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About Carmen Gomez-Galisteo

Carmen Gomez-Galisteo, Ph.D. is a lecturer at Centro de Educación Superior de Enseñanza e Investigación Educativa (CEIE).

She is the author of The Wind is Never Gone: Sequels, Parodies and Rewritings of Gone With the Wind (McFarland, 2011), Early Visions and Representations of America: Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s Naufragios and William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation (Bloomsbury, 2013) and A Successful Novel Must be in Want of a Sequel (McFarland, 2018).

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NBN Episodes hosted by Carmen:

Performing Arts May 9, 2023

Actresses and Mental Illness

Histrionic Heroines

Fiona Gregory

Hosted by Carmen Gomez-Galisteo
Actresses and Mental Illness: Histrionic Heroines (Routledge, 2018) investigates the relationship between the work of the actress and her personal experience of mental illness, from the late nineteenth through to …
Literary Studies April 23, 2023

Unmoored

The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America

Ana Schwartz

Hosted by Carmen Gomez-Galisteo
New England's Puritans were devoted to self-scrutiny. Consumed by the pursuit of pure hearts, they latched on to sincerity as both an ideal and a social process. It fueled examinations …
Film March 28, 2023

Mean...Moody...Magnificent!

Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend

Christina Rice

Hosted by Carmen Gomez-Galisteo
By the early 1950s, Jane Russell (1921–2011) should have been forgotten. Her career was launched on what is arguably the most notorious advertising campaign in cinema history, which invited filmgoers …
Biography February 27, 2023

Captain of Her Soul

The Life of Marion Davies

Lara Gabrielle

Hosted by Carmen Gomez-Galisteo
From Marion Davies's humble days in Brooklyn to her rise to fame alongside press baron William Randolph Hearst, the public life story of the film star plays like a modern …
Caribbean Studies January 22, 2023

Tell My Mother I Gone to Cuba

Stories of Early Twentieth-century Migration from Barbados

Sharon Milagro Marshall

Hosted by Carmen Gomez-Galisteo
Barbadians were among the thousands of British West Indians who migrated to Cuba in the early twentieth century in search of work. They were drawn there by employment opportunities fueled …
Biography December 25, 2022

Jayne Mansfield

The Girl Couldn't Help It

Eve Golden

Hosted by Carmen Gomez-Galisteo
Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967) was driven not just to be an actress but to be a star. One of the most influential sex symbols of her time, she was known for …
Literary Studies December 11, 2022

Words Is a Powerful Thing

Twenty Years of Teaching Creative Writing at Douglas County Jail

Brian Daldorph

Hosted by Carmen Gomez-Galisteo
Brian Daldorph first entered the Douglas County Jail classroom in Lawrence, Kansas, to teach a writing class on Christmas Eve 2001. His last class at the jail for the foreseeable …
Iberian Studies December 3, 2022

Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-De-Siècle Spain

Jennifer Smith

Hosted by Carmen Gomez-Galisteo
Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-De-Siècle Spain (Vanderbilt UP, 2021) argues that the reinterpretation of female mysticism as hysteria and nymphomania in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Spain was …
Literary Studies November 25, 2022

Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture

How We Hate to Love Them

Kate Christine Moore Koppy

Hosted by Carmen Gomez-Galisteo
In the twenty-first century, American culture is experiencing a profound shift toward pluralism and secularization. In Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them (Lexington Books …