Odette Casamayor Cisneros is Assistant Professor at The University of Connecticut-Storrs. She received her doctorate in Language Arts and Literature from the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), in Paris. Having concentrated her research on Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures, Odette Casamayor was also the recipient of a 2005 Rockefeller Foundation Post-doctoral fellowship, which sponsored her as a Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies in the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In 2003, her paper titled Negros de papel. Algunas apariciones del negro en la narrativa cubana después de 1959 received the Juan Rulfo literary essay award, which is granted by Radio France Internationale. She is currently writing a book about Post-Soviet Cuban Literature and conducting a research project on racial inequalities in Contemporary Caribbean Societies.
Rosa Helena Chinchilla
Head, Literatures, Cultures and Languages
Associate Professor of Spanish
Renaissance Poetry; Golden Age; Early Modern Literature and Culture; Grammatical Theory in Colonial Latin America; and Cervantes. She is the editor of Fray Francisco Ximénez, Arte de las tres lenguas cakchiquel, quiché y tzutuhil (1993), and La obra del Padre Manuel Mariano de Iturriaga S. J. en la Nueva España y el Reino de Goathemala (2006). Her publications also include a number of articles in Caliope, Renaissance and Reformation, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Revista Iberoamericana and other journals. Article topics include Cervantes, Juan del Encina, Garcilaso de la Vega, Nebrija and Juana de Austria, as well as other topics related to literary history (Golden Age, Patronage in the Early Renaissance, Early Modern Spectacle; the Influence of Rome on Spanish Humanism). She has been the recipient of a Newberry Library Fellowship and an NEH Seminar Fellowship.
Ana Maria Diaz-Marcos (Ph.D. 2003, Hispanic Literature,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst) teaches Spanish Literature and
Cultural Studies. Diaz-Marcos has written several articles and book
chapters on writers such as Rosario de Acuña, Concepción Arenal, Carmen de Burgos, Ramon de
la Cruz, Maria Rosa Galvez, Enrique Gomez Carrillo, Ceferino Tresserra,
and others. Some of her research interests include Spanish women writers, 18th and 19th
century theater and popular culture, feminism and gender studies. She has published a book on representations of
fashion in modern Spanish literature entitled La edad de seda (Cadiz:
Universidad de Cadiz, 2006). She is the editor of the essay La casa de
muñecas by Rosario de Acuña (Sevilla: Arcibel, 2006) and the one-act play Un loco hace ciento by Maria Rosa Galvez (Biblioteca Virtual de Andalucia: 2012). Her upcoming book Salirse del tiesto: escritoras españolas, feminismo y emancipación (Oviedo: Krk, 2012) examines the rising of a feminist consciousness in Spain focusing on women writers who portrayed
unconventional images of femininity that challenged the prevalent
ideology about the angel in the house.
Professor of Spanish. Author of La realidad y el valor estético: configuraciones del poder en el ensayo hispanoamericano (Universidad Simón Bolívar, 2010); Los géneros literarios en Hispanoamérica: teoría e historia (Universidad de Navarra, 1999); Horas de crítica: ensayos y estudios (Santo Oficio, 2002); Poéticas del ensayo venezolano del siglo XX (2nd ed., Universidad del Zulia, 2007), and several other volumes. He also edited, among other books, Estética hispanoamericana del siglo XIX (Biblioteca Ayacucho, 2003), Estética del modernismo hispanoamericano (Biblioteca Ayacucho, 2003), La vasta brevedad: antología del cuento venezolano del siglo XX (co-edited, 2 vols., Alfaguara, 2010). He has published many articles on modern Latin American poetry, essay, and fiction.
Guillermo Irizarry is
Associate Professor of Spanish and Puerto Rican/Latina/o Studies at UConn,
Storrs. He has held faculty appointments at Bucknell, Brown (Visiting),
Massachusetts at Amherst, and Yale. His book, José Luis González: el intelectual nómada (2006), was awarded
Puerto Rico’s highest honor for a humanities scholar: “Best Research and
Criticism Book” by the Academy of Literature of Puerto Rico. He has published
on Latina/o and Latin American cultural production in late modernity, “Post-national
Discursive Technologies in Exquisito Cadáver”
(Centro), “Cadavers Encountered"
(Latino Studies), and “Standing in
Cultural Representation" (in The
Politics of Performing Latin American Theatre), among other essays.
Gustavo Nanclares teaches Spanish Peninsular literature and culture. Some of his research interests include the Spanish historical avant-garde, the narrative of the 1920s and 30s and their relationship to international film, and the literature and culture of the Spanish-Moroccan War, the II Republic, and the Civil War. He is also interested in peripheral nationalisms in Spain, and has published several works on Basque literature and culture. He is the author of several articles on literature and film in the 1920s and on the literary and intellectual works of Jon Juaristi, Ramón de Basterra, Jorge de Oteiza, Benjamín Jarnés, Ernesto Giménez Caballero, Ernestina de Champourcin, José Bergamín, Gilberto Owen, Mario Verdaguer, Miguel Méndez, and others. His book entitled La Cámara y el Cálamo: Ansiedades Cinematográficas en la Narrativa Hispánica de Vanguardia is being published in June 2010 by Iberoamericana/Vervuert. His next book-length project examines the relationship between film and war from the Spanish-American War (1898) through the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and its impact in the emergence of Modernity in Spain as related to forms of mass-consumption at the social, artistic, cultural, and political levels.
Laurietz Seda
Associate Professor of Spanish, Latin American and Cultural Studies
Twentieth Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, postmodernism, globalization, film, drama, women and cultural studies. A recipient of two National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Grants (2000, 2003), professor Seda is the editor of the theatre anthology La nueva dramaturgia puertorriqueña and co-editor of Teatro de frontera11/12. She was the guest editor for a Special Issue on Caribbean Theatre for Latin American Theatre Review (Spring 2004). Professor Seda is member of the editorial board for Latin American Theatre Review, Revista Teatro XXI and Boletín del Archivo Nacional de Teatro y Cine del Ateneo Puertorriqueño. She has also published numerous essays on contemporary Puerto Rican, Cuban, Mexican, Argentine, and Chilean theatre in edited collections and in journals such as Hispanic Journal, Latin American Theatre Review, Gestos, Conjunto, and Revista Teatro XXI. In 2005 she directed and organized the VI Conference/Festival Latin American Theatre Today:Translation, Trangender and Transnationalism. And in the same year she created the Premio de Teatro Latinoamericano George Woodyard. Professor Seda is currently working on a book tentatively titled: Cruzando puentes: La dramaturgia latinoamericana ante la globalización, and is co-editing a book of essays entitled Trans/Acting:The Politics of Performing Latin American Theatre.
Eduardo Urios-Aparisi
Associate Professor of Spanish and Coordinator of Spanish Program
My research fields include multimodality, applications of cognitive linguistics to film, advertising and art, and humor in the media and in the Foreign language classroom. My main publications are Puro Teatro: Metafora y espacio en el cine de Pedro Almodovar (Editorial Libertarias, Madrid, 2010), a co-edited volume with Prof. Ch. Forceville Multimodal Metaphor (Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 2009), and Ejercicios de pragmatica, with G. Reyes and E. Baena, (Madrid: Arco Libros, 2000). I have also published articles in humor, Greek comedy and literature, and poetry in Spanish.
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