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GRADUATE
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GONZALO
AGUIAR |
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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. |
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JULIO
ARIZA |
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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.
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CÉSAR
BARROS |
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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). |
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PAOLA
EHRMANTRAUT |
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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. |
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ÁNGELES
DONOSO |
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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. |
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LUISA
FLORES |
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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. |
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KATE
MCCARTHY |
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Kate
McCarthy is currently working on the representation
and construction of the female body within the
colonial Latin American City. |
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JOSÉ
MONTELONGO |
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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.
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ALEJANDRA
AGUILAR |
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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. |
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LÍDICE
ALEMÁN |
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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. |
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CATALINA
ANDRANGO-WALKER |
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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. |
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EWA
BACHMINSKA |
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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. |
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VICENTE
BERNASCHINA |
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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. |
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IRENE
DOMINGO SANCHO |
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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. |
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MARGARITA
GASCA ODÉRIZ |
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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. |
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| GABRIELA
E. ROMERO-GHIRETTI |
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| 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. |
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| LIVIA
HINEGARDNER |
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| 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. |
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| MARIA
BRUNO |
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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. |
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| JOSÉ
M. CAPRILES |
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| 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. |
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| LISA
ISENHART |
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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. |
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| MARIANA
MEDINA |
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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. |
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| NATALIA
MONETTI |
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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. |
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| MIAOWEI
WENG |
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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.
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| SARA
POTTER |
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| 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. |
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| MARGARITA
GÓMEZ ALBARELLO |
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| 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. |
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| MEGAN
E. HAVARD |
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| 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. |
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| JOSE
LICÓN-OPPENHEIMER |
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| 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. |
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| NATALIA
MONETTI |
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| 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. |
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| ERIN
ROARK |
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| 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. |
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| PAULINA
SOTO |
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| 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. |
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| LAUREN
SAPPINGTON |
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