Hotels make for great theatre. They are quintessentially modern (this is especially true of motels, by way of their association with automobiles); they allow for unexpected encounters and mysterious retreats—a clichéd feature of practically every spy drama and tale of illicit sex we can remember; they combine public (lobby, bar, dining room) with private (guest…
Articles by Debra Castillo
Debra A. Castillo is Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies, and Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is past president of the international Latin American Studies Association. She specializes in contemporary narrative from the Spanish-speaking world (including the United States), gender studies, comparative border studies, and cultural theory. Her most recent books are Cartographies of Affect: Across Borders in South Asia and the Americas (with Kavita Panjabi), Hybrid Storyspaces (with Christine Henseler), Mexican Public Intellectuals (with Stuart Day), and Despite all Adversities: Spanish American Queer Cinema (with Andrés Lema Hincapié).