Dr. Esther Andrés Montecatini teaches introductory, intermediate, and advanced Spanish language and literature courses at the University of Oklahoma. She has also taught English as a second language courses in Spain.
She joined OU in the fall of 2013 to complete her M.A. and Ph.D. while teaching. During this time, she received the Provost Certificate of Distinction in Teaching seven times: Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2020.
Her academic interests include: Hispanic Literature, Women and Gender Studies, Film and Media Studies, Intersectionality, and the Fantastic and Horror in Literature and Film.
Her research has focused on overlooked Spanish twentieth and twenty-first century vampire texts, transatlantic seductive vampiric figures, and their essential donjuanesque traits: predatorial instincts, lust, and a challenge to traditional social norms. These works emphasize that the main reason these figures became and have remained so popular worldwide is due to the threat they pose to societal mores and their exposure of issues of otherness in our ever-changing world, particularly in that relating to feminism, gender, and LGBTQ issues.
Her book “Don Vampiro: de monstruo a amante” is a monograph that investigates the creation and development of the seductive vampire archetype, tracing the literary and cinematic works that shaped the character. Exploring the influence of Don Juan, it argues that vampirism is the new Don Juanism.
WEBSITE: https://eam.oucreate.com/
