David Vila Dieguez

David Vila (Eibar) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages and Linguistics at UTEP (University of Texas at El Paso), with research interests in contemporary Spanish culture and literature; Iberian studies; Basque, Galician and Portuguese culture, literature and languages; subcultural and punk studies; contemporary Iberian and Latin-American song studies; and the relationship between contemporary popular culture and political activism. He is currently working on a book entitled Punk in Democratic Spain: Resisting Franco’s Legacy Since 1975 that explores punk as an underground cultural movement that opposed the way democracy was established in Spain and fuelled different contemporary social movements. He has organized and participated in different panels on music and cultural studies and has also published on punk and critical pedagogies. He is also one of the founding members and editors of the cultural magazine Furman217. In addition to this, he is the singer and guitarist of the Latin Alternative band The Rumba Madre (www.rumbamadre.com)