Kelly Moore

New Cabell Hall 435

Biography

Kelly Moore is a scholar of Modern and Contemporary Spanish literature, culture, and film and a faculty affiliate with Women’s and Gender Studies. She is especially interested in questions about the distribution and redistribution of care and of care work. Her first book project, In the Ruins of Care: The Aesthetics and Politics of Housework in 20th and 21st-Century Spain considers the conceptual overlap between domestic labor and infrastructure. You can read her essays on gender and secularism, wildfire and reproductive exhaustion, and iconoclasm and affect in venues such as Journal of Contemporary Spanish Cultural Studies, Revista Hispánica Moderna, and Hispanic Review. 

Recent Courses:

Cinematic Time and the Politics of Care
Malas mujeres: The Unruly Women of Spanish Realism
Gender and Dissent in Spanish Perspective
The Iberian Exception
Perspectives on Modern Spain
Spanish Culture and Civilization
Modern Spanish Literature Survey

Education:

PhD in Romance Studies, Cornell University 
MA in Spanish Language and Literature, University Wyoming
BA in Spanish Language and Literature, University of Wyoming

Research Interests

Modern and Contemporary Iberian Literature & Film
Gender and Labor
Energy Humanities
Cinema and Media Studies
Political Theory
Popular Culture
Affect & Infrastructure

Publications:

“The Idols of Others: Joan Sales’ Incerta glòria,” forthcoming in Hispanic Review.

“Infrastructures of Ash: Reproductivist Burnout in Mikel Gurrea’s Suro (2022),” Revista Hispánica Moderna, vol. 78, no 2, 2025.       

“Anticlericalism’s Struggle over Social Reproduction Labor: The Ubao Affair and Galdós’s Electra (1901).” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, vol. 23, no 3, pp. 251–63, 2022. 

“Bound and Cut: Mystical Montage in João Pedro Rodrigues’ O Ornitólogo (2016).” Indiscreet Fantasies: Iberian Queer Cinema, edited by Conxita Domènech and Andrés Lema-Hincapié. Bucknell UP, 2019.