Lorena Albert Ferrando’s research lies in the intersection of philology, linguistics, and historiography in Spain and in the Americas. She is particularly interested in language ideologies and in the history of Spanish language teaching in the United States and in Latin America. 

Her dissertation “El hispanismo recíproco: campo académico, construcción nacional y relaciones internacionales entre España y América (1898-1918)” analyses the consolidation of the academic field both in Spain and in America as a bidirectional process and via the analysis of three cultural practices connected to language. Lorena Albert Ferrando received her Ph.D. from the interdisciplinary Spanish: Linguistics, Literature and Communication program at Spain’s University of Valladolid (2023). She also holds a master’s in teacher training in compulsory secondary and upper secondary school education, vocational training and languages from the University of Zaragoza (2017), a master’s in teaching Spanish as a second language from the International University Menéndez Pelayo-Cervantes Institute (2012) and an M.Phil. in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian languages and literatures from The Graduate Center, CUNY (2005). 

For over 20 years, she has taught Spanish language and culture at U.S. and European institutions, including the University of Florida, Princeton University, New York University, International University Menéndez Pelayo, and the University of St Andrews. Albert Ferrando also has taught Spanish as a second language to immigrants and refugees in Spain. 

Her work has been published in Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica (2023) and Hispania (2019).

Research Summary

Andrew A. Anderson is Professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. He holds a B.A., M.A. and D.Phil. from Oxford University. Before coming to Virginia, he taught at Oxford University and the University of Michigan. Specializing in later nineteenth-century and twentieth-century Peninsular literature, his research is principally concerned with Spanish poetry and theatre from the 1890s through to the 1930s, as well as literature and film of the Spanish Civil War.

Professor Anderson has published fourteen books and critical editions of Spanish literature, over seventy articles and book chapters, twenty-five bibliographies and fifty book reviews, and he has lectured extensively in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, England, Scotland, France, and Spain. In 1995 he was awarded the Excellence in Research Award, and in 2000 the Michigan Humanities Award, both by the University of Michigan; in 1996-2000 he held an Honorary Research Fellowship at the Centre for the Study of the Hispanic Avant-Garde (University of Aberdeen); and he has received grants for his research from the British Academy, the American Philosophical Society and the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

Professor Anderson’s recent publications span such topics as nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish narrative, García Lorca’s poetry, Futurism, theatre production in the 1920s, Salvador Dalí, etc. He published the first critical edition of the original manuscript of Lorca’s Poeta en Nueva York in 2013. His book concerned with the origins and foundation of the Spanish historical avant-garde movement Ultraísmo was published in 2017, while his most recent monograph documents and analyses the reception of Cubism, Futurism, and Dada in Spain in the 1910s and 20s.  A complete list of his publications is available here List of publications

Education

D.Phil., Oxford University

Publications

Recent Books

La recepción de las vanguardias extranjeras en España: cubismo, futurismo, dadá. Estudio y ensayo de bibliografía (Sevilla: Renacimiento, 2018).

El momento ultraísta. Orígenes, fundación y lanzamiento de un movimiento de vanguardia (Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2017).

Federico García Lorca en Nueva York y La Habana. Cartas y recuerdos, jointly authored with Christopher Maurer (Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2013).

Federico García Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York, edición del original (Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2013).

Ernesto Giménez Caballero: The Vanguard Years (1921-1931) (Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2011).

El veintisiete en tela de juicio. Examen de la historiografía generacional y replanteamiento de la vanguardia histórica española (Madrid: Gredos, 2005).

Recent Articles

“Undecidability in Lorca’s Amor de don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín,” Hispanic Studies Review, 3 (2018), 1-13.

“La breve moda de la poesía visual en las revistas del Ultra,” in Laboratorios de lo nuevo. Revistas literarias y culturales de México, España y el Río de la Plata en la década de 1920, ed. Rose Corral, Anthony Stanton, & James Valender (Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 2018), pp. 57-87.

“La trayectoria de Poeta en Nueva York a través de sus traductores estadounidenses: Humphries, Belitt, Simon/White y después,” in El impacto de la metrópolis. La experiencia americana en Lorca, Dalí y Buñuel, ed. José M. del Pino (Frankfurt/Madrid: Vervuert/Iberoamericana, 2018), pp. 93-115.

“La colaboración teatral Ricardo Baeza–Mimí Aguglia (1926),” Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea, 42 (2017), 817-840.

"Lorca’s ‘Cielo vivo,’ the Other Lake Eden Poem,” Symposium, 71 (2017), 28-47.

“Approaching Lorca’s Viaje a la luna: Structural Patterns, Symbolic Concatenation, and El público,” Hispanic Review, 85 (2017), 1-21.

“Diván del Tamarit,” Poéticas. Revista de Estudios Literarios, 2, no. 2 (2016), 5-25.

“Picture in Picture: Interpolation and Framing, Past and Present in David Trueba’s Soldados de Salamina,” Hispanic Research Journal, 17 (2016), 152-167.

“Necessary Sacrifices: From Romanticism to Naturalism in Galdós’s Marianela,” Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 92 (2015), 907-929.

“Paysage d’Âme and Objective Correlative: Tradition and Innovation in Cernuda, Alberti, and García Lorca,” Modern Language Review, 110 (2015), 166-183.

“The Idiosyncratic Narrator in Javier Cercas’s Soldados de Salamina,” Neophilologus, 98 (2014), 599-615.

“Futurism in Spain: Research Trends and Recent Contributions,” International Yearbook of Futurism Studies, 3, Special Issue on Iberian Futurisms (2013), 21-42.

“‘Yo me froto las narices con las truchas del mar Rojo’: la poesía ultraísta de César González-Ruano,” Salina, 24 (2010) [pub. 2012], 45-56.

“Narrative Structure and Epistemological Uncertainty in Carmen Laforet’s Nada,” Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 88 (2011), 541-561.

“Concha’s Raven Locks: Narration, Motive and Character in Valle-Inclán’s Sonata de otoño,” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 88 (2011), 437-454.

Grants & Awards

Research Award, Spanish Ministry of Culture

Research Grant, American Philosophical Society

Research Grant, British Academy

Honorary Research Fellowship at the Centre for the Study of the Hispanic Avant-Garde (University of Aberdeen) (1996-2000)

Michigan Humanities Award, University of Michigan (2000)

Excellence in Research Award, University of Michigan (1995)

Education

Ph.D. Spanish, University of Virginia (in progress).

M.A. Spanish, University of Wyoming.

B.A. Spanish Language and Literature, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. 

Research Interests

I am interested in researching Chilean poetry of the 20th century, contemporary Chilean sociocultural and historical narratives, and aesthetic criticisms of contemporary thought and culture. Furthermore, I am very interested in discourse analysis, especially in the area of textual linguistics. I have collaborated in research related to automatic text processing, especially creating taxonomies that facilitate the recognition and classification of named entities.

Research Assistant in Computational Linguistics

• Tecling Project, Viña del Mar, Chile. 2014-2019
• Implemented testing for Personas, Organizaciones, y Lugar (POL) web app available in http://tecling.com/index.php?l=software 

Master of Arts Thesis Work: 

• "Multisemiotic Artifacts, Rupturism, and Counterculture: Cultural Archive from Parrian Antipoetry to Vaporwave." University of Wyoming, May of 2021. 

Bachelor of Arts Thesis Works: 

• "Retrocapitalism: Multisemiotic proposal for a literary-aesthetic analysis of Chilean post-capitalist society through the corpus "Odio a Puente Alto" (José Ángel Cuevas), Mano de obra & Sumar (Diamela Eltit)." Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, December of 2018.        
• "Analysis and classification of proper nouns in geopolitical articles extracted from Le Monde Diplomatique's magazine: an approach from the text grammar." Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, December of 2015. 

Publications

Co-Published: Nazar, R.; Arriagada, P. (2017). “POL: un nuevo sistema para la detección y clasificación de nombres propios.” Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, n. 58, pp. 13-20.

Review: Arriagada Soto, Patricio. “Review of ‘Tras las huellas de Pablo Neruda: Un homenaje a Hernán Loyola,’ by Greg Dawes, editor.” Hispania, vol. 6, Fall 2021, Submitted.

Review: Arriagada Soto, Patricio. "Review of 'Vidas. Deep in Mexico and Spain,' by Edward Stanton, author." Hispania, vol. 7, Spring 2021, Submitted.

Conference Presentations

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association | University of Texas, El Paso | October 2019

     Presentation: "Monitoring of New Drug Names Based on the Detection of Contextual Elements in Spanish"

Institute of Literature and Science of Language | PUCV, Viña del Mar | December 2018

     Poster Presentation: “Clasificación Automática de Tipos de Entidad Mediante Relaciones de Hiperonimia y Elementos Cotextuales”

Automatized Processing of Texts and Corpora Workshop | PUCV, Viña del Mar | November 2016

     Poster Presentation: “Clasificación automática de Nombres Propios Utilizando Pistas Cotextuales”

Teaching

I Taught Spanish classes at the University of Wyoming for Spanish minors and majors. Courses included 1010, 1020, 2030, and 2040 students' first and second years at UW.

Honors & Awards

Scholarship Recipient | Dean's Graduate Scholars by the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Wyoming. September 2019

Honorary Member | Sigma Delta Pi (National Hispanic Honorary Society). October 2019 – Present

     UW Chapter

Alumni member | Fundación para el Progreso, a subsidiary of Atlas Network  

Professional Affiliations

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA)

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)

Memory Studies Association (MSA) 

Education

Ph.D. Spanish University of Virginia 

          Dissertation: “Iberian Daughters of Sappho: Female Friendship in Early Modern Spain” 

M.A. Spanish University of Virginia

          Thesis: “Checkmate: The Gifting Game and Gender Performance Anxiety in Lope de Vega’s La Dorotea”

B.A. Spanish University of Virginia 

          With highest distinction, Study abroad: Valenci

Teaching Experience

Lecturer University of Virginia Fall 2021 - present

Lecturer Longwood University Fall 2016 – Spring 2021

Visiting Assistant Professor Wake Forest University Fall 2015 – Spring 2016

Publications

Articles

Barlow, Jennifer E. “Love and War: Male Friendship and the Performance of Masculinity in the Poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega (1501-1536).” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 95.4 (2018): 383-98.

Barlow, Jennifer E. “Checkmate: The Gifting Game and Gender Performance Anxiety in Lope de Vega’s La Dorotea.” Hispanic Review 81.3 (2013): 245-62.

Book chapters

Barlow, Jennifer E. “Staging Friendship and the Female Body Politic in Early Modern Spanish Theater" in Male and Female Friendship: Writing and Staging Friendship in 17th and 18th Century Spanish literature", eds. Claudia Gronemann and Agnieszka Komorowska. Leiden: Brill, 2020. (Forthcoming)

Book Reviews

Martí, Sacramento. Misoginia y percepción de la mujer en clásicos de la literatura española. Newark, DE; Juan de la Cuesta. 2015. Bulletin of Spanish Studies. 95.6 (2018): 723-24.

Eds. Baranda Leturio, Nieves; Marín Pina, and M.ª Carmen. Letras en la celda: cultura escrita de los conventos femeninos en la España moderna. Madrid: Iberoamericana de Libros y Ediciones, 2014. Sixteenth Century Journal 47.3 (2016): 749-51.

Editorial duties

Guest editor, Miríada Hispánica. Special Number: “Número monográfico en homenaje a la profesora Alison Weber” 16 (2018); includes “La pluma dorada: Estudios en homenaje a Alison Weber,” 11-13.

Translation

Gómez Moreno, Ángel. “The Challenges of Historiography. The Theatre in Medieval Spain.” Trans. Jennifer E. Barlow. A History of Theater in Spain. Ed. Maria M. Delgado and David T. Gies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012. 18-35.

Selected Conference Presentations

November 2019 “‘Les es dulce servir y sufrir a los prójimos’: Friendship and the Christian Stoic Body in Baltasar Álvarez’s Escritos espirituales.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis.

November 2018 “Disembodied Friendship: Death, Apparitions, and the Holy Female Body in the Discalced Carmelite Convent.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Albuquerque.

June 2018 “Staging the Body Politic: Male Friendship and Honor in Calderón's A secreto agravio, secreta venganza.” Asociación de Profesionales Hispanos en Estados Unidos, Charlottesville.

October 2017 “Teresa of Avila, Friendship, and the Holy Female Body.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Milwaukee.

Panels organized and chaired

October 2012-17 Panel organizer and chair for Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference.

March 2012 Panel chair for Renaissance Society of America Conference, Washington D.C.

Awards and Fellowships

2017 Blackwell Scholar, Longwood University

2014 University of Virginia Three Minute Thesis Finalist

2014 Nora Zeale Hurston Essay Contest, Honorable Mention

2014-2015 Society of Fellows Dissertation Fellowship

2014 Society of Fellows Summer Travel Fellowship

2013-2014 Virginia Society of Fellows, Junior Fellow

2013, 2010 Robert J. Huskey Travel Fellowship

2012 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Graduate Travel Award

2011 Del Greco Graduate Student Essay Prize

2009-2013 University of Virginia Presidential Fellow

2009 Phi Beta Kappa

Education

Ph.D. University of Virginia (USA), Spanish (focus on Latin American Studies), 2020

M.A. University of Virginia (USA), Spanish, 2016

M.A. University of Turin (Italy), Comparative Literatures and Cultures, 2013

B.A. University of Turin (Italy), Comparative Literatures and Cultures, 2011

Harvard University (USA), Certificate in Afro-Latin American Studies

Research Interests

Migratory Mobilities and Diaspora Studies 

Latin American and Italian Studies

Visual Arts and Literature

Eco-Migration and Environmental Humanities

Research Appointments

Columbia University (USA), Research Fellow, Institute of Latin American Studies

University of Manchester (UK), Research Fellow, Center for Latin American Studies

Teaching

University of Virginia (USA), 2014 – present 

Spanish 3300 (“Hispanic Migration in Literature and Visual Arts”)

Italian 3559 (“Italy in Migration: Media, Literature, and Visual Arts”)

Spanish 3300 (Introduction to Literature)     

Spanish 3010 (Academic Writing and Composition)     

Spanish 2020 (Advanced Spanish Grammar and Culture)

Italian 2020 (Advanced Italian Grammar and Culture with focus on language and diversity)

Spanish 2010 (Intermediate Spanish Grammar and Culture, J-Term 2019)

Italian 2010 (Intermediate Italian Grammar and Culture)

Italian 1020 (Elementary-Intermediate Italian Grammar and Culture)

Italian 1010 (Elementary Italian Grammar and Culture)   

University of Virginia in Valencia, Study Abroad Program (Spain), 2017, 2018

Spanish 3030 (“Hispanic Culture in Cinema and Visual Arts”)   

Spanish 2020 (Advanced Spanish Grammar and Culture)       

