Faculty Accomplishments Archive

Karina Vázquez, senior teaching faculty of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, presented "Bridging Humanities, Professions and Communities" at the University of Georgia. The talk highlighted course design strategies that connect the humanities with Career Services and community partners through experiential learning, interdisciplinary projects, and student reflections on professional growth and social agency.

Karina Vázquez, senior teaching faculty of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, presented “Bridging the Gap: Students Translators and Interpreters within the Community” at the National Council Undergraduate Research Conference.

Michael Marsh-Soloway, teaching faculty of literatures, languages, and cultures, published The Mathematical Mind of F. M. Dostoevsky: Imaginary Numbers, Non-Euclidean Geometry, and Infinity.

Karina Vázquez, senior teaching faculty of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, published “Escritoras que nos rescatan. La reedición literaria en el aula universitaria como práctica de investigación-creación / Female Writers Come to the Rescue: Literary Reedition as a Research-Creative Pedagogy in the University Classroom” in (an)ecdótica.

Karina Vázquez, senior teaching faculty of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, published “Intimate Experiences: War and Food in Lee Miller” in The Recipes Project.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.