Xavier Dapena

Xavier Dapena is assistant professor of Spanish and director of world film studies at Iowa State University. He has coedited The Political Imagination in Spanish Graphic Narrative (Routledge, 2024) and Streaming Spain and Mexico: The New Hispanic TV Fiction (Liverpool University Press, forthcoming). His forthcoming book, Nobody Expects the Spanish Revolution, explores radical imagination after the indignados mobilization.


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“Not So Ephemeral After All”: Talking Op-Eds, War, and Memory with Bécquer Seguín

“Why does the op-ed still hold sway over writers who want to be intellectuals or want to have some public presence?”