María del Carmen Caña Jiménez

A faculty member in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures since 2011, María del Carmen Caña Jiménez is an Associate Professor of Spanish and the author of over 30 articles and book chapters.

Caña Jiménez is the author of the forthcoming book Argentina en la pequeña pantalla: reescrituras de la nación en la ficción televisiva (Iberoamericana) and is the editor of Desafíos, diferencias y deformaciones de la ciudadanía: mutantes y monstruos en la producción cultural latinoamericana reciente (A Contracorriente 2020) and “Beyond Violence (Criticism) in Contemporary Hispanic Narratives and Cinemas” (Hispanófila 178, 2016).

She has also co-edited with Vinodh Venkatesh Horacio Castellanos Moya: El diablo en el espejo (Albatros 2016) and “Affect, Bodies, and Circulations in Contemporary Latin American Film” (Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 20, 2016). Their most recent book is Crisis TV: Hispanic Television Narratives After 2008 (SUNY 2024).

Caña Jiménez serves as the General Editor of Hispanófila. She previously served as the Latin American book review editor for the same journal.

Caña Jiménez also serves as faculty advisor, founder, and choreographer of Olé at Virginia Tech, the flamenco dance student organization. She has won several awards for her teaching, research, and service.