Website: http://www.jvcasillas.com

Areas of Teaching:

Online courses for Elementary Spanish 101 and Intermediate Spanish 131.

AREAS OF INTEREST
Daniel da Silva has a Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian Cultures from Columbia University, and a Certificate in Feminist Scholarship from the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender. His research centers voice, music, and queer performance in the study of gender, sexuality, race, and popular music in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Cultures, with forthcoming book Trans Tessituras: Queer Repertoires and Black Diaspora in Lusophone Popular Music. 

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Music, Performance, Gender, Sexuality, Race, Nationalism, Luso-Afro-Brazilian Cultures

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

Books
Trans Tessituras: Queer Repertoires and Black Diaspora in Lusophone Popular Music (forthcoming)

Articles
2019    “Black Mothers and Black Boats: Queer, Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian Intersections in Ney Matogrosso’s ‘Mãe Preta (Barco
            Negro).’” Journal of Lusophone Studies4.1(2019): pp. 208-229.

2018    “Unbearable Fadistas: António Variações and Fado as Queer Praxis.” Journal of Lusophone Studies3.1(2018): pp. 124-147.

Online

2022   "Anitta and Latinx culture [in Portuguese]" NJ.com, September 16, 2022.
https://www.nj.com/opinion/2022/09/hispanic-heritage-month-anitta-and-latinx-culture-in-portuguese-opinion.html

2017    “Transgender Voices: Of Vanishing Woods, Bodies and Breath,” Out & About Blog,Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and
            Sexuality, May 8.

SELECT CONFERENCES AND TALKS

2021    “Madame X, Fadista:Madonna, Black Diaspora and Fado’s Affective Repertoir,” Diaspora Upside Down, Ohio State University 

2021   “From Streets 2 Screens: Travesti and Trans Latina Activism in dialogue with Indianarae Sequeira,” Queer AquiWorking Group. 

2019    “Fado’s Unbearable Voices: Female, Bicha and Black,” MLA International Symposium, Universidade Católica, Lisbon, Portugal.

2019    “Black Mothers and Black Boats: Queer, Indigenous, and Afro-Brazilian Intersections in Ney Matogrosso’s ‘Mãe Preta (Barco
            Negro),’” MLA Chicago

2018    “Rethinking Gender,” Festival Albertine 2018 Re-Imagining Democracy, Cultural Services of the French Embassy, New York

2017   “Death and Futurity: Queer Interventions in Clarice Lispector,” The Clarice Factor: Aesthetics, Gender, and Diaspora in Brazil,
           Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures with Instituto  Moreira Salles, Columbia University

2016   “Dissident Folk: Protest and Performance against Austerity in Portugal,” Portuguese Honor Society, University of Massachusetts,
           Dartmouth

FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2018    Graduate Fellowship, Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality

2017    Elevitch Quasi Endowment Fellowship for Dissertation Chapter: “Angolan Trans Formations,” Department of Latin American and
            Iberian Cultures, Columbia University

2012    Graduate School of Arts and Science Fellowship 2012-2019, Columbia University

2011    Phi Beta Kappa

MEMBERSHIPS
American Portuguese Studies Association
Brazilian Studies Association
Latin American Studies Association
Modern Language Association
National Women’s Studies Association
African Studies Association
Portuguese Honor Society

Kendra V. Dickinson received a BA in Spanish from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2011), an MA in Applied Linguistics from Boston University (2016), an MA in Hispanic Linguistics from the Ohio State University (2018), and a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from the Ohio State University (2022).

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Her principal areas of interest include sociolinguistics and morphosyntactic variation. Her research applies diverse methodologies to the study of how relationships between linguistic systems and social contexts of language forms can elucidate the motivations for language variation and change. She has conducted research in a variety of areas, including past participle variation in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese,  language contact on the internet, language brokering and academic outcomes among U.S. Latinx heritage Spanish speakers, subject pronoun expression in both adult and child Spanish, and direct objects in Brazilian Portuguese, all of which consider both the grammatical and social dimensions of language use. She employs a range of methodologies to these areas of research, including acceptability judgement and social evaluation tasks, corpus analysis, sociolinguistic interviews, and corpus analysis, as well as both quantitative and qualitative modes of investigation.

