Benjamin R Fraser
- Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
- (520) 621-7347
- Modern Languages, Rm. 545
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- fraserb@arizona.edu
Biography
Benjamin Fraser is Professor of Hispanic Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese in the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. He is a previous Department Head (2018-2019) and has held faculty positions at Christopher Newport University, the College of Charleston, and East Carolina University, where he was Department Chair from 2014-2018. Fraser is the Founding and Executive Editor of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Senior Editor of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Co-Editor of the Hispanic Urban Studies book series, and Editor-In-Chief of Hispania (2018-2021). He has published sixteen books and some eighty essays on themes of urban life, disability, transportation and mobility, literary and cultural studies, and film and visual studies.
Degrees
- Ph.D. Spanish
- University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
- M.A. Spanish
- University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
- B.A. Anthropology and Spanish; Echols Scholar
- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Work Experience
- University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (2019 - Ongoing)
- University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (2018 - 2019)
- East Carolina University (2014 - 2018)
- College of Charleston (2013 - 2014)
- College of Charleston (2010 - 2013)
- Christopher Newport University (2006 - 2010)
Interests
Research
Comics, Graphic Novels, Cities, Urban Studies, Geo-Humanities, Literature, Film, Cinema, Documentary, Popular Culture, Music, Architecture, Urban Planning, Disability Studies, Mobility Studies, Continental Philosophy, Henri Bergson, Henri Lefebvre, Spain, Latin American Studies, Iberian Studies, Catalan Studies, Barcelona, Madrid, Railway, Deaf Studies, Science Fiction
Teaching
Comics, Graphic Novels, Cities, Urban Studies, Geo-Humanities, Literature, Film, Cinema, Documentary, Popular Culture, Music, Architecture, Urban Planning, Disability Studies, Mobility Studies, Continental Philosophy, Henri Bergson, Henri Lefebvre, Spain, Latin American Studies, Iberian Studies, Catalan Studies, Barcelona, Madrid, Railway, Deaf Studies, Science Fiction
Courses
2024-25 Courses
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Dissertation
SPAN 920 (Fall 2024)
2023-24 Courses
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Dissertation
SPAN 920 (Spring 2024) -
Reading Literary Genres
SPAN 350 (Spring 2024) -
Dissertation
SPAN 920 (Fall 2023) -
Reading Literary Genres
SPAN 350 (Fall 2023)
2022-23 Courses
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Independent Study
SPAN 599 (Spring 2023) -
Reading Literary Genres
SPAN 350 (Spring 2023) -
Tps in Span Lit & Cult Stds
SPAN 449A (Spring 2023) -
Spanish Peninsular Lit
SPAN 696A (Fall 2022)
2021-22 Courses
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Reading Literary Genres
LAS 350 (Spring 2022) -
Reading Literary Genres
SPAN 350 (Spring 2022) -
Independent Study
SPAN 599 (Fall 2021) -
Tps in Span Lit & Cult Stds
SPAN 449A (Fall 2021)
2020-21 Courses
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Reading Literary Genres
LAS 350 (Spring 2021) -
Reading Literary Genres
SPAN 350 (Spring 2021) -
Tps in Span Lit & Cult Stds
SPAN 449A (Spring 2021) -
Reading Literary Genres
SPAN 350 (Fall 2020) -
Spanish Peninsular Lit
SPAN 696A (Fall 2020)
Scholarly Contributions
Books
- Fraser, B. (2023). Beyond Sketches of Spain. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780197549285.001.0001
- Fraser, B. R. (2023). Ben Katchor (Biographix series with UPM, series editor F. L. Aldama).
- Fraser, B. R. (2023). Tete Montoliu and the Construction of Iberian Jazz: Beyond Sketches of Spain. University of Oxford Press.
- Fraser, B. R. (2021). Barcelona, City of Comics: Urbanism, Architecture and Design in Postdictatorial Spain. SUNY / State University of New York Press.
- Fraser, B. R. (2021). Obsession, Urban Aesthetics and the Iberian City. Vanderbilt University Press.
- Fraser, B. R. (2019). The Art of Pere Joan: Space, Landscape and Comics Form. Austin: University of Texas Press.
