Areas of Expertise
- Contemporary Iberian Literary and Cultural Studies
- Film Studies
- Spanish Film and Television
Education
- Ph.D., Iberian Studies, The Ohio State University (in progress)
- M.A., Teaching, Universidad de Ávila, 2020
- M.A., Spanish and Latin American Literature, Literature Theory, and Comparative Literature, Universidad de Salamanca, 2018
- B.A., English Studies, Universidad de Salamanca, 2017
Fernando Sánchez López is a fifth-year student in the Iberian Studies Ph.D. program. More specifically, he is interested in film studies and comparative literature, with special application to contemporary Spain. His current research deals with the role of popular genres in Spanish film, especially after the financial crash in 2008. In particular, he is analyzing the current proliferation of Spanish neo-noir and how it might be a symptom of both the commercial need to use transnational modes of narration and the social discontent regarding political/institutional corruption in the country.
Selected Publications:
Sánchez López, Fernando. “Gloria y ruina del 92: la ‘pasteurización’ de espacios urbanos en Sabotaje olímpico (Vázquez Montalbán 1993) y Grupo 7 (Rodríguez 2012).”, Pasavento: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 12.1: 67-88, 2024
Sánchez López, Fernando. “Ramificaciones neo-noir en la Argentina del nuevo milenio: los casos ‘neo-neorrealistas’ de Pizza, birra, faso y El bonaerense.” Secuencias: Revista de historia del cine, 56: 63-78, 2023.
Sánchez López, Fernando. “Destabilizing Spanish National Cinema: Surcos/Furrows (1951) as a ‘Film of National Interest’.” Transnational Screens, 14.1: 20-36, 2023.
Sánchez López, Fernando. “La corrupción política como fantasía neo-noir en El Reino (Rodrigo Sorogoyen, 2018).” Filmhistoria online, 32.2: 331-355, 2022.
Sánchez López, Fernando. “Luis García Berlanga y la representación de La Guerra Civil española: La vaquilla (1985) como esperpento cinematográfico.”, Doxa Comunicación: Revista Interdisciplinar de Estudios de Comunicación y Ciencias Sociales, 35: 1-14, 2022.