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Juan Antonio Suárez is a Professor in English and American Studies at the University of Murcia. He graduated in English Studies at the University of Murcia and completed an M.A. (1990) and PhD (1994) in Comparative Literature and Film Studies at Indiana University, where he was a Doctoral Research Fellow and a holder of a Film Studies Doctoral Dissertation Write up Grant. His fields of research are the US literary and visual avant-gardes, with particular focus on experimental cinema, and American modernist and contemporary literature. He has been a visiting professor at the Cinema Studies Department of New York University (2002) and a Tinker Visiting Professor in Art and Art History and Latin American Studies at Stanford University (2017). He has been a visiting researcher at Indiana University, Freie Universität-Berlin, The Library of Congress (Washington DC, EEUU), Columbia University, McGill University (Montreal) and University of Rochester.
He has lectured at numerous national and international universities, museums, and cultural centers, among them the Universidad de Zaragoza, Universitat de Barcelona, Universidad de Sevilla, Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, University of Chicago, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas at Austin, Ludwig Maximilians Universität (Munich), Goethe Universität (Frankfurt), King’s College-London, Universitá di Udine, Museo Reina Sofía, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona, Tate Modern-London, MACBA, Columbia University, Deutsches Filmmuseum, Johannes Gutenberg Universität-Mainz, and Arsenal-Institut für Film and Videokunkst (Berlin). He has curated film programs for Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona (CCCB), Museo Reina Sofía, the Museum of Contemporary Art-Los Angeles, Tate Modern-London, and Filmoteca de Zaragoza. He has been the PI of five projects funded by the Spanish Government’s Plan Nacional de Investigación, the latest of which is “Queer Memory on the Margins of Contemporary Anglophone Cultures (Literature, Cinema, and Videogames),” 2023-2027, and of two Collaborative Research Projects funded by the European Commission / European Research Councils: “Cruising the 1970s: Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures,” 2016-19 (HERA / European Union Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme) and “PERCOL: Perverse Collections: Building Europe’s Queer and Trans Archives,” 2023-25 (JPI-CHSE).
He is the author of the monographs Bike Boys, Drag Queens, and Superstars: Avant-Garde, Mass Culture and Gay Identities in the 1960s Underground Cinema (Indiana University Press 1997), Pop Modernism: Noise and the Reinvention of the Everyday (University of Illinois Press 2007), y Jim Jarmusch (University of Illinois Press 2007), and Experimental Film and Queer Materiality (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2024). He has co-edited, with David Walton, Culture, Space, and Power: Blurred Lines (Lexington Press 2015) and Contemporary Writing and the Politics of Space (Peter Lang 2017), and with A. Berzosa, L. Platero y G. Trujillo Reminaginar la disidencia sexual en la España de los 70 (Bellaterra 2019). His essays have appeared in journals such as American Studies in Scandinavia (1998 y 2020), New Literary History, Journal of American Studies, GLQ: Lesbian and Gay Quarterly, Grey Room (2008 y 2009), Criticism (2014 y 2015), Framework, Screen, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, y L’Atalante. Book chapters have appeared in volumes from Rodopi, Southern Illinois University Press, Walther Köenig, J. Winter Verlag, Routledge, Wiley-Blackwell, Duke University Press, W.W. Norton, MIT Press, Yale University Press, Edinburgh University Press, and Oxford University Press, among others.
Selected recent publications
- Juan A. Suárez, “Disquieting Soundtracks: The Sonorities of Experimental Cinema,” In A Companion to Experimental Cinema, ed. Federico Windhausen (Hoboken, NJ/ Chichester, Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2023), 182-209. ISBN: 978 1119 107903; ePub: 9781119107910; ePub: 978111107927.
- Juan A. Suárez, “Failure, Erasure, and Oblivion in Joâo Pedro Rodrigues and Joâo Rui Guerra da Mata’s Asian Trilogy: Red Dawn, The Last Time I Saw Macao, and Iec Long.” ReFocus: The Films of Joâo Pedro Rodrigues and Joâo Rui Guerra da Mata, eds. José Duarte and Filipa Rosário (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, Abril 2022), 161- 83. ISBN: 9781474460804.
- Juan A. Suárez, “Camp, 1965,” The Films of Andy Warhol. Catalogue Raisonné, 1963-1965, eds. John Hanhardt (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021), 425-32. ISBN: 9780300260113.
- Juan A. Suárez, “Trances, Myth, Bachelor Machines, and Abstractions: Post-war Queer Experimental Film,” The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema, eds. Ron Gregg and Amy Villarejo (New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2021), 281-308. ISBN:9780190877996.