- Fraser, B. R. (2019). Visible Cities, Global Comics: Urban Images and Spatial Form. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
- Fraser, B. R. (2018). Cognitive Disability Aesthetics: Visual Culture, Disability Representations, and the (In)Visibility of Cognitive Difference. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
- Fraser, B. R. (2016). Cultures of Representation: Disability in World Cinema Contexts. New York: Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press.
- Fraser, B. R. (2015). Digital Cities: The Interdisciplinary Future of the Urban Geo-Humanities. Palgrave.
- Fraser, B. R. (2015). Toward an Urban Cultural Studies: Henri Lefebvre and the Humanities. Palgrave.
- Fraser, B. R. (2014). Antonio López García’s Everyday Urban Worlds: A Philosophy of Painting. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press.
- Fraser, B. R. (2014). Marxism and Urban Culture. Lanham: Lexington Books.
- Fraser, B. R. (2013). Disability Studies and Spanish Culture: Films, Novels, the Comic and the Public Exhibition. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
- Fraser, B. R. (2013). Understanding Juan Benet: New Perspectives. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.
- Fraser, B. R. (2012). Capital Inscriptions: Essays on Hispanic Literature, Film and Urban Space in Honor of Malcolm Alan Compitello. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta [Homenajes series #41].
- Fraser, B. R. (2012). Trains, Culture and Mobility: Riding the Rails. Lanham: Lexington Books.
- Fraser, B. R. (2012). Trains, Literature and Culture: Reading and Writing the Rails. Lanham: Lexington Books.
- Fraser, B. R. (2011). Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience: Reading the Mobile City. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press.
- Fraser, B. R. (2011). La urbanización decimonónica de Madrid: textos de Mariano José de Larra y Ramón de Mesonero Romanos. Doral: Stockcero.
- Fraser, B. R. (2010). Encounters with Bergson(ism) in Spain: Reconciling Philosophy, Literature, Film and Urban Space. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press; Studies in Romance Languages and Literatures #295.
- Fraser, B. R. (2009). Deaf History and Culture in Spain: A Reader of Primary Sources. Washington D.C.: Gallaudet University Press.
Chapters
- Fraser, B. R. (2021). Architecture, Urbanistic Ideology, and the Poetic-Analytic Documentary Mode in Mercado de futuros (2011) by Mercedes Álvarez.. In Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film(pp 22-37). Intellect.
- Fraser, B. R. (2021). The Sonic Force of the Machine Ensemble: Transnational Objectification in Steve Reich’s Different Trains (1988). In Transnational Railway Cultures: Trains in Music, Literature, Film and Visual Art(pp 46-63).
- Fraser, B. R. (2020). Paco Roca’s graphic novel La casa (2015) as Architectural Elegy.” (reprint of previous journal article now in an edited collection). In Spanish Comics: Historical and Cultural Perspectives Edited by Anne Magnussen(pp pp. 182-201). Berghahn.
- Fraser, B. R. (2020). Trains, Time and Technology: Teaching ‘Mecanópolis’ through Mobility and Science Fiction Studies. In Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno(pp 112-18). New York: MLA.
- Fraser, B. R. (2017). A Biutiful City: Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Filmic Critique of the ‘Barcelona Model. In The Barcelona Reader: Cultural Readings of a City(pp 4127-42). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
- Fraser, B. R. (2017). Galdós, Subjective Realism and Comics Form: Nela (2013) by Rayco Pulido Rodríguez. In Entre la ética y la estética: Estudios en homenaje a Joan Gilabert(pp 205-19). Newark: Juan de la Cuesta.
- Fraser, B. R. (2017). The Modern City, 1850-1900: Urban Planning and Urban Culture in Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao. In The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies(pp 319-29). London: Routledge.
- Fraser, B. R. (2016). A Collaborative Approach to Urban Cultural Studies and Digital Humanities. In Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries(pp 151-78). West Lafayette: Purdue University Press.
- Fraser, B. R. (2016). Filosofía urbana y movimiento (disciplinario): El pensamiento lefebvriano (bergsoniano) de Manuel Delgado Ruiz. In Filosofía y culturas hispánicas: Nuevas perspectivas(pp 257-70). Newark: Juan de la Cuesta.
