Hispanic Studies Student News, Publications, & Awards

Awards

Karla Patricia Aguilar Velásquez was one of the winners of the Eva Sichel Memorial Essay Prize for Best Critical Essay in Spanish, Washington University in St. Louis (Spring 2020). She was also selected as co-convener (with Maddie House-Tuck and Yuhua Shi) for a grant from the Center of the Humanities for the 2020-2021 Reading Group “Genre-Bending.”

Shirley Anghel was selected as co-convener (along with Ann Marie Jakubowski) for the Religion & Literature Reading Group at the Center for the Humanities in Washington University in St. Louis. 

Yamile Ferreira won the Eva Sichel Memorial Essay Prize Best for Critical Essay in Spanish, Washington University in St Louis (Spring 2020) for her paper “Esfera pública y subjetividades políticas en El hombre nuevo (2015) de Aldo Garay”.

Olivia Lott was awarded a Graduate Student Fellowship through the Center for the Humanities for Spring 2021.

Emma Merrigan recently received two graduate fellowships, one from the Divided City Initiative (Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) and one from the Center for the Humanities at Wash U. Alongside other fellows, Emma will present her investigation for the Divided City on October 19th at 12pm via Zoom and will present her work for the Center for the Humanities later this fall.

José Salinas-Valdivia has been awarded a Community Planning Grant from the Civic Engagement Fund at the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement to develop the "Bridging the Gap Initiative" with support of the Washington University Student Interpreters Association. This project will promote and support bilingual students at Wash U interested in volunteering as community and medical interpreters with partnering organizations in the city.

Other News & Activities

Karla Patricia Aguilar Velásquez presented the paper “Escrituras del fracaso: el trauma versus el mundo en la Generación Cero” in the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Congress Améfrica Ladina in June 2020.

Shirley Anghel's paper "Bad Catholics: Imagining the Secular during the Second Spanish Republic" was accepted to the 2020 Association for Spanish & Portuguese Historical Studies meeting in Toronto, Canada (rescheduled for April 2021). During 2020-2021, Shirley is the Editorial Assistant for the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 

Yamile Ferreira presented the paper “El mito disperso en la región andina: Tempestad en los Andes y Wara Wara” in the panel “Consolidations and subversions: the construction of national discourses and imaginaries” moderated by Carlos Vicéns and Javier Uriarte, at the State of the Nation: Literary and Visual Nationalisms, Then and Now. Graduate Students Conference, Keynote Speaker Graciela Montaldo, in Stony Brook University, New York (October 2019). 

Olivia Lott organized the panel, “Revolution, Renovation, Resistance: Poetics of Rupture in 1960s and 1970s Latin American Neo-Avant-Gardes,” for the 2019 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference, which was held virtually. She presented the paper, “In (Dis)Use of Reason: Abjection Poetics, Macrocephalic Modernity, and El Techo de la Ballena.”

Rodrigo Viqueira presented “Hacia una arqueología de la cultura afrouruguaya. Presentación del libro Negrismo, vanguardia y folklore” at the Latin American Studies Colloquium in WashU (November 2019). He also presented the paper “Tiranos Temblad: producción cultural y nacionalismo uruguayo en tiempos de YouTube” in the panel “Negotiating the nation: inclusion, exclusion, legitimacy and contradiction” at the State of the Nation: Literary and Visual Nationalisms, Then and Now. Graduate Students Conference, Stony Brook University, New York (October 2019).

    Publications

    Publications

    Karla Aguilar. “Resistir en medio del espectáculo: las complejidades de la disidencia sexual en tres producciones cubanas contemporáneas.” Forthcoming chapter in book Isla diseminada. Nuevas ideas sobre Cuba, 2021.

    Yamile Ferreira. Book Review of The Desertmakers: Travel, War, and the State in Latin America (Routledge 2019) by Javier Uriarte in the Colombian peer-review journal Literatura: teoría, historia, crítica (forthcoming).

    Olivia Lott. “In (Dis)Use of Reason: Abjection Poetics and Macrocephalic Modernity in El Techo de la Ballena.” Revista Hispánica Moderna, forthcoming.

    ---. “Slipknots: Jorge Eduardo Eielson’s Room in Rome, translated from Spanish by David Shook.” Reading In Translation, February 2020.

    Soledad Mocchi-Radichi. “Uruguay como la ‘Suiza de América,’ Aparte (2003): ¿el fin de un mito?”. Dossier “La esfera pública plebeya en América Latina: prácticas, significaciones, usos”, ENCUENTROS LATINOAMERICANOS, Vol. 3 Núm. 2, diciembre de 2019. Sección Estudios de la Cultura, Revista Interdisciplinaria del Centro de Estudios Interdisciplinarios Latinoamericanos, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de la República. 

    Rodrigo Viqueira. Book Review of La modernidad refractada: pensamiento, creación y resistencia en la historia intelectual de Argentina, Brasil y Uruguay, 1900-1935 (Cuarto Propio 2019) by Gonzalo Aguiar Malosetti in Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana (forthcoming December 2020).

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