Dr. Joanne Britland (Ph.D. University of Virginia, 2019) is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies. Her research focuses on contemporary Iberian cultural production, particularly digital culture. Her book manuscript examines the relationship between crisis in the twenty-first century and the contemporary Spanish mediascape. It offers a panoramic critical analysis on how digital cultural intervenes in, challenges, and/or exacerbates crisis beginning with the 2008 social and financial crash and ending in the post-COVID-19 milieu.
Dr. Britland is the co-editor of the volume The Political Imagination in Spanish Graphic Narrative (Routledge 2023). She has published on television, film, comics, novels, and theater in the Bulletin of Spanish Studies, the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Hispanic Research Journal, Hispania, Hispanic Studies Review, and Chasqui.
She is the Chair of the CLCS European Regions Forum for the Modern Language Association (MLA).