Carmen Martin Gaite (1925-2000)

Ellen Mayock is the Ernest Williams II Professor of Spanish at Washington and Lee University, where she teaches courses in Spanish, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia honored Mayock with an Outstanding Faculty Award in 2010. In 2019, Georgetown University Press published Mayock's co-authored (with Mary Ann Dellinger and Beatriz Trigo) textbook, Indagaciones. Introduccion a los Estudios Culturales hispanos. Author of The 'Strange Girl' in Twentieth-Century Spanish Novels Written by Women (2004) and Gender Shrapnel in the Academic Workplace (2016), Mayock focuses her research on workplace fairness, Title IX, gender-based violence, and historical memory. She is co-editor of three volumes of essays. Mayock also writes poetry and creative non-fiction in English and Spanish. She is currently working on a memoir titled Small Town Feminist and on several translation projects. Debra Ochoa is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Trinity University (San Antonio, TX). She has published various articles on contemporary Spanish cultural production in journals such as Letras Femeninas, Letras Hispanas, Confluencia, and the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. Additionally, she has also published in the anthologies Beyond the Backroom: New Perspectives on Carmen Martin Gaite (2011) and European Film and Television: Crisis Narratives and Narratives of Crisis (2018). In 2018, she co-edited the volume "Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces: Literary and Visual Narratives of the New Millennium." Currently, she is writing a manuscript that examines contemporary films through a transatlantic lens, titled Visions of Nueva York in Contemporary Iberian Films. Her publications on Carmen Martin Gaite include analyses of Vision de Nueva York and Caperucita en Manhattan. Additionally, she has used Martin Gaite's writing about the chica rara and the novela rosa as a critical lens in publications about Concha Alos and Lucia Etxebarria.