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Associate Professor and Associate Chair
Ph.D. Romance Studies, University of Barcelona
M.A. Digital Humanities, École nationale des chartes (Paris, France)
European Diploma in Mediaeval Studies, FIDEM (Rome, Italy)
B.A. Italian Philology, University of Barcelona
B.A. Classics, University of Barcelona (Spain)
Bio:
Susanna Allés-Torrent is Associate Professor of Medieval & Early Modern Iberian Studies and Digital Humanities. Her research addresses fifteen-century Iberia and its cultural connections with Italian humanism, life writing, translation studies, textual scholarship, digital editing, and the history and present of digital methods in Peninsular Studies and the Spanish-speaking world. These interests inform several of her publications, as well as her current book project and the digital Archive of Biographical Writings in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. She has also published widely on the intersection of digital scholarly editions and textual criticism. She teaches Spanish Cultural Topics, Medieval and Early Modern Literature, and several DH courses at undergraduate and graduate levels. She is originally from Spain and one of her favorite places on earth is the island of Minorca where she was born. https://susannalles.com/
Research Interests:
Medieval and Early Modern | Peninsular Studies | Iberian and Italian Humanism | Life Writing | Mediterranean Studies | Translation Studies | Digital Humanities | Scholarly Digital Editions | Data mining and Text Technologies
Recent Publications:
Allés Torrent, Susanna & Eugenia Fosalba (eds.). Editar el Siglo de Oro en la era digital. Bellaterra: Studia Aurea Monografica, 2024, https://monografies.uab.cat/monografies/catalog/book/sam009
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Associate Professor
Ph.D. Hispanic Language and Literatures, University of California at Berkeley
M.A. Political Science, California State University
M.A. Hispanic Language and Literature, Middlebury College
B.A. Political Science with Emphasis in International Relations & Spanish Literature, University of California at Santa Barbara
Bio:
Research Interests:
Brazilian/Global Lusophone Studies | Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies (including Latinx Studies) | Cultural Studies | Hemispheric Caribbean Studies | Immigration/ Globalization/ Transnationalism/ Diasporas | Latin American Studies | Literary/Critical Theory | Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies | Social Movements and Networks | Women, Gender, Sexuality, and Queer and Trans Studies | 18th-19th Century | 20th-21st Century
Recent Publication:
México’s Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-Mexican Women. New York: SUNY Press, Series “Genders in the Global South.” Recipient of Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award, by the Modern Language Association, December 2018.
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Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A. University of Colorado-Boulder
Bio:
Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures and Director of the Portuguese Language Program, Steven F. Butterman teaches Portuguese language courses and Brazilian literature and cultural studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami, where he also directed the Gender & Sexuality Studies (GSS) Program and launched the minor in LGBTQ Studies. While at UM, Butterman has also held visiting professor / scholar posts at Middlebury College, Tulane University, the University of São Paulo (USP), and Unilasalle in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Appointed by the Institute of International Education as 2021-22 U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Brazil, Butterman has delivered over 40 invited talks and keynote addresses at universities throughout Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States and dozens of academic conference presentations throughout the world. Butterman earned a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute in 2002 and Summer Seminar in 2010 and a winner of the Brazilian International Press Award, Provost's Excellence in Teaching Award, and the 2004 University of Miami Scholarly and Creative Activity Award, Butterman has published books and articles on a wide range of topics, focusing on transnational LGBTQ+ studies, gender and feminist studies in the cultural contexts of Portuguese-speaking countries. Butterman is the author of Queering and Querying the Paradise of Paradox: LGBT Language, New Media, and Visual Cultures in Modern-Day Brazil, published by Rowman & Littlefield International in 2021, (In)Visibilidade Vigilante: representações midiáticas da maior parada gay do planeta, published by nVersos, in São Paulo in 2012, and Perversions on Parade: Brazilian Literature of Transgression and Postmodern Anti-Aesthetics in Glauco Mattoso, published in 2005 by San Diego State University Press. In addition to his academic work, Butterman also serves regularly as an expert witness on asylum petition cases involving homophobia, lesbophobia, transphobia, and domestic violence in Brazil and other countries.
