Mar Soria is an associate professor of Spanish literature and culture. Her research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spain, with particular attention to the representation of national identity, gender, and race, and how these constructs are shaped through discourse. Central to her work is the analysis of how bodies—racialized, gendered, and classed—become sites of ideological production and control. She has written and taught extensively on how dominant discourses in Spain—including those of politics, religion, medicine, and law—mobilized language to produce, regulate, and politicize embodied subjectivities, a framework that also informs her analysis of continuities between historical and contemporary manifestations of authoritarian power.  

She is the author of Geographies of Urban Female Labor and Nationhood in Spanish Culture (1880–1975) (University of Nebraska Press, 2020). Her articles have appeared in journals including Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Hispanic Research Journal, Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea, and Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. She has also contributed chapters to several edited volumes on empire, gender, and coloniality in the Hispanic world.

She is currently working on a second book that examines the representation of Blackness in Spanish cultural production from the nineteenth century through the Francoist period. Her scholarship engages decolonial theory and spatial studies to analyze how cultural imaginaries shaped Spain’s national and imperial projects.

In addition to her research, Soria teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on modern Spanish literature and culture. Recent offerings include (Un)intelligible Bodies: Power and Representation in Spanish Literature and Culture; The Commodified City: Urban Narratives of Gender, Class, and the Market in Spanish Literature and Film; Staging Power: Gender, Class, and Race in Spanish Theater from the Golden Age to the Present; and Contemporary Spanish Women Writers.