Dr Ruben Perez-Hidalgo
Rubén Pérez-Hidalgo holds a PhD in Hispanic Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research focuses on the representation of popular subjects from a comparative as well as a transatlantic angle. He’s also interested in working-class culture of the early 20th century in Mexico and Spain, about which he has published several articles. He’s specially interested in analyzing how radical politics shape and form discourses, and how those are received by wider audiences.
Social justice, anarchism, Marxism, working-class culture, radical politics
I’m currently coordinating Levels 1 and 2 of Spanish, as well as courses on social change and politics of Spain and Latin America.
In the past, I’ve mainly taught Spanish for bilinguals and multiple courses within the field of cultural studies in the Hispanic world.
I am currently working on several articles dealing with working-class culture in Spain, Mexico and Argentina.
I am also preparing a book manuscript that explores the relationship between the media and radical politics from a transnational perspective.
Selected publications
(Vanderbilt University Press, 2023)
Publications
Books
- Perez-Hidalgo, R. (2023). Performing Populism: Visions of Spanish Politics from 15-M to Podemos. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. [More Information]
Book Chapters
- Perez-Hidalgo, R. (2019). Cool capitalism and peripheral middle class in Marta Sanz's Animales domésticos. In Jose Colmeiro, Alfredo Martinez-Exposito (Eds.), Repensar los estudios ibericos desde la periferia, (pp. 147-160). Venecia: Edizioni Ca' Foscari. [More Information]
- Perez-Hidalgo, R. (2018). Como teorizar la frontera que divide un populismo de derechas de uno de izquierdas? Una revision del deseo y el trauma como aglutinadores de identidades colectivas en el neoliberalismo. In Crisostomo Pizarro (Eds.), Populismo y comunicacion, (pp. 49-58). Chile: Cuadernos del Foro Valparaiso.
Journals
- Perez-Hidalgo, R. (2024). Entre esteladas y senyeras digitales: Un análisis semiótico de la articulación online de la simbología nacional banal del Casal Català en Sídney. AIBR, Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana (Journal of Iberoamerican Anthropology), 19(02), 263-291. [More Information]
- Perez-Hidalgo, R. (2022). A People's Masquerade: The 15-M's Cinematic Negotiations Around the Place and Time of 'Real' Democracy. Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, 6(1), 45-71. [More Information]
- Perez-Hidalgo, R. (2022). A Synecdoche of Catalanness in Australia: The Visual Politics of the Casal Català in Sydney. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 28(3), 405-425. [More Information]
2024
- Perez-Hidalgo, R. (2024). Entre esteladas y senyeras digitales: Un análisis semiótico de la articulación online de la simbología nacional banal del Casal Català en Sídney. AIBR, Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana (Journal of Iberoamerican Anthropology), 19(02), 263-291. [More Information]
2023
- Perez-Hidalgo, R. (2023). Performing Populism: Visions of Spanish Politics from 15-M to Podemos. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. [More Information]
2022
- Perez-Hidalgo, R. (2022). A People's Masquerade: The 15-M's Cinematic Negotiations Around the Place and Time of 'Real' Democracy. Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, 6(1), 45-71. [More Information]
- Perez-Hidalgo, R. (2022). A Synecdoche of Catalanness in Australia: The Visual Politics of the Casal Català in Sydney. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 28(3), 405-425. [More Information]
2021
- Perez-Hidalgo, R. (2021). We Are Not Perroflautas: A Brief Definition of the "People" in Spain's 15M Movement. Academia Letters. [More Information]
2019
- Perez-Hidalgo, R. (2019). Cool capitalism and peripheral middle class in Marta Sanz's Animales domésticos. In Jose Colmeiro, Alfredo Martinez-Exposito (Eds.), Repensar los estudios ibericos desde la periferia, (pp. 147-160). Venecia: Edizioni Ca' Foscari. [More Information]
2018
- Perez-Hidalgo, R. (2018). Como teorizar la frontera que divide un populismo de derechas de uno de izquierdas? Una revision del deseo y el trauma como aglutinadores de identidades colectivas en el neoliberalismo. In Crisostomo Pizarro (Eds.), Populismo y comunicacion, (pp. 49-58). Chile: Cuadernos del Foro Valparaiso.
2017
- Perez-Hidalgo, R. (2017). Book Review - Picturing the Proletariat: Artists and Labor in Revolutionary Mexico, 1908-1940. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 23(2), 181-183. [More Information]
2015
- Perez-Hidalgo, R. (2015). Al margen de la ideologia: Una lectura politica de la literatura obrera fuera del esquema de clases. Perifrasis: revista de literatura, teoria y critica, 11.6 (June 2015), 20-36.
2013
- Perez-Hidalgo, R. (2013). Tres caras de una misma moneda: El Tungsteno, Puerto Apache y Mano de obra. A Contracorriente: A Journal of Social History and Literature in Latin America, 10.3 (Spring 2013), 235-254.