Research Interests:
Brazilian/Global Lusophone Studies | Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies (including Latinx Studies) | Immigration/ Globalization/ Transnationalism/ Diasporas | Latin American Studies
Recent Publication:
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Professor
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley
M.A. Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley
B.A. Spanish and Arabic, Duke University
Bio:
Christina Civantos teaches Hispanic and Arabic literary and cultural studies of the modern period, with occasional forays into medieval and early modern Iberia (al-Andalus) and contemporary Francophone Studies (Franco-Arab Studies). Her research focuses on Arab immigrants and their descendants in Hispano-America and Spain, South-South relations between Latin America and the Arab world, empire and postcolonial studies, nationalisms, language ideologies, memory studies, and tolerance. Her current research project focuses on cultural and political ties between Cuba and North Africa. She is a past recipient of the UM Provost’s Research Award and an NEH Fellowship. She serves as the Director of the Arabic Studies program at UM. More information can be found here.
Research Interests:
Arabic and Mediterranean Studies | Latin American Studies | Caribbean Studies | Iberian Studies | French and Francophone Studies | Cultural Studies | Immigration and Diaspora | Race and Ethnicity | South-South relations | Empire | Nationalisms | Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies | Transatlantic Studies | Translation Studies | 19th Century | 20th-21st Century
Recent Publication:
The Afterlife of al-Andalus: Muslim Iberia in Contemporary Arab and Hispanic Narratives. State University of New York Press, 2017.
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Professor and Chair
Faculty Director, UParis
Ph.D. Louisiana State University (French & Francophone Studies, Comp. Lit.)
-Pensionnaire scientifique international, École normale supérieure de Lyon
-Visiting doctoral student, Sorbonne Université
Bio:
Logan J. Connors is Professor and Chair of Modern Languages and Literatures. He researches French literature and theatrical performance from 1650 to 1815 as well as topics in theatre and performance studies, the history of the emotions, colonial Caribbean studies, and comparative revolution studies. He teaches French and Francophone Literatures from the medieval period to the present as well as graduate seminars on performance studies and professionalization.
He is the author of three monographs: Theater, War, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2024); The Emergence of a Theatrical Science of Man in France (1660-1740) (Liverpool University Press/Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2020); and Dramatic Battles in Eighteenth-Century France (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment/Voltaire Foundation, 2012); and of a critical edition of Pierre de Belloy’s Le Siège de Calais(Modern Humanities Research Association, 2014). He has published over thirty peer-reviewed book chapters and journal articles in venues across North America and Europe. He is currently on the Advisory Committee of PMLA, the journal of the Modern Language Association.
He is the book series editor of Scènes francophones (Bucknell University Press), the only North American book series dedicated to French-language theatre. At UM, he co-convenes, with Michiko Katayama Skinner (Theatre Arts) the Interdisciplinary Research Group in Theatre & Performance Studies. He has held visiting professorships and/or fellowships at Sorbonne Université (Paris-IV), the École normale supérieure de Lyon, and the Institut d’études avancées/Collegium de Lyon. He was recently named Cooper Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences and elected as an Associate Researcher of the Centre d’étude de la langue et des littératures françaises (CELLF) at Sorbonne Université.
He is currently working on a collaborative volume on theatre, performance, and revolution across the globe as well as a new monograph project, tentatively titled, Smiling on the Scaffold: Comic Theater of the French Terror.
Research Interests:
Cultural Studies | French and Francophone Studies | Literary/Critical Theory | Medieval and Early Modern | Theater/Performance Studies | 18th-19th Century
Recent Publications:
The emergence of a theatrical science of man in France, 1660-1740. Oxford and Liverpool: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment-Voltaire Foundation and Liverpool University Press, 2020. Monograph
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Associate Professor
Ph.D. Latin American Studies/Romance Studies, Duke University
M.A. Government, College of William and Mary
B.A. Foreign Affairs and French, University of Virginia
Bio:
Tracy Devine Guzmán teaches in Latin American Studies and Global Indigenous Studies with an emphasis on Brazil, the Andes, and South-South relations. Her research and teaching interests include cultural and intellectual history, social and political theory, and cultural production, especially as these fields intersect with questions of race/ethnicity, environmentalism, and animal studies. Her current book project, “Transcontinental Indigeneities: Linking the Americas and the Global South,” traces the flow of Native and non-Native engagements with diverse notions of indigeneity across the Atlantic, from the colonial period to the present. She is also editing a volume called Teaching Indigenous Studies in/of Latin America for the Modern Languages Association. Outside UM, you can find her advocating against speciesism and entertaining her rescue mutts.
