Angel Lara

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Position/Role
Associate Professor
Department
Modern Languages
School
School of Arts and Sciences
Building
New Academic Building
Room
3031
Phone
(516)628-5039
E-mail
Email

Research Activity

  • Researcher: Project “Political Assemblages, Interculturalism, and (Anti)Racisms in Andalusia [APIARA]”. I+D+I Projects within the FEDER Operating Program, Regional Government of Andalusia (Spain). 2021-2023. Reference: SEJ-440-UGR20

  • Researcher: Project “Feminist Epistemologies and Activism in Health: Practices, Care, and Emerging Knowledges in Biomedical Contexts”. Subprogram “Retos”, I+D+I National Plan, Ministry of Science and Education of Spain. January 2017- December 2020. Reference: FEM2016-76797-R. Participating Entities: Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), University King Juan Carlos, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), University of Valencia, University Hospital of Alcorcon, and Media Lab Prado-Madrid.

  • Director of Research Project: ‘A Seventh Woman: Migrant Policies and Infrapolitics in the Neoliberal City (New York). A practice of collaborative ethnography and communal narrative from the will to live’. This research initiative was part of the project ‘Emergent Processes and Agencies of the Commons: Praxis of collaborative social research and new modes of political subjectification [EPAC].’ Years 2014-2018, modality 1: R&D Projects, State Program for the Promotion of Scientific and Technical Research with Excellence, State Subprogram for Knowledge Generation, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness; State Secretariat for Research, Development and Innovation; Government of Spain. Reference: CSO2014-56960-p.

  • Director of Research Project: ‘Realities in the TV narrative production. Serial TV storytelling in Spain’, Ministry of Education and Science of Spain, Research Department, 2004- 2007 [Reference: SEJ2004-04780/SOCI]

  • Member of the International Research Network Ins-Knows (University of Granada, Veracruzana University, Autonomous University of Queretaro, National Autonomous University of Mexico-CIECO, Autonomous University of South Baja California, University of Cauca, and State University of New York at Old Westbury). 2013-2019.

  • Researcher: ‘Guelph Rural-Urban Program’, CohStra-Museguetes in collaboration with School for Environmental Design and Rural Development (SEDRD) at the University of Guelph, City of Guelph, Canada, 2011-2012.

  • Member of the Research Group on Social Sciences of Labor ‘Charles Babbage’, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), 2004 –Currently.

  • Visiting Researcher at the Laboratoire “Travail et mobilités”, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris X (France), 2004- 2005.

  • Visiting Researcher at the Department of Sociology, Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy), 2003- 2004.

Courses Taught

  • Creative Writing: TV Scriptwriting in Spanish
  • Critical Writing and Textual Analysis
  • Fiction into Film: The Spanish and Latin American Cinema
  • Civilizations and Cultures of Spain
  • Civilizations and Cultures of Latin America
  • The Spanish Golden Age

  • Cervantes and the Golden Age

  • Contemporary Theater in the Hispanic World

  • Recent Narratives from Spain

  • Introduction to Caribbean Studies

  • Introduction to Chicanx Studies

  • Introduction to Hispanic Culture
  • Masterpieces of Hispanic Literature
  • Culture and Literature of Latin America
  • Hispanic Heritage
  • Hispanic Language and Culture
  • Basic Spanish I
  • Basic Spanish II
  • Intermediate Spanish II
  • Advanced Spanish Grammar and Composition
  • Advanced Spanish Conversation
  • Basic French II
Degrees
  • Ph. D. Sociology, Complutense University of Madrid (Summa Cum Laude)
  • M.A. Social Dynamics in Contemporary Society, Complutense University of Madrid
  • B.A. Sociology, Complutense University of Madrid
Certifications & Licenses
  • Professional Scriptwriter - ALMA (Writers Guild of Spain)
Honors & Awards

2013 Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, School of Political Sciences and Sociology, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).