- Juan Antonio Suárez y Juan Francisco Belmonte, “Geología, historia y paisaje en Los materiales (Colectivo Los hijos 2009),” L’Atalante 28 (2019): 171-188. Indexada en Arts and Humanities Citation Index, ERIH+ et al.
- Juan A. Suárez y Alberto Berzosa, “Introducción: Reimaginar la disidencia sexual en la España de los 70.” En Reimaginar la disidencia sexual en la España de los 70. Eds. Berzosa, Platero, Suárez, Trujillo. (Barcelona: Bellaterra, 2019), 11-33.
- Juan A. Suárez, “Sexualidad, exilio y frontera en el cine underground español de los 70.” En Reimaginar la disidencia sexual en la España de los 70. Eds. Berzosa, Platero, Suárez, Trujillo. (Barcelona: Bellaterra, 2019), 311-336.
- Juan A. Suárez, “Trances, Myth, Bachelor Machines, and Abstractions: Post-war Queer Experimental Film,” The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema, eds. Ron Gregg and Amy Villarejo (New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2021), 281-308. ISBN: 9780190877996
- Juan Antonio Suárez y Juan Francisco Belmonte, “Postwar American Experimental Cinema and Queer Psychogeography,” American Studies in Scandinavia 52 (1) (2020): 33-56. Indexada en Arts and Humanities Citation Index, ERIH+ et al.
- Juan Antonio Suárez y Juan Francisco Belmonte, “Geología, historia y paisaje en Los materiales (Colectivo Los hijos 2009),” L’Atalante 28 (2019): 171-188. Indexada en Arts and Humanities Citation Index, ERIH+ et al.
- David Walton y Juan A. Suárez, eds. Contemporary Writing and the Politics of Space: Borders, Networks, Escape Lines (Bern, Oxford, New York: Peter Lang, 2017). ISBN-10: 3034322054; ISBN-13: 978-3034322058. .
Teaching
Historia de la Literatura Norteamericana I. Grado de Estudios Ingleses.
Historia de la Literatura Norteamericana II. Grado de Estudios Ingleses.
De la página a la pantalla: La literatura anglo-norteamericana y su adaptación cinematográfica. Máster de Literatura Comparada Europea
Other Research Activity
Editorial Advisor. Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Section: “Cinema and Modernism.” March 2013-May 2022.
https://www.rem.routledge.com/about/editorial-board-and-contributors.
Co-organizer. Seminar: “Millones de perversas. La radicalidad sexual en los años setenta.” Centro Cultural Conde-Duque y CentroCentro Cibeles. June 26 and 27, 2017.
Co-organizer: Simposio: “Resistencias del sur: Usos del pasado, periferias y espacios de liberación sexual.” Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno-IVAM, April 27 and 28, 2018.
https://www.crusev.ed.ac.uk/tag/resistencias-del-sur/
Dissemination and Events
“Seducción y resistencia: en los límites del pop”. Empresa/Administración financiadora: Ministerio de Cultura-Gobierno de España. Entidades participantes: Museo Nacional-Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. 8 – 28 de agosto, 2014. Curator: Juan Antonio Suárez
https://www.museoreinasofia.es/actividades/seduccion-resistencia-limites-pop
“Los vídeo-diarios de George Kuchar,” X-Céntric: El Cinema al CCCB (29 de marzo, 2015). Curator: Juan Antonio Suárez
http://xcentric.cccb.org/es/programas/fitxa/los-video-diarios-de-george-kuchar/218556
Comisariado Exposición “Nuestro deseo es una revolución: Imágenes de la diversidad sexual en el estado español.” Curators: Juan Guardiola (CDAN) y Juan Antonio Suárez (Universidad de Murcia). Centro Centro Cibeles para la cultura y la ciudadanía. Madrid. June 21-October 1, 2017.
https://www.periferias.org/nuestro-deseo-es-una-revolucion/
“Cannibal Locomotion.” Tropical Underground. The Brazilian Cinema Marginal and the Revolution of Cinema. Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt. July 5, 2018.
“Más allá del canon. Otras historias del cine experimental.” Aula Xcéntric. CCCB. 27 noviembre a 3 de diciembre, 2020.
Conferencia: “Sexopolítica en Maenza, Padrós y Zulueta,” Simposium: Sexopolíticas del cine marginal, años 70 y 80.” Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM). June 29-30, 2019.
https://www.ivam.es/es/noticias/dossier-de-prensa-sexopoliticas-del-cine-marginal-anos-70-80/