Devine Guzmán serves on the advisory board for the US Network for Democracy in Brazil and is a Research Fellow with the Washington Brazil Office in 2022-23. You can find some of her work here.
Research Interests:
Cultural history and the history of ideas | Social and political theory | Global and transnational indigeneity | South-South relations | Environmental studies | Amazonia | Animal studies | Citizenships and nationalisms | Language and democracy | Cultural production under authoritarianism
Recent Publication:
“Democratic Imaginaries in a Discriminatory Society: The Colonial Legacies of Racialized Experience in Indigenous and Afro-Brazil.” Constructing the Racial "Other" in Latin America. Ed. Mabel Moraña and Miguel Valerio. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP. (In press).
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Professor
Ph.D. Hispanic Studies, Yale University
B.A. University of Texas at Austin
Bio:
Viviana Díaz Balsera is Professor of Spanish. She works on early modern epistemologies with emphasis on colonial Mexico. In her research she has examined how Nahua intellectuals appropriated intersections between European-Iberian and Mesoamerican cosmogonic and socio-political imaginaries to preserve indigenous knowledges in the coercive environment of Spanish colonization. Her current research is on the Franciscan missions in La Florida and the role of extant bilingual literature in the globalization of the Timucua peoples.
Research Interests:
Cultural Studies | Early Modern Transatlantic Epistemologies | Colonial and Borderland Studies | Indigenous Studies | Postcolonial Studies.
Recent Publication:
Guardians of Idolatry: Gods, Demons and Priests Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón’s Treatise of Heathen Superstitions. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018.
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Associate Professor
Ph.D. East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
A.M. Regional Studies – East Asia, Harvard University
A.B. East Asian Studies, Harvard University
Bio:
Rebecca Doran teaches Chinese language, literature, and culture. Her research focuses on early and medieval Chinese literature, with special interests in anecdotal literature, gender, and historiography. Her first monograph explores representations of female power in the late seventh and early eighth centuries of the Tang dynasty. She has also published articles on various topics in Chinese literature, cultural studies, and gender studies. Her current research examines depictions of dress and attitudes to sumptuary practice in the early and medieval periods.
Research Interests:
Chinese literature | Gender and sexuality | Women’s literature | Historiography
Recent Publication:
“Fashion and Historical Imagination: The Case of Sun Shou’s ‘Bewitching and Strange Appearances.’” Early Medieval China, Vol. 26 (2020): 1–24.
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Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Spanish Linguistics, Purdue University
M.A. Spanish Linguistics, Purdue University
M.A.T. Secondary Education, Universidad de Deusto - Deustuko Unibertsitatea, The Basque Country, Spain
B.A. English Philology, Universidad de Deusto - Deustuko Unibertsitatea, The Basque Country, Spain
Bio:
Ager Gondra is a linguist whose scholarly interests reflect three general areas of investigation related to bilingualism: 1) linguistic variability and change in bilingual settings; 2) second language acquisition and teaching; and 3) attitudes and ideologies of languages in contact. He teaches courses in linguistics, and Second Language Teaching. He collects his research data in the Basque Country, his homeland. Ager Gondra is also the Director of the Spanish Basic Language Program.