Student/College Service

Director - El Conuco, Latinx and Ibero-American Center (SUNY Old Westbury)

Research Interests
  • Ibero-American Cultural Studies

  • Spanish Identity and Spanishness

  • Socioanalysis and Collaborative Research Methods

  • Scriptwriting

  • Audiovisual Narratives

  • Digital Economy

  • Cognitive and Immaterial Labor

Publications

Recent Book Chapters

  • LARA, A.L. (2023): “Recordar lo nunca conocido”, preface of the book La Razón eléctrica, Raúl Rodríguez, Madrid: Altafonte.

  • LARA, A.L. (2023): “Anarchivear lo barroco, entender no entendiendo la catástrofe”, in Muntadas About Academia, Antonio Collados Alcaíde (Ed.), Granada: Universidad de Granada. 2023.

  • LARA, A.L. (2020): “Causalidad de la pandemia, cualidad de la catástrofe”, in Pandemia. Capitalismo y crisis ecosocial, VV.AA., León (México): Tsunun.

  • LARA, A.L. (2020): “Narrándonos en con-junto: usos de la narrativa comunitaria en la investigación colaborativa. Notas desde una experiencia en la ciudad de Nueva York”, in Investigaciones en movimiento: etnografías colaborativas, feministas y decoloniales. Aurora Álvarez Veinguer, Alberto Arribas Lozano y Gunther Dietz (Eds.). Buenos Aires: CLACSO.

  • LARA, A.L. (2015): “Del espectador al prosumidor. Retos para la gestión audiovisual”, in Gestión de la cultura, gestión de la vida. Lina Gavira (Ed.). Madrid: Ediciones CINCA.

  • LARA, A.L. (2014): “Mareas de lo común: la revolución democrática de los produsuarios”, in 15MP2P. Papers & Producciones. Encuentro transdisciplinar del 15M, DatAnalysis15M et. al. Barcelona: UOC.

Recent Articles

  • Almudena Alameda-Cuesta, Irene Blanco-Fuente, Amparo Bonilla-Campos, Elena Casado-Aparicio, M Pilar Domínguez-Castillo, Dau García-Dauder, Ángel Luis Lara Rodríguez, Miguel Ángel López-Sáez, Nerea Velázquez-Berrio, Carmen Romero-Bachiller (2023): “Nursing (hers)storytelling: An ethnographic fiction proposal for exploring feminist health activism in Spain”, Advances in Nursing Science. 2023 Jan 18. doi: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000479.

  • LARA, A.L. (2022): “El jaleo como relación: materiales para pensar el jalear”. Revista de investigación sobre flamenco “La Madrugá”, Núm. 19. University of Murcia (Spain).

  • LARA, A.L. (2020): “Investigación colaborativa a través de las historias: un caso de socioanálisis narrativo en la ciudad de Nueva York”. AIBR, Revista Iberoamericana de Antropología. Núm. 15 (2).

  • LARA, A.L. (2019): “From the Being who Knows to the Loving Construction of Knowledges: A case of Narrative Socioanalysis in New York City”. Collaborative Anthropologies, Volume 11, issue 1.

  • LARA, A.L. (2018): “Facework: trabajo digital, redes sociales y nueva servidumbre”, Sociología del trabajo, Núm. 93.

  • LARA, A.L. (2018): “El guion de ficción televisiva serial como producto”. Revista de Estudios de Comunicación ZER (Universidad del País vasco). Vol. 23, Núm. 44.

  • LARA, A.L. (2017): “La revolución paradójica un viaje a la imposibilidad circular del bolchevismo”, Revista Sociología Histórica (Universidad de Murcia), Num. 8.

  • LARA, A.L. (2014): “La producción de la plaza”, Revista Materiales de Trabajo, Num. 0, Albacete: Editorial Bomarzo.

  • LARA, A.L. (2014): “Del televidente al teleactante: carácter productivo y explotación de los públicos mediáticos”, Sociología del trabajo. Num. 81 Nueva Época, Madrid
  • LARA, A.L. (2013): “Comment renouveler les movements Occupy?”, Réfractions, No. 30. Paris.
  • LARA, A.L. (2012): “Virgil Starkwell en la Puerta del Sol: públicos en revuelta, políticas hacia el ser por venir”, Hispanic Review, Vol. 80.4. Autumn 2012.
Presentations

Recent Paper Presentations

  • “Un conuco en el laberinto de la educación superior pública en Estados Unidos: catástrofe e intervención reversiva” (A Conuco in the labyrinth of Public Higher Education in USA: Catastrophe and Reversive Intervention), International Seminar The Dispossed Academy, Madrid, March 18th, 2023.

