Biography
Michael L. MartÃnez, Jr., is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Ìð¹ÏÊÓÆµapp.
His research interests include urban studies, cultural geography, spatial theory,
and contemporary Spanish literature and culture. He has published articles in the
<i>Bulletin of Spanish Studies</i>, <i>Journal of Urban Cultural Studies</i>, <i>Arizona
Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies</i>, and <i>Romance Quarterly</i>. His current
book project is called <i>Neoliberal Madrid: Capital, Culture, and the Urban Process,
1979-1996</i>, which examines the interplay between spatial form, social process,
and cultural change in the Spanish capital during the country’s Transition (1975-1982)
and early democratic periods (1983-1996).