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Sandra Lousada, 1972
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2024-Associate Professor of English
Texas State University
2019-2024Assistant Professor of English
Texas State University
2017-2019Lecturer in English
UC Riverside
EDUCATION
2017PhD in English with Distinction
UC Riverside
2013MA in English
UC Riverside
2011BA in English and World Literature/Art History
Pitzer College
BOOKS
2023The Intersection of Class and Space in British Post-War Writing: Kitchen Sink Aesthetics. Bloomsbury, 2023.
2022Locating Classed Subjectivities: Space and Social Class in Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-First-Century British Writing, ed. Simon Lee, Routledge, 2022.
CHAPTERS & ARTICLES
2025“Tracking the Sovereign: Biopolitical Representation in Peter Watkins’ Punishment Park and Gareth Edwards’ Monsters.” Societies in Space: Essays on the Civilized Frontier in Film and Television, ed. Gary Westphal, McFarland, 2025.
2024“Struggle as Class Motif: Difficulty and Taboo in Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain.” The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature, ed. Ben Clarke, Routledge, 2024.
2023“Mediating Desire: Karel Reisz’ Adaptation of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.” Adult Themes: British Cinema and the 'X' Certificate in the Long Sixties, eds. Anne Etienne, Benjamin Halligan, and Christopher Weedman, Bloomsbury, 2023. pp. 73-90.
2022“Addressing Stigma: Demonized Locales in Pat Barker’s Union Street.” Locating Classed Subjectivities: Space and Social Class in Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-First-Century British Writing. ed. Simon Lee. Routledge, 2022. pp. 127-145.
2022“Introduction.” Locating Classed Subjectivities: Space and Social Class in Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-First-Century British Writing. ed. Simon Lee. Routledge, 2022. pp. 1-19.
2021“Social Class and Mental Health in Contemporary British Fiction.” The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Class, ed. Gloria McMillan, Routledge, 2021. pp. 269-280.
2020“Lit Grit: The Gritty and the Grim in British Working-Class Cultural Production.” The Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies. eds. Michele Fazio, Christie Launius, and Tim Strangleman. Routledge, 2020. pp. 371-380.
2018“Look at the State of This Place!”: The Impact of Domestic Space on Post-war Class Consciousness.” Working-Class Writing: Theory and Practice. eds. Ben Clarke and Nick Hubble. Palgrave MacMillan, 2018. pp. 143-164.
2018“Brutal Youth: Colin MacInnes and the Architecture of the Welfare State.” The Journal of Working-Class Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2018. pp. 20-39.
2017“British Working-Class Literature: Paradox and Tension as Genre Motif.” Working-Class Literature(s): Historical and International Perspectives. eds. John Lennon and Magnus Nilsson. Stockholm University Press, 2017. pp. 159-195.
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP & REVIEWS
2024“You Dirty Beasts” The Los Angeles Review of Books; August 28, 2024.
2020“A Progenitor of Second-Wave Feminism.” The Los Angeles Review of Books; August 21, 2020.
2018“What Makes an Immigrant Good?” The Los Angeles Review of Books; April 3, 2019.
2018“Working-Class Writing in 21st-Century Britain.” The Los Angeles Review of Books; September 4, 2018.
2017Review of Contemporary Fictions of Multiculturalism, Diversity, and the Millennial London Novel by Michael Perfect. Literary Geographies, vol. 3, no. 1, May 2017. pp. 111-114.
2014“After the Fall.” The Los Angeles Review of Books; December 11, 2014.
2014“Bigmouth Strikes.” The Los Angeles Review of Books; March 6, 2014.
PRESENTATIONS & TALKS
2025“A Machine for Thinking In: Business Parks and Industrial Space in J.G. Ballard’s Super-Cannes.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA; January 9-12, 2025.
2025“Broader Allegories: 21st-Century Political Struggle in Beasts of England.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA; January 9-12, 2025.
2024“Struggle as Class Motif: ‘Difficulty’ in Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain.” Working-Class Studies Association Annual Conference, Long Island, NY; June 6, 2024.
2023“Addressing Stigma.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA; January 5-8, 2023.
2021“‘Difficulty’ in Working-Class Narratives.” Working-Class Studies Association Annual Conference, Youngstown, OH; May 20, 2021.
2021“Vulgarity and Tension in Class-Conscious Writing.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Toronto, ON; January 7-10, 2021.
2021“Contributors on The Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies.” Zoom Event; April 16, 2021.
2020“The Uses of Nostalgia: Contours of Memory in Working-Class Culture.” Texas Center for Working-Class Studies Conference, Plano, TX; February 20, 2020.
2020“Memory of Place: Locale and Nostalgia in Pat Barker’s Union Street.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Seattle, WA; January 9, 2020.
2020“Representing the Working-Class: A Roundtable Discussion of Contributors to The Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies.” Working-Class Studies Association Annual Conference, Youngstown, OH; May 20, 2020.
2019“Internalizing Immiseration: Social Class and Mental Health in Richard Milward’s Apples.” American Comparative Literature Association, Washington, DC; March 7, 2019.
2018“Nostalgia and the Problem of Tradition in Sid Chaplin’s Working-Class Fiction.” Working-Class Studies Association Annual Conference, Stony Brook, NY; June 9, 2018.
2018“Sartorial Spaces: Colin MacInnes and Multicultural Style.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New York, NY; January 4, 2018, Global Fashion Standing Session.
2017“Autodidacticism and Institutional Resistance.” Working-Class Studies Association Annual Conference, Bloomington, Indiana; June 1, 2017.
2017“Brutal Youth: Colin MacInnes and the Architecture of the Welfare State.” ‘You Are Here’: Interdisciplinary Conference on Place, Space, and Embodiment. Omaha, NE; March 23, 2017.
2017“The Paradoxical Motifs and Aesthetics of Working-Class Literature.” Texas Center for Working-Class Studies Conference, Plano, TX; February 23, 2017.
2016“Look at the State of this Place! Domestic Space and the Working-Class Imaginary.” Texas Center for Working-Class Studies Conference, Plano, TX; March 31, 2016.
2014“Underground Overground: The Paradox of the Sigil in Contemporary Usage.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Riverside, CA; October 31, 2014.
2014“Inadvertent Rituals: Occult Communiqué in Crash Worship and TOPY.” Association for the Study of Esotericism, Hamilton, NY; June 21, 2014.
2013“Foundational Structures: Narrative Containment in William Gaddis’ Carpenter’s Gothic.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, San Diego, CA; November 2, 2013.
2013“Tracking the Sovereign: Biopolitical Representation in Peter Watkins’ Punishment Park and Gareth Edwards’ Monsters.” Eaton Science Fiction Conference, Riverside, CA; April 11, 2013.
2013“Encounters in the Classroom: A Roundtable Discussion on Pedagogical Development.” (dis)junctions, University of California, Riverside, CA; April 5, 2013.
2013“Ov Narratological Becomings: Genesis P-Orridge and the Pandrogyne Project.” Minding the Body: Duality and its Discontents, CUNY English Association Conference, March 1, 2013.
2012“Ambulatory Ambivalence: Cultivating Subjectivity in James Joyce’s ’Wandering Rocks’.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Durham, NC; November 10, 2012.
2012“Framing Limitation: Cold War Ideologies in Elizabeth Bishop's Painting and Prose." Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA; October 19, 2012.
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