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Malcolm A Compitello

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  • (520) 621-3730
  • MODERN LANGUAGE, Rm. 545
  • TUCSON, AZ 85721-0067
  • compitel@arizona.edu
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Awards

  • Visiting Scholar February and March 2019
    • University of Verona through faculty exchange program sponsored by the Italian Government, Spring 2019
  • College of Humanities Center for Digital Humanities Pilot Project Development Award
    • College of Humanities, Center for Digitial Humanities, Fall 2018
  • College of Humanities Faculty Research Grant
    • College of Humanities, Fall 2018
  • Outstanding Alumni
    • Department of Foreign Languages, St. John's University, New York, Fall 2017
  • Honors Faculty
    • Honors College, Fall 2012

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Courses

2021-22 Courses

  • Dissertation
    SPAN 920 (Spring 2022)

2020-21 Courses

  • Reading Literary Genres
    LAS 350 (Spring 2021)
  • Reading Literary Genres
    SPAN 350 (Spring 2021)
  • Tpcs Hispanic Literature
    SPAN 561 (Spring 2021)
  • Dissertation
    SPAN 920 (Fall 2020)
  • Reading Literary Genres
    SPAN 350 (Fall 2020)
  • Tps in Span Lit & Cult Stds
    SPAN 449A (Fall 2020)

2019-20 Courses

  • Dissertation
    SPAN 920 (Spring 2020)
  • Issues in Spanish Culture
    SPAN 430 (Spring 2020)
  • Reading Literary Genres
    SPAN 350 (Spring 2020)
  • Dissertation
    SPAN 920 (Fall 2019)
  • Independent Study
    SPAN 699 (Fall 2019)
  • Spanish Peninsular Lit
    SPAN 696A (Fall 2019)

2018-19 Courses

  • Dissertation
    SPAN 920 (Spring 2019)
  • Dissertation
    SPAN 920 (Fall 2018)

2017-18 Courses

  • Dissertation
    SPAN 920 (Summer I 2018)
  • Dissertation
    SPAN 920 (Spring 2018)
  • Intro to Hispanic Studies
    SPAN 501 (Spring 2018)
  • Dissertation
    SPAN 920 (Fall 2017)

2016-17 Courses

  • Dissertation
    SPAN 920 (Spring 2017)
  • Independent Study
    SPAN 599 (Spring 2017)
  • Intro to Hispanic Studies
    SPAN 501 (Spring 2017)
  • Dissertation
    SPAN 920 (Fall 2016)
  • Special Topics in Humanities
    HNRS 195J (Fall 2016)

2015-16 Courses

  • Dissertation
    SPAN 920 (Spring 2016)
  • Independent Study
    SPAN 599 (Spring 2016)
  • Independent Study
    SPAN 699 (Spring 2016)
  • Intro to Hispanic Studies
    SPAN 501 (Spring 2016)

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Scholarly Contributions

Chapters

  • Compitello, M. A. (2019). “Rebel Cities: Madrid and the Cultural Contestation of Space.”. In Cartographies of Madrid: Contesting Urban Space at the Crossroads of the Global South and Global North(pp 21-48).
  • Compitello, M. A. (2014). “Capital, Mobility, and Spatial Exclusion in Fernando León de Aranoa’s Barrio (1998). In Marxism and Urban Culture(pp 23-42). New York: Lexington Books.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2014). “Sketching the Future Furiously: The Movida, Graphic Design and the Urban Process in Madrid”. In Back to the Future: Towards a Cultural Archive of the Movida(pp 203-232). Lantham, MD: Fairleigh Dickinson UP/Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2013). “La metrópolis como frontera: Ultimas noticias del paraíso de Clara Sánchez.”. In Frontiere, confini, limiti, soglie/Fronteras, límites, confines, umbrales/Boundaries, Limits, Borders, Thresholds. Settimo quaderno del Dottorato in Letterature Straniere e Scienze della Letteratura Universita` di Verona(pp 9-25). Verona: Edizioni Fiorini.

Journals/Publications

  • Compitello, M. A. (2018). From the Classroom to the World and Back Again. Cultural Studies as Mediator of Curricular and Global Change. ADFL Bulletin, 44(2), 90-101. doi:10.1632/adfl.44.2.90
  • Compitello, M. A. (2017). “Urban Fortunes: Spatialzing the Community of Money in Alex de la Iglesia’s La comunidad.”. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 4(1-2), 155-175.
  • Compitello, M. . (2011). Landing the Big One! Securing Work at Today’s Public Research I Institution. ADFL Bulletin, 41(3), 87-93.
  • Fraser, B., Larson, S., & Compitello, M. A. (2014). Notes on the Renegotiation of a Hispanic Studies Canon: Confronting Our Canons. ADFL Bulletin, 43(1), 77-90.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2013). “City Present in City Past:Rafael Chirbes’ Cartographic Imaginary.”. International Journal of Iberian Studies, 26(1-2), 41-63.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2012). “A Good Plan Gone Bad: From Operation Atocha to the Gentrification of Lavapiés.”. Journal of the Constructed Environment, 2(2), 75-94.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2011). “Landing the Big One! Securing Work at Today’s Today’s Public Research 1 Institution.”. ADFL Bulletin, 41(3), 87-93.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2008). “Cultural Studies and the Undergraduate Curriculum in Spanish.”. ADFL Bulletin, 40(1), 30-36.

