Colleen Culleton
Colleen Culleton, PhD, Associate Professor of Spanish in the department of Romance Languages and Literatures, has cultivated a career-long interest in the rhetoric and ethics of narrative. Her early interest in social spaces has evolved into a focus on ecology and environmental care.
Her first book, Literary Labyrinths in Franco Era Barcelona: Narrating Memory and Place (Routledge, 2016), explores how revisions of the urban landscape in Barcelona implemented by the Franco regime impacted memories of the Spanish civil war (1936-39) and subsequent dictatorship (1939-75). Her new book project, called Finding Each Other: Globalized Bodies in Twenty-First Century Iberian Fiction and Film, takes an ecological approach to the ethics of global citizenship.
Her interest in the dynamics of the post-truth era began in 2016 with a graduate course that she designed, called “Post-Truth and Hispanic Fiction.” Her first publication on post-truth fiction was “Sinister Signs: What We Can Learn from Insensatez(Senselessness),” published in Hispanic Issues in 2024, and she maintains an ongoing scholarly interest in teaching critical thinking in the context of post-truth.