AREAS OF INTEREST
Professor Kim specializes in contemporary Spanish literature and  culture. Her monograph, The Family Album: Histories, Subjectivities and Immigration in Contemporary Spanish Culture (2005), is an original study of the family album as a critical medium through which to  reconsider the attitudes of Spanish society toward its dictatorial past and the Spanish transition to democracy.

Her forthcoming Asia and the Asians in the Contemporary Spanish Imaginary investigates the ways  in which contemporary narratives, travel writings and films make efforts to avoid exoticizing Asia and Asians and yet establish new  types of exoticism in which difference and otherness are undermined by  the Self's own cultural effacement. In order to interpret the various types of contemporary exoticism, she scrutinizes travel writings about Asia written shortly after Spain's loss of the Philippines and during Franco when Spain had no substantial contact or interest in Asia.

Kim has also published articles that analyze ethical positions in the visual and narrative representations of immigrants.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Environmental Humanities in/of Latin America and Spain.

The EH focuses on the far-reaching implications of local or planetary environmental crises and conflicts for ontology, epistemology, ethics, hermeneutics, and aesthetics. For instance, the understanding of ourselves as members of multispecies communities, or as actors in networks of human and nonhumans that emerge through the entanglements of agential beings. In turn, this conclusion offers a new perspective for the study of the representation of nature and places in the archives, repertoires, and traditions of the Humanities. And for theorizing the interface between texts, audio/visual media, performances and interventions, on the one hand, and the environment and the non-human, on the other.

One of Jorge's research projects focuses on the impact of popular and indigenous environmentalisms in current ecological thinking, including ecological approaches to Latin American and Spanish literary and cultural studies. Their ontologies and axiologies on the interrelationships between humans and nonhumans. Their affinities with theories of sustainability and community resilience to environmental change. Documentary films.

Another line of research is devoted to the literature, film, and arts of Amazonia. Given its prominent role in the planet’s ecology and ecological imagination, the Amazon’s literary and artistic traditions are particularly rich on creative expressions that reconsider the human experience and its identity in light of the question of its interconnectedness with nature under colonization and modernization. Amazonia in national literatures, travel literature, and world literature.

Jorge has also published or taught on ecology and the Spanish American Regional Novel, Mexican literature, Chicana literature, Pablo Neruda, José Emilio Pacheco, among others.

Research by former and current graduate students include: ecology and British informal imperialism in the Spanish American Regional Novel; the chronicle and the Latin American city; ecology in colonial Caribbean texts; urban ecology, environmental justice and sustainability in contemporary Latin American and Latino literatures; a history of ecology and environmentalism in Spanish American literature; Amazonia in Peruvian and Brazilian literatures; Southern Cone Poetry and the “environmental turn” since the 1970s; indigenismo and indigenous films in Peru and Bolivia; among others.

Website: Prof. Martin-Márquez

AREAS OF INTEREST
Professor Martin-Márquez's research and teaching center on modern Spanish Peninsular cultural studies and Spanish-language film.  She teaches courses on world cinema.  Her film-related books include Feminist Discourse and Spanish Cinema: Sight Unseen (Oxford UP, 1999), and the collaborative project, Cinema and Everyday Life in 1940s and 1950s Spain: An Oral History (Berghahn Books, forthcoming 2011). 

Other scholarly work focuses on questions of coloniality and identity.  Disorientations: Spanish Colonialism in Africa and the Performance of Identity (Yale UP, 2008) examines the anxious reformulation of centralist and peripheral national identities resulting from Spaniards' post-Enlightenment rediscovery of their "African inheritance," precisely at a time in which "scientific racism" rose to dominance, and the Spanish nation began investing in new colonial regimes in Africa. 

Professor Martin-Márquez's current research focuses on alternative and "third cinema" movements of the 1960s; she has also begun a project on transatlantic and transpacific encounters in Spain's penal colonies in Africa. 