Spanish 2010 (Intermediate Spanish Grammar and Culture)

Publications

Bonino, Nicole. “The Socio-Environmental Implications of Informality in Antonio Berni’s Xilo-Collage ‘Inundación en el barrio de Juanito’” (Forthcoming in Bulletin of Contemporary Hispanic Studies, Spring 2024)

Bonino, Nicole. “Trazando caminos: Retratística afroargentina como archivo de memoria e instrumento de visibilización.” Perspectivas Afro. Revista de investigaciones en estudios afrolatinoamericanos y afrocaribeños, 3.1 (2023): 135-152

Bonino, Nicole and Hiromi Kaneda. “Reclaiming Identity: The Cinematic Activist Journey of Afro- Argentinian Director Wisny Dorce and His Film Production Company ‘Black Existencia Films’: Interview with Wisny Dorce.” Framework. The Journal of Cinema and Media, 64.1 (2023): 180-191

Bonino, Nicole. “Más allá del conflicto: matices ecocríticos en ‘A la deriva’ por Horacio Quiroga.” Chasqui. Revista de literatura latinoamericana, 51.1 (2022): 135-152

Bonino, Nicole. “Hibridismo literario y naturalismo criollo: el caso de Antonio Argerich.” El Cid, 31 (2021): 7-13 (winner of the Del Greco Essay Prize)

Bonino, Nicole. “Villa Miseria también es América: Resistance and Resilience in Argentinian Slums During the Covid-19 Pandemic.” Spanish and Portuguese Review, 6 (2020): 9-21

Bonino, Nicole. “Génova-Buenos Aires: paisaje oceánico y migración en Sull’Oceano (1889) de Edmondo De Amicis.” Exégesis, 3 (2020): 93-107

Bonino, Nicole. “Colombia no tiene quien la cure: el discurso médico en El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (1958-61) de Gabriel García Márquez.” Hispanófila. Ensayos de literatura, 184 (2018): 69-83

Bonino, Nicole. “Migración y ecocrítica: paisajes urbanos en la literatura ítalo-argentina.” In La cosa nostra: estudios lingüístico-literarios sobre la inmigración italiana en Argentina, edited by Augusto Lorenzino. Buenos Aires: Editorial Dunken (2019): 11-29 (Invited Article)

Bonino, Nicole, and Stella Mattioli. “Keeping up with Social Changes in Second Language Acquisition.” Drive-Thru Pedagogy, Studio for Teaching and Learning Innovation, College of William and Mary, March 2022 (Public writing)

Bonino, Nicole. “Covid-19 and the City: Visual Art, Social Media, and Performance in a Locked-down Buenos Aires.” Global COVIDiaries, University of Virginia, May 2020 (Public writing)

Bonino, Nicole. “Coastal Futures Conservatory Open Lab: Bridging Science, Art, and Community.” Environmental Humanities at UVA, University of Virginia, September 2019 (Public writing)

Full CV available at: https://virginia.academia.edu/NicoleBonino/CurriculumVitae

Research Summary & Bio

Dr Francesca Calamita is Associate Professor, General Faculty, and Director of the Undegraduate Programs in Italian Studies as well as Director of UVa in Siena and UVa in Florence. She is an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality and currently she also serves as College Fellow in the Engagements.

Accademically raised in Europe, the UK and New Zealand, she works in the area of women, gender and sexuality in Italian, European and global contexts, and she is internationally recognised for her publications on the fictional depiction of eating disorders and other complex relationships with body and food in Italian literature and culture. Her interdisciplinary research, transnational and anchored in feminist theory, bridges women’s writing, cultural studies and gender studies. Her research interests also include the intersections between second language acquisition, sociolinguistics and gender studies.

She is the author of the monographs Linguaggi dell’esperienza femminile: disturbi alimentari, donne e scrittura dall’Unità al Miracolo Economico (2015), featured in the prestigious literary journal Nuovi Argomenti and at the 2016 edition of Feminism: Fiera dell'editoria delle donne, and Visibili e influenti (2023) as well as a number of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters with prominent publishers. She is co-editor of a volume on anorexia and bulimia in European literature, funded by a Buckner W. Clay Dean of Arts and Sciences grant and she also published a further co-edited collection on gender, women and food.  Before joining UVa, Dr Calamita was a Visiting Fellow at the University of London’s Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing where she completed her post-doctoral research project and where she currently continues to serve as a steering committee member by invitation. Previously Dr Calamita was a Teaching Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand where she earned her PhD in 2013 and taught European Studies and Italian Studies.

Dr Calamita has published also extensively at the intersections of Italian language and feminist pedagogy; she is the co-author of DiversITALY, one of the first textbooks to teach and learn Italian with gender equality and inclusive language which stems from her initiative A Gendered Wor(l)d: Grammar, Sexism and Cultural Changes in Italian Language and Society, a multimodal learning experience which allows students to engage critically with Italian media and to become sensitive to the gendered politics of the language.

In the past she served in a variety of roles at the Institute of World Languages at UVa and she is currently chair of the Siena Oversight Committee, co-chair of the ISI Consortium in Florence, Academic Senator on the Grievance Committee and member of the Academic Strategy Committee for the Academic Program Review in the Office of the Executive Vice Provost and Provost.

She is the recipient of numerous internal and external, single and collaborative research and pedagogical grants and has been an invited speaker in US universities as well as around the world.

Passionate about women's rights activism, she is currently pursuing an MA in Global Politics in her spare time. She is delighted to see students actively working towards gender equality, learning new languages, travelling the world, opening their minds, and choosing Italy as their destination for study abroad.

Education

Ph.D., Victoria University of Wellington (2013)

M.A., Università degli Studi di Bergamo (2008)

B.A., Università degli Studi di Perugia (2005)

Research Interests

• Italian women’s writing
• Gender Studies
• Cultural Studies
• Representations of food and the body in diverse genres -- fiction, pop culture, advertisements, and film
• Politics and gender
• Medical Humanities
• Italian Language and Gender
• Italian Language taught with Diversity and Inclusion

Teaching

• ITTR/WGS3559 “TV and Web Series in Italy and the Globe: Gender, Sex and Society”
• ITTR/WGS3559 “My Body, My Choice: Women’s Rights in Modern Italy”
• ITTR3685/WGS3559 "Italy on Screen: Sex, Gender and Racial Identities in the Glocal Context"
• ITTR/WGS3680 “Eve’s Sinful Bite:Foodscapes in Women’s Writing, Culture & Society”
• ITTR3559 "Global Women's Writing: Stories of Empowerment from Italy and the World" (counts as elective for WGS)
• GSGS2559 "Global Challenges, Local Responses"
• EGMT1530 "Food for Global Feminist Thought"
• COLA1500 "Twenty-first Century Women"
• ITAL3020 "Advanced Italian II: Achieve Fluency through Experiential Learning"
• ITAL2030 "Italian for Intercultural Mediators"
• ITAL2020 “Intermediate Italian Language II” (focus on gender and language)
• ITAL2010 “Intermediate Italian Language I”
• ITAL1020 “Elementary Italian II”
• ITAL1010 “Elementary Italian I”
• ITAL4993 “Independent Study” – Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet (Biyuan Gu)
• ITAL4993 "Independent Study" – Michela Marzano's Novels (Avery Morrison)
• ITAL4993 "Independent Study" – From Page to Screen: Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend (Christine McDermott)
• ITAL4993 "Independent Study" – Elena Ferrante and Natalia Ginzburg (Adelaide Brooks)
• ITAL 4989 Distinguished Major Thesis Director – Postcolonial Women's Writing: Igiaba Scego (Mary Collins)

Selected Publications

Monographs

Linguaggi dell’esperienza femminile: disturbi alimentari, donne e scrittura dall’Unità al Miracolo Economico (Il Poligrafo: Padua, October 2015)

Visibili e influenti: le donne italiane ci sono (Biblion: Milan, 2023)

Edited volumes

Starvation, Food Obsession and Identity: Eating Disorders in Contemporary Women’s Writing, co-edited with Petra Bagley and Kathryn Robson (“Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing”, Peter Lang: Oxford, 2017)

Eve’s Sinful Bite: Food and Women in Italian Literature, Culture and Society, co-edited with Claudia Bernardi and Daniele DeFeo (Bloomsbury Academic: London, November 2020)  https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/food-and-women-in-italian-literature-culture-and-society-9781350137806/)

Edited Special Issue of Journal

With Mabel Richart Marset (Valencia), MonTI (12), “Revista académica de Traducción e Interpretación de las universidades públicas valencianas”, Translation and Media Accessibility: from Theory to Practice [Traducción y Accesibilidad en los medios de comunicación: de la teoría a la práctica] (May 2020) http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/106615

With Mabel Richart Marset (Valencia),Quaderns de Filologia : Estudis Literaris, La literatura contemporánea mundial como espejo-denuncia de los trastornos de la conducta alimentaria,  Vol. 27 (2022) (uv.es)

With Stefano Baldassarri and Nina Peci (ISI- Florence), Beyond, special issue on Inclusion, Diversity and Education, November 2022 Inclusion, Diversity, and Education (beyondjournal.online)

Textbook

With Chiara De Santi (Farmingdale College), DiversITALY: Elementary Italian with Gender Equality, Inclusion and Diversity - volume 1 (Kendall Hunt: Dubuque, 2022)

With Chiara De Santi (Farmingdale College), DiversITALY: Elementary Italian with Gender Equality, Inclusion and Diversity - volume 2  (Kendall Hunt: Dubuque, 2023)

Selected Articles

With Roberta Trapé (Melbourne), "Women’sVisibility Matters in Italian Language and Beyond: Intercultural Citizenship throughGender-Inclusive Toponymy on Both Sides of the Atlantic", JOMELA, Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology, 2023, Vol. 5(1):4-21

"Affidamento and (Pop)-Feminism: Advocating  for Women’s Rights in The Handmaid's Tale and Luna Nera",  Romance Studies (special issue on "Female Filiations",  issue 40, n. 3-4, edited by Eliana Maestri - Exeter, UK and Christina Horvath - Bath, UK), December 2022

“Post-pandemic Messages of Gender Equality, Inclusion and Diversity in Italian Language Courses and Beyond: Yes, You Can (too)!”, Beyond (ISI-Florence and Umbra Institute-Perugia), n. 4, October 2021, pp. 8-20.

‘“Fainting is one way of disappearing. Anorexia is another’: Disorderly Eating in Louise De Salvo’s Vertigo”, Journal of Romance Studies,Vol 20,No 2 (Summer 2020), pp. 249–271

With Mabel Richart Marset, “The Great Challenge of Translation and Audiovisual Accessibility in the Media [El gran reto de la traducción y la accesibilidad audiovisual en los medios de comunicación]”, MonTI (12) (May 2020), Translation and Media Accessibility: from Theory to Practice [Traducción y Accesibilidad en los medios de comunicación: de la teoría a la práctica] edited by Richart Marset and Calamita, pp. 7-52.

With Roberta Trapé (Melbourne) “Expanding Learning Spaces: Virtual Places of Learning in a Transnational Telecollaborative project between the U.S.A. and Italy”, Italian Studies in Southern Africa/Studi d'italianistica dell'Africa australe, Vol 32, No 2 (2019), pp. 275-304.

“Sexism and Gender Stereotypes in Italian Language Courses: No, Grazie!”, TILCA: Teaching Italian Language and Culture Annual, special issue edited by Louise Hipwell and Donatella Melucci. (2018), pp. 126-138.

“Tastefulness: Fashion, Food, Lust and Domesticity in Matilde Serao’s ‘La virtù di Checchina [Checchina’s Virtue]’ (1884),” altrelettere, DOI: 10.5903/al_uzh-28 February 2015.

“Voracious Dolls and Competent Chefs: Negotiating Femininity and Masculinity in Italian Food Advertisements of the 1990s-2010s,” Gender/Sexuality/Italy, 1, May 2014, pp. 1-13.

“Storytelling and Female Eating Habits at the turn of the Twentieth Century: Italo Calvino’s ‘Zio Lupo’ and Neera’s ‘Uno Scandalo,’” AUMLA, Special Issue, Refereed Proceedings of the 2011 AULLA Conference: Storytelling in Literature, Language and Culture, April 2012, pp. 67-75.

“Unspoken Feelings: Comparing the Feminism of Sibilla Aleramo’s Una donna and the Social Battle of the Present-day Anorexic,”Skepsi, vol. 4, 1 (2011), pp. 1-11.

Selected Book Chapters

With Robertà Trapè, “Virtual Exchanges and Gender-inclusive Language: An Intercultural Citizenship Project to Foster Equality” Blended Learning and the Global South, edited by Giovanna Carloni, Christopher Fotheringham, Anita Virga, Brian Zuccalà (Edizioni Ca’ Foscari- University of Venice: Venice), pp. 115-130.

“Beyond Size and Weight: Gianna Schelotto’s “La ragazza che mangiava la luna [The Girl who Ate the Moon]” (1992) in Eve’s Sinful Bite: Food and Women in Italian Literature, Culture and Society, edited by Claudia Bernardi, Francesca Calamita and Daniele DeFeo (Bloomsbury Academic: London, November 2020)

“Identica a loro?”: (In)digesting Food and Identity in Igiaba Scego’s Short Story “Salsicce” (2003) eds, Niki Kiviat and Serena J. Rivera, Complications of Eating: Investigating (In)digestion in Literature and Film (Routledge: New York, May 2020), pp. 186-200

“On the Verge of Emotional Hunger: Anorexia, Bulimia and Interpersonal Relationships in Contemporary Italian Women’s Writing”, eds. Petra Bagley, Francesca Calamita and Kathryn Robson, Starvation, Food Obsession and Identity: Eating Disorders in Contemporary Women’s Writing (“Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing”, Peter Lang: Oxford, 2017), pp. 67-89.

“Resistance through Starvation: Refusal of Food, Empowerment and Eating Disorders in Natalia Ginzburg’s short story ‘La madre’ (1948)”, Women in the Public Sphere in Modern and Contemporary Italy, eds. Marina Spunta, Simona Storchi and Maria Morelli (Troubador: Leicester, 2017), pp. 41-52.

“Bird-Like-Eating Attitudes, Fat-Shaming and Ideal Body Shape in Italian Women’s Writing of the 1930s-1940s,” Bridges Across Cultures Conference Proceedings in collaboration with Voces del Caribe, eds Angela Tumini, Tim Wagner and Amparo Alpanes, pp. 60-67. (September 2016)

“Discussing Women’s Social Role through Paradoxical Behaviours: Starvation and Self-empowerment in Neera’s Teresa (1886) and L’indomani (1889),”Gendering Commitment: Re-thinking Social and Ethical Engagement in Modern Italian Culture, ed. Alex Standen (Cambridge Scholar: Newcastle, 2015), pp. 9-26.