  • “La península ausente: el olvido foucaultiano de la Península Ibérica en los análisis de la guerra de razas y el biopoder (curso en el Collège de France 1975-1976)” (“The Missing Peninsula: The Oblivion of the Iberian Peninsula in Foucault’s analysis of Race War and Biopower -Course at the Collège de France 1975-1976-“), International Conference of Academic and Scientific Mobility: Interculturalisms and Racisms, University of Granada (Spain), May 12, 2023.

  • “Lo andalusí como devenir filtrado: el campo cultural flamenco como analizador” (“Al-Andalus like a seeped becoming: The flamenco cultural field as an analyzer”), 8th International Anthropology Conference AIBR, Salamanca (Spain), July 12-15, 2022.

  • “El cante jondo como anarchivo: conspirar en la asfixia de lo ordinario barroco” (Flamenco Singing as anarchive: conspiring in the suffocation produced by the ordinary Baroque), 10th Conference of Ordinary Sociology, Spanish National Museum of Contemporary Art “Reina Sofía”, Madrid, May 29, 2022.

  • “Rethinking our understanding of labor and life: New servitude and capital accumulation in the digital economy”, SUNY Old Westbury Social Justice Seminar, May 12, 2022.

  • “Broadening our Understanding of Child Labor in Latin America: Children in the Digital Economy”, LASA2022 Hybrid Conference: Polarización socioambiental y rivalidad entre grandes potencias, San Francisco, May 5–8, 2022.

  • “Perplejidad y Catástrofe: silencios y opacidades de un profesor en la universidad neoliberal” (“Perplexity and Catastrophe: Silence and Opacities of a Professor in the Neoliberal University”), round table “Inhabiting Committed Research Projects in the Context of the Neoliberal University”, seminar “About Academia”, Department of Visual Arts and School of Education and Society, University of Granada (Spain), January 25, 2022.

  • “Por una redefinición del trabajo infantil: los niños y niñas como productores en la economía digital” (“Redefining Child Labor: Kids as Producers in the Digital Economy”), 7th International Anthropology Conference AIBR, Vila Real (Portugal), July 27-30, 2021.

  • “Children in the Digital Economy: Rethinking and Broadening our Understanding of Child Labor”, 15th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Barcelona, August 31 - September 3.

  • “Digitalizadas y neoliberalizadas: materiales para una etnografía de los modos de vida en las redes sociales en Internet” (“Digitalized and Neoliberalized: Some Notes for an Ethnography of Digital Social Networks”), 6th International Anthropology Conference AIBR, Online Edition, July 28-31, 2020.

  • “Democracia, convivencialidad y fabulación: desbordes creativos en la práctica de la investigación social a través de las historias” (“Democracy, Conviviality and Fabulation: Creative Overflowing in Social Research Through Storytelling”), 6th International Anthropology Conference AIBR, Online Edition, July 28-31, 2020.

  • “Socioanálisis, intersubjetividad e investigación desde lo común: consideraciones metodológicas a partir de una experiencia en la ciudad de Nueva York” (“Socioanalysis, Intersubjectivity and Research from the Common: Some Methodological Notes based on a Research Experience in New York”), Seminario “Metodologías decoloniales en la investigación”, Programa de Doctorado en Estudios migratorios, Universidad de Granada, 30-31 de mayo de 2019.

  • "Entornos digitales y colonización del vivir: el caso del trabajo invisible de los usuarios de la red social Facebook" (“Digital Environments and Colonization of Life: The Invisible Work of Facebook Users”), XXXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA 2019), Boston, May 24 - 27, 2019.