Research Interests:
Bilingualism | Language Contact | Language Variation | Language Ideology | Language Teaching and Learning | Syntax
Recent Publication:
Gondra, A.1, Rodríguez-Ordóñez, I.2, & Franco-Landa, E.3 2024b. Variation in the production of Basque ergativity: Change or stable variation?. Language Variation and Change, 36, pp. 95-120. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394524000048
Gondra, A. 2024a. Ideological Effects of Language Revitalisation and Standardisation on Traditional Home Language Speakers: the Case of Basque. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, pp. 1-15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2024.2326506
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Associate Professor
Ph.D. Spanish and Spanish American Literature 20th century, University of Texas at Austin
M.A. Spanish Literatures and Linguistics, Rutgers University
B.A. Licenciatura in Spanish Linguistics, Universitat de Barcelona
Bio:
Elena Grau-Lleveria specializes in literary and feminist studies (19th - 21st centuries) from a transatlantic perspective. Her book, Las olvidadas. Mujer y modernismo (2008), analyzes the narrative production of a group of Spanish American and Peninsular women writers of the entre siglos (19th and 20th centuries), in order to shed light on how women writers problematized the ideological and aesthetics tenets of Modernismo in rigorous dialogues amongst themselves and male writers. In her latest articles, she analyzes the resistance discourses that some 19th century women writers rehearsed in their novels against the traditional images of bourgeoise womanhood that their respective hegemonic societies espoused across the Spanish-speaking world.
Research Interests:
Feminist Literary Studies | Feminist Theory | 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries Latin American and Peninsular literatures | The Ideologies of Aesthetics | History of Ideas | Artist Novels
Recent Publication:
Las olvidadas: mujer y modernismo. Las narradoras de entre siglos. Barcelona: Propociones y Publicaciones Universitarias, 2008
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Assistant Professor
Ph.D. French, University of Maryland
M.A. Performance Studies, Université Paris 8-Saint Denis
M.A. English, Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle
Bio:
Cae Joseph-Masséna is an Assistant Professor of Comparative, Francophone & Cultural Studies in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures.
Research Interests:
Recent Publication:
“Re-Staging the Haitian Revolution Narrative: The Tragic Mulatta’s Dissonance & Eziliphonics in Marie Vieux Chauvet’s Dance on the Volcano” in Marie Vieux- Chauvet’s Theaters of Revolt. Eds: C. Flaugh & L. Taub, Brill Publishers.
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Professor
P.h. D.Hispanic & Lusophone Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics, University of Minnesota
M.A. Hispanic & Lusophone Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics, University of Minnesota
B.A. Spanish Language, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Bio:
Andrew Lynch is a sociolinguist whose scholarship focuses on Spanish language in society; language variability; heritage language studies; and the situation of Spanish in the United States. He is author of Spanish in Miami: Sociolinguistic Dimensions of Postmodernity (Routledge, 2022); editor of Spanish in the Global City (Routledge Language Handbook series, 2020); and co-author of El español en contacto con otras lenguas(Georgetown University Press, 2009). In addition to these books, he has published more than forty refereed journal articles and chapters in edited volumes, on topics ranging from sociolinguistic theory and methods in heritage language research, to Spanish language and globalization; political and ideological factors in the variation of Cuban Spanish; language attitudes toward Spanish and English in the US as well as Spanish and Catalan in Spain; the lexical and syntactic influence of English on Spanish bilingual discourse; historical perspectives on Latinidad in the US; the production and perception of literary texts by Latinx writers; and Spanish language use in the US-based mass media. He serves on the advisory boards of the National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA and the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning at UT-Austin. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the Heritage Language Journal (Brill Publishers) since 2013.
Research Interests:
Sociolinguistics, Language in society | Bilingualism, Language contact | Ideologies of language | Language and globalization | Heritage language studies | Spanish in the US
Recent Publication:
Spanish in Miami: Sociolinguistic Dimensions of Postmodernity (Routledge, 2022)
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Professor
Faculty Director of UParis
Ph.D. Spanish, University of Southern California
M.A. Spanish, University of Southern California
B.A. Spanish and French, University of Miami
Bio:
Lillian Manzor specializes in 20th and 21st century Latin American, Hemispheric Caribbean and Latine Theater and Performance Studies. Before coming to UM, she taught at UC-Irvine Comparative Literature (1988-1995). She is co-editor of the book series Sualos, published jointly by Havana’s Editorial Alarcos and Miami’s CTDA Press. She is currently finishing a book manuscript titled Marginality Beyond Return: US-Cuban Performances in the 1980s and 1990s. Dr. Manzor has been an innovator in using technology in her teaching and research. She is the Founding Director of the Cuban Theater Digital Archive, a digital publication that serves as a space for communication between politically divided communities. She has also published a bilingual online exhibit Cuban Theater in Miami: 1960-1980, and the multimodal book, El Ciervo Encantado: An Altar in the Mangrove. Her ongoing research project, Sites that Speak, uses GIS and the Scalar platform to create digital cultural map of performing arts spaces in Spanish in Miami. Her research has been funded by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Cuban National Council for the Performing Arts. As a community engaged scholar, she serves as dramaturg and cultural advisor for theater companies in the United States and Cuba, and she has been actively involved in developing US-Cuba cultural dialogues through theater.