Digital Work

Interview on gender equality in Italy with the TV channel TeleRomagna. Link: https://teleromagna.it/it/programmi/faccia-a-faccia/2021/02/23/parliamo-di-parita-di-genere , March 2021

Interview on gender issues in "My Name is Francesca", a virtual exhibition at the time of COVID-19 with Francesca Lolli, Francesca Leoni and Francesca Fini, curated by Francesca Interlenghi https://www.facebook.com/mynameisfrancesca/videos/1435107333364623/, April 2020.

“Natalia Ginzburg e la rappresentazione dell’esperienza femminile”, Nuovi Argomenti, June 2016.

"Michela Marzano. Biography, Bibliography and Criticism" http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/research-centres/centre-study-contemporary-womens-writing/languages/italian/michela-marzano, Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing, May 2017.

Selected Recent Presentations

“Debating Global Women’s Rights in The Handmaid’s Tale and Luna Nera”, Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, IMLR, University of London, UK 16 June 2022.

"The Politics of Words: Second Language Acquisition to Achieve Gender Equality in line with UN 2030 Agenda", University of Bath, UK, 28 April 2022 (invited)

“Le parole contano: Rethinking Second Language Acquisition to Achieve Gender Equality and Foster Diversity and Inclusion”, University of San Diego, San Diego, 25 March, 2022 (invited)

“Cambiare il mondo studiando una lingua: parità di genere, inclusione e diversità in italiano e oltre", Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 19 October 2021 (invited)

“(In)digesting the Self: Migration, Patriarchy, Post-colonialism and Food in Igiaba Scego’s “Salsicce” (2003)”, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, July 9 2019 (invited)

Selected Grants & Awards

Page Barbour Workshop Award (with Giulio Celotto and Giulia Paoletti, 2023)

Center for Global Inquiry + Innovation Grant, UVa  (with Giulio Celotto and Giulia Paoletti, 2022)

AHSS Teaching Support, UVa (2021)

UVa Library Course Enhancement Grant. (2021)

Institute of World Languages, UVa. Faculty Research Grant (2021)

Buckner W. Clay Endowment Grant. Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures, UVa. (with Giulio Celotto and Giulia Paoletti, 2020)

Buckner W. Clay Dean of Arts and Sciences, UVa. AHSS Research Grant ( 2015; and with Giulio Celotto and Giulia Paoletti, 2020)

UVa's Center for Teaching Excellence, Thrive Grant (2019; 2022 with Gianluca Guadagni)

College of Arts and Science, UVa. LTi Grant (2018 and 2021)

Institute of World Languages, UVa and Jefferson Trust, Language Forward Initiative (grant team member, 2018)

College of Arts and Science, UVa. Diversity and Inclusion Grant (with Shilpa Davé -2018; with Giulio Celotto and Giulia Paoletti - 2020)

Institute of World Languages, UVa, Course Enhancement and Developement Grant ( 2019 and 2017)

Institute of World Languages, UVa, Language Program Grant (2019, 2018,2017, 2016, 2015)

AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK) and the University Nottingham, Travel and Research Grant (2016 and 2017)

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Research Summary

Enrico Cesaretti is a Professor of Italian at UVA, and a Mellon Humanities Fellow for 2016-17. He holds a Laurea in Modern Languages and Literatures (English and German) from the University of Pisa (Italy), a M.A. from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. from Yale University. His articles appeared in Italian Studies, Italica, Annali d’Italianistica, Modern Language Notes, Comparative Literature, Romance Studies, Ecozon@ and Symposium, among others. His most recent research has been focused on the fields of the Environmental Humanities and ecocriticism.

He is the author of four books: Castelli di carta: retorica della dimora tra Scapigliatura e Surrealismo (Longo, 2001),  Fictions of Appetite: Alimentary Discourses in Italian Modernist Literature (Peter Lang, 2013), Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies. Italy and the Environmental Humanities (co-edited with Serenella Iovino and Elena Past, University of Virginia Press, Series “Under the Sign of Nature”, 2018), and Elemental Narratives. Reading Environmental Entanglements in Modern Italy (Penn State University Press, 2020). This latest book explores the narrative eloquence and agency of some of the materials (i.e. concrete, steel, marble, petroleum, asbestos) that have contributed to make (and, simultaneously, “un-make”) modern Italy.

He is currently working on an article that approaches Italian science fiction through ecocriticism and doing research on "Naturismo futurista."

Education

Ph.D., Yale University

Publications

Books

Elemental Narratives. Reading Ecological Entanglements in Modern Italy. University Park: Penn State University Press (AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series) (Forthcoming November 2020). http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-08773-3.html.

Italy and the Environmental Humanities. Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies. Eds. Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti, Elena Past. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, Series "Under the Signs of Nature", 2018. http://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5050

Fictions of Appetite. Alimentary Discourses in Italian Modernist Literature. Series: “Italian Modernities.” Eds. Pierpaolo Antonello and Robert Gordon. Bern - Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013. https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/35622

Castelli di carta: retorica della dimora tra Scapigliatura e Surrealismo. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2001.

Articles

“Spectral Tales and Real Disasters: (Re-)visiting the Trauma(s) of Modernization in Daniele Atzeni’s I morti di Alos” in Italian Experiences of Trauma Through Film and Media. Eds. Alberto Baracco e Rosario Pollicino, Cambridge Scholar Publishing (forthcoming). 

“Nutty Logic: Listening to the Hazelnuts in Pavese and Fenoglio” in ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. Online publication: 02/12/2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaa203 

“Eco Futurism? Some Thoughts on Nature, Matter, and Body in F. T. Marinetti”, in Modernism and the Avant-garde Body in Spain and Italy. Eds. Maria Rosa Truglio & Nicolás Fernandez-Medina. Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature Series, 2016. pp. 232-47.

“Domestic Fronts: Bringing the Great War Home in Pirandello’s Novelle per un anno” in Annali d’Italianistica 33 (2015): 223-39. (Special issue on “The Great War and the Modernist Imagination in Italy”)

“Struggling with Beauty: a Reading of Vanni Santoni’s Se fossi fuoco arderei Firenze.” Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures 69.1 (2015): 14-24.

“A Life of Metal: an Ecocritical Reading of Silvia Avallone’s Acciaio.” Ecozon@. European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 5.2 (2014): 107-22.

“‘Una finestra sul buio’: note sull’immaginario della ferita in Tommaso Landolfi.” AVANGUARDIA Rivista di letteratura contemporanea 47 (2011): 33-46.

“Materiali sessuali: osservazioni sulla narrativa erotico-sociale di F.T. Marinetti.” L’anello che non tiene: Journal of Modern Italian Literature 22 (Spring-Fall 2010): 24-38.

“Milk and Blood: Nursing Capitalism in Luigi Pirandello’s La balia.” Italian Studies 65.1 (February 2010): 33-45.

“Recipes for the Future: Traces of Past Utopias in The Futurist Cookbook.” The European Legacy 14.7 (2009): 841-56.

“Outplaying Kronos’ Hunger: Massimo Bontempelli’s Gente nel tempo.” Forum Italicum 43.2 (Fall 2009): 385-404.

“Dangerous appetites: Sex and the Inorganic in F.T. Marinetti’s Erotic Short-Fiction.” Annali d’Italianistica 27 (2009): 139-55.

“Indigestible Fictions: Hunger, Infanticide and Gender in Paola Masino’s ‘Fame’ and Massimo Bontempelli’s La fame.” Spunti e Ricerche 23 (2008): 5-20.

“Nutrition as Dissolution: Paola Masino’s Nascita e morte della massaia.” Quaderni d’Italianistica 28.2 (2007): 1-20.

“‘Oh, la disobbedienza…!’. Meditazioni su una novella giovanile di Grazia Deledda.” Italica 84.4 (Winter 2007): 723-34.

“Dyspepsia as Dystopia? Marinetti’s Le Roi Bombance.” The Romanic Review 97.3-4  (May-November 2006): 351-67.

“Palazzeschi’s :Riflessi or Writing as Erasure.” The Modern Language Review 99.4 (October 2004): 924-37.

“Consuming Texts: Creation and Self-effacement in Palazzeschi and Kafka.” Comparative Literature 56.4 (Fall 2004): 300-16.

“Back to the Future: Temporal Ambivalences in F.T. Marinetti’s writings.” Italian Modernism: Italian Culture between Decadence and Avant-Garde. Ed. M. Moroni and L. Somigli. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. 243-66. 29.

“The Language of Passion: Silence and Melodrama in Niccoló Tommaseo’s Fede e bellezza.” Modern Language Notes 119.1 (January 2004): 52-66.

“Uno scrittore di una realtà che (s)fugge: Marco Lodoli.” In Search of Italia. Saggi sulla cultura dell’Italia contemporanea. Ed. Antonio Vitti and Roberta Morosini. Pesaro: Metauro Edizioni, 2003. 29-48.

“‘Il giocattolo futurista’: Futurism and fumetti.” Romance Studies 21.3 (November 2003): 191-202.

“A New Home for Italians? A Literal and Metaphorical Interpretation of National Identity within the Context of Scapigliatura.” Forum for Modern Language Studies 38.2 (2002): 140-54.

“La parola e l’immagine: alcune riflessioni su G. Leopardi e C.D. Friedrich.” Testo 40 (Luglio - Dicembre 2000): 77-92.

“Il fantastico in sagrestia: un’ipotesi di lettura delle Memorie del Presbiterio di Emilio Praga.” Rassegna Europea di Letteratura Italiana 14 (1999): 37-48.

“I loci della dissacrazione: nel ‘monastero’ della Desinenza in A di Carlo Dossi.” Rivista di Studi italiani, 16.1 (June 1998): 227-40.

“The Representation of the Arts in Visconti’s The Leopard.” L’anello che non tiene: Journal of Modern Italian Literature 9.1-2 (Spring-Fall 1997): 27-38.

“Preoccupazione devozionale nella Rappresentazione di San Giovanni e Paolo di L. De’ Medici.” The Italianist (December 1995): 66-82.

Conference Proceedings

“A Life of Metal: an Ecocritical Reading of Silvia Avallone’s Acciaio” in the volume Identity and Conflict in Tuscany. Eds. Silvia Ross & Claire Honess. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2015, pp. 85-99. (This is a reprint, with minor changes, of my article in Ecozon@).

“Metallo vivente. Una lettura ecocritica di Acciaio di Silvia Avallone” in the volume ContaminAzioni ecologiche: Cibi, Nature, Culture. Milano: LED, 2015, 133-147. (Translated reprint of above-mentioned article).

“Massimo Bontempelli e il mito classico: il caso di Gente nel tempo.” L’Analisi linguistica e letteraria 2 (2009): 293-306.

Selected Grants & Awards

Mellon Humanities Fellow, Institute of Humanities & Global Cultures (2016-2017)

Summer Research Stipend (Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences), UVa Vice Provost for Research (2017)

EDUCATION

PhD, University of Notre Dame (2010) Spanish American and Luso-Brazilian Literary and Cultural Studies Dissertation title: “Vigencia de la vida y obra de Pablo Neruda: Un análisis del discurso autobiográfico y la sensibilidad social en su obra temprana”

BA, Tufts University (2000), cum laude Majors: International Relations and Spanish. Minor: Latin American Studies

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS (Selected)

Fund for Teachers Grant, Summer 2018. Santiago, Chile. External professional development grant to develop and implement curriculum on Latin American Indigenous Cultures.

Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship, Core Fulbright US Scholar Program, 2015 – 2016. Instituto de Letras, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Field research for book project: “Folklore and the Narrative Tradition in Latin American and Luso-African Literature.”

Edward M. and Ann Uhry Abrams Fellowship, University of Notre Dame Graduate School, 2009-2010. Dissertation completion fellowship: “Vigencia de la vida y obra de Pablo Neruda.”

Graduate Student Professional Development Grant, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA), Notre Dame, Winter Intersession 2008-09. For dissertation related research and travel.

Luso-American Development Foundation, Research Seed Grant, Summer 2008. “Imagining and Remembering the Dictator: Representations of Salazar During and After the Estado Novo.”

Fulbright US Student Fellowship Program, Dissertation Fellowship. University of Chile and Pablo Neruda Foundation, Santiago, Chile, 2006 – 2007. Dissertation field research.

Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for Minorities, Ford Foundation and The National Academies, 2004. Honorable Mention.

Tinker Pre-Dissertation Travel Award, Tinker Foundation, Winter Intersession 2003 – 2004. For dissertation related research and travel.

Minority Fellowship, University of Notre Dame Graduate School, 2003 – 2005.

PUBLICATIONS

“La figura del intelectual estudiantil en el contexto contemporáneo: la FECh, Claridad y el compromiso creciente de Neruda en los años veinte.” A contracorriente 12.3 (Spring 2015): 105-37.

“Crear y ser creado: poesía y autobiografía en Pablo Neruda.” Revista Iberoamericana. 79.244-245 (jul-dic 2013): 665-83.

“The Role of Folklore in Pepetela’s Historiography of Angola.” Luso-Brazilian Review. 49.1 (Summer 2012): 27-45.

Holanda, Sérgio Buarque de. Roots of Brazil. Trans. G. Harvey Summ. Ed. Daniel E. Colón. Foreword by Pedro Meira Monteiro. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. [Reviewed by Robert Patrick Newcomb in Ellipsis: The Journal of the American Portuguese Studies Association 12 (2014): https://jls.apsa.us/index.php/jls/article/view/234]

“Orlando Mason y las raíces del pensamiento social de Pablo Neruda.” Revista Chilena de Literatura 79: Número especial dedicado a Pablo Neruda (Septiembre 2011): 23-45.

“Analysis of the Narrative Structure and Style of O Manual dos Inquisidores: An Allegory of the Salazar Dictatorship in Portugal.” Hispanófila 163 (September 2011): 63-78.

“Recado ‘confidencial’ sobre Pablo Neruda.” In Confidencias de grandes amistades: Cartas de Gabriela Mistral a Eduardo Barrios y otros textos mistralianos. Ed. José Anadón. México, D.F.: Seminario de Cultura Mexicana, 2011. 145-62.

PRESENTATIONS (Selected)

“The Postmodern Narrator in Ignácio de Loyola Brandão’s Zero.” American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP). San Diego, CA. July 10, 2019.

“Folklore and Narrating Brazil’s Cacao Boom.” Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Washington, DC. May 31, 2013.

“Samba and Son: The Formation of National Identity in Brazil and Cuba.” Atlantic World Literacies: Before and After Contact. An International, Interdisciplinary Conference of the Atlantic World Research Network. UNC Greensboro. Oct 7-9, 2010.

“The Writer’s Life: Manuscripts, Correspondence and Publication of Latin American Writers.” Contribution on Pablo Neruda letters dated September 3, 1956 to June 6, 1966. Exhibition in The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections of the University of Notre Dame Library. Notre Dame, IN. Feb 12, 2007 to May 21, 2007.