- Fraser, B. R. (2015). Rumbo a Almería: el terreno almeriense vendido y defendido en 800 balas de Álex de la Iglesia. In La retórica del sur: Representaciones y discursos sobre Andalucía en el periodo democrático(pp 265-89). Sevilla: Ediciones Alfar.
- Fraser, B. R. (2014). Henri Lefebvre in Strasbourg: The City as Use Value in José Luis Guerín’s Dans la ville de Sylvie (2007). In Marxism and Urban Culture(pp 43-61). Lanham: Lexington Books.
- Fraser, B. R. (2014). Sensing Capital: Sight, Sound and Touch in Esteban Sapir’s La antena (2007). In Marxism and Urban Culture(pp 63-86). Lanham: Lexington Books.
- Fraser, B. R. (2012). Materialism and Enigma: Juan Benet’s ‘Syllabus,’ Compitello’s ‘Socio–Poetic’ Methodology and Cultural Studies Pedagogy. In Capital Inscriptions: Essays on Hispanic Literature, Film and Urban Space in Honor of Malcolm Alan Compitello(pp 79-91). Newark: Juan de la Cuesta.
- Fraser, B. R. (2012). The ‘Sidewalk Ballet’ in the Work of Henri Lefebvre and Manuel Delgado Ruiz. In The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs(pp 24-36). London and New York: Routledge.
- Fraser, B. R. (2012). Visualizing Spain’s Enlightenment: The Marginal Universality of Deafness. In Sociability and Cosmopolitanism: Social Bonds on the Fringes of the Enlightenment(pp 27-45). London: Pickering & Chatto.
- Fraser, B. R. (2009). 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(pp 38-50). Jefferson: McFarland Press.
- Fraser, B. R. (2008). 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(pp 151-84). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Fraser, B. R. (2000). The Linguistic Foil: An Analysis of Conversational Strategies Used by Bernarda and La Poncia in La casa de Bernarda Alba. In Essays on Hispanic and Luso–Brazilian Literature and Film in Memory of Dr. Howard M. Fraser(pp 98-110). Mobile: University of South Alabama.
Journals/Publications
- FRASER, B. (2023).
LA TRISOMIA 21, LA DISCAPACITAT INTEL·LECTUAL I L’ESCRIPTURA DE LA VIDA A BARCELONA
. Catalan Review, 37(1), 1-17. doi:10.3828/catr.37.1 - Fraser, B., & Fraser, B. (2023).
Chris Ware’s Building Stories jigsaw puzzle (2021)
. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 10(1), 3-13. doi:10.1386/jucs_00061_2 - Fraser, B. (2022).
Infrastructure and intervention on the comics page: An interview with Dominic Davies about his book Urban Comics (2019)
. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 9(2), 275-283. doi:10.1386/jucs_00058_7 - Fraser, B. (2022).
Las ciudades que somos (‘The cities we are’): A review of three Latin American comics by women creators
. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 9(2), 285-294. doi:10.1386/jucs_00059_1 - Fraser, B. (2022).
The shape of European jazz: On mute, mutable and pedagogical musical representations
. Studies in Comics, 13(1), 67-86. doi:10.1386/stic_00085_1 - Fraser, B. (2022). The Poetry of Snails. European Comic Art, 15(2), 56-79. doi:10.3167/eca.2022.150204
- Fraser, B. (2021). ‘Fraught with background’: narration, monstration and style in the biblical adaptations of R. Crumb and Chester Brown. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 1-18. doi:10.1080/21504857.2021.2006256
- Fraser, B. R. (2021). El ingenio visual de Miguel Noguera: ‘Camilo José Cela’ (2010), el cómic sin paneles, y la reivindicación del noveno arte frente a la literatura. Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, 5(1), 111-33.
- Fraser, B. R. (2021). Forging the Iberian Comic in Post-Dictatorial Barcelona: Space, Place and Nonplace in Pere Joan’s Passatger en trànsit (1984). Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 22(3), 367-86.
- Fraser, B. R. (2021). Tactile Comics, Disability Studies and the Mind’s Eye: On ‘A Boat Tour’ in Venice with Max. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, pre-print published online.