Research Interests:
Latin American and Latino/a cultures | Performance studies | Gender studies | Literature and the visual arts
Recent Publication:
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Professor
Marta S. Weeks Chair in Latin American Studies
Ph.D. Latin American Cultural Studies, University of California at Berkeley
M.A. Hispanic Studies, University of California at Berkely
B.A. Hispanic Studies, University of Puerto Rico
Bio:
Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel specializes in colonial, postcolonial Latin American and Caribbean literatures. She teaches courses on critical theory, comparative coloniality, gender and sexuality studies, andLatinx, Latin American and Caribbean studies. She has taught at Princeton University (1997-2000), Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (2000-2003; 2008-2017) and the University of Pennsylvania (2003-2008). She recently co-edited two volumes: (with Michelle Stephens) Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking: Towards New Comparative Methodologies and Disciplinary Formations (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020) (click here) and (with Santa Arias), The Routledge Companion to Colonial Latin American and Caribbean Studies (Routledge 2021) (click here). She is currently working on her fifth book, “Archipiélagos de ultramar: Comparative Insular and Colonial Studies,” which uses comparative archipelagic studies as a historical and theoretical framework to propose a research agenda for the study of cultural productions in the Caribbeanand other colonial archipelagoes between 1498 and 2010. She is co-editor of the book series on Critical Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University Press.
Research Interests:
Latin American Literature: Colonial, Caribbean, and Latino Literature | Literary Theory, Colonial and Postcolonial Theory, Migration Studies, Sexuality, Queer and Trans Studies.
Recent Publication:
“The Two Ephemeral Wings of the Angel of Love”: Archipelagic Fantasies in the Narrative of Lourdes Casal and Manuel Ramos Otero” “Two Wings of a Bird”: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Puerto Rican and Cuban-American History, Literature, and Culture. Eds. Carmen Haydée Rivera y Jorge Duany. University Press of Florida, 2023. 209-230.
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Thomas Matusiak
Ph.D. Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University
M.A Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University
B.A Spanish and Linguistics, Lawrence University
Bio:
Thomas Matusiak researches the relations between aesthetics and politics in Latin American cinema and audiovisual cultures. Working across media and cultural practices – including film, analog and digital video, contemporary art, and performance – his scholarship questions how the form and materiality of moving images are determined by and enact political structures. Matusiak is the author of The Visual Guillotine: The Cinematic Cut and the Form of Politics in Latin America (currently being revised under advance contract), which theorizes the symbolic and material violence of the moving image. Examining dialogues between film theory and political theory staged by Latin American filmmakers from the 1930s to the present, this manuscript interrogates the politics of the cut across cinematic forms, highlighting the ways in which these practices shape the politics of spectatorship.
Matusiak is currently researching a second book, tentatively titled After the Index: Expanded Documentary in Latin American Cinema. This project examines the transformation of documentary following the crisis of indexical imagery provoked by technological developments and the post-medium condition. Contextualized within the broader documentary turn in contemporary culture, the manuscript maps the expansion of Latin America’s documentary filmmaking tradition towards intermedial forms such as the essay film, film and video installation, documentary performance, web-based documentary and immersive documentary. This project draws on his previous research on documentary reenactment, for which he was awarded best peer-reviewed journal article by the Film Studies section of the Latin American Studies Association in 2023.
