Shanna Lino

Associate Professor

Spanish (Hispanic Studies)

   slino@glendon.yorku.ca

Shanna Lino is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Spanish Language Coordinator. Her research interests include the representation of migration and displacement (with)in/to/from Spain & Latin America in literature and cinema, as well as short fiction by women writers, Basque and Catalan crime writing, and the intersections of environmental culture, posthumanism, and (dis)ability. Her publications include a book with Toronto Iberic titled Beyond Human: Decentring the Anthropocene in Spanish Ecocriticism (University of Toronto Press, co-edited with Maryanne L. Leone, 2023), the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos' 2013 issue “Tráfico y producción cultural: Trazas de una globalización fragmentada” (co-edited with Luis Molina Lora), and several scholarly articles and chapters on the novela negra, ecohorror, and ecofeminism.

Environmental Humanities relating to Spain & Latin America

Narratives of Gender & Sexual Expression in Spanish

Migration and Displacement (with)in/to/from the Hispanophone World

Crime Fiction & Film

(Dis)Ability & Deafness in Spain & Latin America

PhD: Spanish (University of Toronto, 2008)

MA: Spanish (University of Toronto, 2003)

HBSc: European Studies & Human Biology (University of Toronto, 2002)

Books

Beyond Human: Decentring the Anthropocene in Spanish Ecocriticism. Edition and Introduction by Shanna Lino and Maryanne L. Leone. University of Toronto Press, 2023.

“Tráfico y producción cultural: Trazas de una globalización fragmentada” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. Edition and Introduction by Shanna Lino and Luis Molina Lora, vol. 38, no. 1, 2013, pp. 1-247.


Journal Articles

“Sueños de Tánger: Extraterritorial Basque Crime Fiction on Immigration to Spain.” Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, vol. 43, no. 2, 2019, Article 9. doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.2048.

“In Search of a Responsibility for the Other: Human Trafficking across the Straits of Gibraltar and of Florida in Antonio Jiménez Barca and Amir Valle.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 38, no. 1, 2013, pp. 211-27.

“Víctima, detective, y femme fatale: En busca de estrategias de empoderamiento femenino ante la inmigración en la novela negra española.” L’Érudit franco-espagnol, vol. 4, 2013, pp. 65-85.


Book Chapters

“Spanish Ecofeminism.” Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies. Edited by Luis I. Prádanos, co-written with Maryanne L. Leone. Tamesis, 2023.

“Historicizing the Ecocrisis: Beyond-Human Experiences in Spanish Natureculture,” Introduction to Beyond Human: Decentring the Anthropocene in Spanish Ecocriticism. Co-written with Maryanne L. Leone. University of Toronto Press, 2023.

“Ecohorror as Critique of Anthropogenic (Self-)Destruction in Sánchez Piñol’s Cold Skin.” Beyond Human: Decentring the Anthropocene in Spanish Ecocriticism. University of Toronto Press, 2023.

“Establishing Anotherness: Ecocritical Crime Writing about the Trafficking of Women in Ángela Vallvey’s El hombre del corazón negro.” Spanish and Latin American Women’s Crime Fiction in the New Millennium: From Noir to Gris. Edited by Nancy Vosburg and Nina L. Molinaro. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, pp. 1-16.

“Mediated Moralities of Immigration: Metaphysical Detection in Marta Sanz’s Black, black, black (2010).” African Immigrants in Contemporary Spanish Texts: Crossing the Straits. Edited by Debra Fazser-McMahon and Victoria Ketz. Farnham, UK: Ashgate Press, 2015, pp. 37-51.

“El montaje contestatario en Por la vía de Tarifa de Nieves García Benito.” Fronteras de la memoria: cartografías de género en artes visuales, cine y literatura en las Américas y España. Edited by Bernardita Llanos and Ana María Goetschel. Santiago de Chile: Cuarto Propio/FLACSO, 2012, pp. 175-95.

Other Publications

Review of Postgrowth Imaginaries: New Ecologies and Counterhegemonic Culture in Post-2008 Spain, by Luis I. Prádanos. Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, vol. 45, no. 1, 2021, Article 11. https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.2178.

Review of Transnational Discourses on Class, Gender, and Cultural Identity, by Irene Marques. Letras Femeninas, vol. 39, no.1, 2013, pp. 209-11.

Review of Killing Carmens: Women’s Crime Fiction from Spain, by Shelley Godsland. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 33, no. 3, 2009, pp. 612-14.

Review of Los “Otros”: etnicidad y “raza” en el cine español contemporáneo, by Isabel Santaolalla. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 31, no.2, 2007, pp. 385-87.

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