Oral Communication II
Spring 2019MALS79000Thesis/Capstone Project
Spring 2019FLM3002History of Film II
Spring 2019SPA4050Intro to Hispanic Literature
Fall 2018FLM4900Critical Approaches to Film
Fall 2018SPA4121Modern Spanish Drama
Spring 2018SPA4050Intro to Hispanic Literature
Spring 2018FLM4900Critical Approaches to Film
Fall 2017FLM3002History of Film II
Fall 2017SPAN87000Race Eth Imm&Diaspora Span Cul
Fall 2017SPA4001Advanced Oral Communication II
Spring 2017SPA4050Intro to Hispanic Literature
Spring 2017WSM4900Topics in Women's Studies
Spring 2017FLM4900Critical Approaches to Film
Spring 2017CMP2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2016SPA5000Independent Study Spanish I
Fall 2016SPA4999Special Studies in Spanish
Fall 2016CMP2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2016SPA4050Intro to Hispanic Literature
Spring 2016SPA4050Intro to Hispanic Literature
Spring 2016SPA4001Advanced Oral Communication II
Spring 2016FLM4100Immigration Cinema
Spring 2016LACS4100Immigration Cinema
Spring 2016CMP4100Immigration Cinema
Fall 2015SPA4121Modern Spanish Drama
Fall 2015FLM3002History of Film II
Spring 2015SPA4001Advanced Oral Communication II
Spring 2015CMP2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2015FLM4900Critical Approaches to Film
Fall 2014SPA4050Intro to Hispanic Literature
Fall 2014SPAN87200Aesth/Hist Mem Span Civil War
Spring 2014FLM3002History of Film II
Spring 2014SPA4125Modern Spanish Short Story
Fall 2013CMP4100Immigration Cinema
Fall 2013LACS4100Immigration Cinema
Fall 2013SPA4050Intro to Hispanic Literature
Fall 2013CMP2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2013FLM4100Immigration Cinema
Spring 2012SPA4050Intro to Hispanic Literature
Spring 2012SPA4115Imgs Of Women Spnsh
Fall 2011CMP2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2011CMP2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2011CMP2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2011CMP2850HHon Grt Works Lit II
Spring 2011FLM4900Critical Approaches to Film
Spring 2011SPA4050Intro to Hispanic Literature
Fall 2010FLM4100Immigration Cinema
Fall 2010LACS4100Immigration Cinema
Fall 2010LTT4100Immigration Cinema
Fall 2010LTT4100HHon Immigrtn Cinema
Fall 2010SPA4000Advanced Oral Communication I
Spring 2010LTT2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2010SPA4125Modern Spanish Short Story
Fall 2009SPA4050Intro to Hispanic Literature
Fall 2009IDC4050HHon Feit Hum Sem I
Spring 2009SPA4121Modern Spanish Drama
Spring 2009LTT2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2008SPA4115Imgs Of Women Spnsh
Fall 2008LTT2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2008SPA412420th Cent Span Liter
Spring 2008LTT2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2007SPA4050Intro to Hispanic Literature
Fall 2007SPA4183Spanish Film
Spring 2007SPA4125Modern Spanish Short Story
Spring 2007SPA4121Modern Spanish Drama
Fall 2006SPA4050Intro to Hispanic Literature
Fall 2006SPA412420th Cent Span Liter

Books

Ballesteros, I. (2015). Immigration Cinema in the New Europe. (p. 270). Bristol & Chicago, United Kingdom/USA, Intellect.

Ballesteros, I. (2001). Cine (Ins)urgente: Textos fílmicos y contextos culturales de la Espa-a postfranquista. (p. 300 pgs). Madrid: Fundamentos.

Ballesteros, I. (1994). Escritura femenina y discurso autobiográfico en la nueva novela espa-ola. (p. 202 pgs). New York, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc..

Journal Articles

(2022). Alternativas a la migracio´n, colaboracio´n y post-migracio´n: Origen de Maribel Sa´nchez-Maroto y Ana Pastor (2020) y No nacimos refugiados (2020) de Claudio Zulia´n. Pepeles del CEIC. International Journal on Collective Identity Research, (2022.2). 1-13.

Ballesteros, I. (2016). Éxodo rural, migración e inmigración en el cine espa-ol. Hispanófila: Romance Studies Publications , (177). 249-261.

(2013). La inmigración económica latinoamericana en el documental europeo de inmigración: Balseros (2002), Del otro lado (2002) y Familia (2010). Migraciones & Exilios (Journal of the Asociación para el Estudio de los Exilios y Migraciones Ibéricos Contemporáneos , (13 (2012)). 63-80.

(2006). Foreign and Racial Masculinities in Spanish Immigration Film. Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, 3.3. 169-185.

(2005). Embracing the Other: The Feminization of Spanish ‘Immigration cinema’. Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, 2.1. 3-14.

(2005). La exhumación de la memoria histórica: nostalgia y utopía en Soldados de Salamina (Javier Cercas 2001, David Trueba 2002). Film-Historia (Online Journal of the Center for Cinematic Research, Universidad Central de Barcelona), 15(1).

(2005). Pedro Almodóvar: From Transgression to Canon. Cinematic. The Harvard Annual Film Review 3, 21-23.

(2005). Screening African Immigration to Spain: Las cartas de Alou and Bwana. Chasqui: Revista de literatura latinoamericana. Special number: Bridging Continents: Cinematic and Literary Representations of Spanish and Latin American Themes, (Special Issue 2). 48-61.

(2002). Counted Days for the Lone Man: Decentered Masculinity and Ideology Fatigue in El hombre solo (1994) by Bernardo Atxaga and Días contados (1994) by Imanol Uribe. Anales de Literatura Espa-ola Contemporánea, 27(2). 291-316.

(2000). Poesía en los límites: traducción y tradición en la obra de Mercedes Roffé. Aerea. Revista Hispanoamericana de Poesía 3, 208-210.