Prior to joining the University of Miami, Matusiak was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth College, Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, and Assistant Professor at SWPS University in Warsaw, Poland. His research has been supported by the Polish National Science Center and the US Fulbright Program. He is an active member of the Latin American Studies Association, in which he serves as secretary of the Film Studies section.
Research Interests:
Latin American cinema (narrative, nonfiction, and experimental) | 20th & 21st-century Latin American visual culture | Intermediality and transmediality | Documentary | Film & media theory | Critical theory
Recent Publication:
“La pose cinematográfica: Lucrecia Martel y el performance de la autoría masculina.” Drag Kings: Genealogía crítica de las masculinidades espectaculares en América Latina. Ed. Javier Guerrero & Nathalie Bouzaglo. Santiago de Chile: Metales Pesados, 2024.
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Assistant Professor
Ph.D. French Linguistics, Indiana University
Ph.D. Computational Linguistics, Indiana University
M.A French Linguistics, Indiana University
M.A Computational Linguistics, Indiana University
M.A Teaching French as a Foreign Language (FLE), Université Catholique de L’Ouest
B.A English, German, Spanish Languages, Literatures and Civilizations, Université Catholique de l’Ouest
Bio:
Ludovic Vetea Mompelat is an Assistant Professor of French Linguistics, Creolistics and Computational Linguistics. His research lies at the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning, Corpus Linguistics, Syntax, Semantics, and Sociolinguistics. His training in formal Linguistics with a focus on French and French-based Creoles, as well as in Computational Linguistics allows him to use a mixed-method cross-disciplinary research approach in his work. Some of his publications such as “How to Parse a Creole: When Martinican Creole Meets French” (2023) and “To Infinitive and Beyond, or Revisiting Finiteness in Creoles: A Contrastive Study of the Complementation Systems of Martinican Creole and Haitian Creole” (2023) are articulated around two complementary axes: first, the linguistic study and formal development of Creole languages, in comparison to one another and their lexifier language, and second, the creation of NLP solutions for under-represented languages as well as their promotion in the computational linguistics world.
Research Interests:
French Linguistics | Creolistics | Computational Linguistics | Natural Language Processing (NLP) | Machine Learning | Corpus Linguistics | Syntax | Semantics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics | Under-represented Languages
Recent Publication:
Cavar, D., Mompelat, L., & Abdo, M. (2024, March). The Typology of Ellipsis: A Corpus for Linguistic Analysis and Machine Learning Applications. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (pp. 46-54).
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Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in French and Francophone Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Doctoral Certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women Studies, University of Pittsburgh
MA. Certificate in University Teaching, West Virginia University
MA. In French, West Virginia University
B.A. English Studies, University of Ouagadougou
Bio:
Patoimbasba Nikiema is an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies / Global Black and Afropean Studies. His research focuses on Postcolonial Studies with a particular interest in Afropean, Sub-Saharan, and Caribbean literatures and cultures around questions of migration, diaspora, race, gender, and transnationalism. He is currently working on the participation of transnational African and Afrodiasporic writers in the Afrotopia, both on the continent and in the Caribbean. Patoimbasba Nikiema serves as the President of the Francophone Caucus of the African Literature Association (FRACALA).
Research Interests:
Postcolonial Studies | Afropean Culture and Literature | African Cinema | Cultural Studies | Intersectionality and Identity Construction | North African Literature
Recent Publication:
“Let the Door Open: A Dialogue with Heteronormative Traditions in Mohamed Camara’s Dakan.” International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Studies, Vol. 3, no. 1, 2020.
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Associate Professor
Ph.D. Romance Studies, Cornell University
M.A. English Literature, Bucknell University
B.A. Music Performance-Flute, Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid
Bio:
Gema Pérez Sánchez is an Associate Professor of Spanish who researches contemporary Spanish peninsular culture; gender and sexuality studies; transnational LGBTQ+ activism; anti-racist studies; and films and literature on migration to Spain. Currently, she is writing “Transnational Queer Affects and Activism: Literary and Visual Public Interventions in Spanish Culture (1970s-2000s)”—a book on the intersection of epistolary, literary, visual, and activist discourses and transnational LGBTQ mobilizations in contemporary Spain. She teaches courses on topics as diverse as LGBTQI culture and thought in Spanish-speaking countries and Spain’s early twentieth-century literary and artistic avant-garde. She loves to engage in collaborative international research projects with scholars and activists to bridge the gap between academia and real-life challenges. One of her all-time favorite research activities was to immerse herself in the archives of the Robert Roth Papers, housed at the Human Sexuality Collection at Cornell University.
