Dr Catherine Leen

Spanish & Latin American Studies, School of Modern Languages
Associate Professor
First Year Coordinator
Biography
Dr Catherine Leen is Associate Professor and Fulbright Ambassador at Maynooth University, Ireland. Her teaching and research interests centre on Mexican and Chicana/o literature and cinema and Argentine and Paraguayan cultures. She has published widely on Chicana/o writers, such as Sandra Cisneros and Tomás Rivera, and on Chicana/o and Latin American cinematographers. In 2008, she received a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research at the Chicana/o Studies Centre at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her edited volume International Perspectives on Chicana/o Culture: “This World is My Place,” coedited by Dr Niamh Thornton was published by Routledge, New York, in 2014 and reissued in paperback in 2017. Her most recent
publications include 'Deconstructing the Divas: Music in Arturo Ripstein's El lugar sin límites and La reina de la noche' in The Films of Arturo Ripstein: The Sinister Gaze of the World (2019) and ‘From Don Juan to Dolores Huerta: Foundational Chicana/o
Films,’ in The Routledge Handbook of
Chicana/o Studies (2018). She is currently completing a monograph on Latina/o filmmakers and Mexico.
Research Interests
Chicano Culture, Literature and Cinema;
Latin American Literature and Cinema;
Latino and Latin American Art; Translation
Book Chapter
Year | Publication | |
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2020 | Catherine Leen (2020) 'Aliens as Superheroes: Science Fiction, Immigration and the Photography of Dulce Pinzón' In: Legacies of the Past: Memory and Trauma in Mexican Visual and Screen Cultures. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. [Link] https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-legacies-of-the-past.html | |
2020 | Catherine Leen and Niamh Thornton (2020) 'Public Intellectuals' In: The Routledge Handbook on Culture and Media of the Americas. New York : Routledge. [Link] https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-to-the-Culture-and-Media-of-the-Americas-1st-Edition/Raussert-Anatol-Thies-Berkin-Lozano/p/book/9781138479821 | |
2019 | Catherine Leen (2019) 'Deconstrucing the Divas: Music in Arturo Ripstein’s El lugar sin límites and La reina de la noche' In: The Films of Arturo Ripstein: The Sinister Gaze of the World. London : Palgrave Macmillan. [Link] | |
2018 | Catherine Leen (2018) ''La vaquilla'' In: The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Films. Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield. [Link] | |
2018 | Catherine Leen (2018) 'From Don Juan to Dolores Huerta: Foundational Chicana/o Films' In: The Routledge Handbook of Chicana/o Studies. New York : Routledge. [Link] [Full-Text] | |
2017 | Catherine Leen (2017) 'Kissing the Spiderwoman and Loving the Awful Grandmother: Popular Culture in Manuel Puig's El beso de la mujer araña and Sandra Cisnero's Caramelo' In: The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies. London and New York : Routledge. [Full-Text] | |
2017 | Catherine Leen (2017) 'Beyond the Spitfire: Re-Visioning Latinas in Sylvia Morales' A Crushing Love' In: Latin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics. London : IB Tauris. [Full-Text] | |
2014 | Dr Catherine Leen (2014) 'Introduction' In: International Perspectives on Chicana/o Studies: This World is My Place. New York : Routledge. [Link] | |
2014 | Dr Catherine Leen (2014) 'Virgen Transatlantic: Religious Iconography in Irish and Chicana/o Art' In: International Perspectives on Chicana/o Studies: This World is My Place . New York : Routledge. [Link] | |
2013 | Leen, C (2013) 'The Silenced Screen: Fostering a Film Industry in Paraguay' In: Contemporary Hispanic Cinema: Interrogating the Transnational in Spanish and Latin American Film. Suffolk : Tamesis. [Full-Text] | |
2012 | Leen, C (2012) 'Independent Cinema and Globalization: The Case of Paraguay' In: Power, Place and Representation: Contested Sites of Dependence and Independence in Latin America. Oxford : Peter Lang. [Full-Text] | |
2012 | Leen, C. (2012) 'Familia Fictions: Writing the Family in Tomás Rivera's ...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him and Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo' In: Critical Insights:Family. United States : Salem Press. [Full-Text] | |
2011 | Leen, C. (2011) 'Stories from The Hem of Life: Contesting Marginality in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye' In: María Herrera Sobek(Eds.). Critical Insights: The House on Mango Street. California : Salem Press. [Full-Text] | |