(1999). La mirada femenina en el cine de la transición: Gary Cooper que estás en los cielos (1980) de Pilar Miró y Función de noche (1981) de Josefina Molina. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 5(1). 5-26.

(1999). Exilio económico: Inmigración, Xenofobia y Racismo en el cine espa-ol (Las cartas de Alou (1990) de Montxo Armendáriz y Bwana (1996) de Imanol Uribe). La nueva literatura hispánica. Número especial Los exilios de las Espa-as de 1939, 3. 217-254.

(1999). Mujer y Nación en el cine espa-ol de posguerra: los a-os 40. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 3, 51-70.

(1998). Intimidad y mestizaje literario: una entrevista con Nuria Amat. Letras Peninsulares, 11(2). 679-689.

(1996). Las ni-as del cine espa-ol: La evasión infantil en El espíritu de la colmena, El sur y Los a-os oscuros. Revista Hispánica Moderna, 49(2). 232-242.

(1995). La utilidad de la traducción y la redefinición de las ideologías: Don't Be Afraid, Gringo (No tengas miedo, gringo), testimonio de una campesina hondure-a. Estudios Interétnicos, 4. 35-57.

(1995). El desplazamiento del centro y la dispersión de los márgenes en el cine espa-ol de la democracia: Gary Cooper que estás en los cielos (1980) y Deprisa, deprisa (1980). Anuario de Cine y Literatura en espa-ol I, 3-16.

(1994). La creación del espacio femenino en la novela posmoderna de Espa-a y Latinoamerica: Ortiz, Montero, Molloy y Lynch. Actas del XXIX Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Tomo 3, Barcelona, 15-19, 65-75.

(1994). La función de las máscaras en Tres novelitas burguesas de José Donoso. Revista Iberoamericana (Special Issue on Chilean Literature of the 20th century) 60. 168-169, 60(168-169). 981-992.

(1993). The (anti-)feminism according to Montserrat Roig. Catalan Review. International Journal of Catalan Studies (Special Issue on Woman, History and Nation in the Works of Montserrat Roig and Maria Aurelia Capmany), 7(2). 117-128.

(1990). Visiones europeas de la Guerra Civil espa-ola: Malraux, Sartre, Orwell. Reverso , 3. 36-42.

(1989). La presencia de Don Quijote de Cervantes en Joseph Andrews de Fielding. Anales Cervantinos , XXVII. 215-224.

Book Chapters

Ballesteros, I. (2022). Colaboración artística en campamentos de refugiados. In Binimelis-Adell, M., & Varela-Huerta, A. (Eds.), Espectáculo de frontera y contranarrativas audiovisuales. (pp. 157-165). New York,USA. Peter Lang Publishing.

Ballesteros, I. (2022). Género y testimonio en el documental femenino de inmigración hecho en España. In Kerfa, S., Marchiori, D., & Mateus Mora, A. (Eds.), Le geste documentaire des réalisatrices (Quand les femmes filment) (pp. 1-18). Paris, France. Éditions Orbis Tertius.

Ballesteros, I. (2021). Espacios urbanos en dos documentales de inmigración: El otro lado… Un acercamiento a Lavapiés (2002) de Basel Ramsis y Si nos dejan (2004) de Ana Torres. In Fernández, Á., Belmonte, C., & Berthier, N. (Eds.), Filmar la ciudad (pp. 97-111). Guadalajara, México. University of Guadalajara University Press.

Ballesteros, I. (2020). Costa-Gavras’ Eden à l’Ouest (2009): Border-Crossing Odyssey and Comedy. In Pettey, H. (Ed.), The Films of Costa-Gravras (pp. 182-198). Manchester,UK. Manchester University Press.

Ballesteros, I. (2013). Feminine Spaces of Memory: Mourning and Melodrama in Para que no me olvides (2005) by Patricia Ferrerira. Essays on Hispanic and Lusophone Women Filmmakers. In Gutierrez Albilla, J., & Nair, P. (Eds.), Essays on Hispanic and Lusophone Women Filmmakers (pp. 42-53). UK. Manchester University Press.

Ballesteros, I. (2013). Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: from Madrid (1988) to New York (2010).. In Vernon, K., & D'Lugo, M. (Eds.), A Companion to the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar (pp. 365-386). UK. Blackwell-Wiley Publishing.

Ballesteros, I. (2012). El exilio en el cine espa-ol: Representaciones de la pérdida, la nostalgia y la imposibilidad del retorno. In Rodríguez, M. P. (Ed.), Exilio y Cine (pp. 111-121). Bilbao,Spain. Deusto University Press.

Ballesteros, I. (2012). Exile through a Gendered Lens: Women’s Displacement in Recent European History. In Zinn, G., & Tobin Stanley, M. (Eds.), Literature and Cinema (pp. 143-168). UK. Palgrave Macmillan.

Ballesteros, I. (2009). Immigration Cinema in/and the European Union. Basque. In Rodriguez, M. P. (Ed.), European Perspectives on Cultural and Media Studies (pp. 189-215). Reno, Nevada. Nevada University Press.

Ballesteros, I. (2009). Performing Identities in the Cinema of Pedro Almodovar. In Epps , B. S., & Kakoudaki, D. (Eds.), All about Almodovar. A Passion for Cinema (pp. 71-100). University of Nevada Press.

Ballesteros, I., Cody, G. H., & Sprinchorn, E. (2007). Theater of Urgency. The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama (pp. 1,339-1,340). New York. Columbia Univ. Press.

Ballesteros, I. (2003). Cultural Alliances: Film and Literature in the Socialist Period, 1982-1996. In Turner, H., & López de Martínez, A. (Eds.), Cambridge Companion to The Spanish Novel (pp. 231-250). UK. Cambridge University Press.