- FRASER, B., SANSANO, G., LORENZ, M. L., NAVARRO, S. M., DAVIDSON, J., JULIÁ, E. D., BROWN, K., NADAL, A., CATALÀ, A. B., PAGÈS I BLANCH, P., GONZÁLEZ, C. V., & VIDAL, V. (2020). REVIEWS. Catalan Review, 34, 137-166. doi:10.3828/catr.34.8
- Fraser, B. (2020). Tactile comics, disability studies and the mind’s eye: on “A Boat Tour” (2017) in Venice with Max. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 12(5), 737-749. doi:10.1080/21504857.2020.1761412
- Fraser, B. R. (2020). Tete Montoliu, Blindness and Barcelona in the Key of Modern Jazz. Catalan Review, 34, tbd.
- Fraser, B. R. (2019). Joaquim Jordà and Nuria Villazán’s Mones com la Becky [Monkeys Like Becky] (1999) and the New Global Disability Documentary Cinema. Disability Studies Quarterly, 39(2), no pagination.
- Fraser, B. R. (2019). 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), 21-37.
- Fraser, B. R. (2019). On Polysemiotic Interactions, Visual Paratexts, and Image-Specific Translation: The Case of Rodolfo Santullo and Matías Bergara’s Dengue (2012/2015). Studies in Comics, 10(2), 279-95.
- Fraser, B., & Pritchard, E. (2019). Book Reviews. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 13(2), 237-244. doi:10.3828/jlcds.2019.11
- Fraser, B. R. (2018). Cultural Studies, behind the scenes: Notes on the craft of interdisciplinary scholarship. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 5(1), 3-14.
- Fraser, B. R. (2018). El lenguaje visual innovador de Pere Joan: el pictograma analógico frente a la cultura digital en el cómic español contemporáneo. Romance Studies, 36(4), 180-95.
- Fraser, B. R. (2018). 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), 42-62.
- Fraser, B. R. (2018). Paco Roca’s graphic novel La casa (2015) as Architectural Elegy. European Comic Art, 11(1), 87-106.
- Fraser, B. R. (2018). 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), 89-110.
- Fraser, B. R. (2018). Urban Difference ‘On the Move’: Disabling Mobility in the Spanish Film El cochecito (Marco Ferreri, 1960). Hispanic Issues Online, 20, 234-51.
- Fraser, B. R. (2018). 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), 63-77.
- Fraser, B. R. (2017). Digital Barcelona: An Interdisciplinary Urban Cultural Studies Digital Project. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 4(1-2), 195-206.
- Fraser, B. R. (2017). The City as Organizing Principle in 21st-Century Luso-Hispanic Studies. Hispania, 100(5), 137-42.
- Fraser, B. R. (2016). Art and Science in Pere Joan’s Nocilla Experience (2011). International Journal of Comic Art, 18(1), 169-95.
- Fraser, B. R. (2016). 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..
- Fraser, B. R. (2016). Comics Art, Urban Cultural Studies Method and Chris Ware’s Building Stories (2012). Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 3(3), 291-99.
- Fraser, B. R. (2016). El cine, la ciudad, lo urbano: notas desde los estudios culturales urbanos.. Hispanófila, 263-76.
- Fraser, B. R. (2016). 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), 21-35.
- Fraser, B. R. (2015). Madrid’s Gran Vía: An Urban Cultural History and Digital Project. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 2(1-2), 205-13.
- Fraser, B. R. (2015). 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), 275-91.
- Fraser, B. R. (2015). The Future of Hispanic Studies: Disciplinary Challenges. MIFLC Review, 17, 21-25.
- Fraser, B. R. (2015). Urban Railways in Buenos Aires: Spatial and Social Alienation in the Documentary Film El tren blanco. Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, 5(2), 5-22.
- Fraser, B. R. (2014). Notes on the Renegotiation of a Hispanic Studies Canon. ADFL Bulletin, 43(1), 77-90.
- Fraser, B. R. (2014). Urban Cultural Studies—A Manifesto [part 1]. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 1(1), 3-17.
- Fraser, B. R. (2014). Urban Cultural Studies—A Manifesto [part 2]. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 1(3), 343-56.