AREAS OF INTEREST
Professor Otero-Torres specializes in Spanish Golden Age literature; cultural and gender studies theory.

Otero-Torres has published numerous articles on the construction of gendered subjectivities and national identities in the Spanish comedia. Her book Vientre, manos y espíritu: hacia la construcción del sujeto femenino en el Siglo de Oro (Xalapa, Universidad Veracruzana, 2000) maps out reading strategies to deal with the notion of female subjectivities in early modern Spanish culture.

She is currently working on a book manuscript dealing with issues of authority, authorship and power in Golden Age women writers, primarily on the work of sixteenth-century Spanish philosopher Oliva Sabuco de Nantes.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Professor Ramirez's research focuses on computer-aided translation, terminology, global digital marketing, human-machine interaction and new types of digital genres for translation.

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

• Ramírez Polo, Laura. "Use and evaluation of controlled languages in industrial environments and feasibility study for the implementation of machine translation." Valencia, Universitat de Valencia, 2012.

BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS

• Suau, Francisca. "How to blend language and ICT in the didactics of scientific translation." Technology Implementation in Second Language Teaching and Translation Studies. . Singapore: Springer, 2016. 229-251. <http://www.uv.es/suau/Howtoblend.pdf>.
  
  
• Candel Mora, Miguel Ángel, and Laura Ramírez Polo. "How to blend language and ICT in the didactics of scientific translation translation systems." New Trends in Translation Technologies. . Ed. Pilar Sánchez-Gijón and Bartolomé Mesa-Lao. Peter Lang, 2015. 71-92.
  
  
• "El trabajo colaborativo en terminología y traducción: presente y futuro." Terminología, traducción y TIC: interacción social y trabajo colaborativo para la construcción y difusión del conocimiento. . Granada: Comares, 2014. 57-70.

JOURNAL ARTICLES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS

• Ramírez Polo, Laura. "Managing the translation workflow with a Computer Assisted Translation Tool: SDL Trados 2011." Language Value5 (2013): 161-174.  
  
  
• Polo, Laura Ramírez. "Els lenguatges controlats i la documentació tècnica: millorar la traducibilitat." Revista Tradumàtica: tecnologies de la traducció10 (2013): 192-204.
    
• Vargas Sierra, Chelo, and Ramírez Polo, Laura. "The Translator's Workstations revisited: A new paradigm of translators, technology and translation." 2011-Paris(2011).
    
• Ramírez Polo, Laura, and Ferrer Mora, Hang. "Aplicación de las TIC en Traducción e Interpretación en la Universidad de Valencia: Experencias y reflexiones." (2010).
  
  
• Suau Jiménez, Francisca, and Ramírez Polo,  Laura . "Las condiciones profesionales del traductor especializado: propuesta basada en las TIC." (2010).

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Nuria Sagarra’s research straddles the domains of cognitive science, linguistics, and second language acquisition, seeking to identify what factors explain adults’ difficulty learning morphosyntax in a foreign language, with the aim of informing linguistic and cognitive models, as well as instructional practices. She investigates these topics using self-paced reading, eye tracking, and more recently, event-related potentials.

For more information on Professor Sagarra, please visit NuriaSagarraCV .

Foreign Language Education

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Marcy Schwartz specializes in 20th century Latin American literature and culture, with particular emphasis on urban studies, exile, photography, and public culture. Her most recent research concerns contemporary reading programs in Latin American cities that rely on public space and urban infrastructure, the topic of her last book. She is currently researching Julio Cortázar’s poetry.

Motivated by her commitment to the Public Humanities, Schwartz serves on the faculty advisory committee for The Collaborative (Rutgers’ center for public engagement) and on the Public Humanities steering committee. She facilitates short story reading and discussion groups in community settings through the non-profit People and Stories/Gente y Cuentos, and regularly teaches undergraduate service-learning courses. 