Ballesteros, I. (2000). Juventudes problemáticas en el cine de los 90: Salto al vacío (1995) de Daniel Calparsoro. In Cabello-Castellet, G., Martí-Olivella, J., & Wood, G. H. (Eds.), Cine-Lit 2000. Essays on Hispanic Film and Fiction (pp. 99-114). Corvallis, Oregon. Cine-Lit Publications.

Ballesteros, I. (1997). Elvia Alvarado: Historia y testimonio de una campesina hondure-a. In Jaramillo, M. M., & Osorio, B. (Eds.), Las desobedientes (pp. 458-495). Santafé de Bogotá: Panamericana. Mujeres de Nuestra América.

Ballesteros, I. (1995). La creación del espacio femenino en la escritura: la tendencia autobiográfica en la novela. In de Negret, B. O., Robledo, A., & Jaramillo, M. M. (Eds.), Literatura y diferencia. Autoras colombianas del siglo XX (pp. 349-381). Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia. Ediciones Uniandes y Editorial Universidad de Antioquía.

Ballesteros, I. (1992). Cine y Literatura: auto-afirmación y evasión en La función Delta de Rosa Montero. In Cabello-Castellet, G., Martí-Olivella, J., & Wood, G. H. (Eds.), Cine-Lit. Essays on Peninsular Film and Fiction (pp. 99-107). Portland, Oregon. Portland State University.

Presentations

Ballesteros, I. (2024, September 23). “La producción documental sobre el tema de la migración en España en el siglo XXI”. X Congreso de Migraciones 2022. Madrid: Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega-Marañón.

Ballesteros, I. (2021, September 15). Feminismo, afecto e impacto en tres documentales de inmigración. Webinar El documental feminista en Espa-a como agente del cambio social. Tarragona, Spain: Universidad Rovira i Virgili.

Ballesteros, I. (2021, July 16). Documenting Alternatives to Migration and Integration: Origen (2020) by Ana Pastor and No Nacimos Refugiados (2020) by Claudio Zulián. Coloquio Migrants and Refugees: Socio Political and Visual Approaches to Contemporary Documentaries. San Sebastián, Spain: Universidad de Deusto.

Ballesteros, I. (2021, June 12). Border crossings and death in the Southern European border: human traces and migrant micronarratives in Paralelo 36 (2004) by José Luis Tirado. Transitions, Moving Images and Bodies. Palermo: NECS 2021 Conference/University of Palermo.

Ballesteros, I. (2019, November 8). Comunicar el Otro: Inmigración, arte y activismo. Comunicación e Identidad(es): Jornadas de Encuentro de los equipos de investigación de Comunicación y de Estudios Vascos. San Sebastián, Spain: Department of communication and Basque Studies, Universidad de Deusto.

Ballesteros, I. (2019, October 3). Género y testimonio en el documental femenino de inmigración. International Inter-University Symposium: When Women Film: Documentary in the Iberian Peninsula and the Latin American Continent. Lyon/Grenoble, France: University of Grenoble-Alps/University Lumière Lyon 2/University of Tours.

Ballesteros, I. (2019, October 1). Inmigración, Arte y Activismo: ejercicios de auto-representación y acción colectiva. Séminaire interuniversitaire GAPP (Genre et Arts dans une perspective Poét(h)ique et Politique. Grenoble, France: Université Grenoble Alps.

Ballesteros, I. (2018, September 7). Espacios urbanos en el cine de inmigración: El otro lado: Un acercamiento a Lavapiés (2002) de Basil Ramsis y Si nos dejan de Ana Torres (2004). IX Coloquio Internacional Cine Iberoamericano Contemporáneo. New York City: Graduate Center of CUNY.

Ballesteros, I. (2018, April 6). Death in the Mediterranean: Contemporary Visual Art, Memorialization, and Activism. Sites of Religious Memory in an Age of Exodus. Columbia University, New York: Institute for Religion, Culture & Public Life at Columbia University.

Ballesteros, I. (2018, March 6). Finding Spanish Poetry in NYC Streets: The Great Poem by No One. Undergraduate Research and Civic Engagement. NYC: Baruch College.

Ballesteros, I. (2017, July 4). Inmigraci´ón, Arte y Activismo. Políticas de (in)visibilidad: tecnología y activismo en los medios audiovisuales. Zaragoza, Spain: ALCESXXI (Asociaci´ón Internacional de Literatura y Cine Espa-oles Siglo XXI).

Ballesteros, I. (2017, March 29). A conversation with Helena María Viramontes and Isolina Ballesteros on representations of migration in Latin/@ American film and literature. Migrations and the Americas. New York City: Fordham University.

Ballesteros, I. (2016, November 14). Border-Crossing Road Movies: Inverted Odysseys and Roads to Dystopia in Hispanic Immigration Cinema. Images of African and Latin American Migration and Border-Crossing in Cinema. Barnard College: The Institute of Latin American Studies (Columbia University) & the Spanish and Latin American Cultures Dpt. (Barnard College).

Ballesteros, I. (2015, November 20). Familia, nación y la retórica de la expiación en el cine espa-ol/europeo de inmigración. New York City: Graduate Center of CUNY.

Ballesteros, I. (2015, September 25). Tres instantes, Un grito: Round table discussion with Cecilia Barriga. Round table discussion with filmmaker Cecilia Barriga. New York: Graduate Center of CUNY.

Ballesteros, I. (2015, June 11). Female Transnational Migrations and Diasporas in European “Immigration Cinema”. Female Agency, Mobility and Socio-Cultural Change. Barcelona, Spain: United Nations University-Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility.

Ballesteros, I. (2015, May 22). Book Presentation: Immigration Cinema in the New Europe. New York: MacNally Jackson Bookstore.

Ballesteros, I. (2015, March 24). Immigration Cinema in the New Europe. AJJS Honor’s Program. New York City: Yeshiva University.