“The Role of Folklore in Pepetela’s Historiography of Angola.” Presented at Entralogos 2006: Turns, Returns, Detours: (Hi)story and (Re)presentation. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Feb 10-11 2006.

“Miguel Torga and the Salazar Dictatorship: One Portugal, Two Visions.” Presented at the 6th Annual TROPOS Graduate Student Conference. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Nov 5, 2005.

“La poesía política de Pablo Neruda en su centenario.” Presented at the 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference on Luso-Brazilian and Hispanic Literature, Linguistics and Culture. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Feb 19-20, 2005.

Education

Ph.D., Spanish, University of Virginia (expected 2025)

M.Ed, Carthage College (2020)

B.A., English Studies, Universidad de Salamanca (2018)

Research Interests

• Latin American Literature and Culture
• Spanish Literature and Culture
• United States Literature and Culture
• Critical Theory
• Marxism
• Detective Fiction
• Weird Fiction
• Pedagogy

Teaching

Carthage College

Beginners Spanish, SPN 1010 (Fall 2018, Fall 2019)

Beginners Spanish, SPN 1020 (Spring 2019, Spring 2020)

Spanish Conversation, SPN 3030 (Fall 2019, Spring 2020)

Presentations

"La hija del replicante: la detección como búsqueda y construcción de la identidad en Blade Runner 2049” Congreso de novela y cine negro XV, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, May 2018.

Grants & Awards

Erasmus Programme, National University of Ireland, Galway (2016-2017)

Education

B.A. Spanish (Letras), magna cum laude, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (2020)

Research Interests

● Early Modern and Colonial Literary-Cultural Hispanic Studies

● Spanish Golden Age.

● Body, Science, and Colonial Spaces

● Aesthetics and the Iberian Atlantic

● Pedro Henríquez Ureña.

● Contemporary Dominican Literature

Education

Ph.D., Spanish, University of Virginia (in progress)
M.A., Spanish, University of Virginia, 2022
Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
M.A., Creative Writing, Pompeu Fabra University, 2016
B.S., Psychology, Carlos Albizu University, 2015
A.S., Social Sciences, Essex County College, 2013

Research Interests

• 20th-21st Century Caribbean and Latinx Arts and Literatures
• Feminist Cartographies and Cultural Geography
• Visual Culture and Performance Studies
• Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Diaspora, Race and Ethnicity Studies

Peer-Reviewed Articles

"Curating Transnational Feminist Solidarities in Born in Flames: Feminist Futures." Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, vol 24, no. 2 (forthcoming, Fall 2025). 

Presentations

Panels Organized

• Chair and Organizer, “Transnational Feminisms in the Contemporary Américas,” Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. January 2023

Papers Presented

• “Stillness as Feminist Praxis: Quotidian Fugitivity in the Work of Myrna Báez and Mónica Hernández,” The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP/14), Seattle, Washington State. October 2023.
• “The Artist as Mapmaker: Feminist Cartographies in Contemporary Caribbean Art,” Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars Conference, San José and Limón, Costa Rica. June 2023.
• “Curating Transnational Feminist Solidarities in Born in Flames: Feminist Futures,” Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. January 2023.
• “Alternative Cartographies: Remapping Landscape, Women and History in the Work of Edwidge Danticat,” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Meeting. Baltimore, Maryland. March 2022.
• “The Power of Images: Learning Culture with Visual Texts in the Contemporary L2 Classroom,” Institute of World Languages Roundtable Series. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. November 2021.

Teaching

SPAN 3020 – Advanced Grammar and Composition II: Fall 2023

SPAN 3010 – Advanced Grammar and Composition I: Fall 2022, Spring 2023

SPAN 2010 – Intermediate Spanish: Fall 2021, Spring 2022

Professional Development

Participant – PhD+ Writing Op-Eds Workshop Series. University of Virginia, June-August 2023.

Participant – PhD+ Graduate Instructor Seminar on the Teaching of Writing. University of Virginia, August 1-4, 2022.

Service

GSAS Student Council Representative – Academic year 2022-2023

SIP Graduate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee – Academic Years 2021-2023

“Why Graduate Education Matters” – UVA Graduate School of Arts and Sciences fundraising initiative, spearheaded by Dean China Scherz, Fall 2022

Grants, Fellowships and Awards

• Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Graduate Student Research Grant, University of Virginia. Summer 2023.
• Graduate Global Research Grant, Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation, University of Virginia. Summer 2023.
• Charles Gordon Reid Summer Travel Fellowship, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia. Summer 2023.
• Del Greco Annual Essay Prize for “Alternative Cartographies: Remapping Landscape, Women and History in the Work of Edwidge Danticat,” Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia. May 2021.
• Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship in Caribbean Literatures, Arts and Cultures, University of Virginia. Fall 2020-present.
• Dean’s Diversity Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia. Fall 2020-present.
• Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Research Grant, University of Virginia, Fall 2020.
• Master’s Final Project Distinction of Excellence, Pompeu Fabra University, 2016.
• Distinguished Student Medal, Carlos Albizu University, 2015.
• Dominican Heritage Student Grant, Carlos Albizu University, 2014.

David Flórez-Murillo is originally from Colombia. David earned his B.A. in English Language at Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, where he got training in the teaching of English as a foreign language and methods of qualitative research. For his B.A. research project, David conducted a study in the implementation of cultural contents for the EFL curriculum in college. After 7 years of lecturing at different universities in Colombia, David moved to the USA where he pursued his M.A. in Formal Linguistics at West Virginia University. As part of his graduate work, David conducted some research in various aspects of Hispanic Linguistics such as the contrast of intonational patterns in affiliated varieties of Spanish in Colombia, social perceptions triggered by prosodic cues, and the neutralization of the segment /n/ to [m] in Colombia, which is a rare and not very documented phenomenon in the Hispanic world.  David also taught Spanish at West Virginia University for 2 years, prior to becoming part of the faculty body at UVA. Lately, David has chaired the organizing committee for the Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese Film Festival which takes place during the Spring term, and he also serves as the Course Coordinator for the Spanish Advanced Intermediate level (SPAN 2020)

Education

M.A. in Linguistics. West Virginia University, USA (2017)

B.A. in English Language. Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Colombia (2012)

Research Interests

• Hispanic Linguistics
• Phonology
• Dialectology
• Prosody
• First Language Acquisition
• Second Language Acquisition
• Culture in the Foreign Language Curriculum
• Contemplative pedagogy in higher education

Teaching

• University of Virginia (USA)
  • SPAN-1060 (Accelerated Elementary  Spanish)
  • SPAN-2010 (Intermediate Spanish)
  • SPAN-2020 (Advanced Intermediate Spanish)

• West Virginia University (USA)
  • SPAN-101 (Elementary Spanish I)
  • SPAN-204 (Intermediate Spanish II)

• SENA – Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje (Colombia)
  • English for Specific Purposes in these programs:
    • Nursing
    • Accounting
    • Business
    • Children Pedagogy

• Universidad Eafit (Colombia)
  • English as a Foreign Language: Basic through Advanced Courses
  • Academic Writing

• Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira (Colombia)
  • English as a Foreign Language: Basic through Advanced Courses

• Universidad Libre (Colombia)
  • English for Specific Purposes in these programs:
    • Nursing
    • Accounting
    • Economics
    • Microbiology
    • Civil Engineering  

Selected Presentations

“Incorporating Contemplative Practices in College Language Courses: A Common Approach with Different Pathways” presented at the Contemplative Practices in Higher Education 2020 Conference. Roanoke, VA. March 2020

“Social Perception Variation in two accent variables in Colombia: Paisa Accent in Medellin and Pereira” presented at The Ohio State University Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics. Columbus, OH. March 2017

“Social Perception Variation in two accent variables in Colombia: Paisa Accent in Medellin and Pereira” presented at the Romance Languages and Literatures 6th Annual Conference, Intersections: Collage of Urban Networks, University at Buffalo. Buffalo, NY. April 2017

Education

Ph.D. Spanish Literature, University of Virginia       expected          (2024)

M.A. in Hispanic Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas            (2019)

• Graduate Research Certification (2018)

B.A. in Spanish, University of Nevada, Las Vegas                            (2015)

• Minor in Italian Studies (2015)

A.A. in International Languages, College of Southern Nevada         (2012)

Research Interests

• Latin American Literature of the 20th and 21st century
• Literature of the Spanish Golden Age
• Iberian Literature of the 19th and 20th century
• Gender and Sexuality
• Queer Studies
• Minorities and underrepresented voices  
• Mexican Culture
• Latin American and Spanish Cinema
• Marginalization
• Globalization
• Diaspora 

Teaching

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

• Elementary Spanish I (SPAN 113) fall 2016, fall 2017, spring 2018, fall 2018
• Elementary Spanish II 2017 (SPAN 114) fall 2017, spring 2018
• Intermediate Spanish I 2018 (SPAN 213) Fall 2018

Presentations

“El homosexual y el revolucionario en El beso de la mujer araña”.Gender and Genre: Diversity in Latin American and Iberian Languages and Cultures. University of Colorado Boulder. March 16-17, 2018.

"Travestismo, machismo y la doble moral en El lugar sin límites". 4th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities: "World Cinema" California State University, Sacramento. Saturday October 27th, 2018.

Publications

“Recursos de Pascual Duarte: escritura, destino y presagio”. El Cid Magazine                    2019

Grants & Awards

Millennium Scholarship recipient                                                                                      Fall 2004

Memberships 

• Cervantes Society of America                                                                                       2018-present
• The National Society of Leadership and Success                                                                   2015
• International Dean’s List Society                                                                                           2015
• French Club of College of Southern Nevada                                                                         2013
• Organization of Vistas of Hispanic Studies (organizing committee member)                       2018

Research Summary

E. Michael Gerli received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from UCLA in 1972. His research interests include the social, intellectual and cultural history of the Western Mediterranean, including North Africa, from the Middle Ages through early modernity. Gerli is the author of some 200 publications on medieval and renaissance Romance literary and linguistic themes, serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals and presses in both the U.S. and abroad (Hispanic Review, Biblioteca Española del Siglo XV de la Universidad de Salamanca, University of North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, Journal of Hispanic Philology, La Corónica, Medievalia, Anuario de Estudios Cervantinos, Convivencia, Cancionero General, Officina Ispanica, la Sapienza, Università di Roma, and others), and is the General Editor of Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia (New York: Routledge, 2003), which was selected as a Choice Academic Book for 2003.

His Celestina and the Ends of Desire, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2011 and was awarded the Modern Language Association of America’s twenty-second annual Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for an outstanding book published in English or Spanish in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures.  Professor Gerli’s Refiguring Authority: Reading, Writing, and Rewriting in Cervantes (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995) was chosen as an “Outstanding Academic Book” by the American Association of College and University Libraries in 1996.

The latest of his sixteen books, Cervantes: Displacements, Inflections and Transcendence was published in 2019. Gerli is also a recipient of the Hispanic Review’s Edwin B. Williams Prize (1981) and the Modern Language Association’s Division of Medieval Spanish Language and Literature’s John K. Walsh Prize (1997). In 2009 he was named Distinguished Alumnus by the University of California, Los Angeles, and in 2015 he received Sigma Delta Pi’s (the Spanish National Honorary Society’s) Order of Don Quijote, its highest award.

Professor Gerli has been Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of America (1976), UCLA (1980), the University of Maryland (1986, 1989, 2012), Johns Hopkins University (1990, 1991), the University of Virginia (1992), the University of Pennsylvania (1993), Emory University (2002), the Universidad Pontificia del Perú (2006), and Duke University (2007). He has also lectured at many universities in the United States, Europe and Latin America, served as a consultant to foundations, government agencies, and university presses, and his views on medieval and early modern Iberian intellectual history and culture have appeared in interviews with various media.

Finally, Professor Gerli has served as an elected representative to the Modern Language Association’s Delegate Assembly and twice been elected chair of the MLA’s Division of Medieval Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Prior to moving to the University of Virginia in the fall of 2000, he was Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University (1982-1989, and 1997-2000) and served as Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in Georgetown’s School of Languages and Linguistics.

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Publications

Recent and Forthcoming Books

Celestina and the Ends of Desire (University of Toronto Press, 2011)

Reading, Performing, and Imagining the Libro del Arcipreste (University of North Carolina Press, 2016)

Cervantes: Displacements, Inflections, Transcendence (Juan de la Cuesta, 2019)

The Routledge Companion to the Iberian Middle Ages: Unity in Diversity (forthcoming, 2021)

Embajada a Tamorlán/Embassy to Tamburlaine: The Court of Timour at Samarcand. Attributed to Ruy González de Clavijo. An English translation and critical edition of MS 9218 of the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid. Trans., ed., and introduction E. Michael Gerli. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2022.

Selected Recent Articles

 “Nuestro gozo en el pozo:’’ Pleberio and the Place without a Telos.” e-Humanistsa: The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies 18 (2011) 23-37.

“Agora que voy sola”: Celestina, Magic, and the Disenchanted World.”  e-Humanista: The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies 19 (2011): 157-72.

"Melibea Feints." In Por s' entender bem a letra. Ed Manuel Calderón. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2011. Pp. 191-202

“The Destiny of Iberian Empire: Alfonso X and the Cultural and Political Significance of the Libro de Alexandre,” in Studies in Homage to John Esten Keller. Ed. Roger Tinnell. 93-109. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2011.

“From Babel to Paradise: Typologies of Speech and Language and the Quest for the Word in Cervantes’ Persiles.” e-Humanistsa: The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies. Cervantes 1 (2012): 346-365.

“Cancionero/Cancioneiro.” In The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4th ed. Ed. Roland Greene, et al. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2012. Pp. 184-87.

“Reading Error, Finding Fault: On the Uses of Heresy in the Libro del Arcipreste.” In Two Spanish Masterpieces: Celestina and the Libro de buen amor. Ed. Ivy Corfis and Pablo Ancos. 245-273. New York: Hispanic Society of America, Seminary of Medieval Spanish Studies, 2013.

“La vida de Michael Gerli, y de sus fortunas y adversidades, escrita por su propia mano.” in ¿Por qué España? Memoria personal del hispanismo estadounidense. Ed Anna Caballé y Randolph Pope. Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2014. 151-174.

“Translating Events, Glossing Experience: European Texts, Memory, and American Experiences.” Medievalia, Institut d’Estudis Medievales, Universitat de Barcelona, 17 (2015): 39-55.

“The Novel Before the Novel.” In The Oxford History of the Spanish Novel. Ed. J.A.G. Ardila. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2015. Pp. 56-78.

“Córdoba and Seville.” In Europe: A Literary History, 1348-1418. Ed. David Wallace. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016. I, 138-154.

