Cossio, Dinorah

Zimmer: O2.29 (Hauptgebäude, Stiege VI)
E-Mail: dinorah.cossio@univie.ac.at

Project: “Abnormal Motherhoods: Precariousness, Sterility and Anxiety in 20th and 21st Century Spanish Cinema”, funded by HORIZON-MCSA (in collaboration with Margareth Lanzinger)

Ausbildung und Laufbahn

  • 2021     Ph.D. in Iberian and Latin American Languages and Cultures, University of Texas at Austin, Dissertation: What Have I Done to Deserve This? “Abnormal Motherhoods” in 21st Century Spanish and Argentinian Cultural Production
  • 2011     MA in Literary Studies, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • 2008     BA in Philosophy, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Gender Studies
  • Film Studies
  • Motherhood Studies
  • Contemporary Latin American and Spanish Literature

Netzwerke und Aktivitäten

  • 2023             Margarita Salas, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • 2022             Mellon Grant Course Development, Guilford College
  • 2021             Nomination Outstanding Dissertation Award, UT Austin
  • 2020-21        Graduate Continuing Bruton Fellowship, UT Austin
  • 2020             Fath Fellowship, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, UT Austin   
  • 2019             Graduate School Summer Fellowship, UT Austin
  • 2019             Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach Scholarship, UT Austin       
  • 2017             Latin American Studies Association Conference Travel Award
  • 2017             Field Research Grant, Argentine Studies Program, UT Austin
  • 2016             Funding Grant, Middlebury Summer School of Hebrew
  • 2015, 17, 19 Appleman Graduate Fellowship, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, UT Austin
  • 2015 - 2019  Professional Development Award, UT Austin
  • 2012             Hebrew Ulpan Scholarship, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs          
  • 2008 - 2010  Graduate Studies Scholarship, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • Storie in Movimento – Zapruder – co-founder and member

Selected Publications

  • “Ambivalencia y toxicidad: el vínculo materno-filial en Distancia de rescate”. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 45 (3): 543-577.
  • “‘No por mucho más sufrir vas a ser mejor madre’: la maternidad sacrificial y la naturalizació delcuidado en Madres. Amor y vida”. Motherhood, Social Reproduction and Care in Neoliberal Times: Decolonizing the Patriarchal Imaginary, special issue of Journal of Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film 5: 52-98.
  • “La preocupación por el origen: el género autobiográfico entre lo judío y lo nacional”, Autobiografia ebraica: identità e narrazione. Consonanze 22: 245-253.
  • “Proceso a Jesús: modernización y antisemitismo en la Iglesia española de los 70”. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 20 (3): 445-459.