Lisa DiGiovanni

Professor Lisa DiGiovanni holds a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures, alongside graduate certificates in Women’s and Gender Studies, Film Studies, and Genocide Studies. She has published and lectured extensively on representations of war, dictatorial violence, and genocide in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Spain and Latin America. In her first book, Unsettling Nostalgia (2019), she defines a nuanced form of longing that characterizes how authors and filmmakers explore memories of anti-fascist resistance to the military regimes of Franco (1939-75) and Pinochet (1973-90). Her second book, Militarized Masculinity in Spain and Chile: Remembering Violence through Film and Literature (2025), argues that until we connect the dots between masculinity, militarism, and violence, we cannot fully comprehend the causes and consequences of mass atrocity crimes. Beyond the page, she is also a video-essayist specializing in Iberian and Latin American cinemas.