Graduate Program: Graduate Student Activities and Initiatives

2006-2007 María Del Mar Rosa Rodríguez
2007-2008 Ana María Díaz Burgos
2009-2010 Matthew Edwards

Internationalization Travel Grant

2007 Aisha Cort
2007 Ana María Díaz Burgos

Brittany Anderson, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies' (ASECS) Travelling Jam Pot award
(a $300 travel grant)

Margaret Boyle, 2008 TATTO Fellow in Sustainability, Teaching and Curriculum
GSAS Professional Development Support for Summer Research ($4,500)
Dissertation Research Support from the U.S.-Spain Program for Cultural Cooperation ($2,700), 2008.

Aisha Cort, Emory University Latin American and Caribbean Studies Summer Travel Grant, 2007
Fund for International Graduate Research, 2007

Cristina Delano, Fund for International Graduate Research, 2007
U.S.-Spain Program for Cultural Cooperation, 2007.

Ana María Diaz Burgos, Kathryn Wasserman Davis Fellowship (a merit award for support of critical languages)
Fund for International Graduate Research, 2007
2008 Emory College Language Center Excellence in Language Studies Award.

Gloria Hernández, GSAS Professional Development Support for Sanskrit Training ($4,250).

Melanie Lopez Frank, Social Science Research Council/Mellon Mays Graduate Studies Enhancement grant 2005-2006 (one for 2005, one for 2006) $2500.

Margarita Pintado Burgos, Fund for International Graduate Research, 2008
Emory University Latin American and Caribbean Studies Summer Travel Grant, 2009

Sandra Navarro, Emory University Latin American and Caribbean Studies Summer Travel Grant, 2009
Competitive Summer Professional Development Research Funds, 2009 ($3,656)

Vanessa Nelsen, Emory University Latin American and Caribbean Studies Summer Travel Grant, 2009

Boyle, Margaret. Review of Stephanie L. Kirk, Convent Life in Colonial Mexico: A Tale of Two Communities (2007), Journal of International Women’s Studies.

---. "Inquisition and Epistolary Negotiation: Examining the Correspondence of Teresa de la Valle y la Cerda." Letras Femeninas, Mujeres alborotadas: Early Modern and Colonial Women's Cultural Production: A Festschrift for Electa Arenal (Summer, 2009).

Eljaiek, Gabriel. "Límites y superficies. Imágenes narrativas de Alejandra Pizarnik y Diamela Eltit". Mandorla. New writing from the Americas. N. 12, 2009. 334 - 351.

López Bao, Orosman. “The Abject in Montero’s Captain of the Sleepers: Monstrous Family Romance in Response to Puerto Rican Politics.” Celebrations and Connections in Hispanic Literature. Ed. Andrea E. Morris and Margaret Parker. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.

Anderson, Brittany. “Articles and Articulations: A Trans-Atlantic Approach to the Debate about "Women in Eighteenth Century Encyclopedic Texts”, presented at the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies annual conference in Portland, Oregon.

---. “The Fabric of Progress: the Encyclopedia metódica presents a moralized economy”. presented at the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies annual conference in Richmond, Virginia.

Boyle, Margaret. "Spectacular Reformation: The Theatrics of Recogimiento in Early Modern Madrid." Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, PA. December 2009.

---. "Writing Against Women: Magdalena de San Jerónimo and Madrid's First Jail for Women." National Womenís Studies Association. Atlanta, GA. November 2009.

---. "Inquisition and Epistolary Negotiation: Examining the Correspondence of Teresa de la Valle y la Cerda." Renaissance Society of America. Los Angeles, CA. March 2009.

---. “History as Custodial Institution: ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Women in Bartolome Arzáns de Orsua y Vela's History of Potosi.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA. November 2007.

---. “El poder de las telas arañas: El amor cortesano y ‘la limpieza’ en La Celestina.” El Arte de Amar, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Rio Piedras. February 2007.

---. “Discretion and Visibility in María de Zayas' La traición en la amistad.” Asociación de Escritoras de España y las Américas, Washington, D.C. October 2006.

---. “Subject to Stage: Woman, Court and Metatheater in María de Zayas' La traición en la amistad.” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX. March 2006.

---."La pícara y la política en el teatro de Ana Caro. Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura
Femenina Hispánica. Atlanta, GA. October 2008.

---."Honor, Reputation and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century: A Transatlantic Approach." American
Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Portland, OR. March 2008.

