BA, Complutense University of Madrid. MA, Rey Juan Carlos University. MA, New York University. PhD, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Cabello del Moral is an international scholar and filmmaker. His research deals with representations of race, sexual dissidences, and disability in Spanish and Latin American contemporary film. Other research interests include cinema of migration, decolonial cinema, and activist documentaries. He is the author of the book Alianzas antimodernas: Estudios del Cine del Proceso 15M, forthcoming with the Spanish academic press Iberoamericana Vervuert. In this monograph about contemporary non-fiction Spanish cinema, he explores alliances between characters that had been marginalized within colonial modernity. Cabello del Moral has published several articles and book chapters, including “Trans Cinema from Spain,” forthcoming in The Handbook of Trans Cinema, Ed. Douglas Vakoch; “Coming Out Queer-Crip: Alliances in the New Spanish Disability Cinema,” forthcoming in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies; “Horizons of Radical Care and Crip Relationality in Fernando Franco’s La consagración de la primavera (2022),” forthcoming in Hispania (Special Issue: Disability Studies/Critical Disability Studies); “The Oppositional Gaze in the Argentine Cinema of Migration: Negotiating Chinese Identity and Coloniality of Seeing in Nele Wohlatz’s El futuro perfecto (2016),” in Contemporary Argentine Women Filmmakers, Eds. Mirna Vohnsen and Daniel Mourenza (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023); “Tomar la casa: Politics of haunting, contraarchivo y resistencia indígena en La llorona, de Jayro Bustamante,” in Ítsmica (2022); “El futuro de la juventud de El futuro, de Luis López Carrasco,” in ConSecuencias (2019); and “IXCANUL, una mirada kaqchikel contra el neoliberalismo y el neocolonialismo,” in Istmo (2019). As a filmmaker, Cabello del Moral has worked in all kinds of film and television productions in Spain and New York, specializing in nonfiction and transmedia projects. His documentary work tackles the struggles of LGBTQI+ activists, migrant justice collectives, and political prisoners of the Spanish Francoist dictatorship. SLC, 2026–
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Spanish
Beginning Spanish: Colonial Pasts, Decolonial Presents
Open, Seminar—Year
SPAN 3001
This introductory course will provide a solid base of grammar and vocabulary for students with minimal or no prior knowledge of Spanish. The study of the Spanish language will be complemented with the critical analysis of an array of Hispanophone cultural objects that highlight issues of colonialism, gender, and race. Through movies such La Llorona, Roma, La teta asustada, También la lluvia, short stories by Camila Sosa Villada, Ana Lydia Vega, Augusto Monterroso, Carlos Fuentes, Eduardo Galeano, poems by Julia de Burgos, Gloria Anzaldúa, Victoria Santa Cruz, and songs by Trueno, Villano Antillano, Bad Bunny, Nathy Peluso, Silvio Rodríguez, among others, students will explore historical and contemporary processes of Indigenous and Afro resistance, intersectional feminism, ecocriticism, and migrations. This course will provide students with opportunities to engage in cultural and artistic projects both individually and in groups. Students will create their own textbooks (cuadernos) with examples of the grammatical structures and vocabulary used in class. Students will also participate in group conferences around a specific topic related to the general theme of the course. During the conference, students will have an opportunity to expand course topics, practice their oral skills, and pose additional questions. In addition to class sessions and group conferences, weekly individual meetings with a Spanish language assistant are required. The course will focus on linguistic and communicative competence; that is why Spanish will be the only language spoken during class and it is required that students participate in all in-class activities. This will be a reading and writing intensive course. Students will read a selection of short stories and produce short writing assignments every week that will progressively increase in difficulty and number of words.