2010 | Leen, C. (2010) 'How Not to Make a Mexican Musical: Luis Bunuel and the Perils of Mexicanidad' In: Exploring Transculturalism: A Biographical Approach. Germany : VS Verlag. [Full-Text] | |
2009 | Leen, C. (2009) ''The Final Frontier: Imagining Latinos in Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Gustavo Vasquez's The Great Mojado Invasion (The 2nd US-Mexico War)'' In: Imagined Transnationalism: U.S. Latino/a Literature, Culture, and Identity. New York : Palgrave Macmillan. [Full-Text] | |
2007 | Leen, C. (2007) 'Trial by Media: Zoot Suit and the Career of Luis Valdez' In: Hector Brioso and José V. Saval(Eds.). Nuevas aportaciones a los estudios teatrales (del siglo de Oro a nuestros días). Spain : Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. [Full-Text] | |
2007 | Leen, C. (2007) 'Una herida que no cicatriza: The Border as Interethnic Space in Mexican, North American and Chicano Cinema' In: Aoileann Ni Eigeartaigh and David Getty(Eds.). Borders and Borderlands. : Cambridge Scholars Press. [Full-Text] | |
2002 | Leen, C. (2002) 'Three Border Films: El Mariachi, El Jardin del Eden and Lone Star' In: Cultura Popular: Studies in Spanish and Latin American Popular Culture. Bern : Peter Lang. [Full-Text] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Leen C. (2021) 'Visceral reality in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Carne y arena/Virtually Present, Physically Invisible (González Iñárritu 2017)'. Studies In Spanish And Latin American Cinemas, 18 (1):37-55. [DOI] | |
2021 | Catherine Leen (2021) 'Shadow Men and Real Women: Shifting the Paradigms of the Chicana/o Family in Cherríe Moraga’s Shadow of a Man and Josefina López’s Real Women Have Curves'. Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, . [DOI] | |
2008 | Leen C. (2008) 'City of fear: Reimagining Buenos Aires in contemporary Argentine cinema'. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 27 (4):465-482. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2014 | Dr Catherine Leen (2014) 'The Sound of Silence: The corrido as Counterculture in Felipe Cazals' Canoa'. MODERN LANGUAGES OPEN JOURNAL, 1 :1-16. [Full-Text] | |
2011 | Dr Catherine Leen (2011) 'New Forms of Beauty'. Irish Arts Review, 28 :60-61. [Full-Text] | |
2009 | Dr Catherine Leen (2009) ''Space Exploration: New Paintings by Sinead Ni Mhaoinaigh''. Irish Arts Review, 26 :70-71. [Full-Text] | |
2009 | Dr Catherine Leen (2009) 'Mining the Landscape'. Irish Arts Review, 26 :60-61. [Full-Text] | |
2004 | Dr Catherine Leen (2004) 'Borders, batos locos and barrios: Space as Signifier in Chicano Cinema'. NUI MAYNOOTH PAPERS IN SPANISH, PORTUGUESE AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES, 11 :1-24. [Full-Text] | |
2004 | Dr Catherine Leen (2004) 'The Caballero Revisited: Postmodernity in The Cisco Kid, The Mask of Zorro, and Shrek II'. BILINGUAL REVIEW/REVISTA BILINGÜE, 28 :153-165. [Full-Text] | |
2002 | Dr Catherine Leen (2002) ''Deracination and Acculturation; the Border in Chicano Film Practice''. Film and Film Culture, 1 :87-95. [Full-Text] |
Conference Contribution
Other Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2018 | Catherine Leen (2018) ''El Tiempo Nublado (Cloudy Times): The Ethics of Documentarian Activism'' IEEE Microwave and …, . [Link] | |
2006 | Dr Catherine Leen (2006) ''Sinéad Ní Mhaoinaigh: Eatramh'' Catalogue Essay: Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Dublin, :2-6. | |
2006 | Dr Catherine Leen (2006) ''Memory and Desire: New Works by Stephen Lawlor'' Catalogue Essay: Graphic Studio Gallery Dublin, :3-8. | |
2002 | Dr Catherine Leen (2002) ''Paul Gregg: Magnesium'' Catalogue Essay: Carlow County Council, :2-9. |
Book Review
Year | Publication | |
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2019 | Catherine Leen (2019) Eva Karen Romero: Film and Democracy in Paraguay. Taylor & Francis London: BREV [Link] | |
2017 | Catherine Leen (2017) Mexican Screen Fiction: Between Cinema and Television, Paul Julian Smith. BREV [Link] | |
2015 | Dr Catherine Leen (2015) David William Foster, Latin American Documentary Filmmaking: Major Works. BREV | |
2014 | Dr Catherine Leen (2014) VERÓNICA CORTÍNEZ Y MANFRED ENGELBERT,La tristeza de los tigres y los misterios de Raúl Ruiz. BREV | |
2013 | Dr Catherine Leen (2013) Trans/Acting: Latin American and Latino Perfoming Arts. BREV | |
2008 | Dr Catherine Leen (2008) 'Juan Pablo Young and Pablo Zubizarreta's Documentary Film 4 de Julio: La masacre de San Patricio'. BREV |
Film or Broadcast
Year | Publication | |
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2016 | Mon Ross and Catherine Leen (2016) Feliciano Centurión: Abrazo íntimo al natural. FILM [Link] |
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