“‘As flies to wanton boys’: La ilustre fregona.” In “Los cielos se agotaron de prodigios”: Essays in Honor of Frederick A. de Armas. Ed. Kerry Wilks, Julio Vélez Sáinz, and Benjamin Nelson. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2016, 155-63.

“The Expulsion of the Moriscos: Seven Monumental Paintings from the Kingdom of Valencia.” In The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies. New York, London: Routledge, 2016. Pp. 184-200.

 “Sight, Scent, and Sense: Reading the Cancionero de Palacio.” In Sensory Worlds and Literature. Ed. Ryan D. Giles and Steven Wagschall. University of Toronto Press, 2017. 123-141.

“Xadraque Xarife’s Prophecy, Persiles III, 11: The Larger Setting and the Lasting Irony.” In ‘Si ya por atrevido no sale con las manos en la cabeza’: El legado del Persiles cuatrocientos años después. Ed. Mercedes Alcalá Galán, Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, Francisco Layna Ranz. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California Press. eHusmanista/Cervantes 5 (2017): 265-283.

“’Mester es sen pecado’: Libertas Inquiriendi/Vitium Curiositatis en el Libro de Alexandre.” Miriada Hispánica 16 (2018): 35-45

“A Seventeenth-Century Castilian Rendering of the Tale of Pitas Payas: Origins and Significance” La Corónica, 49.2 (2021): 322-44.

“Julian of Toledo, Don Yllán de Toledo and Exemplum XI of Juan Manuel’s Libro del Conde Lucanor.” Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie. 38 137:2 (2021): 362-82.

“En una gentil floresta: Discovery and Desire in a Fifteenth-Century Villancico.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 98 (2021): 453-469.

“Reflections of the Long Thirteenth Century: Curiosity, the Politics of Knowledge and Imperial Power in The Libro de Alexandre.” In The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iberia: Unity in Diversity. London, New York: Routledge, 2021. 390-407.

"In Toletum daemones: el deán de Santiago, don Yllán de Toledo, y la ética de la sapiencia." Hispanic Review 89.4 (2021): 375-95.

Plus numerous extended articles on various subjects for The Routledge Online Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

Selected Grants & Awards

National Endowment for the Humanities (1986, 1992, 1994, 2002, 2009, 2011)

American Council of Learned Societies (1978, 1981, 1989)

Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States Universities (1981, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2004)

Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1998)

American Philosophical Society (1979)

Georgetown University (1977, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987)

Programa Hispanex of Spain’s Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport (2013, 2015, 2017)

Education

M.A., Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, Menéndez Pelayo International University & Cervantes Institute (expected May 2022)

M.A., Spanish and Linguistics, West Virginia University (2013)

Certificate in University Teaching, West Virginia University (2013)                                            

M.A., English as a Foreign Language, University of Murcia, Murcia (Spain) (2008)

B.A., Translation and Interpretation, University Jaume I, Castellón (Spain) (2007)

Areas of Interests in Teaching

Students’ Metacognition Pedagogy: Reflective Thinking, Development of Learning Strategies, Setting of Learning Goals, Awareness of Self and Target Culture 

Contemplative Sciences Pedagogy: Uses in the Foreign Language Class to Reduce Stress and Anxiety, Improvement of Self-Efficacy Believes, Development of Gratitude and Compassion 

Student Centered Pedagogy: Gamification, Universal Design, Collaborative Learning, Increasing Students’ Motivation, Creation of Meaningful Interpersonal Experiences, Equity in and outside the Classroom, Attention to Diversity, Inclusive Teaching, Connection with Personal and Interdisciplinary Interests, Integrated Performance Assessments, Multiple Intelligences, Cognitive Grammar

Teaching

University of Virginia (2013-current)

• Span 3010: Grammar and Composition I
• Span 2020: Advanced Intermediate Spanish
• Span 2010: Intermediate Spanish
• Span 1020: Elementary Spanish 
• Span 1010: Initial Spanish

West Virginia University (2011-2013)

• Span 101: Beginner Spanish
• Span 203: Intermediate Spanish
• Span 204: Advanced Intermediate Spanish

Other Teaching Experience

Middle and High School Spanish Teacher, Youngstown City Schools (2008-2011)

• Span I: Spanish for Beginners I
• Span II: Spanish for Beginners II

English Instructor, English Summer School, Valencia, Spain (2008)

Language Courses Organizer: Academia Suárez Language House, Frankfurt, Germany (2007)

Selected Professional Development 

• C3 Design, Center for Teaching Excellence, U. of Virginia, June 2020 
• Virtual Teaching for Fall: Exploring Possibilities, Learning Design & Technology, U. of Virginia, May 2020
• Facilitated Experience: Creating Well-Paced, Socially Connected Summer Courses, Center for Teaching Excellence, U. of Virginia, May 2020
• VoiceThread and Flipgrid: Tools for Speaking Assignments in Virtual Courses, Learning Design & Technology, U. of Virginia, May 2020
• UVa Collab Tests and Quizzes Overview, Learning Design & Technology, U. of Virginia, May 2020 
• Intro to Zoom for Interactive Class Sessions, Learning Design & Technology, U. of Virginia, May 2020 
• Teaching Equitability in a Crisis, Center for Teaching Excellence, U. of Virginia, April 2020
• Teaching through a Pandemic: A Space for Reflection and Sharing, Center for Teaching Excellence, U. of Virginia, April 2020 
• Development of Teaching Competences, Cervantes Institute, April-May 2020 
• How to do Group and Pair Work in the Online Classroom?,  Institute of World Languages - Online Teaching Series, U. of Virginia, April 2020 
• Cultivating Compassionate Teaching during the Coronavirus,  Contemplative Mind in Higher Education, April 2020
• How We are Teaching Online: Tips and Strategies for Effective Course (Re)design, Institute of World Languages - Online Teaching Series, U. of Virginia, April 2020 
• Assessment in Virtual Language Teaching: An Open Sharing Session for UVA Language Instructors, Learning Design & Technology, U. of Virginia, March 2020 
• Conversation about Embodied and Experiential in an Online Environment, Center for Teaching Excellence, U. of Virginia, March 2020

Selected presentations

• Incorporating Contemplative Practices in College Language Courses: A Common Approach with Different Pathways, presented at Contemplative Practices in Higher Education Conference, Roanoke, VA, March 2020 
• Implementing Virtual Reality in Language Classrooms, presented at Institute of World Languages Roundtable, U. of Virginia, February 2020
• Uses of E-portfolio and Contemplative Pedagogy, Group Discussion, presented at Digi(cation) Con(ference), U. of Virginia, November 2019
• Virtual Reality: 3600 pictures and videos with Google Cardboard, presented at the U. of Virginia Teaching with Technology Summit, U. of Virginia, October 2019 
• E-Portfolio Reflections: Meaning Making Tools to Enrich the Learning Experience, presented at AAEEBL SE Regional Conference, University of Virginia, November 2017.
• E-Portofolio: Usos y aplicaciones prácticas en la clase de ELE a la hora de dar retroalimentación, ProfedeEle Summit, Valencia, Spain, July 2017
• Mobilizing Peer Feedback and e-Portfolios for Powerful Collaborative Learning, presented at V Innovations in Pedagogy Summit, U. of Virginia, May 2017
• Table Games in the Classroom, presented at Immersion Weekend for Spanish High School Teachers, West Virginia University, April 2013
• The Madrid Scene, presented at Meetings of Instituto Cervantes in Academia Suárez Language School, Frankfurt, Germany, October 2007

Grants and Awards (at UVa) 

• Grant from Institute of World Languages for Spanish Tertulia, University of Virginia (2017-present)

Involvement at UVa:

• General Faculty Council Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Fall 2020-2023
• Span 2010 Co-coordinator, Fall 2020-Spring 2023 
• Contemplative Research & Scholarship Community, Fall 2019 - present 
• Contemplative Teaching & Learning Faculty Community, Fall 2019 - present
• Co-organizer: XXXVIII Congreso y Asamblea de ALDEEU: Thomas Jefferson y el universo hispano. 
• Co-organizer of the Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese (SIP) Film Festival
• Co-organizer of the Spanish Cultural Weekly Newsletter
• Co-organizer of the Spanish Tertulia
• Training from 'Safe Space'
• Training from 'DREAMers on Grounds: UndocuAlly'
• Implicit Bias Intervention Workshop.
• Diversity Dialogues Workshop
• Survivor Support Network Training

Professional Organizations

• Sigma Delta Pi
• ACTFL
• AATSP

Certifications 

DELE Examiner: A1-A2, A2-B1 Scholar, B1-B2, C1-C2

From 1979 until 2002, Professor Javier Herrero taught courses in Spanish literatures and cultures at the University of Virginia. He authored and co-authored some 25 books in his distinguished career as a scholar of the early modern era and the 18th-20th centuries.

Please find here an extensive biography, which glosses Professor Herrero's many accomplishments in research and teaching.

On April 2, 2023, Professor Herrero passed away in Charlottesville. He is remembered fondly by his students and colleagues.

Education

Ph.D., University of Virginia (Spanish, expected 2024)

M.A., Auburn University (Spanish, 2019)

M.A., Universidad de Valencia (English, 2016)

B.A., UNED (English, 2015)

Research Interests

• Comic books
• Gender Studies
• Cultural Studies
• Film
• Contemporary Spanish Novel

Teaching

FLSP 1010 (Fall 2018 & Spring 2019).

Publications

Játiva Fernández, Jesús. “GeorgeSaundersLand: parques temáticos como espacios hostiles” in Representaciones del espacio hostil en la literatura y en las artes. Editorial Andavira, 2017

Presentations

“George Saunders Land: parques temáticos como espacios hostiles,” Congreso Internacional «Representaciones del espacio hostil en la literatura y en las artes: imágenes y metáforas», Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, May 2017.

“Surreal Theme Parks as Enhancers of World Building in George Saunders’ Fiction,” Northeast Modern Language Association, University at Buffalo, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2018.

"All of them are men: Ironic Masculinities in Luis Bustos and Santiago García’s ¡García!”, Northeast Modern Language Association, University at Buffalo, Washington DC, March 2019.

"Creando emoción: afecto y cuestionamiento de las masculinidades en ¡García, de Santiago García y Luis Bustos", South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, November 2019.

Education

• M.A., Spanish, University of Virginia (expected 2019)
• B.A., Spanish-Latin American, Caribbean, Latino Studies (with Departmental Honors), Gettysburg College (2017), magna cum laude

Research Interests

• Southern Cone Literature
• National Figures (especially Eva Perón) and Nationalism
• Islam in Latin America
• Arab and of-Arab-descent authors and characters in Latin American Literature
• Latin American Cinema

Teaching

• Intermediate Spanish (SPAN 2010): Fall 2017–Spring 2018
• Accelerated Elementary Spanish (SPAN 1060): Fall 2018

Presentations

El mito de Evita: entre la mujer y el mito argentino en Santa Evita de Tomás Eloy Martínez, y "La señora muerta" de David Viñas, "Evita vive" de Néstor Perlongher, y "Esa mujer" de Rodolfo Walsh. ILASSA 36, Austin, Texas, 5 March 2016.

Grants and Awards

• Charles Killian Woltz Summer Language Stipend, University of Virginia (Summer 2018)
• Phi Beta Kappa, Gettysburg College (2017)
• Miguel Cervantes Award for Spanish, Gettysburg College (Fall 2015)

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University of Virginia in Valencia, advisor, promotion

Contemplative Faculty with the CSC

Education

Ph.D. in Spanish, University of Virginia, 2009

M.A. in Spanish, University of Virginia, 2004

Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Philology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 2001

Dissertation

“Poetas del siglo XXI. Los caminos de la poesía joven española” 

Research Interests

• 20th-21th century Spanish poetry, theater and poetic performance
• Contemplative Pedagogies
• Language for the Professions

Teaches:

• SPAN 3300: Text and Interpretation
• SPAN 3050: Spanish for Medical Professionals
• SPAN 3410: Survey of Spanish Literature II (1800 to present)
• SPAN 3010: Grammar and Composition
• SPAN 3020: Advanced Grammar and Composition

Publications

“Mirada de mujer a mujer. Notas sobre El color de agosto, de Paloma Pedrero”, en Historia de un escenario. Cuarenta años de teatro en español en la Universidad de Virginia. Fernando Operé and Fernando Valverde eds. Valparaíso USA and Sonámbulos Ediciones, 2020.

 “Anverso y Reverso de un Comienzo: Parelelos Temáticos y Simbólicos en Génesis de la luz y Biografía sola, de Jaime Siles” en La poesía de Jaime Siles: desvelo del lenguaje. Madrid: Siglo XXI, 2014.

Book reviews

Second Edition of Tornasol. Guía para la interpretación de textos literarios y cine. Antonio Sobejano-Morán. Wilkes Barrea, PA: Panda Publications, 2017.

Sixth Edition of Puentes. Spanish for Intensive and High-Beginners Courses. Patti J. Marinelli and Lizette Mujica Laughlin. Boston: Heinle Cengage Learning, 2014.

Rivero, Isel. Words Are Witnesses / Las Palabras Son Testigos. Madrid: Verbum, 2010. Reviewed in Cuadernos de Aldeeu, 24 (2012): 287-289.

Recent presentations and panel/conference organizer

“The Compassionate Reader. New Approach to Feedback and Peer Review” as part of the panel  “New writing assignments for language, film, and composition courses.” Institute of World Languages round table, University of Virginia (speaker and organizer.) November, 2019.

“Prácticas pedagógicas contemplativas en la enseñanza de lengua extranjera”. Alicia López Operé, Esther Poveda Moreno y Zaida Villanueva García. Spanish Professionals in America. XXXIX Congreso Internacional de ALDEEU. Valencia, Spain, June 2019 (speaker and conference organizer).

“Movement practice” as part of “Contemplative Pedagogy in World Languages”. Institute of World Languages Annual Faculty Retreat. May, 2019.

“Final Project Presentation: a Student-Centered Symposium in Spanish for Medical Professionals”, as part of the panel “Languages in the Real World: A Showcase of Learning Projects in Language for Specific Purposes courses at UVA.” Institute of World Languages round table, University of Virginia. April, 2019.

"Jornada de relajación". Alicia López-Operé, Esther Poveda Moreno, Zaida Villanueva García. Language Commons students activity. University of Virginia, April 2019 (presenter and co-organizer).

“3D Printing for Medical Spanish. A collaborative project showcase.” Teaching with Technology Summit. University of Virginia. October, 2018. XXXVIII Congreso Internacional de ALDEEU. University of Virginia, June 2018 (conference organizer).

“De la poesía de la experiencia a la experiencia fragmentada: dos jóvenes poetas españoles del siglo XXI”. MIFLC Mountain Interstate Foreign Languages Conference, College of Charleston, October 2015.