Presentations

  • Compitello, M. A. (2019, April). "Mapping Juan Madrid". Annual Convention AAG (Association of American Geographers). Washington DC: AAG (Association of American Geographers).
  • Compitello, M. A. (2019, May). “Mapping Juan Madrid: A Case Study in Developing a Digital Tool to Map Texts in Real Spaces,”. 9th International Conference on the Constructed Environment. Guimaraes Portugal: Society for the Study of the Constructed Environment.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2019, November). “The Problems in Mapping (Juan Madrid),”. Annual Conference of the Midwest Modern Languages Association. Chicago: Midwest Modern Languages Association (M/MLA).
  • Compitello, M. A. (2019, October). “The Spaces and Places of Hispanic Cultural Studies,”. Language, Image, Power: Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies Theory and Practice. Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2018, June). “The Architecture of Foreign Language Education.” Keynote Address. ADFL Seminar North. East Lansing, MI: ADFL.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2018, November). “Gentrification, Hipsters and Food Culture: Argumosa, Santa Isabel and the Transformation of Working Class Areas in Madrid’s City Center,”. Midwest Modern Language Assocciation MMLA. Kansas City, MO: MMLA.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2017, April). “From Resistance, To Resistance . . . To Resistance and Back Again: Cultural Precariousness and Contesting 15-M Exceptionalism.”. American Association of Geographers. Boston: AAG.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2017, April). “Rebel Cities: Madrid and the Cultural Contestation of Space”. American Association of Geographers. Boston: AAG.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2017, October). “A Tale of Two Streets: Argumosa, Santa Isabel and the Gentrification of Working Class Areas in Madrid’s City Center,”. ,” Seventh International Conference on Food Studies. Rome Italy: Common Ground Publishing and International and Food Studies: An International Journal.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2017, October). “Forces Unleashed: Why the Spanish Civil War Still Matters.”. Humanities Festival. University of Arizona: College of Humanities.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2016, April). “Constructing Madrid.”. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2016, April). “Constructing Virtual Spaces and Social Resistance: Lessons from Cibola.”. Conference on the Constructed Environment. Tucson, AZ: Common Ground Publishing, International Journal on the Constructed Environment, University of Arizona.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2016, January). MLA Roundtable on Connected Academics. MLA Convention. Austin, TX: Modern Language Association.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2016, January). “The State of Spanish Enrollments.” Remarks made at the Roundtable Enrollments in Languages Other Than English" organized by the MLA Office of Research. MLA Convention. Austin, TX: Modern Language Association.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2016, June). "From the Classroom to the World and Back Again: Cultural Studies as Mediator of Curricular and Global Change." Keynote Address. ADFL Seminar West. Monterrey, CA: ADFL.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2016, June). “Shopping for Signs of Change: Commerce, Gentrification, Immigration and the Creation of Cultural Imaginaries in Madrid's City Center.”. VIII Congreso Internacional de la Hispanic Association of Humanities. Madrid, Spain: Hispanic Association of Humanities.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2015, April). “From Anarchism to the Indignados and Back Again.”. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2015, February). “Structuring Resistance in Basel Ramses’ El otro lado: un acercamiento a Lavapiés.”. CINE-LIT VIII. Portland, OR: Portland State University, University of Oregon, Oregon State University.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2015, July). “Contestación cultural del espacio: desde los okupas hasta los indignados”. ALCES XXI. Soria, Spain: ALCES XXI.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2015, November). “Javier de Juan and the Reinvention of Graphic Design in Spain.”. Midwest Modern Language Association. Columbus, OH: MMLA.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2015, October). “Port Said and the Role of Graphic Design in Structuring the Movida.”. Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Confernce. Charleston, SC: Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference and College of Charleston.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2015, September). “The Place of Tiempo de silencio” 20TH Annual Merle E. Simmons Distinguished Alumni Lecture. Indiana University. Merle E. Simmons Annual Lecture. Bloomington, IN: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2014, April). “Rebel Cities: Madrid and the Cultural Contestation of Space from the Okupas to the Precarios.”. ACLA Annual Convention. New York, NY: American Comparative Literature Association.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2014, November). “Rebel Cities: Madrid and the Cultural Contestation of Space from the Okupas to the Indignados.”. International Conference on the Constructed Environment. Philadelphia, PA: Common Ground Publishing and International Journal of the Constructed Environment.
  • Compitello, M. A. (2014, November). “Shopping On Up.”. MMLA. Dearborn, MI: Midwest Modern Language Association.

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