Selected Academic Seminars and Taught Workshops in the Last Years

  • Chair of the seminar. “La escritura de ficción televisiva y la creación de proyectos seriales” (TV Fiction Screenwriting: Tools to Create Serial Worlds), International School of Film and Television (EICTV), Cuba, September 4-8, 2023.

  • Chair of seminar: “Taller de formación en narrativas mediáticas para la investigación social: entre podcasting y ficción televisiva”, Grupo Charles Babbage de Ciencias Sociales del Trabajo de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Universidad de Granada, June 2-5, 2023.

  • Chair of the online seminar: “Para una cartografía del oficio de guionista: por las veredas de la creación y la escritura de historias seriales para televisión”, Master Program in Television Screewriting, The Core-Entertainment Science School (Madrid), February 10th, 2023.

  • Chair of the seminar: “Usos de los lenguajes mediáticos en la investigación social: del cine documental a las narrativas seriales de ficción”, School of Political Sciences and Sociology, Complutense Universiy of Madrid, October 21, 2022.

  • Chair of the online seminar: “Narrativas comunitarias e investigación colaborativa”, Doctoral Program in Social Sciences, Veracruzana University (Mexico), November 18, 2022.

  • Chair of the online seminar: “Introduction to Screenwriting: Creating Media and Cinema Fictional Stories”, LaMircro Theater New York, June 10, 11, 17, 18, and 24, 2022.

  • Chair of the online seminar: “Socioanálisis narrativo: componiendo investigación comunitaria con las historias”, Máster en Metodologías participativas y comunicación para la investigación e intervención social, School of Political Sciences and Sociology, Complutense University of Madrid, March 22, 2022.

  • Chair of the online seminar: “Convivencialidad y fabulación: usos de las narrativas mediáticas en la investigación y la práctica comunitaria”, Máster propio en Internacionalización de la Gestión del Sector Cultural y Creativo, School of Government, Complutense University of Madrid, May 14, 2021.

  • Chair of the online seminar: “Narrarnos en con-junto: usos de las narrativas mediáticas en la investigación y la acción comunitaria”, Máster propio en Internacionalización de la Gestión del Sector Cultural y Creativo, Escuela de Gobierno de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 23 de mayo de 2020.

  • Chair of seminar: “Modos de contarnos. Taller de capacitación en narrativa comunitaria para la investigación colaborativa y los movimientos sociales: entre radionovela, podcasting y ficción televisiva”, Universidad de Granada, 18, 19 y 20 de junio de 2018.

  • Chair of seminar: “Para un concepto ampliado de la narrativa documental audiovisual”, Instituto del Cine de Madrid, Diplomatura en cine documental, 21 de marzo de 2018.

    Chair of seminar: “Pensar las historias documentales desde la ficción”, Instituto del Cine de Madrid, Diplomatura en cine documental, 10 de enero de 2018.

  • Chair of seminar: “24/7: the new serfdom and the labor of living. Digital labor and new dynamics of exploitation: Facework or the invisible factory”, Máster en Análisis Sociocultural del Conocimiento y la Comunicación, Facultad de Ciencias de la Información de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 23 de noviembre de 2017.

  • Chair of seminar: “Creative Uses of TV fictional narratives and community storytelling in Social Research Projects”, a six days seminar leaded within the Doctoral Program on Migration Studies at the University of Granada. June 6-11, 2016.

  • Chair of seminar: “Between Fictions and Realities: A Paradoxical Approach to the Relation between Stories, History, and Historiography”, Seminar given at the EURAME Master Program course “America in transition towards contemporaneity: States and Indigenous Struggles” at the University of Granada (Spain). April 6th, 2016.

  • Chair of seminar: “Plots, Meanings, Fictions, and Frictions: Four Incitements to Reflexively Dive into Stories”, Seminar leaded at the Master in Sociocultural Analysis of Communication and Culture at the Complutense University of Madrid. November 3rd, 2015.

  • Chair of the seminar: “Participatory Urban Research. Community Sociopraxis from symptoms to solutions”, Parsons The New School for Design, April 6 and 13, 2015.

Office Hours
  • Tuesdays & Thursdays: 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm and 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
  • Or by appointments