“Síntesis dramática. Microteatro español en el siglo XXI”. Carolina Conference on Romance Languages. UNC – Chapel Hill, April 2015.

“Sexo 10.0, la parodia de la deshumanización y cibersexo en la era del chat”. Carolina Conference on Romance Languages. UNC – Chapel Hill, April 2014.

Education

M.A., University of Virginia, Italian Studies; Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese (2015)

B.A., Università degli Studi di Firenze, Organizzazione e gestione di eventi e imprese dell’arte e dello spettacolo; Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia (2005)

Research Interests

• Self assessment in the Italian classroom
• ePortfolios and their possibilities
• Social media and their use in the classroom
• Italian language pedagogy
• Sherlock Holmes and mystery novels

Teaching

Administration:

• Preceptor for ITAL 1000 and 2000 levels (2014-2020)
• Shea Houde Liaison 
• Italian Honor Society "Gamma Kappa Alpha" advisor

Courses:

• Italian 1010
• Italian 1020
• Italian 2010
• Italian 2020
• Summer Language Institute, Italian culture section (2014)
• Summer Language Institute, Italian grammar section (2015)

Publications

Books

His everlasting bow – Italian studies in Sherlock Holmes, co-authored with Alessandra Calanchi, Stephen King, Valerio Viviani, Gabriele Mazzoni, Caterina Marrone, Enrico Solito, Enrico Petrella, Fabio Petrella, Marco Grassi, Luca Sartori. Aras Edizioni, Fano, 2016. Print.

Dulce est pro patria mori - I caduti di Carmignano e Poggio a Caiano nella grande guerra 1915 - 1918, co-authored with Riccardo Fortunato, Edizioni Medicea Firenze, 2013. Print.

Articles

“Giallo deduttivo e letteratura hard boiled. Differenze e similitudini fra tre detective: Sherlock Holmes, Guglielmo da Baskerville e Philip Marlowe,” www.urbinoir.it, 2013. Open access.

Presentations

“The ePortfolio in the Italian language classroom: uses and possibilities”, American Association for Italian Studies/Canadian Society for Italian Studies, Columbus, OH, April 20-22, 2017.

“The e-Portfolio in the Italian language classroom: uses and possibilities”, Northeast Modern Language Association, Baltimore, MD, March 2017.

"The ePortfolio in the foreign language classroom: uses and possibilities", The Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning, Virginia Tech, VA, November 7, 2016.

“Using e-Portfolios in the second language classroom: the UVA experience”, roundtable. Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Harrisonburg, VA, 14 October 2016.

“The importance of self-assessment in the foreign language classroom”, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, 14-16 April 2016.

“Dictionary: The Universe in Alphabetical Order”, American Council of the Teaching of Foreign Languages, San Diego, CA, 20-22 November 2015.

“How can students be motivated in the use of L2 for speaking?”, American Council of the Teaching of Foreign Languages, San Antonio, TX, 21 November 2014.

Grants & Awards

Grant Team Member, Foreign Language Learning ePortfolios, led by Professor Emily Scida, 2016.

Lola Pelliccia Graduate Prize for outstanding graduate performance in Italian Studies, University of Virginia, 2015.

Projects and co-curricular activities

Creator and chapter advisor for the University of Virginia chapter of the National Italian Honor Society Gamma Kappa Alpha.

Co-editor of La Vendemmia, The Newsletter of the Italian Studies Program at The University of Virginia.

Education

Dissertation

Between Granada's Fading Glory and Castile's Incipient Empire: Historiography and the Islamic Conquest in Medieval Iberia

The dissertation deals with the concepts of imagination, nostalgia and ephemerality in the shaping of Medieval Iberian Islamic historiography. I argue that contradictory prophecies regarding the destiny of Islam in Iberia reflect a nostalgic view towards the Umayyad Caliphate; one where not only its brief glory but also its inevitable fall are anticipated in Al-Andalus. I look at the works of three historians: two Muslims (Ibn Al-Qutiyya, 10 th c. and Ibn Al-Khatib, 14 th c.) and those of Alfonso the Wise, as well as one chapter in Cervantes’s Don Quixote Part II. The objective is to reach a better understanding of the role played by Al-Andalus in the pragmatics of history writing in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. By resorting to Iberian authors from different historic and cultural backgrounds, I aim to emphasize the transcultural and trans-temporal significance of their contributions to this broader view of Medieval and Early Modern Iberian history.

Research Interests

• Medieval & Early Modern Iberia
• Historiography in Al-Ándalus
• Semitic maqamat
• Picaresque literature
• Medieval Islamic Philosophy

Teaching

• SPAN 3300 Texts and Interpretation (2016-17)
• Intermediate Spanish I & II (UVa 2013-2016, Villanova University 2011-2013)
• SPAN 4993 Language House - Casa Bolívar. (2013-14)
• Intensive summer courses at UVa and Valencia, Spain (Summer 2014, 2015)
• Introduction to Hispanic Cultural Studies in Cádiz, Spain (Summer 2012)

Publications

Translations (Spanish and English to Arabic, or viceversa)

Hajo, Gulnar. La aventura de Punto. Mixco, Guatemala: Amanuense, 2014. Print. ISBN: 9789929633186

Miró, Asha, and Anna Soler-Pont. Āthār Al-Ṣandal: Rastros De Sandalo: riwāyah. Bayrūt: al-Dār al-ʻArabīyah lil-ʻUlūm, 2011. Print. ISBN: 9786140101005.

Ayen, Xavi. Thawrat Nobel: Rebeldía De Nobel. UAE: Dar Al Thaqafa for Publishing & Distribution, 2011. Print. ISBN: 9789948446194.

Grisham, John. The Rainmaker. Aleppo, Syria: Ray Publishing & Science, 2010. Print.

Selected Presentations

“Failure of male-friendship in Celestina”, MIFLC: The 66th Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (October, 2016)

"A checker pattern woven of intellect: Misconceptions of the maqāmā genre in Iberian criticism", The 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies (May, 2016).

"A non-Arab's Journey to Colonial Spanish America: The Curious Case of Elias Al-Musili";, KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference. (April, 2016)

“For the Sake of Communication in Ḥayy Ibn Yaqzān: The Philosophus Autodidactus Revisited”, Dialogue and Difference in the Middle Ages, University of Bristol, UK (February, 2016)

"Dos marcos narrativos maestros y distintos: la maqāmā y la picaresca." Graduate Student Lecture Series, Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese, UVa (September, 2014).

“Genette, Arguedas y los zorros: una aproximación paratextual” in the conference “celebrating the centenary of José María Arguedas”, Villanova University (October 2011)

Grants & Awards

Buckner W. Clay award in the Humanities to research the influence of Islamic escatology in Dante’s Divine Commedy (2016-2017)

Admitted with subsidy to the summer school ”Reading Pleasure – Pleasure Reading. Medieval approaches to reading” in Istanbul, 23-28 May 2016.

Charles Gordon Reid, Jr Summer Travel Fellowship to take a course on El Greco in El Museo del Prado, organized by El Escorial (Summer 2014)

Summer Research Grant from Villanova University to work on the project: "The notion of cruelty in popular songs from Syria to Spain" (Summer 2012)

MAEC Scholar at Salamanca, Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (allows foreign students to take summer courses at Spanish universities) (Summer 2008)

Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Scholar, US Department of State (allows Middle Eastern students to spend a school year in the US with a host family) (2005-2006)

Education

Ph.D. Spanish, University of Virginia (in progress)

Bachelor of Arts, University of Havana, Cuba: Journalism

Research Interests

• Diaspora, Displacement, Exile and Life-Writing in Latin American and the Caribbean

• 19th- and 20st- Century Caribbean, Latin American and Latinx Literatures

• Nostalgia and Homelessness

• Affective Theory

• Cuban Studies

Selected publications:

Books

• Juana Borrero, Poesía completa. (Selection and prologue.) Editorial Verbum, 2016.

• Regreso de Ricardo Vigón. (Selection, prologue, and notes. Co-author with Carlos Velazco.) Editorial Oriente, 2015

• La intimidad de la historia. (Selection.) Ediciones ICAIC, 2013.

• Sobre los pasos del cronista. El quehacer intelectual de Guillermo Cabrera Infante en Cuba hasta 1965. (Co-author with Carlos Velazco.) Ediciones Unión, 2011.

   Fiction and Poetry Books

• Herbarium (Poetry). Ediciones Alacrán Azul, 2021.

• La belleza de la inutilidad (Novel). Editorial Verbum, 2020.

• La isla de las mujeres tristes (Novel). Editorial Verbum, 2014.

Academic Articles

• “Conexiones imaginarias de La Habana esquiva (1968-2017).” Recial 14:23 (January-June 2023): 106-130.

• “Miguel Hernández y Reinaldo Arenas o la historia de los poetas pastores que fueron presos.” Poéticas 15 (June 2022): 91-118.

• “El simbólico siglo XIX en la literatura cubana posterior a 1959.” Cuban Studies 47 (March 2019): 57-68.

General public articles

• “The Viscous Threads of a Permeable Web.” Beyond the Sugar Curtain (December 2016).

• “Mapa dibujado por un espía. Guillermo Cabrera Infante.” Variopinto 27 (September 2014): 52-55.

• “Algunas notas sobre Arístides Fernández.” Los pintores escriben. Ediciones Boloña, 2012, 109-123.

• “VP vs. G. Caín.” República de las Letras 114 (October 2009): 160-169.

Book reviews

• “Review of Adiós mi Habana.” About Anna Veltfort, Adiós mi Habana. Las memorias de una gringa y su tiempo en los años revolucionarios de la década de los 60 (Editorial Verbum, 2017). NACLA-Report on the Americas 50:1 (Spring, 2018): 101-102.

• “Carpentier ante su diario.” About Alejo Carpentier, Diarios 1951-1957 (Editorial Letras Cubanas, 2013). Variopinto 20 (February 2014): 60-63.

Exhibition reviews

• “Estrangement, Restlessness, and Rupture: Pablo Delano and the Rethinking of Puerto Rico” Intervenxions, The Latinx Project (New York: March, 2023)

Selected conference papers

• “José Antonio Aponte, lector del Quijote”, Panel “Derecho, Tecnociencia y Afrolatinoamericanismo”, LASA/Africa 2023 Congress: África y América Latina: Diálogos y Conexiones, Accra, November 18, 2023. 

• “‘Soy una nao de China’: la espiritualizada ruta transpacífica de Catarina de San Juan”, Panel “Mexican and Latinx Cultural Production”, 13th Conference on East-West Cross-Cultural Relations: Voyages between the West and the East, Travellers, and New Realities, Università degli Studi di Verona, June 15, 2023.

• “Nostalgia and Intimacy: Sentimental Longing and Epistolary Discourses in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Caribbean”, Panel “Borderlands of Caribbean Islands”, 27th Carolina Conference for Romance Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 25, 2023.

• “Cuba-quo Vadis? Cuban Artist in Times of Change.” Academy Discussion. Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, Berlin, October 5, 2015.

• “Carlos Victoria: el regreso que se repite.” Panel “Exclusiones, exilios y regresos en la literatura cubana y su diáspora.” XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Association (LASA), San Juan, May 29, 2015.

• “Vivir y escribir en la isla de las mujeres tristes.” Cycle “Voces de América.” Faculty of Philology, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, December 17, 2014.

Grants & Awards

• Tibor Wlassics Dante Fellowship, 2024.

• Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) Summer Research Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs, University of Virginia, 2024.

• Arts Fund, Student Council, University of Virginia, 2023.

• Del Greco Annual Essay Prize for “Aventura de las hormigas de Esteban Borrero: una apasionada inmersión multiespecies,” Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia, 2023.

• Frederick W. Beinecke Fellowship, University of Yale, 2023. 

• Summer Research Fellowship, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, University of Virginia, 2023.

• Dean’s Doctoral Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2022-Present.

• Graduate Global Research Grant, Center for Global Inquiry + Innovation, University of Virginia, 2022.

• Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Research Grant, University of Virginia, 2022.

• Verbum Spanish-American Novel Award, 2014.

• Cuban Literary Critic’s Award, 2011.

• “Enrique José Varona” Award for Artistic-Literary Essay by the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, 2009.

• Golden Award for Academic Achievement, University of Havana, 2009.

Kelly Moore is an Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Spanish Literature and Culture. Kelly completed her PhD in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University and her undergraduate degree at the University of Wyoming. Kelly is currently completing her first book project, Family Sovereignty, which engages with secularism and social reproduction across a range of modern and contemporary Iberian literature and film. You can read Kelly’s latest work here.

Research and Teaching Interests:

Modern and Contemporary Iberian Literature & Film

Social Reproduction & Feminist/Queer Thought

Please email me for questions about SPAN 1010-2020 courses. 

Education

M.A., Spanish, University of Virginia (2008)

B.A., English and Spanish, Grove City College (2006), summa cum laude

Research Interests

• Second Language Acquisition
• Communicative and Proficiency-Based Pedagogy
• Student Motivation
• Instructional Technology (E-Portfolios)
• Accessibility in the Language Classroom

Teaching

University of Virginia, 2014-2017

Administrative:

• Coordinator for SPAN 1010-1020 (2015-2020)
• Co-Coordinator for SPAN 2010 (2020-present)

Instructor of Record:

• SPAN 1010, Elementary Spanish
• SPAN 1020, Elementary Spanish
• SPAN 160, Elementary Spanish Online
• SPAN 2010, Intermediate Spanish

Longwood University, 2008-2010

• Elementary Spanish I
• Intensive Elementary Spanish I-II
• Intermediate Spanish I
• Intermediate Spanish II

University of Virginia, 2006-2008

• SPAN 106, Accelerated Elementary Spanish
• SPAN 2010, Intermediate Spanish
• SPAN 2020, Advanced Intermediate Spanish

Other Teaching Experience

• Middle School Spanish Teacher and Exchange Program Coordinator, Green Acres School, Rockville, MD (2010-2014)

Publications

Modules on Group Work, Inclusive Assessment, and Error Correction in Longwood University’s Project LINC (Learning in Inclusive Classrooms)

Presentations

“Collab Media in Elementary Spanish Online (SPAN 160).” With Matthew Street. UVA Collab Instructional Media Faculty Showcase, University of Virginia, 2021.

“Low-Stakes Activities in the E-Portfolio.” With Marina Escámez Ballesta and Julianna Beveridge. Institute of World Languages Roundtable Series, University of Virginia, 2019.

“Student Motivation and Meaningful Learning in the E-Portfolio.” With María Jorquera-Hervás and Julianna White. AAEEBL Southeast Regional Conference, University of Virginia, 2017.