Ballesteros, I. (2014, October 29). Nación, Inmigración y Diáspora en el Cine Europeo. Coloquio Internacional “Cine, Literatura y Otras Relaciones Intermediales. San José, Costa Rica: Universidad de Costa Rica.

Ballesteros, I. (2014, June 11). Human Trafficking and Sex Work in European Immigration Cinema. New Directions in the Humanities. Madrid: Universidad CEU San Pablo.

Ballesteros, I. (2013, June 12). Moderator: Géneros cinematográficos: la comedia. IV Coloquio Internacional Cine Iberoamericano Contemporáneo. New York City: Graduate Center of CUNY.

Ballesteros, I. (2013, October 31). Gender in European Immigration Cinema. Visual Culture, Media and Gender. Boston, MA: Boston College.

Ballesteros, I. (2013, April 15). Masculinidades "móviles" en el cine de inmigración. 4 Workshop Internacional de Investigación: Representaciones de Nuevas Masculinidades. Madrid, Spain: Universidad Complutense.

Ballesteros, I. (2013, March 27). Moderator and Respondent. Film magazines and film culture in Spain (1920s – 1960s). New York: King Juan Carlos Center of NYU.

Ballesteros, I. (2012, July 18). Cine de (In)Migración: documentales europeos de la inmigración latinoamericana. Symposium Identidades y Fronteras en el Cine y la Televisión en la Era de la Globalización.” 54 International Congress of Americanists: “Building Dialogues in the Americas.. Vienna, Austria: International Congress of Americanists.

Ballesteros, I. (2012, October 19). Erotismo y cine espa-ol. Workshop: Erotismo y Cine espa-ol. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.

Ballesteros, I. (2012, March 2). Muerte de un ciclista by Juan Antonio Bardem. Spain’s Film Masters: Beyond Bu-uel and Almodóvar.. Parson’s School of Art and Design: Parson’s School of Art and Design and The School of Media Studies at The New School.

Ballesteros, I. (2011, November 24). El cine espa-ol del exilio y el exilio en el cine espa-ol. Exilio y Cine. San Sebastián, Spain: Universidad de Deusto.

Ballesteros, I. (2011, May 7). Depicting Reality through the Children’s Gaze (1970-2010). Representing Childhood in Spanish Cinema. New York: Instituto Cervantes.

Ballesteros, I. (2011, May 6). Éxodo rural, emigración e inmigración en la novela y el cine. De la literatura al cine: visiones de la Espa-a rural en la segunda mital del siglo XX. New York: The Delibes Chair at the Graduate Center of CUNY.

Ballesteros, I. (2011, April 5). La gran familia (1962) by Fernando Palacios. Film Series “Visual Culture and the Construction of Identity in Modern Spain”. New York: King Juan Carlos Center of NYU.

Ballesteros, I. (2010, August 16). Inverted Odysseys and Roads to Dystopia in European Immigration Cinema. XIX Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA). Seoul, Korea: Chung-Ang University.

Ballesteros, I. (2010, April 12). Conceptualizing Immigration Cinema. Perspectives on Immigration. New York: Baruch College, CUNY.

Ballesteros, I. (2010, March 3). Mujeres delante y detrás de la cámara. Film Series "Feminine Space: Women in Front and Behind the Camera". New York: Instituto Cervantes.

Ballesteros, I. (2009, November 4). Migration, Terrorism and Fictional Documentary: Chicos normales/Ordinary Boys (2008) by Daniel Hernández. Geographical Imaginaries and Hispanic Film. New Orleans, LA: Tulane University.

Ballesteros, I. (2009, April 14). Identidad y actuación en el cine de Pedro Almodóvar. New Orleans, LA: Tulane University.

Ballesteros, I. (2008, October 31). Conceptualizing ‘Immigration cinema’. Migrants and Migrations: Immigration and the Changing Notions of Citizenship in a Changing World. Miami: Africana Studies Program, University of Miami.

Ballesteros, I. (2008, November 12). Immigration Cinema in/and the European Union. Women Studies Seminar. Long Island, NY: Nassau Community College.

Ballesteros, I. (2008, July 31). The New Europe at the Crossroads. Foreign and Racial Masculinities in Contemporary Spanish Film, 12th Annual Conference. Maryland: Loyola College.

Ballesteros, I. (2008, April 3). Poniente (2002) by Chus Gutierrez: Family Melodrama, (Im)Migratory Experiences and Interracial Masculinities. Symposium "Atlantic Crossings: The Movement of People, Labor, and Commodity between Spain, Africa, and the Americas". Atlanta: Department of Modern & Classical Languages, George State University.

Ballesteros, I. (2007, December 19). Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven by Pilar Miro. Spanish Cinema Now Special Tribute: "Remembering Pilar Miro". New York: Film Society of the Lincoln Center.

Ballesteros, I. (2007, June 7). Ideología, compromiso social y crudeza visual: el cine de Eloy de la Iglesia. The Legacy of Eloy de la Iglesia. NY: Instituto Cervantes.

Ballesteros, I. (2007, March 29). Historia de las mujeres en Espa-a: De la Edad Moderna a los umbrales del siglo XX. Symposium on the publication of Historia de las mujeres en Espa-a y en América Latina. New York: Instituto Cervantes.

Ballesteros, I. (2007, April 12). Inmigración y Raza en el cine espa-ol contemporáneo. Vassar College: Department of Hispanic Studies.

Ballesteros, I. (2007, April 22). Migration and Border Crossings (Morocco, Cuba, Mexico) in Al otro lado [To the Other side] (2004) by Gustavo Loza. Annual Meeting. Puebla, México: American Comparative Literature Association.

Ballesteros, I. (2006, November 11). Espacios urbanos de memoria: En la ciudad sin límites (2002) de Antonio Hernández y Para que no me olvides (2005) de Patricia Ferreira. Memories of Modernity: An International Conference on Hispanic Cinemas. New York: SUNY at Stony Brook Manhattan.