- Fraser, B. R. (2013). 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), 679-96.
- Fraser, B. R. (2013). 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, 245-61.
- Fraser, B. R. (2013). Feijóo on Mars: A Brief Note on the Literary Godfather of Spanish Science Fiction. Dieciocho, 36(1), 37-50.
- Fraser, B. R. (2013). Madrid and Urban Cultural Studies. International Journal of Iberian Studies, 26(1-2), 3-19.
- Fraser, B. R. (2013). Madrid, Histological City: The Scientific, Artistic and Urbanized Vision of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Symposium: A Quarterly Journal of Modern Literatures, 67(3), 119-34.
- Fraser, B. R. (2013). Nikos Kazantzakis’s Bergsonian Spain: Connecting Philosophy, Spanish Literature and Cultural Landscapes. Hispanófila, 168, 37-54.
- Fraser, B. R. (2013). Salvador García Jiménez, ‘autor de minorías’: La novela Angelicomio (1981) y el modelo social de la discapacidad. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 8, 90.
- Fraser, B. R. (2012). A Biutiful City: Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Filmic Critique of the ‘Barcelona Model. Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, 9(1), 19-34.
- Fraser, B. R. (2012). Baldomero Lillo’s Underground Literary Modernism. The Latin Americanist, 56(3), 75-99.
- Fraser, B. R. (2012). Espacio, tiempo y ciudad: La representación de Buenos Aires en El Eternauta. Revista Iberoamericana, 78(238-239), 57-72.
- Fraser, B. R. (2012). 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), 48-61.
- Fraser, B. R. (2012). Into the Chilean Mines: The Dialectics of Land and Work in Baldomero Lillo’s Sub–terra. A Contracorriente, 9(2), 248-81.
- Fraser, B. R. (2012). Manchester, 1976: Documenting the Urban Nature of Joy Division’s Musical Production. Punk & Post-Punk, 1(2), 139-54.
- Fraser, B. R. (2012). On Nocilla and the Urbanization of Consciousness: Multiplicity & Interdisciplinarity in Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Fragmented Trilogy. Hispania, 95(1), 1-13.
- Fraser, B. R. (2011). An AJHCS Editorial Position Paper: A Modest Proposal on Peer Review. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 15, 11-22.
- Fraser, B. R. (2011). Ildefons Cerdà’s Scalpel: A Lefebvrian Perspective on Nineteenth–Century Urban Planning. Catalan Review, 25, 181-200.
- Fraser, B. R. (2011). Re–Scaling Emotional Approaches to Music: Basque Band Lisabö & the Soundscapes of Urban Alienation. Emotion, Space and Society, 4, 8-16.
- Fraser, B. R. (2011). Toward Autonomy in Love and Work: Situating the Film Yo, también (2009) within the Political Project of Disability Studies. Hispania, 94(1), 1-12.
- Fraser, B. R. (2011). Why the Spatial Epistemology of the Videogame Matters: Mētis, Video Game Space and Interdisciplinary Theory. Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds, 3(2), 93-106.
- Fraser, B. R. (2010). Hacia una teoría de lo desconocido: La aportación visual de Vacas de Julio Medem a la filosofía. Hispanic Research Journal, 11(4), 353-69.
- Fraser, B. R. (2010). Spain, 1795: A Reconsideration of Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro (1735–1809) and the Visual Language of the Deaf. Dieciocho, 33(2), 259-78.
- Fraser, B. R. (2010). The Art of Engineering: The Bridge as Object and Method in Juan Benet’s Fiction. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 11(2), 167-90.
- Fraser, B. R. (2010). The Ills of Aerial Photography: Latin America from Above. Chasqui: revista de literatura latinoamericana, 39(2), 70-84.
- Fraser, B. R. (2010). 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), 508-32.
- Fraser, B. R. (2009). Imagen, materia, cine: Bergson, Deleuze y Cinelandia de Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Hispanic Review, 77(4), 449-70.
- Fraser, B. R. (2009). Modernist Liquidity Meets Liquid Modernity: From the Occult Stories of Leopoldo Lugones to The Fluidity of Modern Urban Life. English Language Notes, 47(2), 85-94.
