Anna Casas Aguilar

During her tenure as a Wall Scholar, Dr. Casas Aguilar will advance two interrelated projects: she will forge ahead with the research for a new book manuscript entitled Images of Difference: Regionalism and Tourism in Spain, 1960-2017. Through analyses of films, photographs, and advertisements, as well as government and citizens’ initiatives, including public protests against tourists and the tourist industry, this project addresses the central place of tourism in Spain from the 1960s to the present and how tourism has been a powerful force in reimagining Spain and its regions. She will also be completing the final revisions of her first book entitled Fatherhood in Spain after Dictatorship. This book examines how numerous authors who grew up in Catalonia during Francisco Franco’s dictatorship confronted and reconstituted the regime’s model of fatherhood and masculinity during the transition to democracy.