Miguel Enguídanos Award for Excellence in Research
Co-winners:
Cory Duclos – paper for Prof. Friedman “Signs of Rebellion: The Semiotics of Sancho’s Chivalry”
Jason Parker – for Prof. Karageorgou “Crónica de la calle: Luces de bohemia como periódico esperpéntico”
E. Inman Fox Romance Language Award for Excellence in Teaching
Winners:
Laura Brown
Antón García-Fernández
Honorable Mention:
Jason Parker
David Wiseman
Mary and Joe Harper Fellowship at RobertPennWarrenCenter:
Elena Deanda
Laura Brown attended the following conferences: 17th Annual Colombia-NYU Graduate Student Conference: “Zonas de contacto/Contact Zones.” paper: “Circus Heterotopias in César Aira’s Los dos payasos” (April 4-5, 2008) and 20th Annual Stony Brook Graduate English Conference: “Sifting Through Lies: Towards an Aesthetic Impunity.” paper: “Reverse Occupatio and the Refusal to Tell in the Autobiography of Luiz Gama” (February 15-16, 2008)
Elena Deanda recently public “On Joy, Death, and Writing: From Autobiography to Autothanatography in Clarice Lispector’s Works.”Http://workingpapers.wordpress.com/2006/10/12/deanda-on-joy/ UPenn; and “Paréntesis” and “Paraíso Express.” Letras y Voces. Ed. Gabriel Martín. Buenos Aires: Nuevo Ser, 2006.
Also Elena attended to the following conferences and presented: • “Sor Juana, doctora en Teología: Sobre sabiduría y conocimiento en los primeros villancicos.” Graduate Student Conference “Authority, the Law and the Word”. VanderbiltUniversity. • “La Inquisición y la lírica popular novohispana: El caso de los ‘sones de la tierra’ en el Sotavento veracruzano.” Fourteenth Annual Graduate Conference on Romance Studies “Murmurs in the Intellectual Expression: Artistic Coexistence with Censorship”. BostonCollege. • “On Joy, Death, and Writing: From Autobiography to Autothanatography in Clarice Lispector’s Works.” Annual Graduate Student Colloquium “Last Words”. University of Pennsylvania.
G. Cory Duclos recently present: “A Woman’s Place is in the Subtext': A Socio-Historical Approach to the Role of Women in the Short Stories of Jorge Edwards.” 62nd RMMLA Convention (Fall 2008).
Mayra Fortes presented "Ex-centricidades latinoamericanas: identidad, cultura y literatura en Mala onda y Onde andará Dulce Veiga? Um romance B" on October 12-13, 2006 at Tierra Tinta, the Second Annual Conference on Latin American, Spanish, and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, at The University of Oklahoma.
Anton García Fernández has recently presented his paper“A Double-Edged Biography: Julio Cortazar's <<El Perseguidor>> and Biography as a Means of Expression and Creation of Celebrity" at the Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures, held at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC on March 28, 2008. He also participated in the Tennessee Conference of Historians, where he presented the paper "A Picaresque History: Cervantes's Portrayal of History through the Picaresque in <<Rinconete y Cortadillo>>" on September 30, 2006." "Review of La distinción cervantina, by Pedro Ruiz Pérez" in Cervantes28.2 (Fall 2008): 217-220.
James Krausereceived the FLAS award for Summer 2006. Pablo Martinezrecently presented “Words Without Borders:” A Bilingual Conversation with Tato Laviera. Afro-Hispanic Review 25.2 (2006): 151-58 and Review of Harold Bloom, ed, Carlos Fuentes’ The Death of Artemio Cruz. Afro-Hispanic Review 25.2 (2006): 213-18. He participated as an Assistant editor, Afro-Hispanic Review Vols. 25.2 and 26.1 (Fall 2006–Spring 2007). Also Pablo attended to the following conferences:
• La audaz reencarnación de Galeotto: metástasis arcaica en De sobremesa de José Asunción Silva”. Presented at the Annual Graduate Romanic Association Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania, March 17, 2007 • “Himnosis del factótum ecuestre. Epítome de autoidentificación modernista en el ‘Coloquio de los Centauros’de Rubén Darío”. Presented at the Authority, The Law. and The Word. Graduate Student Conference. VanderbiltUniversity. October 6-7, 2006. • “Popular Latin American Outlaws Popping Up Across the Border – The case of Peter Neissa’s ‘The Druglord’”. Presented at the Amusement total ?Sans egret?! New and Erratic Inquiries into the Nature of Pop Conference. CornellUniversity, March 3-4, 2006.
Jason Parker presented "Inventing the Foreign Enemy: Rhetoric and Narration in Agustín de Foxá's Madrid de Corte a checa" at the Annual Conference of the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery in Colorado Springs, March 10, 2007.
David Solodkow presented “Cien años de soledad y el tropo metonímico en la representación histórica de América Latina.” Revista de Estudios Colombianos 30 (2006):24-38. Also he atended:
• “Singularización y monstruosidad del ‘Fenix’ barroco: la Respuesta de Sor Juana en la episteme paranoica novohispana.” VanderbiltUniversity Congress: The Authority, the Law, and the Word (October 6-7, 2006). • “Historias múltiples de una misma travesía: versiones oficiales, interpretaciones contradictorias y suplementos involuntarios del segundo viaje colombino (1493)”.Latin American Studies Association (March 15-18) San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Jonathan Wade participated in the following conference:
• “Un enredo interamericano: Sor Juana, Padre Vieira y las otras personas que hablan en ella.” 60th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. April 19-21, 2007. • “Convention and Dissension: Spanish in Portuguese Theater from Gil Vicente to Simão Machado.” 2007 AHCT (Association for Hispanic Classical Theater) Symposium of Golden Age Theater. El Paso, Texas. March 1-3, 2007. • “Portuguese and Brazilian Canon (Re)formation: Abandoning the Either/Or in Favor of the Luso-Brazilian.” VIII International Congress of BRASA (Brazilian Studies Association). Nashville, Tennessee. October 13-16, 2006. • “Portuguese Nationalism in a Spanish Costume: The Case of Manuel de Faria e Sousa.” 2006 Tennessee Conference of Historians (TCH). “The Future of the Past: Practicing History in a New Millennium.” Nashville, Tennessee. September 29-30, 2006.
David Wisemanpresented “Echoes of Conquest: Archival Characterization and Return in Mario Vargas Llosa’s La fiesta del Chivo.” La Marca Hispánica 17 (2006): 24?35. Also he attended “Urania's Word: Return and Orality in Mario Vargas Llosa’s La fiesta del Chivo.” Authority, the Law and the Word. Graduate Student Conference. VanderbiltUniversity. 6 October 2006.