- Fraser, B. R. (2009). Narrating the Organic City: A Lefebvrian Approach to City Planning, the Novel & Urban Theory in Spain. Journal of Narrative Theory, 39(3), 369-90.
- Fraser, B. R. (2009). 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), 241-62.
- Fraser, B. R. (2009). The ‘Kind of Problem Cities Pose’: Jane Jacobs at the Intersection of Pedagogy, Philosophy and Urban Theory. Teaching in Higher Education, 14(3), 265-76.
- Fraser, B. R. (2008). Baroja’s Rejection of Traditional Medicine in El árbol de la ciencia. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 85(1), 29-50.
- Fraser, B. R. (2008). Madrid, Neoplasmic City: Disease and the Urban as Process in Tiempo de silencio. Letras Peninsulares, 21(1), 139-64.
- Fraser, B. R. (2008). Reconciling Film Studies & Geography: Adolfo Bioy Casares’s La invención de Morel. Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 41(1), 153-68.
- Fraser, B. R. (2008). Toward a Philosophy of the Urban: Henri Lefebvre’s Uncomfortable Application of Bergsonism. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26(2), 338-58.
- Fraser, B. R. (2008). Un neuro–musicólogo antes de su tiempo: discursos actuales del sonido a través de dos cuentos de Leopoldo Lugones. Hispania, 91(4), 794-804.
- Fraser, B. R. (2008). What is Liberal Learning?: Lessons on Pedagogy from Spain’s Institución Libre de Enseñanza. Proteus: A Journal of Ideas, 25(1), 9-17.
- Fraser, B. R. (2008). 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), 21-35.
- Fraser, B. R. (2007). Deaf Cultural Production in Twentieth–Century Madrid. Sign Language Studies, 7(4), 431-57.
- Fraser, B. R. (2007). Madrid’s Retiro Park as Publicly–Private Space & the Spatial Problems of Spatial Theory. Social and Cultural Geography, 8(5), 673-700.
- Fraser, B. R. (2007). Manuel Delgado’s Urban Anthropology: From Multidimensional Space to Interdisciplinary Spatial Theory. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 11, 57-75.
- Fraser, B. R. (2007). Unamuno and Bergson: Notes on a Shared Methodology. Modern Language Review, 102(3), 753-67.
- Fraser, B. R. (2006). Narradores contra la ficción: La novela detectivesca como estrategia política. Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, 25, 199-219.
- Fraser, B. R. (2006). The Space in Film and the Film in Space: Madrid’s Retiro Park and Carlos Saura’s Taxi. Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, 3(1), 15-33.
- Fraser, B. R. (2005). On Mental and Cartographic Space: Belén Gopegui’s La escala de los mapas, Bergson and the Imagined Interval. España Contemporánea, 18(1), 7-32.
- Fraser, B. R. (2004). 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), 104-22.
Reviews
- Fraser, B. R. (2020. Review of Samper, Baltasar. Música de jazz. Conferències de 1935. Edició a cura d’Antoni Pizà i Francesc Vicens. Palma: Lleonard Muntaner, 2019(pp pending.).
- Fraser, B. R. (2019. Review of Bermúdez, Silvia; Geist, Anthony L., eds., Cartographies of Madrid: Contesting Urban Space at the Crossroads of the Global South and Global North.(pp online, no pagination, https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=54389).
- Fraser, B. R. (2019. Review of Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature: Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints (2017) by Encarnación Juárez-Almendros(pp 237-40).
- Fraser, B. R. (2018. Review of Madrid en el cine de Pedro Almodóvar (2016) by Gloria Camarero Gómez(pp 318-19).
- Fraser, B. R. (2018. Review of The Airship Adventures of Little Nemo (2017) by Winsor McCay(pp 153-55).
Others
- Fraser, B. R. (2015, September). Special Focus Issue: The Scholarship of Film and Film Studies (co-edited with D. Foster, B. VanPatten; pp. 384-606). Hispania.
- Fraser, B. R. (2013, July). Reading Madrid: Perspectives from Urban Cultural Studies. International Journal of Iberian Studies special section (guest-edited, pp. 3-102).