Education

Ph.D., Spanish, University of Virginia (Projected 2021)

M.A., Spanish, Saint Louis University, Madrid (2016)

B.A., Secondary Education and Spanish, Marquette University (2014), cum laude

Research Interests

•     20th and 21st Century Spanish Peninsular Literature
•     Post-Dictatorship Spanish Literature
•     Contemporary Female Writers

Teaching

Intermediate-Advanced Spanish 2020, Summer 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018

Intermediate Spanish 2010, Spring 2017

Intermediate Spanish 2010, Fall 2016

Grants & Awards

Participant in The Summer School in Global Studies and Critical Theory, Bologna, Italy, Summer 2017

Member of Alpha Sigma Nu, the National Jesuit Honor Society, since 2016

Member of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Spanish Honor Society, since 2012

Presentations

“Las mujeres de la capital: los personajes femeninos de Capital de la gloria de Juan Eduardo Zúñiga”, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2017

“Using Short Stories as Input in the Second Language Classroom: A Study on the Effects on Student Retention of Grammar and Cultural Knowledge”, Action Research Poster, November 2016'

“La elipsis, la fragmentación y lo enigmático en Eloy Tizón: la importancia de lo no contado y lo no entendido”, VI Simposio Graduado, Saint Louis University - Madrid, March 2016

Table Moderator for Homenaje a Juan Eduardo Zúñiga: La literatura como vida, Saint Louis University - Madrid, October 2015

Ricardo Padrón is a Professor of Spanish who studies the literature and culture of the early modern Hispanic world, particularly questions of empire, space, and cartography. His recently published monograph, The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West (Chicago 2020) examines the place of Pacific and Asia in the Spanish concept of “the Indies.”  His research for this book has taken him to China, Japan, and the Philippines, and has been sponsored by U.Va.’s Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation, Arts & Sciences at U.Va., and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has also published on early modern poetry and historiography, and on the mapping of imaginary worlds in modern times. Prof. Padrón is an active member of the Renaissance Society of America, and is currently serving as a member of its Board of Directors. He is also serving as Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish. During the Spring of 2022, Prof. Padrón spent part of his research leave as a visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Education

Ph.D., Harvard

Publications

Books

The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West (University of Chicago Press, 2020).

The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815: A Reader of Primary Sources in English Translation, co-edited with Christinia Lee (Amsterdam University Press, 2020)

The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain (University of Chicago Press, 2004) 

Recent Articles

“Confusions of Identity: The Spanish Encounter with Japanese Religion and the Glass Ceiling of Eurocentrism,” Revista de estudios hispánicas. (Forthcoming). 28 pages; 8131 words.

“América, las Indias, y el Pacífico en el siglo XVI.” Miradas conectadas y renovadas. A propósito del X Congreso Internacional de Etnohistoria. Quito: Editorial FLACSO. (Forthcoming) 32 pages; 11,360 words.

“The Philippines and the Body Politic: The Transpacific Cartography of Vicente de Memije” in Transpacific Engagements: Exchange, Translation, and Visual Culture in Entangled Empires, 1565–1898, Edited by Florina H. Capistrano-Baker, et. al. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2020. 49-59. 4554 words.

“America y el espacio transmagellanico, siglo XVI,” Magallania (Chile): Volumen especial El viaje de Magallanes. 2020. 79-102. 11,615 words.

“Mundus Novus - China - Terra Australis: Successive New World Fantasies” Shores of Vespucci A historical Research of Amerigo Vespucci's Life and Contexts in Collaboration with Francisco Contente Domingues, edited by Angelo Cattaneo. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2018.  18 pages; 5837 words.

Research Summary

Sara Park specializes in modern Latin American literature, with a focus on the Southern Cone region. In her dissertation—“(Re)configuración de memoria: Autoficción de las hijas de desaparecidos en Argentina”—, she analyzes a wide corpus of texts and movies to investigate the matter of memory and identity in the narrative of the daughters of those who disappeared during the last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). Her current research projects investigate the works of Chilean women writers such as Andrea Jeftanovic, Nona Fernández, and Lina Meruane. She is also interested in other contemporary women writers such as Samanta Schweblin (Argentina) and Fernanda Trías (Uruguay). With a WGS certificate, she holds a Ph.D. degree in Spanish from the University of Virginia.

Education

Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2022

M.A., Seoul National University, 2016

B.A., Seoul National University, 2013

Publications

“Soledad y solidaridad en la narrativa breve de José Revueltas.” Sincronía, vol. 69, 2016, pp. 388-405.

Conference Presentations

“La liberación del lenguaje falocéntrico para superar el orden patriarcal en Los vigilantes de Diamela     Eltit.” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 5, 2018.

“La superación del patriarcado como una clave para escapar de la soledad: la lucha de los personajes femeninos en Cien años de soledad.” Asociación de Licenciados y Doctores Españoles en Estados Unidos, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, June 12, 2018.

“La transformación de Carlos Wieder en Estrella distante de Roberto Bolaño: de un cuerpo sin órganos lleno a un cuerpo sin órganos vacío.” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, UNC Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina, October 5, 2017.

“Soledad frente a solidaridad social, en Dios en la tierra de José Revueltas.” Federación Internacional de Estudios sobre América Latina y el Caribe, Bexco, Busan, Korea, August 26, 2015.

“La reescritura de La divina comedia: “El Aleph” de Jorge Luis Borges.” Congreso de Invierno de la Asociación Coreana de Hispanistas, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, December 20, 2014.

“La voz social de Nicanor Parra en la ecopoesía.” Literatos latinoamericanos en centenario, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, October 4, 2014.

“Cómo La Madelón se transformó en una mujer: Una mala noche la tiene cualquiera de Eduardo Mendicutti.” Congreso de Verano de la Asociación Coreana de Hispanistas, Dankook University, Cheonan, Korea, June 14, 2014.

Teaching

University of Virginia, Assistant Professor of Spanish, General Faculty, 2022-present

Advanced Intermediate Spanish, SPAN 2020 (Fall 2022)

University of Virginia, Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2016-2022

Grammar and Composition I, SPAN 3010 (Fall 2019-Spring 2020)

Advanced Intermediate Spanish, SPAN 2020 (Summer 2018-Summer 2019, Summer 2020)

Advanced Elementary Spanish, SPAN 1060 (Fall 2017-Spring 2018)

Intermediate Spanish, SPAN 2010 (Fall 2016-Spring 2017, Fall 2021-Spring 2022)

Anthony Pasero-O’Malley is a first year Ph.D. student. He graduated from the Saint Louis University-Madrid campus with a B.A. in Spanish / International Relations followed by Masters in Spanish Literature & Linguistics from Marquette University. Research interests include the Spanish Civil War, Spanish Romanticism and 19 & 20th Century Peninsular Literature and Film.

Education

PhD in Spanish, University of Virginia (in progress) 

MA in Spanish, University of Virginia

BA in Comparative Literature, University of Puerto Rico—Río Piedras

Research Interests

• 20th–21st-century anglophone, francophone and hispanophone Caribbean
• Caribbean speculative and science fiction
• Digital humanities
• Digital cultures in the Caribbean and the U.S.
• Science and technology studies
• Infrastructure studies

Selected Peer-reviewed Publications

“Coasts in Crisis: Caribbean Arts and Cultures After the Hurricanes,” archipelagos journal. Co-written with Charlotte Rogers and Elise Foote. June 2023.

Book review. "Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan’s Digital Economy." Journal of Asia Pacific Pop Culture, vol. 7, no. 1, 2022, pp. 155-158.

“What the Doppelgänger Says About Female Characters in Murakami’s Fiction: Close Reading The Strange Library”. The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Journal 2018, pp. 99-101.

Selected Presentations

Invited. “The Future of DH@UVA.” Round-table discussion. 30 Years of Digital Humanities at UVA. University of Virginia. Nov 12, 2022.

"Roads that Lead Nowhere: A Historiography of Urban Development in Puerto Rico." Latin American Studies Association Annual Conference (LASA). May 4-9, 2022.

"The Lived Experience of Blackness in Scientific Inquiry of the 19th Century." Mobility/Mutability Graduate Student Conference, organized by Boston University Romance Studies. April 17th, 2021.

“De manos que se levantan y voluntades voluntariosas: Wiso y Mishima.” Latin American Studies Annual Conference (LASA). May 23-26, 2018.

“Murakami’s Female Mediums: Cross-gender Doubling in The Strange Library and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage”. 40 Years with Murakami Conference, organized by Newcastle University. March 6-9, 2018.

Grants and Fellowships

• Praxis Fellowship. Scholar's Lab. University of Virginia  (2022-2023)
• Professional Development Award. School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia (2021)
• Dean's Doctoral Diversity Fellowship (2020-2025)
• Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship in Caribbean Literatures, Arts, and Cultures  (2020-2025)
• Dr. Piri Fernández de Lewis Award for our most distinguished Comparative Literature undergraduate student and best Comparative Literature undergraduate thesis in the class of 2018
• Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship. Spring 2016-Present.

Research Summary

Randolph Pope is the Commonwealth Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Virginia, where he has served as Chair of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese (2004–2007) and Director of Comparative Literature (2008–2011). He has also been the Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish (2001–2004 and 2013–2016). Born in Chile, he studied Spanish Literature and Classics at the Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. in Spanish from Columbia University in New York. His field of specialization is the Peninsular novel and autobiography, but he has also written extensively on other topics, such as Latin American literature, cultural studies, literature and architecture, literature and the arts, and literature and philosophy.

He has taught at Barnard College, the University of Bonn in Germany, Dartmouth College, Vassar College, where he was Chair of Hispanic Studies, and Washington University in St. Louis, where he served as Chair of Comparative Literature for seven years. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and at the University of Tübingen in Germany. For four years, he directed the Middlebury College Spanish Summer School in Vermont.

He was one of the two founders and main editors of Ediciones del Norte and serves in several editorial boards. From 1991 to the Spring issue of 2002 he was Editor of the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. He has published three books and over one hundred scholarly essays. He has directed twice an NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers on “Spanish autobiography in the European context”. He has received grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the NEH, and the Kemper Foundation. He has lectured at many universities in the United States, Spain, Canada, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, France, Holland, Sweden, and Germany.

Education

Ph. D., Columbia University, New York

Publications

Books

“Borges y Skármeta en París”, Anales de Literatura Chilena 16 (2015): 125-39.

“El yo autobiográfico de Carmen Martín Gaite.” Hispania 98 (2015): 666–67.

“La recreación de la experiencia del instante en Viaje a la Alcarria de Cela”, Letras de Hoje 51 (2016): 211-216. Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/fale/article/view/23940

“The Mute Testimony of Portraits in Calderón and Unamuno’ Work”, Studies in Honor of  Robert Ter Horst, edited by Eleanor ter Horst, Edward Friedman, and Ali Shehzad Zaidi. Fair Lawn, NJ: Transformative Studies Institute Press, 2017. 99–110.

¿Por qué España? Memoria personal del hispanismo estadounidense, Co-Edited with Anna Caballé (University of Barcelona). Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2015.

Generation X Rocks: Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film and Rock Culture, Vanderbilt UP, 2007. Co-edited with Christine Henseler.

Understanding Juan Goytisolo, Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1995.

Novela de emergencia: España, 1939–1954. Madrid: SGEL, 1984.  

La autobiografía española hasta Torres Villarroel. Bern: Lang Verlag, 1974.

Selected Essays

“The Autobiographical Form in the Persiles,” Anales Cervantinos 13–14 (1974–75): 93–106.

Grants & Awards

For a complete list of grants and awards, please download his C.V.

Education

Ph.D. Spanish, University of Virginia (in progress)

M.A.  Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Studies, Universidad de Sevilla (2023)

B.A.  Modern Languages and Literatures (Spanish and English), Universitat de Barcelona (2022)

Research Interests

• 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literature and Culture
• Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Latin American Women Authors
• Mexican Literature and Culture
• Border Studies

Grants & Awards

Erasmus +. University of Manchester, England, 2021.

Research Summary

Joel Rini, Professor of Spanish Linguistics and Philology, has been teaching courses and conducting research on the internal history of the Spanish language at the University of Virginia since receiving his Ph.D. in Romance Linguistics in 1987 from the University of Michigan.  To date, he has published two books and over thirty articles on various aspects of Spanish historical grammar.  While he continues to focus on unresolved problems of Spanish historical morphology and syntax, he has recently turned some of his attention to diachronic and synchronic issues of gender in Spanish, from the earliest texts to the present day.

Education

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Publications

Books

Research Summary

Cole Rizki is a Latin Americanist and transgender studies scholar whose research examines the entanglements of transgender cultural production and activisms with histories of state violence and terror throughout the Américas. Rizki’s current book project, tentatively titled “Transfeminist Tide: Trans Politics Beyond Liberalism", examines Argentine travesti and trans politics and aesthetics to bring the study of democracy and its illiberal correlates to the forefront of trans studies. Moving across trans photographic archives of resistance, state intelligence and police archives, trans literary and cultural production, and activist practices that respond to state terror, his monograph establishes a new historical and cultural interpretation of trans politics as a response to illiberal state violence and its forms. Rizki is at work on a second monograph, tentatively titled “Hemispheric Trans Studies: American Transcultural Encounters and Practices.” This monograph will develop a distinct hemispheric orientation within the field of transgender studies by centering south-south exchanges to engage the work of theorists, political agents, and cultural producers working across Latin America and the US Global South. This project theorizes a travesti-trans of color analytic to track the geopolitics of repair and the reparative premises of both trans of color and travesti theory in the wake of multiple forms of state violence. He is invited guest editor of a special issue of NACLA: Report on the Americas on queer and trans resistance to violence (expected December 2024); co-editor of "Trans Studies en las Américas," a special issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly on Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Trans Studies (May 2019); and TSQ’s current Translation Section Editor (2020-present). His recent article “Familiar Grammars of Loss and Belonging: Curating Trans Kinship in Post-Dictatorship Argentina” was short-listed for the International Association for Visual Culture and the Journal of Visual Culture Early Career Researcher Essay Prize. His work appears in or is forthcoming with journals such as TSQ, Journal of Visual Culture, Balam, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, and Radical History Review.

Affiliate Faculty, Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality

Links

Education

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Gore Aesthetics: Chilean Necroliberalism and Travesti Resistance,” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies special issue “Sexual Obscenity and Libidinal Politics in Latin America” (accepted, expected publication date December 2023)

“‘No State Apparatus Goes to Bed Genocidal then Wakes up Democratic:’ Fascist State Violence and Transgender Politics in Post-Dictatorship Argentina,” Radical History Review special issue “Fascisms and Antifascisms Since 1945,” no. 138 (October 2020) 82-107.

• Finalist for the International Association for Visual Culture and the Journal of Visual Culture Early Career Researcher Essay Prize (2020)

Essays & Roundtables

“Estéticas de sobrevivencia. Arte de reparación” exhibition catalogue essay in ¿Cómo retratar a una sobreviviente? Germán Menna (ed.) (accepted, expected publication Spring 2024).

