Susan Larson is the Charles B. Qualia Endowed Professor of Romance Languages at Texas Tech University, editor of the Romance Quarterly, and co-editor (with Benjamin Fraser) of Palgrave Macmillan’s Hispanic Urban Studies books series. Her interdisciplinary teaching and research draw on Literary and Urban Studies, Cultural Geography and spatial theory to shed light on the competing discourses of modernity in Spain since 1898, and the reciprocal relationship between culture and social space.
Recent Publications
— Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain. Edited volume. Toronto: University of Toronto Press Iberic series, 2024.
— “An Introduction to the Memoir of Vivian Gordon (aka la choferesa) and Her Pivotal Role in Camilo José Cela’s Nuevo viaje a la Alcarria (1986).” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 27.3 (2026): 211-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14636204.2026.2706937
—“Roundtable: The Spatial Politics of Everyday Life.” Co-authored with Enric Bou, Vicente Rubio-Pueyo and Megan Saltzman. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 27.1 (2026): 61-83.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14636204.2026.2623708
—“Cultural Geographies in Spain: Landscape, Place and Space.” In The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain: Ideas, Practices, Imaginings. L. Elena Delgado and Eduardo Ledesma, eds. New York: Routledge, 2025. pp. 3-17. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367810207-2
Recent Invited Lectures
—“Los primeros arquitectos modernos: en el centenario de la Generación del 25.” Roundtable with Juan Manuel Bonet and Enrique Granell. Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid. December 10, 2025.
—“Dimitrios Pikionis y su tiempo: las influencias mutuas con la arquitectura española y europea.” Colloquium. Cervantes Institute of Athens. December 3, 2025.
—“Historicist Spanish Architecture and the Rhetoric of Hispanidad West of the Mississippi Since 1898.” Invited Lecture. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Department of
Spanish and Portuguese. November 13, 2025.
—“'Civilize the Landscape': Spanish Historicist Architecture West of the Mississippi Since 1898.” Invited Lecture. University of Texas, Austin Department of Spanish and Portuguese. October 2, 2025.