Buiza, Nanci. “El retorno del cínico exiliado en El asco de Horacio Castellanos Moya,” UC Berkeley Graduate Student Conference, April 2009.

---. “Horacio Castellanos Moya y la desmitificación de la revolución salvadoreña,” V International Book Fair in Guatemala, Conferencia Internacional sobre Literatura Centroamericana Contemporánea, July 2008.

Cort, Aisha, “Pan-Africanisms: The Work of the Diaspora within and without the Academy”. April 20-22, 2006; Yale University. Paper presented, “(Passing): Negotiating Blackness and Latinidad in the US”.

---.“Emerging Paradigms in the Spanish-Speaking World”. February 22-23; Georgia State University. Paper Presented, “Reading Afro-Latino Identities: The Narrative of Passing and the Possibilities of Negotiation”.

---. Caribbean Studies Association Annual Conference. May 26-June 1,2007. Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. Paper Presented, "La Negra Morena: Afro-Latino Color Codes".

Delano, Cristina. “Aburrimiento, deseo, y subjectividad romántica en Teresa de Rosa Chacel.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington KY, April 19-21, 2007.

---. “The Spectre of Carlism in Juan Martínez Villergas’s Los misterios de Madrid (1844).” Carolina Conference on Romance Languages, Chapel Hill, NC, March 26-28 2009.

---. “Noticias de una epidemia: la negociación de ciencia y religión en la Gazeta de México, 1784.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, Atlanta GA, November 9-11, 2007.

---. “Modern Anxieties: Travel Literature, Fernán Caballero and Questions of Modernity in 19th Century Spain”. Florida International University, Miami, Fl, February 23-25, 2006.

Díaz, Ángel. "La violencia que no cesa: trauma y memoria en la lírica de Octavio Paz". Tulane University Conference entitled "Violence and Desire: Performance and Movements". November 14-15, 2008.

---. "Annihilation: Hyperviolence and Repatriation in Mario Mendoza's Satanás and Fernando Vallejo's Our Lady of the Assassins". University of Minnesota conference entitled "Performing Violence: Re-creating the "Other" Across Space and Ages." March 7, 2009.

Díaz Burgos, Ana María. "Geopolítica, linaje y posición social en Cartagena de Indias, 1610-1626." AEEA (Asociacion de escritoras espanolas y de las americas)Washington D,C Georgetown University. Octubre 5-7 2006.

---. "Figuras, ficciones y hechiceras en Cartagena de Indias, 1616-1626". SAMLA Charlotte, North Carolina. November 9-11 2006.

---. "Tras el pliegue, el disfraz: Engaño del sentido en Los empeños de una casa". LASA, Montreal September 5- 8, 2007.

---. "La Trotaconventos, bisagra discursiva: Estrategias de persuasión y seducción". "El arte de amar", UPR Universidad de Puerto Rico. February 2007.

---. "Herterotropic bathrooms: The Clobal World Inside These Walls." Transnational Cinema in Globalizing Societies: Asia and Latin America, Puebla, Mexico, 2008.

---. "Reversing the Order: From Taboo to Totem in the Transcaribbean Context of Martinique and Cuba." American Comparative Literature Association Conference. Harvard university, 26-29 March 2009.

---. "Heterotopic Bathrooms... The Global World Inside these Walls." Transnational Cinema in Globalizing Societies: Asia and Latin America. Puebla, Mexico, 29-31 August 2008.

Edwards, Matthew. “Sexual Memories and Historical Re-Constructions in Manuel Puig’s The Kiss of the Spider Woman.” LASA 2007, Montreal, Canada.

---. “Engendered Politics: The Memory of Gender and Sexuality in Latin America.” Panel Organizer, Chair. LASA 2007, Montreal, Canada.

---. “La Revolución Machista: Masculinidades subvertidas en El Rey de La Habana de Pedro Juan Gutiérrez.” LASA 2006, San Juan Puerto Rico.

---. “Latin American ‘Mask’ulinities: Different Masks for Different Men.”
Panel Organizer, Chair. LASA 2006. San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Eljaiek, Gabriel. "En el gabinete hay un cuerno de unicornio relleno de Quina. De cámaras de curiosidades y expediciones botánicas". South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), Atlanta, GA. November 2007.

---."Uncanny Museum, Noisy Objects". (Re) Membering, (Re) Collecting, and
(Re) Creating: Memory an interdisciplinary Forum, Minessota - Twin Cities. March 28 -29, 2008.

