Antonio Prado

Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (Spanish)

Contact 309-341-7157 aprado@knox.edu

General Interests
"I am interested in cultural productions that testify gender and class positions of political struggle in times of State crisis. My forthcoming book deals with the newspapers and magazines produced by the anarcho-feminist movement during the turbulent and unstable years prior to the fascist coup d'état that led to the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). In those texts I study the anarchist visions of alternative and liberating models of family, gender, and sexuality in the post-capitalist anarchist imaginary.

Currently, I am working on two projects. Firstly, I am working with the productions of the video-activist movement after the economic crisis of December 2001 in Argentina, particularly on the factories and business collectivization movement on a national scale. I look into grass roots producers that focus on productive representations of horizontalist modes of production as an alternative to the present capitalist structure, both within the Argentine capitalist State at a national level, and within the neo-liberal globalization as a world system. Secondly, I am working on the anarchist collectivization of the film industry during the Spanish Civil War. I am interested in those film documentaries that were urgently produced in order to inform and report on the Spanish Social revolution."

Years at Knox: 2000 to present

Education
Ph.D., 2006, University of Illinois.
M.A., 1999, University of Illinois.
B.A., 1996, University of Illinois.

Teaching Interests
Spanish language, Hispanic literatures, Latin American film, The Spanish Civil War, Anarchist Studies.

Selected Professional Accomplishments

Publications
"Anarchism, Documentary, and Social Revolution: Spain 1936-37, and Argentina post 2001", Forthcoming.

Escritoras anarco-feministas en La Revista Blanca (1898-1936): Matrimonio, familia, y Estado, Fundación de Estudios Libertarios Anselmo Lorenzo, Madrid, 2011.

Translator. "Anarchists in Libraries: Anecdotes." Progressive Librarian: A Journal for Critical Studies 16 (1999): 1-6.

Presentations
"La vanguardia cinematografica del anarquismo español (1936-1939): medios y mediaciones en lucha." Paper, IV Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española de los Estudios Populares de Cultura Popular, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, October, 2010.

"The C.N.T.'s Collectivization of the Film Industry (Spain 1936-37): Mediation, Representation and Social Revolution." Paper presented at the MLG Summer Institute on Culture and Society, Portland State University, Portland, June 2009.

"Anarquismo, documentalismo y revolución social: España 1936-37, y Argentina post 2001." Paper presented at the LASA (Latin American Studies Association), Rio de Janeiro, June, 2009.

"Grass Roots Documentary in the Post 2001 Argentine Crisis: Women Facing State Power and (Capitalist) Globalization." Marxist Literary Group Annual Institute on Culture and Society, "Anti-Globalization/Counter Globalization", University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2008.

"Towards a Gendered Perspective of the Third Cinema Premises: Working Class Women in the Recent Videoactivism in Argentina." Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Philadelphia, 2008.

"Reading the Anarchist Romance: Melodrama in the factory, Revolution in the Household (Spain, 1923-1936)." Knox College, 2004.

"La otra regeneración: Mujer y revolución social en la prensa anarquista española (1868-1914)." Tulane University, 2001.

Campus & Community Involvement
Resident Director, Barcelona Program.
Visiting professor at the University of Palermo, taught course Argentine Political Cinema, Buenos Aires.
Member, Modern Language Association.
Member, Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

What Students Say
"Not only is Professor Prado a native speaker who wants to aid students with the finer points of Spanish grammar, but his re-contextualized and insightful interpretations of literary works and historical texts are one-of-a-kind. He effortlessly wins students over with his warmth and laid-back attitude. He does not attempt to put on affected professorly airs, but instead earns respect by giving it. Professor Prado is devoted to the variety of themes discussed in class, and he genuinely wants students to grow in their understanding until they reach a higher level of enthusiasm and appreciation for these issues. Professor Prado's classes are addictive: once you take one, you'll want to take them all."
-Laurie Nowak, Spanish and Environmental Journalism Major