Daniel Lino Plata

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Daniel Lino Plata

Spanish Graduate Teaching Assistant Modern Languages & Literatures University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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jlinoplata2@huskers.unl.edu

Daniel Lino Plata (Cáceres, Spain) is a PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) in the Spanish section of the Modern Languages and Literatures Department. He also holds a Women's and Gender Studies graduate certificate. His research deals with cultural, literary, and popular representations of queer and LGBTIQ+ subjectivities in contemporary Spain, focusing on masculinity studies, feminist theories, normativity, countercultural movements, and narratives of resistance and assimilation. He is also a Graduate Teaching Assistant, teaching at both the Modern Languages and Women's and Gender Studies departments, and collaborates with the Nebraska Translator and Interpreter Corps (NETIC). Since 2023, he serves as the Graduate Student Representative to the Spanish Section. He has published the article “Hombres gays y homoafecto: Masculinidades gays alternativas en Hombres de verdad (2020), de Alberto Marcos”, co-authored with Dr. Iker González-Allende, and the book chapter “Territorialidad queer: masculinidades disidentes y resistencia ante el heteropatriarcado en Hágase mi voluntad (2020), de Ángelo Néstore” in the edited volume Masculinidades gays y maricas en la cultura española contemporánea, in Editorial Egales. 

Education

B.A. English Studies, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain (2019)

M.A. Spanish, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2021)

Fields of specialization:

20th–21st C. Spain

Spanish Cultural Studies

Women's and Gender Studies

Masculinity Studies

Feminist Theories 

Queer and LGBTIQ+ Studies

Film and Visual Studies

 

Publications:

Journal articles:

  • Lino Plata, Daniel, and Iker González-Allende. “Hombres gays y homoafecto: masculinidades gays alternativas en Hombres de verdad (2020), de Alberto Marcos.” Estudios LGBTIQ+, Comunicación y Cultura, vol. 2, no. 2, 2022, pp. 25-34. https://doi.org/10.5209/eslg.82278

Book chapters:

  • “Voces y representaciones del feminismo transinclusivo contemporáneo en España: Ley Trans, resiliencia, y corrientes reaccionarias.” Género y comunicación, edited by Sergio Marín Conejo, Dykinson, 2025. [Forthcoming]
  • “Territorialidad queer: masculinidades disidentes y resistencia ante el heteropatriarcado en Hágase mi voluntad (2020), de Ángelo Néstore.” Masculinidades gays y maricas en la cultura española contemporánea, edited by Iker González-Allende, Barcelona-Madrid, Egales, 2024, pp. 215-240. 

 

Academic presentations:

  • “Resistencias afectivas y modelos alternativos de familia en Tan jóvenes y la pena, de Millanes Rivas.” 2025 KFLC: Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Virtual Panel, University of Kentucky Lexington, April 2025. [Forthcoming]
  • “The Collective Woman: Trans Identity, Corporeality and Resilience in La mala costumbre.” 2024 Department of Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Colloquium, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, April 2024.
  • “Voces y representaciones del feminismo transinclusivo contemporáneo en España: Ley Trans, resiliencia, y corrientes reaccionarias.” IX Congreso Internacional de Comunicación y Género, Universidad de Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain, October 2023. 
  • “Disidencia queer y travesti en la producción cultural española: folclore, tradición y resignificación en Rodrigo Cuevas y Samantha Hudson.” Coloquio de Jóvenes Investigadores Hispanistas: Cuestiones Palpitantes, University of Belgrade, Serbia, October 2023.
  • “Masculinidad queer: alternativas de identidad y resistencia ante la herencia patriarcal en Hágase mi voluntad (2020), de Ángelo Néstore.” V Jornadas Presenciales ALCESXXI 2022, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain, July 2022.
  • “Defining and defying normativity, queer trauma and dissident identities in contemporary Spain’s media production: Veneno (2020) and Maricón Perdido (2021).” 53rd Annual Convention, NeMLA 2022, Northeast Modern Language Association, Baltimore, MD, March 2022. 
  • “Gay masculinities in the online apps era: the (de)construction of a new masculinity in Hombres de Verdad, by Alberto Marcos.” 46th Annual European Studies Conference, University of Nebraska-Omaha, October 2021. 
  • “Defining and defying normativity, queer trauma and dissident identities in contemporary Spain: Cristina Ortiz and Veneno (2020).” 9th Annual World Languages Graduate Organization Conference, “Alterity, Margins and Resistance”, University of Iowa, April 2021. 
  • “Queer-related language: how privilege and heteronormativity have an effect on language perception and use.” No Limits Conference, University of Nebraska-Kearney, March 2020 / Gender Equity Talks, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, December 2020.

 

Courses taught:

SPAN 101, SPAN 102, SPAN 201, SPAN 202, SPAN 210, SPAN 203, SPAN 204, SPAN 303, SPAN 315, SPAN 321, WMNS 101.