Julia Chang

Overview

Julia Chang is an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Studies, a member of the core faculty in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and affiliated faculty in the Southeast Asia Program. She holds a PhD in Hispanic Language and Literatures with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Chang has also taught courses at Brown University and San Quentin State Prison with the Prison University Project (currently Mount Tamalpais College). She is a member of the research group TRECE (Taller de raza, etnicidad, y ciudadanía en España), the CNY Humanities Corridor Group “Global Disability Studies,” and is a fellow of the CIVIC Research Collaborative in Media Studies on the topic of “Interactive Media and Games.”

 

Her areas of research and teaching include modern and contemporary Iberian literature and culture; feminist and queer theory; disability studies; game studies; race and anti-racist pedagogy; and the nineteenth-century Philippines. Chang’s first book Blood Novels: Gender, Caste, and Race in Spanish Realism (University Toronto Press 2022) was the inaugural winner of the “Harriet S. Turner Beca” from the Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas. 

MEDIA

Spectacular Bodies: Racism, Pregnancy, and the Code of Silence in Academe

Professors and Students Demand Institutional Change Against Anti-Asian Racism

In Defense of Theory

RECENT COURSES

Research Focus

• Modern Peninsular Literature and Culture
• Spanish Imperialism and the Philippines
• Gender Studies
• Feminism and Feminist Theory
• Queer Theory
• History of Medicine
• Disability Studies

Publications

• “Realism and Race in the Literature of the Global Hispanic Empire,” in Katherine Bowers, and Margarita Vaysman (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, Oxford Academic, 2024.
• “‘Linaje’s Geneanolgy,’”Diacritics: A Review of Contemporary Criticisim, vol. 51, no.1, 2024. pp. 102-16. 
• "Petrified: Debilitating Bodies in Benito Pérez Galdós’s Marianela (1879)." Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, vol. 18 no. 1, 2024, p. 35-51. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/918884.
• “Spectacular Bodies: Pregnancy, Racism, and the Code of Silence in Academe,” Presumed Incompetent Vol. 2, edited by Yolanda Flores Niemann et al., Utah State UP, 2020, pp. 259-268.
• "Becoming Useless: Masculinity, Able-Bodiedness, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Spain,” Unsettling Colonialism: Transoceanic Perspectives on Gender and Race in the Nineteenth-century Hispanic World, Eds. Akiko Tsuchiya and N. Michelle Murray, SUNY UP, 2019.
• “Bella y Varonil’: Looking Back at Mauricia in Benito Pérez Galdós's Fortunata y Jacinta,” Special Issue: Freakish Encounters: Constructions of the Freak in Hispanic Cultures. Eds. Sara Muñoz-Muriana and Analola Santana. Hispanic Issues Online 20 (2018): 156–174.
• “Between Intimacy and Enmity: Spain and the Philippines Post-Suez,” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 17.4 (2016): 305-322.
• “Blood, Purity, and Pleasure in Leopoldo Alas’s La Regenta,” Hispanic Review 84.3 (2016): 299-321.
• “‘Aquellos neófitos indios, chinos o anamitas:’ Asia and the Imperial Imaginary in Doña Luz,” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 18. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 18.1 (2014): 235-246. 
• “Tiempo loco: Queer Temporality in Emilia Pardo Bazán’s La Tribuna,” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 48.3 (2014): 549-569.

In the news

• Cornell crafts multifaceted game studies program
• Twenty Affinito-Stewart research grants awarded for the 2022-2023 academic year
• ‘Blood Novels’ explores material, metaphor in Spanish realist fiction
• Disability advocate Eli Clare to speak on COVID-19
• Online game replicates frustrations of research and disability
• Julia Chang: Confounding expectations