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Komla  Aggor

Komla Aggor

Professor

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  • Aggor, Komla, ed. Francisco Nieva: Coronada y el toro. Critical Texts Series 64. Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2020. (Revised edition, 2021)
  • Agawu-Kakraba, Yaw and Komla Aggor, eds. African, Lusophone, and Afro-Hispanic Cultural Dialogue. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018
  • “Francisco Nieva en la encrucijada histórica del teatro europeo: homenaje a una leyenda.” Estreno 43.1 (2017): 125-29
  • Agawu-Kakraba, Yaw and Komla Aggor, eds. Diasporic Identities within Afro-Hispanic and African Contexts. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015
  • “Miguel Hernández’s Aesthetics of the Double.” Studia Iberica et Americana 2 (2015): 273-303
Tatiana  Arguello

Tatiana Arguello

Associate Professor

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  • “Bullets and Tattoos: War Artifacts and Prosthetics in the US Central American Literature of Salomón de la Selva and Héctor Tobar.” Co-written with Andrew Ryder. Latinx Literature in Transition. Edited by Marissa López and John Alba Cutler. Cambridge University Press (Forthcoming)
  • “Creole Poetics of the Ocean: Carlos Rigby, Ecological Thought and Caribbean Diasporic Consciousness.” Central American Literature as World Literature. Literature as World Literature Series. Edited by Sophie Esch. Bloomsbury (2023).
  • “Javier Zamora’s Unaccompanied: Materiality, Citizenship and Salvadorian Identity.” Co-written with Andrew Ryder. Label Me Latina/o: Journal of Twentieth and Twenty- First Century Latino Literary Production. Special Issue Volume 12: Cultural Representations of Central American Migration to the US. (2022)
  • “War, Human Experience, and Nature in Teaching Central American Literature.” Teaching Central American Literature in a Global Context.Edited by Gloria E. Chacón and Mónica Albizúrez. Modern Language Association of America (MLA), Options for Teaching Series (2022).
  • “Franz Galich: pandillas, militarismo y nomadismo en Managua, Salsa City ¡Devórame otra vez!” TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World. Vol 9. Issue 7 (2021): Fall 2021.
María  Ciriza Lope

María Ciriza Lope

Associate Professor

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  • Ciriza Lope, Maria. Forthcoming (2024). “Initiatives to Promote the Interfenerational Transmission of Basque: the Case of Worshops for Parents.” Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
  • Ciriza Lope, Maria. (2023). “‘Teaching English as service’ in Spanish language programs: A Translanuaging approach.” L2 Journal, 15(1) https://dx.doi.org/10.5070/L215159227 Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2cp127zr
  • Ciriza, Maria del Puy. (2019). Towards a parental muda for new Basque Speakers: assessing emotional factors and language ideologies. Journal of Sociolinguistics. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12363
  • Ciriza, María del Puy. (2018). Bringing parents together: An innovative approach for parental involvement in an immersion school in the Basque Autonomous Community. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 40 (1), 50-63. DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2018.1467424
  • Arxer, Steven, Maria del Puy Ciriza and Marco Shappeck. (2017). Aging in a Second Language: A Case Study of Aging, Immigration, and an English Speaking Community. New York: Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-57609-1.
Sohyun  Lee

Sohyun Lee

Chair / Associate Professor

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  • 2016. “El capricho de la razón: Goya en Burdeos de Carlos Saura” Crítica Hispánica. Vol. XXXVIII. No. 1 2016. 95-111. Print.
  • 2015. “Rural Repopulation and the Fabrication of a Global Village: The Case of Aguaviva” for Towards a Multicultural Configuration of Spain. Local Cities, Global Spaces. Ana Corbalán & Ellen Mayock, Eds. Madison: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015. 111-122. Print.
  • 2015. “Apariciones eróticas y el juego paródico del misticismo en Entre todas las mujeres (1992) de Isabel Franc”. Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Humanísticos y Literatura. Vol. 22. 2015. 73-81. Print.
  • 2013. “La dinámica urbana de la frontera y los derechos a la ciudad: autoetnografías de Tijuana”. Letras Femeninas. Vol. XXXIX, No. 1 Summer (2013): 123-138. Print.
  • 2012. “Intercambio de miradas y la (re)articulación de la otredad en Extranjeras de Helena Taberna”. Letras Hispanas. Revista de literatura y cultura. Vol. 8.2, Fall (2012): 35-48. Web.
Ryan Schmitz

Ryan Schmitz

Associate Professor

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  • “Juan Lorenzo Palmireno and the Practical Application of Humanistic Studies.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. Forthcoming (2024).
  • “The Hand as Metaphor in Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 93.2 (2016): 99-112.
  • “Theory of Mind in Early Modern Spanish Manuals of Courtly Conduct.” Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature. Ed. Isabel Jaén and Julien Simon. Oxford University Press. 164-180.
  • “Tracing Transoceanic Intertextualities in More’s Utopia (1516), González de Mendoza’s Historia de China ((1585), and Fernández de Lizardi’s El Periquillo Sarniento (1816).” eHumanista 27 (2014): 300-314.
  • “Sancho’s Courtly Performance: Discreción and the Art of Conversation in the Ducal Palace Episodes of Don Quijote II” Modern Language Notes 128.2 (2013): 445-455.
Steven Sloan

Steven Sloan

Associate Professor

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  • “Racial Identity in the 1930s Urban Landscape in the Novels of Jorge Amado, José Lins do Rego and Lúcio Cardoso.” African, Lusophone, and Afro-Hispanic Cultural Dialogue, edited by Y. Agawu-Kakraba and K. Aggor, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018, pp. 59 – 77.
  • “Federico Gauffin’s En tierras de Magu Pela (1932): A Modernist Bildungsroman, an Intertextual Dialogue with Guiraldes and Arlt, and a Reaction to the Nationalist Project.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, vol. 95, no. 10, 2018, pp. 1123–1138.
  • “Work, Art, and Bourgeois Myths in Roberto Arlt’s Aguafuertes porteñas.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies: Hispanic Studies and Researches on Spain, Portugal, and Latin America 86 (2009): 809-27.
  • “Roberto Arlt’s Alter-travelogue against the Backdrop of Rio de Janeiro.” A Contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America 6.2 (2009): 122-43.
  • “Writing, Public Opinion, and National Identity in the Crônicas of Olavo Bilac,” Hispanófila 153 (2008): 79-95.
Esther Teixeira, Ph.D.

Esther Teixeira

Associate Professor

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  • Teixeira, Esther. “Prostitución, colonización crítica y revolución teórica: La reflexión de Gabriela Leite y demás trabajadoras sexuales organizadas y el canon.” A Contracorriente. (Forthcoming)
  • Ciriza, María del Puy and Teixeira, Esther. “On Interdisciplinary Presentism in Hispanic Studies: Notes on Service Learning with the Latino Community” Hispania, 104.1 (2021).
  • Teixeira, Esther. “A narrativa de prostitutas por um viés literário: contraste entre as obras de Bruna Surfistinha e Gabriela Leite". In Climent-Espino, Rafael and Michel Mingote, Eds. Panoramas da literatura brasileira no século XXI: prosas e outras escrituras. São Paulo: EDUC [Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo], 2021. pp. Forthcoming.
  • ---. “La prostitución de la mujer blanca en el contexto peruano decimonónico: análisis de Blanca Sol de Mercedes Cabello” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 97.10 (2020): 1075-1093.
  • ---. “Narrativa prostibularia y el imaginario de la blancura en el contexto brasileño finisecular: análisis de O Cortiço de Aluísio Azevedo.” Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 53.1 (2020).