BOOKS PUBLISHED

• Public Pages: Reading along the Latin American Streetscape. University of Texas Press, 2018.
• Voces en off: Traducción y literatura latinoamericana. Universidad de los Andes, 2018. Co-edited wtih Daniel Balderston.
• Invenciones urbanas: Ficción y ciudad latinoamericanas. Corregidor, 2010.
• Writing Paris: Urban Topographies of Desire in Contemporary Latin American Fiction. SUNY Press, 1999.
• Voice-Overs: Translation and Latin American Literature. SUNY Press, 2002. Co-edited with Daniel Balderston.
• Photography and Writing in Latin America: Double Exposures. University of New Mexico Press, 2006. Co-edited with Mary Beth Tierney-Tello.

SELECTED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

• “Cortázar’s Transitional Poetics: Experiments in Verse behind Experiments in Prose,” in Latin American Literatures in Transition, vol. IV, edited by Amanda Holmes and Parvathi Kumaraswami, Cambridge UP, forthcoming.
• “Cacerolazos y bibliotecas:  Lectura, solidaridad y espacio público después de la crisis argentina de 2001-2002,” Revista de Humanidades35 (2017), 15-43.
• “Reading on Wheels:  Stories of Convivencia in the Latin American City,” Latin American Research Review 51.3 (2016): 181-201.
• “Beyond the Book: New Forms of Women’s Writing,” Cambridge History of Latin American Women Writers, eds. Monica Szurmuk and Ileana Rodríguez, Cambridge UP, 2016, 527-  542.
• “Instructions for How to Teach the Boom in Julio Cortázar’s Rayuela,” Teaching the Latin American Boom,eds. Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola and Lucille Kerr, New York: MLA, 2015, 83-95.
• "Spaces for Reading:  A Cartography of Used Books in Urban Latin America,” Journal of UrbanCultural Studies1.3 (2014): 417-42.
• "A Transnarratological Saga:  Genette on Borges and Publishing Dystopia,” Variaciones Borges 36 (2013): 65-76.
• “The Right to Imagine: Reading in Community with People and Stories/Gente y Cuentos,”   PMLA 126.3 (2011): 746-52.          

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS

• Latin American Literary Review
• Textos Híbridos
• Telar
• Journal of Urban Cultural Studies

RECENT GRANTS, AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS

• National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, 2015-2016
• American Council of Learned Societies fellowship, 2014-2015
• Diversity Innovation Grant from the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement, Spring 2020
• Faculty Partner of the Year Award, The Collaborative, 2018
• Departmental Executive Officers Program, BTAA, 2018-2019
• Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers, Faculty Fellow 2011-2012
• Center for Latin American Studies research grants, Rutgers, 2010, 2011

Website: Prof. Stephens

 EDUCATION & RESEARCH INTERESTS
A Professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey since 1981, Stephens has served as Rutgers’ Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) to the NCAA since 2002. He holds a B.A. in Spanish Education and an M.A. in Spanish Language and Literature from the University of South Carolina and a Ph.D. in Romance Linguistics from the University of Michigan. His research and teaching focus on race and ethnicity in Latin America and questions of language in social contexts. He is author of Dictionary of Latin American Racial and Ethnic Terminology (University Press of Florida, 1989; 2^nd edition, 1999) and A Game of Mirrors: The Changing Face of Ethno-racial Constructs and Language in the Americas (University Press of America, 2003) and of a number of journal articles.

BOOKS
Currently, Stephens is compiling and editing the 3^rd edition of his Dictionary with J. Maddox. This edition consists of hundreds of revisions, additions, and emendations and extends the corpus by including lexical items for categories that some may consider borderline ethnic lexemes, e.g., gays, lesbians, prostitutes, pimps, etc., as they relate to other racial and ethnic concepts. In addition, with M. Makris, he is working on a manuscript tentatively titled Convenient Untruths: Language, Race, Ethnicity, and Racism in a Non-Post-Racial Latin America. The latter project treats various topics relating to real language use and cultural cues that trigger racial, if not racist, reactions.

