Faculty Academic Accomplishments
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Tracy Devine Guzmán, invited to co-edit with James Hatch an MLA Teaching Companion on Teaching Indigeneities
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Ager Gondra and language coordinators María Gracia Pardo, Tiffany Schinbach and Cecilia Vazquez-The Basic Spanish Language Program (BSLP) team redesigned SPA 101, 102, 105 and 201 courses and turned them into flipped classrooms. The BSLP team also chose a new textbook titled Conectados that includes an online language lab in which students’ complete assignments and have access to tutorials, additional activities, practice tests, etc.
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Elena Grau Llevería lead the changes in the major/minor in Spanish, first year back as Undergrad Chair, and she continues to make progress in her book.
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Cae Joseph-Masséna completed her first year at MLL and taught her first grad course. She also successfully nominated Dr. Daphne Brooks for the Stanford Lecture series sponsored by the Center for the Humanities.
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Lillian Manzor, Allison Schifani, Susanna Torres Allent and Lindsay Thomas-Oversaw the approval of the Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities.
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Gema Pérez-Sánchez co-organized a Working Group on “Affective Approaches to the Study of Contemporary Spanish LGBTQ Culture” for the Seattle MLA Convention, with two colleagues from the University of Melbourne (Australia) and Florida State University, respectively.
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Catalina Quesada Gómez- her doctoral student Cristina Mondragón defended her dissertation at the Universidad de Berna and obtained the highest distinction.
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We also want to congratulate Chistina Civantos, Lillian Manzor, Chrissy Arce, Ralph Heyndels and George Yúdice, who have students who completed dissertations this year.
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Keynote speeches
Chrissy Arce, Keynote Speaker, “Sounding Dissent: Migration and Revival of Mexican Folk Music as Communal Recognition and Social Action” (Re)Envisioning Borders & Communities: Alternative Narratives Amplified. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Ratón, October 25th 2019.
George Yúdice was a keynote speaker in the series entitled “En qué piensan los expertos” organized by El museo Reimaginado, Centro Cultural y de Convenciones de Oaxaca, 20 de noviembre 2019.
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Tenures, Promotions and Books
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Congratulations to our two colleagues, Rebecca Doran and Aleksandra Perisic, who were recently tenured.
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Mojca Del Fabbro and Etsuko Collins were promoted to senior lecturer.
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Logan Connors, The Emergence of a Theatrical Sciene of Man in France, 1660-1740. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2020.
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Andrew Lynch, Routledge Handbook of Spanish in the Global City. Routledge, 2019.
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Aleksandra Perisic, Precarious Crossings: Immigration, Neoliberalism, and the Atlantic. Ohio Tate University Press, 2019.
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Allison Schifani, (Tentative Title) Imagine the City Burning: Urban Intervention and the Vision of Catastrophe in the 21st-century Americas. Routledge. Book Contract.
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Steven Butterman, Queering and Querying the Paradise of Paradox: LGBTQ Language, New Media and Visual Cultures in Modern-Day Brazil. Roman and Littlefield International. Book Contract.
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Ralph Heyndels, Autour d’Abdellah Taïa /Around Abdellah Taïa. Poétique et politique du désir engagé / Poetics and Politics of Engaged Desire, Passage(s), 2020, « Regards croisés ».
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Ralph Heyndels, Modernites, chagrin d'enfant. Essais sur Rimbaud. Editions Alain Baudry, Paris). Book in production.
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Ómar Vargas-Cantidades hechizadas y silogísticas del sobresalto: la secreta ciencia de Jose Lezama Lima. Purdue Romance Languages. Book in production.
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Awards, Fellowships and Grants
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Susanna Allés Torrent won a University of Miami Fellowship for the Arts and Humanities Award to conduct research at the Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid, and was invited as visiting scholar (“chercheur resident”) at the French École Française de Rome (EFR). For next year, Susanna also received an award for her proposal “Digital Narratives of Covid-19,” https://covid.dh.miami.edu/
Interview with à l’École de toute l'italie - blog about the scientific life of the École française de Rome
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Nadiyah Aamer received a UGrow Fellowship for the 2020-2021 academic year.
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Logan Connors received a fellowship from the Collegium of Lyon/Institute for Advanced Studies for Fall 2019-Spring 2020.
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Viviana Diaz Balsera was appointed Cooper Fellow in CAS for 2020-2023.
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Catalina Quesada won a 2020-2021 Engaged Faculty Fellows Program to design a service learning course entitled “Immigration and Exile (Multifocal Perspectives): Latinxs in South Florida”.
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Allison Schifani was awarded a University of Miami Fellowship in the Arts & Humanities Award for FY2021
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Center for the Humanities Fellows-
2019-2020: Lorella Di Gregorio and Lilianne Lugo Herrera.
2020-2021: Christina Civantos, Dainerys Machado and Yolanda Martínez San Miguel,
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Steven Butterman received a Andrew W. Mellon CREATE Grant for a proposal entitled “Documenting Diversity and democracy in Brazil”
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Etsuko Collins received a grant from the Japan Foundation of Los Angeles, to Purchase Japanese books, videos and DVDs for instructional supplies.
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Lillian Manzor earned an Andrew W. Mellon CREATE Grant, “Intervisuality: Painters on Greater Cuba’s Stages.” Grant awarded to curate an exhibit titled 11 Intervisual Cubans / 11 Cubanos Intervisuales. Co-curated with Dainerys Machado Vento and students from ArtLab 2020.
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Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel received a Kislak Family Foundation Grant to co-sponsor the Early Americas Working Group conference entitled “Undercurrents:Caribbean (Im)Mobilities, from the Pre-Columbian Era to 1900” P.I. (conference co-organized with Ashli White and David Sartorious) at the University of Miami.
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Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Martin Tsang, Amanda Moreno and Beatrice Skokan won a CREATE Mellon Award to design a graduate course entitled “Im/material Pedagogies: Building and interdisciplinary and Holistic Curriculum on Archival Studies”
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