Ballesteros, I. (2006, November 4). Law of Desire by Pedro Almodóvar. Viva Pedro!: Retrospective and Celebration of the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar. Huntington, NY: Cinema Arts Centre.

Ballesteros, I. (2006, February 10). Las lenguas del viajero by Marta López Luaces. Poetry Series. New York: King Juan Carlos Center of NYU.

Ballesteros, I. (2005, April 5). Cross-dressing Displacement/Assimilation: Gender Constructs and Performativity in J’ai pas de sommeil (1994) by Claire Denis and Lola und Bilidikid 1999) by Kutlug Ataman. Fortress Europe and Its “Others: Cultural Representations in Film, Media and the Arts. London: Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London.

Ballesteros, I. (2005, August 18). Espacios de memoria. Adaptación literaria y reconstrucción histórica. Seminar "La imprenta dinámica. Literatura y cine espa-ol en el cambio de siglo". Santander, Spain: Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo.

Ballesteros, I. (2005, March 12). Performing Identities in the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar. Sexual Politics and the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar. Cambridge, MA: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.

Ballesteros, I. (2004, October 12). Pedro Almodóvar: de la transgresión al canon. The Pleasure of Cinema: A Mini-Symposium on Pedro Almodóvar. Cambridge, MA: Real Colegio Complutense, Harvard University.

Ballesteros, I. (2004, May 7). La exhumación de la memoria histórica: la guerra civil espa-ola en Soldados de Salamina (Javier Cercas 2001, David Trueba 2002). Encounter Among Cultures: A Celebration of International Visual and Performing Arts. Queens, NY: Queensborough Community College, CUNY.

Ballesteros, I. (2003, November 29). Embracing the Other: The Feminization of Spanish ‘Immigration cinema. Hispanic Cinemas: The Local and the Global. London: Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London.

Ballesteros, I. (2003, October 23). The Feminization of Migration: Women in Spanish ‘Immigration Film’. . Cambridge, MA: Department of Department of Romance Languages and Literatures of Harvard University.

Ballesteros, I. (2003, March 13). Max Aub y el cine de la Guerra Civil: compromiso ético y estético. Tribute to Max Aub. New York: Barnard College.

Ballesteros, I. (2003, March 9). Nostalgia y Utopía en Silencio roto (2001) de Montxo Armendáriz y La guerrilla de la memoria (2002) de Javier Corcuera. 34th Annual Convention. Boston, MA: NEMLA.

Ballesteros, I. (2002, December 29). La recuperación del compromiso ideológico: Representaciones de la guerra civil espa-ola. 2002 Annual Convention. New York: MLA.

Ballesteros, I. (2002, May 10). Cine (Ins)urgente. Textos fílmicos y contextos culturales de la Espa-a posfranquista. Book presentation. New York: Instituto Cervantes.

Ballesteros, I. (2002, September 21). Nostalgia y Utopía en Soldados de Salamina (2001) de Javier Cercas. Hispanic Cultural Studies: The State of the Art. Tucson, Arizona: Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies.

Ballesteros, I. (2002, November 11). ‘Undesirable’ Otherness and ‘Immigration Film’ in the European Union. Violence and Recent Spanish Film. New York: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center of NYU.

Ballesteros, I. (2001, June 5). De (ins)urgencias y otras tendencias en el cine espa-ol de los 90. Sevilla: Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, Universidad de Sevilla.

Ballesteros, I. (2001, November 9). El cuerpo entregado: la sexualidad femenina en el cine espa-ol de las últimas décadas. Mujer y Cine. Stony Brook, NY: Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature, SUNY at Stony Brook.

Ballesteros, I. (2001, November 30). ’Undesirable’ Otherness: Cinematic Representations of Immigration in the European Union. Middlebury College: Center for International Affairs, European Studies, Office of International Diversity and Cook Commons at Middlebury College.

Ballesteros, I. (2001, June 3). Cine (Ins)urgente. Textos fílmicos y contextos culturales de la Espa-a posfranquista. Book presentation. Madrid, Spain: Filmoteca Nacional (National Film Archives).

Ballesteros, I. (2000, March 7). El Sur (1983) by Víctor Erice: From Novel to Film. Film Series in Cinema and Literature. New York: Instituto Cervantes.

Ballesteros, I. (2000, February 21). Juventudes problemáticas en el cine de los 90: Salto al vacío (1995) de Daniel Calparsoro. Cine-Lit 2000: An International Conference on Hispanic Literature and Cinematographies. Portland, Oregon: Portland State University.

Ballesteros, I. (2000, December 28). Twentieth-Century Spanish Film: The (Re)Construction of a Nation. Division of Twentieth Century Spanish Literature. Washington DC: 2000 MLA Convention.

Ballesteros, I. (2000, November 4). En busca de la familia perdida: Simulacro y espectáculo en Familia (1997) de Fernando León y Éxtasis (1996) de Mariano Barroso. Spain in the Twenty-First Century: Literature, the Arts, and Culture. An International Symposium. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University.

Ballesteros, I. (2000, April 14). Simulacros familiares en el cine de los 90. 21st Conference on Latin American and Spanish Literature. Montclair, NJ: Montclair State University.

Ballesteros, I. (1999, October 21). Exile Revisited: Immigration, Xenophobia and Racism in Spanish Film. The Spanish Exile of 1939: Sixty Years. Old themes, New Beginnings. College Park, MD: University of Maryland.

Ballesteros, I. (1999, July 8). Screening African Immigration to Spain: Las cartas de Alou (1990) by Montxo Armendáriz and Bwana (1996) by Imanol Uribe. The New Europe at the Crossroads. Berlin: Teikyo University.

Ballesteros, I. (1999, February 18). ETA in Imanol Uribe's Basque Filmography: The case of Días contados (1994). Film Series: "Armed and Dangerous: Terrorism and Violence in Europe. New York University: Center for European Studies.

