Professor Vicki Garrett’s book chapter “Violence, Injury, and Disability in Recent Latin American Film” has been published in Libre acceso: Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies, edited by Susan Antebi and Beth E. Jörgensen (Albany, NY: SUNY Press. 2016).
Professors Edward Chauca and Vicki Garrett’s article “Haunting Capitalism: Biutiful, the Specter, and Fantasies of the Global Market” has been published in Espectros: Ghostly Hauntings in Contemporary Transhispanic Narratives.
Professor Silvia Rodríguez Sabater’s article “Beyond Mexico and Spain: Cultural Diversity in Spanish College Textbooks” has been accepted for publication in The Southern Journal of Linguistics.
Professor Edward Chauca’s article “Comunidades imaginadas imposibles: derechos humanos y neoliberalismo en el cine y la literatura latinoamericana” has been published in the journal Alter/nativas. Revista de estudios culturales latinoamericanos.
On Thursday, November 12, 2015, Professor Antonio Pérez-Núñez presented his talk “Beyond the Classroom: The Use of Online Platforms for Conversation Practice with Native Speakers” during the Hispanic Studies Teaching Discussion Series.
Professor Lola Colomina-Garrigós presented her paper “La literatura en versión cinematográfica para el ahondamiento en el estudio del contexto de la dictadura militar chilena y la posterior transición democrática” at the XVI Congreso Internacional de la sociedad española de didáctica de la lengua y la literatura in Alicante, Spain on December 11, 2015.
For his latest novel Tennessee River, Professor Raúl Carrillo Arciniega has been granted the Premio Literario Estatal de Novela (State Literary Award for Novel) by the the Coordinación de Fomento Editorial del Instituto Sudcaliforniano de Cultura in Mexico. Click here for additional details on all statewide and regional awardees of Baja California.
Professor Benjamin Fraser has just published a critical edition of nineteenth-century texts by Spanish authors Mariano José de Larra and Ramón de Mesonero Romanos titled La urbanización decimonónica de Madrid (Buenos Aires: Stockcero, 2011). His critical introduction frames works by both authors as contributions to the growing field of “urban cultural studies.”