Professor Martin-Márquez´s research and teaching center on modern Spanish Peninsular cultural studies and Spanish-language film. She is also Director of Rutgers´ Program in Cinema Studies, and teaches courses on world cinema. Her film-related books include Feminist Discourse and Spanish Cinema: Sight Unseen ( Oxford UP, 1999 ), and the collaborative project, Cinema and Everyday Life in 1940s and 1950s Spain: An Oral History ( Berghahn Books, forthcoming 2011 ). Other scholarly work focuses on questions of coloniality and identity. Disorientations: Spanish Colonialism in Africa and the Performance of Identity (Yale UP, 2008)