Ballesteros, I. (1999, November 4). Convergencias y alianzas culturales: cine y literatura en la Espa-a postfranquista. Boston College: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.

Ballesteros, I. (1998, October 29). Lo verde empieza en los Pirineos (1973) de Vicente Escrivá: la 'comedia sexy ibérica' del tardofranquismo. Film Series: Spain in European Cinema and Europe in Spanish Cinema. New York University: King Juan Carlos Center of NYU.

Ballesteros, I. (1998, December 28). Portrait of the Nation as a Woman in Francoist Cinema. 1998 MLA Convention. San Francisco, California: MLA.

Ballesteros, I. (1998, December 4). Federico García Lorca en el cine espa-ol. Lorca Today: Commemorative Events on the Centennial of the Birth of Federico García Lorca. Columbia University: Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

Ballesteros, I. (1998, December 2). The Silent Presence: Images of Women on Spanish Film. New York: Department of Foreign Languages of Manhattanville College.

Ballesteros, I. (1998, September 19). Travestismo y transexualidad en el cine postfranquista. XI Conferencia Internacional. Phoenix, Arizona: Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, Arizona State University.

Ballesteros, I. (1998, April 24). Pilar Miró: testimonio personal y política administrativa (1976-1986). Homenaje a Pilar Miró (1940-1997). New York: Barnard College.

Ballesteros, I. (1997, April 15). Bwana by Imanol Uribe. Spring 1997 Film Series: Voices from the Periphery: Europe's Marginalized Ethnicities on Film. New York University: Center for European Studies.

Ballesteros, I. (1997, June 6). Feminidad almodovariana o la representación grotesca del sistema patriarcal. XVII Asamblea General de ALDEEU (Asociación de Licenciados y Doctores Espa-oles en los EE.UU). New York: Graduate Center of CUNY.

Ballesteros, I. (1997, February 23). Días contados para el hombre solo: la representación del etarra en El hombre solo (1994) de Bernardo Atxaga y Días contados (1994) de Imanol Uribe. Cine-Lit III. Portland, Oregon: Portland State University.

Ballesteros, I. (1997, February 28). The Image of Women in Spanish Cinema. 1997 Iberian Festival. Roger Smith Hotel, New York: Instituto Cervantes.

Ballesteros, I. (1997, June 29). El sujeto masculino terrorista en La muerte de Mikel (1983) y Días contados (1994) de Imanol Uribe. First Conference on Identidad Espa-ola e Hispanoamericana en el Cine y la Literatura. Valladolid, Spain: Universidad de Valladolid.

Ballesteros, I. (1996, April 26). Women On-screen: Almodovarian Femininity or the Comedy of Patriarchy. Syracuse University: Department of Spanish.

Ballesteros, I. (1996, March 23). El monstruo y el mito: la evasión infantil de los a-os oscuros. The Male and Female Image. New York: Dept. of Hispanic and Italian Studies of University, SUNY Albany.

Ballesteros, I. (1996, October 31). El espíritu de la colmena/The Spirit of the Beehive by Víctor Erice. 50 years of Film from Spain and Spanish America. : Cuny-TV Channel 75-New York.

Ballesteros, I. (1996, November 2). Victoria Abril y el estrellato posfranquista. II Conference "Foreign Films and Literature". Philadelphia: Villanova University.

Ballesteros, I. (1995, October 21). El cuerpo entregado: la sexualidad femenina como espectáculo en el cine espa-ol de los 90. VI Conferencia Internacional de la Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica. New York: Barnard College.

Ballesteros, I. (1995, August 6). Masoquismo y lesbianismo en Extramuros de Miguel Picazo. I Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades. Madrid: Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades.

Ballesteros, I. (1995, October 31). El espíritu de la colmena/The Spirit of the Beehive by Víctor Erice. 50 years of Film from Spain and Spanish America. New York: Cuny-TV Channel 75.

Ballesteros, I. (1995, February 24). La utilidad de la traducción y la redefinición de las ideologías: Don't Be Afraid, Gringo (No tengas miedo, gringo), testimonio de una campesina hondure-a. III Congreso Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana. Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala

Ballesteros, I. (1995, March 14). Urraca by Lourdes Ortiz: The Androgynous Chronicle of a Spanish Queen. Spanish and Latin American Women's Identity. New York, NY: Women's History Month, Borough of Manhattan Community College of CUNY.

Ballesteros, I. (1994, January 25). The Nun and the Queen: Feminine Discourse and Sexual Transgression in Extramuros and Urraca. University of Chicago: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.

Ballesteros, I. (1994, October 22). La función Delta de Rosa Montero: diario de enfermedad y escritura de memorias. V International Conference. Davidson College, North Carolina: Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica.

Ballesteros, I. (1994, November 12). El desplazamiento del centro y la dispersión de los márgenes en el cine espa-ol de la democracia. I Conference on Foreign Films and Literature. Philadelphia: Villanova University.

Ballesteros, I. (1993, June 4). La mirada/escritura femenina según Monserrat Roig. 7th NACS (North American Catalan Society) Colloquium. Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley.

Ballesteros, I. (1993, February 27). La soledad era esto de Juan José Millás: diario y autoanálisis (La recuperación del vínculo materno). La Chispa 1993. New Orleans, LA

Ballesteros, I. (1993, April 17). La mujer como protagonista en la novela espa-ola posfranquista. XIII Asamblea General of ALDEEU (Asociación de Licenciados y Doctores Espa-oles en los EE.UU). Boston, MA: ALDEEU.

Ballesteros, I. (1992, June 19). La creación del espacio femenino en la novela posmoderna de Espa-a y Latinoamérica: Ortiz, Montero, Molloy y Lynch. XXIX Congreso Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Barcelona, Spain: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana.