---. "A la memoria de los fantasmas". XXXVII Congreso Internacional del Instituto de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI), Puebla, México June 24 - 28, 2008.

---. "Exceso y pánico: Temas y variaciones en tornoa Jodorowski y Copi en cinco cuadros." on a panel titled "Violence and Cultural Production." Conference title "Violence and Desire: Performance and Movements." Tulane University, New Orleans, 12-16 November 2008.

Esquivel Suarez, Fernando. "Epistolario del secuestro: violencia y comunicación en la corespondencia de Ingrid Betancourt." on a panel titled "Violence and Cultural Production." Conference title "Violence and Desire: Performance and Movements." Tulane University, New Orleans, 12-16 November 2008.

Granados, Omar. “Seeing is [not] believing: Myth and Television in New Argentine Cinema”
Transnational Cinema in Globalizing Societies: Asia and Latin America. Universidad Iberoamericana de Puebla, Mexico, 2008.

---.“Huéspedes, anfitriones y otras transfiguraciones: La crisis de la hospitalidad de la literatura cubana”. Ohio State University, 11th annual Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, 2008

---."Esa otra Tula: Subjetividad en la prosa epistolar de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda". Coloquio: Cuatro siglos de literatura cubana. Instituto Cubano de literatura y linguistica, La Habana, Cuba, 2008.

---."Olor a Sangre: Formas disidentes de la escritura de la violencia en America Latina". Panel organizer. Violence & Desire, Performance & Movements. Latin American Studies Association. Tulane University, 2008.

---."¿Dónde diablos jugarán?: Violencia, realismo sucio y niñez en Pedro Juan Gutiérrez. Violence & Desire, Performance & Movements. Latin American Studies Association. Tulane University, 2008 (This paper is part of the panel Omar organized- listed above).

Larrauri, José Arnaldo. VII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica – Cuzco, Perú
Panel: Mitos, lenguaje, identidad y subversiones en las letras caribeñas Paper: Ramos Otero, sonetista: “tirándole saliva al dios de la pureza” (March 2008)

32nd Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association – Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
Panel: ¿Cómo (d)escribe el Caribe?: Literary expression of Caribbean Identity
Paper: Maldito amor de Rosario Ferré: Danza a la hibridez cultural de Puerto Rico (May 2007)

López Bao, Orosman.“Representación del suicida en Polvo en el viento de Lorenzo Lunar Cardedo.¨ XLIV Congreso de la Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. May 31-June 3, 2008.

---. “Samizdat a la venta: Máscaras de Leonardo Padura.” XLIII Congreso de la Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. May 26-29, 2007.

---. “El monstruo de la Isla Nena: Una respuesta literaria a la política norteamericana en el Puerto Rico actual.” XXV Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, February 23-24, 2006.

Mahler, Anne Garland. "The Goddess on the Screen: Projections of Masochistic Desire in Carlos Fuentes' Diana o la cazadora solitaria". 4th Graduate Student Colloquium at the University of California, Berkeley, April 2009.

Navarro, Sandra. "Miradas cándidas: La perspectiva infantil en el cine pos dictatorial?"
The Child in World Cinema Conference, University of Texas at San Antonio. September, 2009

---. "Landscapes of Modernity: Journeying Through Japón" Geographical Imaginaries & Hispanic Film International Conference, New Orleans. November, 2009.

---. "Beware of the Cockroach: Irruptions of Memory in Carmen Martín Gaite's The Back Room" National Women's Studies Association, Atlanta. November, 2009.

---. "Lo posible y lo irrealizable en El portero." Modern Languages Conference University of Miami, Coral Gables. March 2009.

----. "(Re)construyendo el pasado: el espacio urbano en la literatura del 80." Latin American Studies Association International Conference, Rio de Janeiro. June 2009.

Pintado Burgos, Margarita. "F(r)icciones políticas: Populismo y Simulacro en Borges." LASA (Latino American Studies Association). Montreal, Canadá,September 5- 9, 2007.

---. "The Aesthetics of Loss in the New Argerntinean Cinema: La Cienaga." Transnational Cinem in Globalizing Societies: Asia and Latin America, Puebla, Mexico, 2008.

Valecce, Anastasia. "(Ad)dressing Masculinity: Fabric and Body For/By Women in Ana Caro's El Conde Partinuplés". SAMLA (Louisville, Kentucky), November 2008.