“Visualizing (trans)masculinities” Balam, no. 9, special issue “Nuevas masculinidades” (August 2023): 31-32, 250, 257. *Introduction to special issue of Balam, contemporary Latin American photography journal in Spanish/English/Portuguese.

“Trans Visibility and Trans Viability: a Roundtable” Journal of Visual Culture vol 21, no. 2 (2023): 297-320.

“Trans-, Translation, Transnational,” Translation Section introduction, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly vol 8, no. 4 (November 2021): 532-536.

“Latin/x American Trans Studies: Toward a Travesti-Trans Analytic.” Introduction to special issue, “Trans Studies en las Américas,” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 6:2 (May 2019): 145-155.

Edited Volumes

Invited guest editor of NACLA: Report on the Americas special issue on queer and trans resistance to violence. Volume in preparation, details and call forthcoming. (Expected publication date December 2024).

“Trans Studies en las Américas,” Co-editor with Juana María Rodríguez, Denilson Lopes, and Claudia Sofía Garriga-López. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 6:2 (May 2019).

Editorial Positions

Translation Section Editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, (2020-present)

Work that appears under Rizki’s editorship:

• Cole Rizki, “Trans-, Translation, Transnational,” section introduction, vol 8, no. 4 (2021): 532-536.
• Cynthia Citlallin Delgado Huitrón, “Transtocar, Three Fragments” in vol. 9, no. 1 (2022): 119-125.
• Francisco Fernández and Andrés Mendieta, “Toward a Trans* Masculine Genealogy in South America” in vol. 9, no. 3 (2022): 524-534.
• Liz Rose, “Trans* Poetics in Translation: Desire and Capacity in the Work of Susy Shock” in vol. 10, no. 1 (2023): 59-70.
• Marlene Wayar, “In My Mind There is a Cemetery / Hay un cementerio en mi cabeza” translated by Tania Balderas (forthcoming 2023)
• Eugenia Azar and Pilar Cabrera, “To Exist and Resist: A Photographic Essay / Existir y resistir: un ensayo fotográfico,” translated by Tania Balderas (forthcoming 2023)   

Book Reviews

Review of Mapping Memory: Visuality, Affect, and Embodied Politics in the Americas. In special issue, "Views from the Larger Somewhere," Women & Performance, 30:3 (April 2021).

“Hemispheric Translations,” Review of Translating the Queer: Body Politics and Transnational Conversations. GLQ 25:1 (January 2019): 199-201.

Selected Grants & Awards

Courses

Undergraduate 

Transgender Studies in the Americas

Queer Theory and Cultural Production in the Americas

Survey of Latin American Literature II 

Graduate

Transgender Studies in the Americas

Education

Research Interests

• Medieval literature
• Philosophy
• Pre-council of Trent Christianity

Teaching

SPAN 2010

SPTR 3402 (Don Quixote)

Presentations

"Women and the Worlds of Business in the Work of Joaquina Vera." Women as Creators and Distributors of Wealth, MLA, 05 January 2017, Philadelphia, PA.

Grants & Awards

GSAS Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Summer Research Award (2016)

SIP Summer Language Study Fellowship, Latin (2015)

Jefferson Fellowship (2015-Present)

Fulbright (2012-2013)

Education

Ph.D., Spanish, University of Virginia (in progress)

M.A., Spanish, University of Virginia (2021)

B.A., Literary Studies, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2017)

Research Interests

• Early Modern Iberian Literature

• Poetry and Poetics

• Material Culture

• Queer Studies

• Contemporary Colombian Narrative

Publications

Afterlives in Stone. Religion, Race & Democracy Lab, University of Virginia (2021).

"Viernes Santo," La caída literary magazine (March 2018).

Review, "Cuesta Hernández, Luis Javier. Ut architectura poesis: Relaciones entre arquitectura y literatura en la Nueva España durante el siglo XVII". Literatura: teoría, historia, crítica 18, 2 (2016).

Teaching

University of Virginia

•           SPAN 3020, Grammar and Composition II (Fall 2022, Spring 2023)

•           SPAN 2020, Advanced Intermediate Spanish (Summer 2022)

•           SPAN 3010, Grammar and Composition (Spring 2022)

•           SPAN 3300, Text and Interpretation (Fall 2021)

•           SPAN 2010, Intermediate Spanish (Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Summer 2021)

Presentations

“Lectura es más laberinto (y no menos lisonja).” Presentation given at the panel Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, University of Illinois, Chicago, September 2023.

“Sor Juana y la lectura lisonjera.” Presentation given at the Graduate Student Lecture Series, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia, May 04, 2023.

“Hallowed Stones, Stones that Move: A Guaca in Seventeenth Century Nueva Granada.” Presentation given at the CGII Graduate Student Brown Bag Lunch, University of Virginia, April 12, 2023.

“The Winter’s Tale: Narrators, Witnesses, and the Crafting of Compassion.” Presentation given at the panel Shakespeare and Empathy, Northeastern Modern Language Association, Niagara Falls, New York, March 2023.

“Speaking with This Flattering Portrait.” Presentation given at the panel Inhuman Voices: Writing and the Non-Human, Association of Comparative Literature of America, Chicago, March 2023.

“La ceiba de la memoria: una re-escritura de la esclavitud en la Cartagena del siglo XVII por quienes han sido silenciados,” II Congress of Poscolonial Studies and III Sessions of Poscolonial Feminism “Genealogías críticas de la colonialidad,” CLACSO – UNSAM, Buenos Aires, December 2014.

Grants and Awards

Charles Gordon Reid Summer Travel Fellowship. Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia (Summer 2023)

Summer Language Fellowship. Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia (Summer 2023)

Graduate Global Research Grant. Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation, University of Virginia (Fall 2022)

Student Research Collaborator. Religion, Race & Democracy Lab, University of Virginia (Fall 2020–Spring 2021)

Education

M.A., Spanish Language and Literature, University of South Carolina (2013)

TEFL/TESL Certificate, International TEFL Academy & INTESOL Worldwide, Heredia, Costa Rica (2013)

B.A., Spanish, University of Louisiana at Monroe (2011)

Research Interests

• Second Language Acquisition
• Applied Linguistics
• Active Learning pedagogy
• E-Portfolios in the foreign language classroom

Teaching

Accelerated Beginning Spanish (2013-Present)

Preceptor for Accelerated Beginning Spanish (2014-Present)

• Accelerated Beginning Spanish Course Digication
• Accelerated Beginning Spanish Course WordPress Site
• Active Learning Spaces Student Perspectives
• Learning Design & Technology Faculty Story

Presentations

“Intensifying Student Participation and Engagement Using an Active Learning Space.” Institute of World Languages Roundtable. The University of Virginia. (2016)

“Facilitating Language Learning Through an E-Portfolio in Accelerated Beginning Spanish at University of Virginia.” The AAEEBL (The Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning) regional conference at Virginia Tech.

“Collecting and Reflecting: Deeper Learning through a Word Press E-portfolio Project in Accelerated Beginning Spanish at the University of Virginia.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, the University of Kentucky. (2016)

“Implementation and Integration of the e-Portfolio in the Foreign Language Classroom.” (Group Presentation) Institute or World Language Faculty Retreat (2016)

“Turn up the Heat: The Creative Use of Games in the Classroom.” (Group Presentation) Roundtable Teaching and Learning. The University of Virginia, Charlottesville. October 2014.

Grants & Awards

Foreign Language Learning e-Portfolio (team member) (2015-2017)

Professional Organizations

Zeta Zeta Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi (Chapter Advisor) (2013- Present)

Education

Ph.D. Spanish, University of Virginia (in progress)

M.A., Spanish, University of Virginia

B.A. Journalism, University of Havana

Research Interests

Caribbean cultures, Migration and Diaspora, Memory studies, Relationship of literature and art with cultural history, Cuban Archive.

Selected publications

Books

Leonardo Jaime Soriano, Cuba no existe. (Selection, prologue, and notes.) Editorial Silueta, 2018.

Desnudo de una actriz. Ingrid González: la viuda de Reinaldo Arenas. Editorial Hypermedia, 2016.

René Jordán, La angustia del sábado. (Selection and prologue.) Editorial Silueta, 2015.

Hablar de Guillermo Rosales. (Co-author with Elizabeth Mirabal.) Editorial Silueta, 2013.

Buscando a Caín. (Co-author with Elizabeth Mirabal.) Ediciones ICAIC, 2012.

Articles

“Reinaldo Arenas, viral.” In Reinaldo Arenas. La escritura como destino. Edited by Rita Molinero and Yolanda Izquierdo. Isla Negra Editores, 2021, 95-102.

“Cinco recuerdos del porvenir.” Cuban Studies 47, March 2019: 69-79.

“Invitación a Carlos Victoria.” Revista Surco Sur 9, 2016: 44-45.

“Esteban Luis Cárdenas, patakí.” Unión 78, 2013: 86-89.

“Viaje al final del Lunes.” In Lunes de Revolución 1959-1961 [Digital edition]. Biblioteca Nacional José Martí, 2012

Selected presentations

“Masters of Lydia Cabrera,” Panel “Colonialidad/Decolonialidad y Raza,” LASA/Africa 2023 Congress: África y América Latina: Diálogos y Conexiones, Accra, November 15, 2023

“Una obra compartida: la itinerante casa cuir de Lydia Cabrera y María Teresa de Rojas,” Panel “Queering Space and Time Across Geographies,” El Monte: Narratives, Aesthetics, and Afrodiasporic Spirituality in the Contemporary Caribbean, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, November 10, 2023.

“‘Todo lo que es santo sirve’: La sociedad Abakuá y la mujer cubana en el cine de Sara Gómez,” Second International Conference of Hispanic Women Filmmakers, Clark University, Worcester, October 20, 2023.

“Lydia Cabrera’s Stories: Pioneering Caribbean Science Sci-Fi and Fantasy from Another Small Place,” Panel “Cultural Creatives/Sacred Traditions,” 47th Caribbean Studies Association Annual Conference, University of the Virgin Islands, Saint Croix, June 7, 2023.

“Lydia Cabrera y el itinerario afrocubano del espacio colonial”, Panel “Cuba: From the Afro-Colonial Imaginary to the Special Period to the Moon,” The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 23, 2022.

“Reescrituras y apropiaciones del Lazarillo de Tormes por Reinaldo Arenas”, Panel “Caos, violencia y muerte en España y América Latina”, Eleventh Romance Language and Literatures Graduate Conference, University at Buffalo, April 9, 2022.

“Los Orichas en la Otra Cuba, según Lydia Cabrera”, Panel “Literatura, religión y política en Cuba,” Thirteenth Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, Florida International University, February 3, 2022.

“El intelectual cubano y el debate social,” Panel “The Place of Culture: Canon, Counter-Canon, and the Politics of Memory,” Cuban Transitions: What’s Left Out?, Brown University, May 6, 2016.

“Si nos llamáramos Guillermo Rosales (una obra frente a la intemperie insular),” Panel “Exclusiones, exilios y regresos en la literatura cubana y su diáspora,” XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Association (LASA), San Juan, May 29, 2015.

Grants & Awards

Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Summer Research Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs, University of Virginia, 2023

Summer Research Fellowship, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, University of Virginia, 2023

Americas Center/Centro de las Américas Research Grant, University of Virginia, 2022

Goizueta Graduate Pre-Prospectus Fellowship, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami, 2022-2023

Professional Development Award, Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs-Diversity Programs, University of Virginia, 2022

Graduate Global Research Grant, Center for Global Inquiry + Innovation, University of Virginia, 2022

Charles Gordon Reid Fellowship, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia, 2022

Public Humanities Fellowship in South Atlantic Studies, University of Virginia, 2022

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Research Grant, University of Virginia, 2021-present

Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship in Caribbean Literatures, Arts, and Cultures, University of Virginia, 2021-present

Research Summary

Adrienne Ward received her Ph.D. in Italian from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her area of specialty is 17th- and 18th-century Italian literature, with a focus on theater production and culture. Her first book, Pagodas in Play: Representations of China in 18th-Century Italian Opera, was published by Bucknell University Press in 2010.

Prof. Ward has published several articles on Carlo Goldoni, as well as on Luisa Bergalli, and Fulvio Testi.  She teaches courses on Italian theater, Italian comic traditions across genres and historical periods, Italian travel literature, and early modern gender and marriage culture. Her current research and teaching interests include the role and treatment of gender in Italian literary works of the early modern period, specifically intersections between matrimony and theater.

Education

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Publications

Books

Pagodas in Play: China on the Eighteenth-Century Italian Opera Stage (Bucknell University Press, 2010)

Selected Articles

"The Drama of Marriage in 18th-Century Venice: Carlo Goldoni's La locandiera." The Eighteenth Centuries (U.Va. Press, forthcoming).

"Il matrimonio segreto: Marriage Options in Venetian Comic Opera." Opera Libretti of the Eighteenth Century: Essays on the Libretto as Enlightenment Text, ed. Pamela Gay-White. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 2015. 149-174.

“Le donne appassionte ed il genere della passione ne La sposa Persiana di Goldoni.” Problemi di critica goldoniana 16 (2009): 39-57.

“Goldoni and Cicisbeism.” Esperienze letterarie. Special issue on Carlo Goldoni. Eds. Franco Fido and Marco Santoro. XXXII: 3-4 (2007): 315-332.

Translation of letters from Philip Mazzei to Thomas Jefferson, others. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series (Princeton: Princeton University Press), vol. 3 (2006), vols. 7, 9, forthcoming.

“Eastern Others on Western Pages: 18th-Century Literary Orientalism.” Blackwell Literature Compass (2004).

“The Price of Sonnets and Bonnets: How Gender Works in Luisa Bergalli’s Le avventure del poeta.” Italica 79 (2002): 168-188.

“‘Imaginary Imperialism:’ Goldoni Stages China in 18th-Century Italy.” Theatre Journal 54 (2002): 203-221.

Grants & Awards

Liz Wellbeloved-Stone has worked as the Assistant Director of the Hispanic Studies Program (UVa Valencia Program) since May 2000.

She moved from California to Charlottesville in 1980. Liz graduated from Charlottesville High School in 1983 and from UVA in December 1987 with a BA in Spanish.

Liz studied in Valencia with the Hispanic Studies Program for the academic year 1985-86. She married Rick Wellbeloved-Stone in October of 1987. They have two children, James and Claire.

To make an appointment with Ms. Wellbeloved-Stone, please contact her at the email address or phone number above, or visit her in the International Studies Office at:

Education

Ph.D. Spanish, University of Virginia (in progress)

B.A. Hispanic Linguistics & Global Studies, UNC Chapel Hill (2022)

Research Interests

Latin American Literature & Culture

Literary Translation Studies

Gender & Sexuality Studies

Queer Literatur

Honors & Awards

Dean’s Doctoral Fellowship, University of Virginia (2020-2025)