Ballesteros, I. (1991, March 3). Cine y Literatura: auto-afirmación y evasión en La función Delta de Rosa Montero. Cine-Lit. An International Conference on Spain's Literatures and Cinematographies. Portland, Oregon: Portland State University.

Ballesteros, I. (1990, April 7). Diario de un hombre humillado: novela de la auto-alienación. I International Conference Spain toward the 21st Century: Literature and Culture. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University.

Ballesteros, I. (1989, July 8). Malraux's L'espoir and the Spanish Civil War. Literature, Revolution and War Conference. University of Auckland, New Zealand: Department of Romance Languages.

Other Scholarly Works

Ballesteros, I. (2017). Book endorsement (Spanish Erotic Cinema by Santiago Fouz-Hernandez).

Reviews

Ballesteros, I. (2019,January 1). Book Review of Rocking the Boat: Migration and Race in Contemporary Spanish Music by Silvia Bermudez. New York, NY,USA: Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies.

Ballesteros, I. (2018,January 1). Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War. History, Fiction, Photography. Tucson, AZ: Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies .

Ballesteros, I. (2017,September 26). Review of book In Permanent Crisis: Ethnicity in Contemporary European Media and Cinema. London,UK: London School of Economics Review of Books.

Ballesteros, I. (2009,January 1). Review of book La gramática de la felicidad. Relecturas franquistas y posmodernas del melodrama by Annabel Martín. Tucson, Arizona: Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies .

Ballesteros, I. (2007,January 1). Las lenguas del destierro by Marta López Luaces. Aerea. Anuario Hispanoamericano de Poesía.

Ballesteros, I. (2006,January 1). Review of book Imagi/nación. La feminización de la nación en el cine espa-ol y latinoamericano by María Donapetry. Tucson, Arizona: Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies.

Ballesteros, I. (2006,January 1). Review of book Los “Otros”. Etnicidad y “raza” en el cine espa-ol contemporáneo by Isabel Santaolalla. UK: Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, Intellect .

Ballesteros, I. (2005,January 1). Contemporary Spanish Culture. TV, Fashion, Art and Film by Paul Julian Smith. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies.

Ballesteros, I. (2002,January 1). A Spanish Labyrinth. The Films of Pedro Almodóvar by Mark Allinson. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos.

Ballesteros, I. (2002,January 1). The Ethics of Autobiography by Ángel Loureiro. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies.

Ballesteros, I. (2001,December 1). Los mundos de Bu-uel by Víctor Fuentes. Revista Hispánica Moderna.

Ballesteros, I. (1999,January 1). Severo Sarduy y Pedro Almodóvar: del barroco al kitsch en la narrativa y el cine postmodernos by Alejandro Varderi. Anales de Literatura Espa-ola Contemporánea.

Ballesteros, I. (1999,June 1). La escena madrile-a entre 1926 y 1931 by Dru Dougherty and María Francisca de Vilches. Revista Hispánica Moderna.

Ballesteros, I. (1995,June 1). Crossfire. Philosophy and the Novel in Spain, 1900-1934 by Roberta Johnson. Revista Hispánica Moderna.

Research Currently in Progess

Ballesteros, I.(n.d.). Europe's Immigration Crisis, Visual Art, and Activism. In Progress.

Book about the uses and function of visual art to produce awareness, activism, and civic transformation about immigration and the refugee crisis in Europe.

Ballesteros, I.(n.d.). Feminismo, afecto e impacto en tres documentales de inmigración. In Progress.

Article to be included in collection of essays titled: Tendencias del documental feminista en la España del siglo XXI, in Fotocinema. Revista Científica de Cine y Fotografía, Núm. 29 (July 2024). Editors: Laia Quilez, Nuria Arauna and Cosimo Marco Scarcelli

TitleFunding Agency SponsorStart DateEnd DateAwarded DateTotal FundingStatus
Europe's Migration Crisis, Visual and Performing Art, and ActivismPSC-CUNY 5007/01/201912/31/202004/13/20195000Completed
Migration, Visual Art, and ActivismPSC-CUNY 4807/01/201706/30/201804/14/20174530Completed
The Other Spanish Cinema: “Crowdfunding” and “Transmedia”PSC-CUNY 4607/01/201506/30/201604/17/20154470Completed
Human Trafficking and Sexual Work in European Immigration FilmPSC-CUNY 4207/01/201106/30/201204/15/20113990Completed
Migration, Border-Crossing and Displacement in European Immigration CinemaPSC-CUNY 4107/01/201006/30/20113990Completed
Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Immigration in European “Immigration Cinema”PSC-CUNY 4007/01/200906/30/20103990Completed
Undesirable Otherness and “Immigration Film in the European UnionPSC-CUNY 3807/01/200706/30/20084770Completed
Honor / AwardOrganization SponsorDate ReceivedDescription
Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (1992-1994)1994
Teaching Fellowship (Jaunary 1987- May 1990)Dept. of Modern and Foreign Languages and Literatures, Boston University1990

College

Committee NamePosition RoleStart DateEnd Date
Study Abroad in SalamancaFaculty AdvisorPresent
Women's and Gender Studies ProgramCommittee MemberPresent
Job Search Committee MLCL DepartmentCommittee MemberPresent
Spanish Curriculum Committee, MLCLCommittee MemberPresent
Social Committee, MLCLCommittee ChairPresent
Executive Committee of MLCL DepartmentCommittee MemberPresent
Job Search Committee MLCL DepartmentCommittee MemberPresent
Filmmaking in Cuba NowOrganizer of talk by Cuban filmmaker Adolfo Mena CejasPresent
DEI AllianceCommittee MemberPresent
Standing Committee, Film Studies ProgramCommittee MemberPresent
Committee on Undergraduate Honors ProgramCommittee Member5/31/2018
Weissman Curriculum CommitteeCommittee Member5/31/2017
Global Studies MinorCommittee Member9/30/2016
Weissman Diversity Strategic PlanCommittee Member9/30/2016
Weissman Representative to Zicklin6/30/2014
Evaluation Study Abroad Program, Salamanca, SpainFaculty Advisor9/12/2012
Weissman Executive CommitteeCommittee Member5/31/2012
Secretary for departmental meetingsSecretary5/31/2011
Learning Communities: LTT 28505/31/2010
WAC/WID Faculty Partners ProgramCommittee Member12/31/2008
Learning Communities: LTT 28505/31/2008
Guided Field Trip to P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center: "WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution" exhibit, Women's History Month3/7/2008
“Out of Bounds: Trespassing in Chilean’s Women’s Writing,” Talk and Discussion with Writer Lina Meruane from Santiago, Chile/Women’s History MonthCoordinator3/28/2007

