Montse Feu, Ph.D.
Dr. Montse Feu (M. Montserrat Feu Lopez) is an associate professor of Spanish at Sam Houston State University. She earned her MA in Humanities Studies at Hood College and her PhD in Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston. Dr. Feu has graduate certificates in Language Teaching Pedagogy, Women’s Studies, and Fascism, Modernity, and Politics.”
She curates Fighting Fascist Spain—The Exhibits and regularly publishes articles in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in books about US Hispanic print culture. She has also written and co-edited monographs, critical anthologies, and volumes about U.S. Hispanic print culture, including The Antifascist Chronicles of Aurelio Pego: A Critical Anthology (2021) and Fighting Fascist Spain: Worker Protest from the Printing Pres s (2020). She has recently co-edited Histories and Cultures of Latinas: Suffrage, Activism, and Women’s Rights (2023) Writing Revolution: Hispanic Anarchism in the United States (2019), and Correspondencia personal y política de un anarcosindicalista exiliado: Jesús González Malo (1943-1965) (2016).
Current research interests
- US Antifascism
- Spanish Civil War Exile
- American Periodicals
- Women's Studies
Selected Publications/Works/Conferences
The Antifascist Chronicles of Aurelio Pego. . (Editor, transcriber, translator, and writer of critical introduction). Routledge, 2021.
Serving Refugee Children: Listening to Stories of Detention in the USA. (Co-edited with Amanda Venta). Peter Lang, 2021.
Fighting Fascist Spain. Worker Protest from the Printing Press. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2020.
Writing Revolution: Hispanic Anarchism in the United States. Champaign: University of Illinois Press (Co-edited with Chris Castañeda, 2019).
Correspondencia personal y política de un anarcosindicalista exiliado: Jesús González Malo (1943-1965). (Editor, transcriber, and writer of critical introduction). Santander: Colección Cuatro Estaciones. Universidad de Cantabria, 2016
“Spanish-Language Publications and Readers” Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Zboray (Eds). The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume 5: U.S. Popular Print Culture to 1860. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 627-640.
“The US Hispanic Flapper: Pelonas and Flapperismo in Spanish-language Newspapers 1920- 1929.”Studies in American Humor Journal.1. 2 (2015): 192-217. [Research Society for American Periodicals Article Prize (2016)].
“Antifascist Laughter in the Margins: Sergio Aragonés’s Mad Marginals” Cuadernos de Aldeeu 31 (Primavera 2017): 71-96.
“Transatlantic Trenches” in Spanish Civil War Journalism: Félix Martí Ibáñez and the Exile Newspaper España Libre (Free Spain, NYC 1939-1977).” Journal for the Study of Radicalism 10. 2 (Fall 2016): 53-78.
“Integración de literatura y lengua: la enseñanza de cursos básicos de español y la recuperación académica de periódicos hispano-estadounidenses" Doblele. Revista de lengua y literatura. 3 (Diciembre 2017): 31-49. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/doblele.29
"Transformation Was Definitely Her Specialty": Teaching Representation with Roberta Fernandez's "Amanda." Interdisciplinary Humanities 31.2 (Summer 2014): 47-61.
List of courses regularly taught at SHSU
- Spanish 2311: Intermediate Spanish I
- Spanish 2312: Intermediate Spanish II
- Spanish 3361: Spanish Grammar and Composition
- Spanish 5371: Contemporary Spanish Literature
- Spanish 4371: Spanish for Criminal Justice
- Spanish 4372: Spanish for Business
- Contemporary Spanish American Literature (undergraduate/graduate)