Faculty Highlights

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  Fernández presented on Latina cliché in U.S. media Laura Fernandez, Assistant Professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, presented "Las Raras: The New Gothic Latina Trope in US Popular Media," at Colby College's Center for the Arts & Humanities Play! Seminar.
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  Feldman Presented

  Sharon G. Feldman, William Judson Gaines Chair in Modern Foreign Languages and professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, gave the inaugural keynote lecture at a conference in El Vendrell, Spain, commemorating the centenary of the death of Catalan playwright Àngel Guimerà, and delivered two other invited talks on Guimerà at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Santa Cruz de Tenerife as part of the centenary celebrations.

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  Abreu Promoted

  Dixon Abreu was promoted to senior teaching faculty of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian studies. Abreu is the director of Luso-Brazilian Studies and advises students studying abroad in Brazil.

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  Méndez Published

  Mariela Méndez, associate professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, published the chapter "A imprensa 'para mulheres': Possível roteiro de leitura" in Por uma história feminista da literatura brasileira, the first volume of the Feminist History of Brazilian Literature.

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  Giancaspro and Undergraduate Student Published

  David Giancaspro, associate professor of Spanish, along with Josh Higdon, ’22, published "First things third? The extension of canonically third-person singular inflections to first-person singular subjects in adult heritage Spanish" in Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics.

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  Hermida-Ruiz Presented

  Aurora Hermida-Ruiz, associate professor of Spanish, presented “El profesor de español y el sur: el epistolario de Charles de la Peña (Williamsburg, 1828-1830)” at the 43 Congreso Internacional de ALDEEU (Asociación de Licenciados y Doctores Españoles en Estados Unidos).

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  Hermida-Ruiz Published

  Aurora Hermida-Ruiz, associate professor of Spanish, published “El ruiseñor justiciero: El ‘antimenendezpelayismo’ de María Rosa Lida en la filología española del medio siglo” in the eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies.

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  Fernández Published

  Laura Fernández, assistant professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, published “Under the guise of Latinidad: Latinx ambiguity and ethno-racial identifications in Switched at Birth” in Latino Studies.

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  Vázquez Published

  Karina Vázquez, teaching faculty of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, published the chapter "Un corpus que deviene músculo y nervio: Eva Perón en la voz de las escritoras entre 1960 y 1990." in Historia Feminista de la Literatura Argentina.

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  Feldman Presented

  Sharon Feldman, William Judson Gaines Chair in Modern Foreign Languages and professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, presented Cecil B. DeMille’s film Maria Rosa (1916), at a centenary cinema in Ribes de Freser, Catalonia, as part of the centenary commemoration of the death of Àngel Guimerà, Catalonia's most celebrated playwright. The Catalan newspaper El 9 Nou reported on the event and interviewed Feldman “La pel·lícula ‘Maria Rosa’ de Guimerà, a Ribes.”