COMMITTEES
Stephens, who assists his Department as Assistant Graduate Director, has served on many departmental, college, university, and national committees, including the Executive Council of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, the Executive Committee of the American Portuguese Studies Association, the Executive Committee of the Brazilian Studies Association, the Executive Board of the 1A FAR, t he Executive Board of the Faculty Athletics Representative Association, the Academic Oversight Committee for Intercollegiate Athletics at Rutgers, and the Big East Student-Athlete Advisory Committee as FAR liaison.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Caribbean literature * Latin(o) American theater and performance studies * migration and citizenship * colonialism and race.

Ph.D. 2000, University of Kansas, Hispanic Literature
M.A. 1994, University of New Mexico, Hispanic Literature
B.A. 1992, Tulane University, Latin American Studies and Spanish

Camilla Stevens holds a joint appointment with the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies and is the former director of the Center for Latin American Studies. She specializes in Latin(o) American drama, theater and performance studies, and Caribbean literature. Her research highlights the role of theater in the cultural politics of constructing, defining, and remembering collective identities. Her book Family and Identity in Contemporary Cuban and Puerto Rican Drama offers a comparative analysis of how domestic drama allegorizes divergent views of Cuban and Puerto Rican national experience during the second half of the 20th-century. In Aquí and Allá: Transnational Dominican Theater and Performance, professor Stevens explores how contemporary Dominican theater and performance artists portray a sense of collective belonging shaped by the transnational connections between the homeland and the diaspora. She has also co-edited a two-volume collection of Latin American women playwrights and currently serves on the editorial board of the Latin American Theatre Review. 

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

• 2019. Aquí and Allá: Transnational Dominican Theater and Performance (University Press of Pittsburgh).
• 2016. Escrito por mujeres.(1951-2010). Vol II. Co-edited anthology of Latin American Women Playwrights. Latin American Theater Today Books (with May Summer Farnsworth and Brenda Werth).
• 2013. Escrito por mujeres. (1911-1942). Vol I. Co-edited critical anthology of Latin American Women Playwrights. Latin American Theater Today Books (with May Summer Farnsworth and Olga Martha Peña Doria).
• 2004. Family and Identity in Contemporary Cuban and Puerto Rican Drama (University Press of Florida).

SELECT ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

• 2016. “Hispanic Caribbean Theatre on the Move: Crossing Borders, Redefining Boundaries.” Latin American Theatre Review 50.1: 11-27.
• 2014. “Caribbean Drama: A Stage for Cross-Cultural Poetics,” in Re-imagining the Caribbean: Teaching Creole, French, and Spanish Caribbean Literature. Eds. Valérie Orlando and Sandra Cypess. Lexington Books.
• 2013. “‘Get up, Stand up, Stand up for your Rights’”: Transnational Belonging and Rights of Citizenship in Dominican Theater,” in Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First Century Theater: Global Perspectives. Eds. Florian Becker, Paola Hernandez, and Brenda Werth. Palgrave.
• 2009. “Theater Transformations: Reading Race in Abelardo Estorino's Parece blanca,” in Trans/acting: Latin American and Latino Performing Arts. Eds. Jacqueline Bixler and Laurietz Seda. Bucknell University Press.
• 2007. “Ponernos el espejo por delante: Staging Race in Alejandro Tapia y Rivera’s La cuarterona.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. 31(2): 231-52.
• 2006. “The Haunted Puerto Rican Stage: Lucy Boscana in Vejigantes and La carreta.” Latin American Theatre Review 38 (1): 5-22. (reprinted in: Revista del Archivo Nacional de Teatro y Cine del Ateneo Puertorriqueño, 2006).

COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT

595:100 Introduction to Caribbean Studies

595:270 Introduction to Caribbean Literature

595:341 Theater of the Hispanic Caribbean: Migration and Memory

595:342 Post-Colonial Caribbean Theater and Performance (as graduate seminar, 940:659)

940:215 Introducción a la Literatura Hispánica

940:331 Literatura y Cultura del Caribe Hispano (siglos 15-19)

940:332 Literatura y Cultura del Caribe Hispano (siglos 20-21)

940:450 Teatro Hispanoamericano (as graduate seminar, 940:555)