University

Committee NamePosition RoleStart DateEnd Date
PSC-CUNY, Comparative Literature and Modern Languages panelReviwer of grant applications1/1/2018Present
Executive Committee of LAILACCommittee Member5/1/2021Present
Admissions Committee, LAILACCommittee Member9/1/2021Present
PhD Exams Committee, LAILAC, Graduate Center of CUNYCommittee Member8/1/2016Present
PhD dissertation Committee LAILAC, Pedro CabelloCommittee Member11/6/2020Present
Phd Dissertation Committee LAILAC, Mayte LópezCommittee Member4/30/2021Present
Lartin Program of Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures, Graduate Center of CUNYFaculty Advisor8/1/2014Present
SPAN 87200: Cinematic Activism: Historical Memory, Migrations, and Social Movements Professor1/26/20235/25/2023
PhD Dissertaton Committee LAILAC, Lorena PazCommittee Member4/7/202012/15/2022
PhD Dissertation Committee LAILAC, Sara CordonCommittee Member12/13/20188/5/2022
PdD dissertation Committee LAILAC, Salvador Gómez BarrancoCommittee Member11/1/20184/30/2020
PhD Dissertation Committee LAILAC, Isabel Domínguez SeoaneCommittee Member10/1/201712/10/2019
Master's thesis, Graduate Center of CUNY, Jason ManriqueFaculty Advisor6/1/20184/30/2019
PhD Dissertation Committee LAILAC, Kristina JacobsCommittee Member4/1/20174/12/2019
Race, Ethnicity, Immigration and Diaspora in Contemporary Spanish Culture9/1/201712/31/2017
PhD Dissertation Committee LAILAC, Carmen ValenzuelaCommittee Member9/1/201311/29/2017
PhD Dissertation Committee LAILAC, Mariana GracianoCommittee Member4/18/20168/20/2017
SPAN 87200: Ethics, Aesthetics and Historical Memory of the Spanish Civil WarProfessor8/28/201412/18/2014
PSC-CUNY: Women's Studies PanelCommittee Member9/1/20075/31/2010
CUNY Council for Foreign LanguagesCommittee Member9/1/20065/31/2008

Professional

OrganizationPosition RoleOrganization StateOrganization CountryStart DateEnd DateAudience
Collective Research project “ColectiVIS-ARTS; recherches sur la praxis artistique (arts visuels) des femmes dans les collectives d’artistes, mixtes et non mixtes”Task Force MemberFrance3/1/2021Present
Collective Research project PGC2018-097966-B-I00: “Articulaciones del género en el documental espa-ol contemporáneo: Una perspectiva interseccional”Task Force MemberSpain1/1/2019Present
LLJournal Departament of Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures (LAILAC), Graduate Center, CUNYReviewer, Journal ArticleUnited States Of America (+1)9/1/2018Present
Journal of Mediterranean StudiesReviewer, Journal ArticleMSDMalta8/1/2015Present
Deusto University Press, Univesidad de DeustoEditorial Review Board MemberSpain9/1/2010Present
Université Grenoble AlpesCommittee MemberAlpesFrance7/1/2019PresentInternational
Blackwell PressReviewer, Book1/1/2008Present
Hispanófila: Romance Studies PublicationsReviewer, Journal ArticleNorth CarolinaUnited States1/1/2006Present
Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies Reviewer, Journal ArticleAzUnited States1/1/1999Present
Bulletin of Hispanic StudiesReviewer, Journal Article1/1/2010Present
Universidad de Santiago de CompostelaCommittee MemberGaliciaSpain9/1/20211/14/2022International

Public

OrganizationPosition RoleOrganization StateOrganization CountryStart DateEnd DateAudience
Universidad Castilla-La ManchaOfficer, SecretaryCastilla-La ManchaSpain12/12/201912/12/2019
University of MiamiTenure peer review for Yvonne Gavela-RamosFloridaUnited States9/30/2015
Scripps CollegeOfficer, Other OfficerCaliforniaUnited States1/31/2015
Fulbright Award (Spain and Portugal) Grant Proposal Reviewer, ExternalNew York9/1/200912/31/2009
Manuscript evaluation, A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar’s Cinema for Blackwell Press1/1/200812/31/2008
Manuscript evaluation, Close-ups: 100 Years of Spanish CinemaGrant Proposal Reviewer, ExternalMassachusetts1/1/200812/31/2008
Manuscript evaluation. The Seduction of Modern Spain: The Female Body and the Francoist Body Politic by Aurora Morcillo for University of Minnesota PressGrant Proposal Reviewer, External1/31/2008
MLA Executive Committee of the Division on Twentieth-Century Spanish LiteratureCommittee Chair1/1/200512/31/2006
MLA Executive Committee of the Division on Twentieth-Century Spanish LiteratureCommittee Member1/1/200212/31/2006
Columbia University Seminar on Oral Proficiency Test1/31/1995
Harvard University Special Pedagogical Training: Romance Linguistics 200. A course on language and literature teaching methodologies, with its practicum on teaching techniques12/31/1990