Faculty Highlights

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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.”

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  Méndez Published

  Mariela Méndez, associate professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, published the chapter "Decolonial Antiracist Feminist Digital Activism: Naming Carolina Maria de Jesus and Marielle Franco on X (formerly Twitter)" in the book Black Lives Matter in Latin America: Continuities in Racism, Cross-National Resistance and Mobilization in the Americas.

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  Méndez Published

  Mariela Méndez, associate professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, published the chapter "Materialismos feministas e arquivos: à procura da experiência sensorial em Clarice Lispector" ["Feminist Materialisms and Arquives: In Search of the Sensorial Experience in Clarice Lispector"] in the book Mulheres escritoras: arquivos literários e feminismos na América Latina.

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  Méndez Published

  Mariela Méndez, associate professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, and Patricia Herrera, professor of theatre and dance, published the chapter “Cuir/Queer Afro-Cuban and Xicanx Transnational Encounters: Debora Kuetzpal Vasquez's Dualidad: Todas las partes de mi ser" in the volume Bodies on the Front Line: Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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  Vázquez Awarded

  Karina Vázquez, teaching faculty of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, was selected as the 2024 Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Arts and Humanities Faculty Mentor Awardee. Learn more.

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  Vázquez Presented

  Karina Vázquez, teaching faculty of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, presented at "Muestra de manuscritos y conversatorio, Aurora Venturini: modos de leer, pensar, escribir." The event was hosted by Centro de Estudios de Teoría y Crítica Literaria Universidad Nacional de La Plata in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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  Kissling Published

  Elizabeth Kissling, associate professor of Spanish and applied linguistics, published “Can Concept-based Language Instruction Change Beginning Learners’ Aspectual Development?: Preliminary Experimental Evidence that Novice Learners Taught Boundedness Are Less Influenced by Lexical Aspect” in Jalda.

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  Feldman Attended Staged Reading

  Sharon G. Feldman, William Judson Gaines Chair in Modern Foreign Languages, attended the staged reading of her English language translation of The Nicest Body Ever Seen Around These Parts (2021) by Catalan playwright Josep Maria Miró, directed by Jay Stull and performed by actor David Skeist at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at the CUNY Graduate Center. The event, the culmination of Miró’s three-week residency in New York City, was produced by The Play Company, with the collaboration of the Institut Ramon Llull and the Sala Beckett (Barcelona).