Research Interests:
Arabic and Mediterranean Studies | Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies (including Latinx Studies) | Cultural Studies | Immigration/ Globalization/ Transnationalism/ Diasporas | Latin American Studies | Literary/Critical Theory | Media, Film and Visual Studies | Peninsular Studies | Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies | Social Movements and Networks | Women, Gender, Sexuality and Queer and Trans Studies | 20th-21st Studies
Recent Publication:
Javier Fernández Galeano and Gema Pérez Sánchez. “Pioneros de la fraternidad homosexual: La correspondencia entre Héctor Anabitarte y Armand de Fluvià (1974-1980).” Moléculas Malucas. 31 July 2020. click here
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Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Oriental Studies - Modern Arabic Literature, University of Oxford
M.A. Franco-Arab Studies, University of North Carolina
B.A. International Studies and French, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Bio:
Suja Sawafta is Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Miami. Her research focuses on exile/migration and eco-critism in Modern Arabic and Franco-Arab literature within the Arab World, Europe, the Mediterranean, and Global South. She is currently at work on her first book on the Jordanian-born Saudi-Iraqi writer Abdulrahman Munif, a petroleum-economist turned novelist most famously known for his epic novel Cities of Salt. Together with Khalid Lyamlahy (U of Chicago), she is currently co-editor of a forthcoming edited collection on the Turkish-born Palestinian-Iraqi intellectual and luminary Jabra Ibrahim Jabra.
Research Interests:
Arabic and Mediterranean Studies | French and Francophone Studies | Global and Transnational Indigeneity | Exile and Migration | Environmental Humanities| Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies | Orientalism | 19th Century | 20th-21st Century
Recent Publication:
Guest Editor, “The Arab Spring,” Special issue of International Poetry Review, Volume 47, 2024, distributed by UNC Press
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Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D. Comparative Literature University of California, Santa Barbara
M.A. Comparative Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara
B.A. English and Comparative Literary Studies, Occidental College
Bio:
Her work on art, technology, ecology and the city has appeared in The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Media Fields, and elsewhere. She is a founding member of the research and design collaborative SPEC, whose focus is the future of the city, with particular attention to digitality, economy, and urban speculation.
Research Interests:
Cultural Studies | Digital Humanities | Environmental Humanities | Immigration/ Globalization/ Transnationalism/ Diasporas | Literary/Critical Theory | Media, Film and Visual Studies | Science and Technology Studies | Social Movements and Networks and 20th-21st Century
Recent Publication:
Urban Ecology and Intervention in the 21st Century Americas: Verticality, Catastrophe, and the Mediated City (New York: Routledge, 2021).
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Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Spanish
Ph.D. Spanish American Literature, University of Texas at Austin
M.A Latin American Literature, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
B.A. Mathematics, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Bio:
Ómar Vargas is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at the University of Miami. He completed his Ph. D. in Spanish American Literature at the University of Texas at Austin and his undergraduate studies in mathematics at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. His research interests focus on the relationships between scientific discoveries and developments and the narrative fiction of Latin America and the Caribbean in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, particularly in the cases of authors such as José Lezama Lima, Jorge Luis Borges, Salvador Elizondo, and Gabriel García Márquez. He is the autor of Cantidades hechizadas y silogísticas del sobresalto: la secreta ciencia de José Lezama Lima (2021). He is currently exploring the transition of the scientist to a writer in the case of Argentine author Ernesto Sabato. He has published in the journals Neophilologus, Symposyum, Ciberletras, Latin American Research Review, Latin American Literary Review, The Borges Center, Revista Revolución y Cultura, Nueva Revista del Pacífico and La Habana elegante.
Research Interests:
Latin American Studies | Science and Technology Studies | 20th-21st Century
Recent Publication:
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