INTERNATIONAL & AREA STUDIES

 

 
       
  GRADUATE   STUDENTS
       
  GONZALO AGUIAR
  As Assistant Professor at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay, he worked extensively on the Uruguayan Avant-Garde. His main areas of interest encompass Literary Theory, Film Studies, and the ideological construction of the intellectual discourse in Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay in the first three decades of the 20th century. An article related to the latter subject will be published in a forthcoming issue of Latin American Theatre Review.
   
  JULIO ARIZA
  Julio Ariza was an assistant professor at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and the Universidad Siglo 21. He has been collaborating with two research projects from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba since 2001. He has published “El mundo es tu pecera. Sobre Rapado y Nadar solo” in the collective volume Poéticas en el cine argentino: 1995-2005 (Comunicarte, 2005), and “Vivir adentro. Sobre Los años 90 de Daniel Link” in the collective volume El orden de la cultura y las formas de la metáfora (UNC/Ferreyra, 2006). He also worked in the project Escritores argentinos, which was published as a bilingual book by MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires) in 2005. In 2004, he coordinated the film festival Maldita vecindad. Tres miradas sobre Ciudad de México, patrocinated by the Consulate of México in Córdoba and the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. He won the 2003-2004 Research Award from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, and more recently the 2006 Mellon Dissertation Award. He taught in the 2008 Summer Program in Madrid. He is currently working on his dissertation project, which explores the new narratives of love in Argentina.

   
  CÉSAR BARROS
  César Barros is interested in the relations between Latin American symbolic representation (literature, cinema, visual arts) and the market space. One of his articles, “La ‘subjetividad turística’ en Mantra: proyecto editorial, globalización y reciclaje” has recently appeared in Espacios de transculturación en América Latina (Centro de Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos, Universidad de Chile, 2005).
   
  PAOLA EHRMANTRAUT
  Paola Ehrmantraut is editorial assistant for the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. Her areas of interest include Southern Cone contemporary narrative, gender studies and political violence.
   
  ÁNGELES DONOSO
  Ángeles Donoso collaborates in a Chilean journal dealing with urban studies, www.bifurcaciones.cl. She is interested in urban culture and Southern Cone narrative and cinema.
   
  LUISA FLORES
  Luisa Flores is interested in the application of Jungean archetypical theory in literary analysis, and also on the uses of technology in Applied Linguistics. She has published short stories in literary magazines and has received a Fulbright Scholarship in 1993-1995.
   
  KATE MCCARTHY
  Kate McCarthy is currently working on the representation and construction of the female body within the colonial Latin American City.
   
  JOSÉ MONTELONGO
  José Montelongo has a Master of Journalism from the University of British Columbia and was a Canadian Government Award holder in 2000-2001. He has published a novel, Quincalla (2005), and three biographies for children. His fields of interest include poetic theory and Mexican comic literature in the 20th century.

   
  ALEJANDRA AGUILAR
  Alejandra Aguilar is an M.A. candidate in Spanish. She received her B.A. from the Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay. Since then, her work has been focused on questions of gender and the construction of the social self in some of the works of Clarice Lispector, Roberto Bolaño, and the Uruguayan-born Susana Soca. Her interests include twentieth-century Brazilian narrative and poetry, textual analysis, and the narrating self in the Latin American post-Boom novel. She intends to complete her M.A. in December 2008.
   
  LÍDICE ALEMÁN
  Lídice Alemán earned her MA in Spanish at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2007. Her two poetry collections, Entrar descalza (2002) and Indecisiones del arquero (2004), received national prizes in Cuba. Some of her poems have been included in various literary journals such as Del Caribe. Her interests include gender studies and contemporary Caribbean poetry.
   
  CATALINA ANDRANGO-WALKER
  Catalina Andrango-Walker is a fifth-year graduate student specializing in Colonial Latin American Literature. Her current research focuses on the oral tradition of the Andean region through music and literature as arts of resistance in the sixteenth and seventeenth-centuries.
   
  EWA BACHMINSKA
  Ewa Bachminska holds an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Mickiewicz University in Poznan and an M.A. in Jazz from Webster University in St. Louis. She is interested in Latin American film, post-colonialism, and Cuban music.
   
  VICENTE BERNASCHINA
  Vicente Bernaschina is a Ph.D. student. He received his B.A. and M.A. from the Universidad de Chile. His master’s thesis dealt with nineteenth-century Chilean literature and the construction of an aesthetically constituted subject for the nation. His current fields of interest include nineteenth- and twentieth-century Southern Cone and Andean poetry and narratives; gender and literary theory, especially from a semiotic and hermeneutic point of view.
   
  IRENE DOMINGO SANCHO
  Irene Domingo Sancho studied at Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain. She is a new graduate Student and her main fields of interests are XXth Century poetry, and XIX and XXth Century Peninsular and Latin American narrative and the relationship between different arts.
   
  MARGARITA GASCA ODÉRIZ
  Margarita Gasca Odériz has a degree in Communications and Journalism. She has worked as a free lance journalist for CNN en Español Radio in St Louis, and for TV Brussels in Belgium. For 7 years, she was the European Union permanent correspondent for Notimex in Brussels and worked as a journalist for Antena 3 TV – Canal Internacional in Madrid, Spain. She has also contributed for Televisión Nacional de Chile and wrote a series of literary criticism on American Literature for the Mexican newspaper Uno más uno. Her latest publications include a front page article in The Daily Record (St Louis), a political analysis in The St Louis Journalism Review and an opinion column in the British magazine E! Sharp.
   
   
   
     
     
 
GABRIELA E. ROMERO-GHIRETTI
Gabriela Romero-Ghiretti obtained her MA in Spanish and the Graduate Certificate in Language Instruction in Washington University. She is now completing her Doctorate in Hispanic Languages and Literatures and is working on her dissertation on women writers of the first half of the 20th century in Latin America. She investigates discourses of space and gender and the development of feminine subjectivity and the female intellectual within the context of modernity. She has been awarded the Helen Fé Jones Award for Teaching in 2005, the University-wide Dean?s Award for Teaching Excellence for 2005-2006, and the Eva Sichel Memorial Prize for Best Critical Essay in Spanish in 2007. She has published articles in The Reading Matrix.
 
LIVIA HINEGARDNER
Her interested in examining the consumption of popular media in Mexico City, especially as it relates to identity formation and lifestyle choice among young adults.
 
MARIA BRUNO
Her dissertation deals with the development of agricultural production in the Lake Titicaca Basin of the Andes. She has conducted field work among four indigenous Aymara communities in order to study current agricultural practices and plant use.
 
JOSÉ M. CAPRILES
José M. Capriles has worked on pre-Hispanic uses of the Andean natural environment and its fauna. His dissertation focuses on the study of the early development of pastoralism in the southern highlands of Bolivia. He is also interested in the production and relevance of archaeological knowledge for local, indigenous, and marginalized groups.
 
LISA ISENHART
Her areas of interest are: development, politics of knowledge, mining and gender, globalization and experiences of place. She works on the impact of multinational gold mining in the Andean region of Argentina.
 
MARIANA MEDINA
Her areas of interest are: International Political Economy and Mexican Politics. Some of her work is related to trade politics and the effects of remittances in Mexico.
 
NATALIA MONETTI
Graduated from Universidad Nacional de
Córdoba, Argentina. She is interested in the relations between emergent technologies and art, and contemporary literature in the Southern Cone.
 
MIAOWEI WENG
Earned her MA in Spanish from Peking University in China, 2005. She has written and translated books: Portugal (2006); Diccionario de Expresiones Coloquiales del Español (2005); Iron Stick (2004); South America (2003); Español (2002). She worked as editor-in-chief in Muse (2000-2004). She also received a prize for translation from European Union (2001) and scholarships for academy from Panasonic Co.(2000) and Motorola Co. (1999). Her areas of interest include imaginations and strategies between Latin America and China.

    

    
 
SARA POTTER
Sara Potter is a second-year Ph.D. student. She earned a B.A. in Spanish and music from Central Michigan University in 1999 and received her M.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College in 2000. Her interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century. Latin American literature, music, theater, and science fiction. She is presently working on a paper that explores the cultural and historical relationship between Mexico City and its metro system through the lens of various literary chronicles.
 
MARGARITA GÓMEZ ALBARELLO
Margarita Gómez Albarello earned a BA in Social Communication specializing in journalism. For four years, she worked as a writer and editor-in-chief for El Nuevo Dia in Colombia. She is interested in Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies.
 
MEGAN E. HAVARD
Megan E. Havard graduated from the University of Texas in Austin in 2007 with a B.A. in Hispanic literature, and is now working towards her M.A. in Spanish literatures at Washington University. In her doctoral research she plans to focus on medieval or pre-modern peninsular literatures, but her other academic interests include foreign language teaching and Luso-Brazilian literatures. In her spare time, Megan loves to travel – the picture shown was taken on Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro.
 
JOSE LICÓN-OPPENHEIMER
Jose Licón-Oppenheimer received his MA in Spanish American Literature from New Mexico State University. His areas of interest are Hispanic literature and cinema in the USA, and XIXth century Spanish literature. He has worked as co-general editor in Arenas Blancas.
 
NATALIA MONETTI
Natalia Monetti holds a B.A. from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Argentina and later received her M.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, where she is currently in the Ph.D. program. Her primary areas of interest include visual arts, the construction of memory in documentary and fictional film and contemporary Argentine literature, focusing on the link connecting aesthetics and socio-political content.
 
ERIN ROARK
Erin Roark earned her B.A. in Studio art from Smith college in 1994 and an M.A. in Spanish from the University of Nebraska-Kearney in 208. She is currently in the M.A. program, teaching at studying Spanish.
 
PAULINA SOTO
Paulina Soto is a Ph.D. student. She received her B.A. from the Pontificia Universidad Catóica de Chile and her M.A. from the Universidad de Chile. Her master’s thesis focused on Brazilian literature and addressed the mythic construction of the Sertanejos and the Sertão in Vidas Secas (Graciliano Ramos) and Campo Geral (João Gimarães Rosa). Currently, her fields of interest include twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin American narrative; recent refashioning in post-dictatorial fictions; gender and cultural theory.
 
LAUREN SAPPINGTON
 
 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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