Area of interst is transatlantic eighteenth century studies, with an emphasis on representations of women in encyclopedic texts and moving into the "long" 18th century. 

Earned her Undergraduate degree in Modern Lanuaguages and Literature from California Polytechnic State
University in San Luis Obispo, Ca. and a Master's degree in Spanish from CSU Long Beach in Long Beach, Ca.

Nationality: U.S.

Area Of Interest is Early Modern Spanish literature, theater and social history; gender studies.

Earned a B.A. in Spanish Literature from Reed College.

Nationality: Mexican-American

Woodruff Fellow 2005-2010.

Areas of interest: 20th Century Central American Narratives; Transnational and Transatlantic Studies on the Central American Diaspora; The Cultural Production of Central American Exiles in Mexico, France, Spain, USA and Canada; Post-War/Trauma Studies; Memory, Oblivion and Construction of National History/ Identity in Contemporary Central America Fiction; Latin American Cultural Studies.

 Research interests focus on nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American literature from a transatlantic perspective. Currently writing her dissertation on nineteenth century literary criticism and its relation to the configuration of national projects in Latin America.  Main interests are cultural history, and psychoanalytical and critical theories.

Area of study: Contemporary literature of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean; other interests: Afro-Latino diasporic identity.

Study Interests include: Modern Peninsular Literature- 19th century, Romanticism, the Gothic, Urban studies, Post-War Lit
Irrational Maps: Urban Gothic Spaces in Modern Spanish Literature

Areas of interest: Peninsular Poetry after 1936, 20th and 21st Century Latin American Poetry and Nuyorican Poetry seen through the lens of Trauma Theory. Hip Hop and Reggaetón Music and Culture in the Caribbean and Beyond. Graffiti and Contemporary Catalan Art (Primarily Dau al Set)

Areas of specialization and study interest: Colonial Literature. Focus on witchcraft and sorcery during the seventeenth century in Cartagena de Indias.

Study Interests: Sexuality and Memory in the Southern Cone (20th century).

Study Interests: Latin American Fantastic Literature and Cinema, especially Ghosts and Monsters in short stories and films - Construction of Memory in the Museums: objects, display, collections and the relation with national memories. 

Areas of interest- Collective memory, Nation-building processes, Monuments and memorial in Colombian literature

Undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá-Colombia, 2004.

Nationality: Colombian

Study Interest: Jewish identity and memory in contemporary Latin-American literature.

First Year Student. Area of study is contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literature, with an emphasis on late 20th and early 21st Mexican authors. Other research interests include problems of identity, memory, violence, silence and the performance of masculinities, iIn addition to displaced or globalized narratives and the presence of Latin American authors on, and their perspective of, the World Wide Web.

Study interests include Latin American film studies, Cuban-American identity.

Omar Granados was born in Havana, Cuba, and moved to the United States in 2004. He studied English literature and linguistics at the University of Havana and also received his B.A in Latin American studies at the University of Vermont.

His research interests are contemporary Latin American and Latino literature and culture, with an emphasis on Cuba and Puerto Rico. Other areas of research include Latin American Film, advertising and the relationship between visual culture and text. His latest work focuses on notions of hospitality, immigration, nation construction, the recovery of narratives, and the discourses of myth and violence.

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Anne Garland Mahler is a second-year graduate student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.  She completed her BA at the University of Pittsburgh in 2006, where she graduated in the top 2% of the College of Arts and Sciences, was the recipient of the Center for Latin American Studies Tuition Remission Fellowship, and was given the Award for Excellence in Research from the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures.  She has received numerous fellowships to conduct research in Chile, Uruguay, and the Dominican Republic.  From 2006-2007, she worked as the Assistant to the Editor at the Latin American Literary Review Press (LALRP), which has published over 120 titles by well-known Latin American authors, such as Nobel Prize winners Pablo Neruda and Gabriel García Márquez. Anne Garland's research interests include Caribbean and Southern-American literature, post-colonial studies, and Cold War politics.
Recent conference presentations include:
"The Writer as Superhero: Fighting the Colonial Curse in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." University of Pittsburgh, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures. October 2009
"The Goddess on the Screen: Projections of Masochistic Desire in Carlos Fuentes' Diana o la cazadora solitaria." University of California at Berkeley, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. April 2009.

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Vanessa is a first year student at Emory.  She intends to study problems of race and identity in contemporary Latin American  
literature, with a focus on Cuba or Argentina.   She holds an MA in 
Hispanic Studies and a certificate in Social Theory from the University of Kentucky.

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Areas of interests: Contemporary Caribbean studies, with an emphasis on Cuba. Main areas of research include Latin American Film, and the connection/dialogue and intertextuality between Cuba and Italy. Her latest work focuses on notions of embodiment, intertextuality and performance studies. 
Born in Foggia, in the South of Italy, she completed her Bachelor’s studies in Foreign Languages and Literature in 2004 at the Università di Napoli “l’Orientale” in Italy (major in Spanish and English, minor in Portuguese) focusing on the Arabic Emigration in Argentina. In fact, she wrote her first dissertation about this topic. She also obtained a Master’s degree in Literary Translation and Text Editing at the Università di Siena in Italy (2006). Since 2001 Anastasia has worked as an interpreter from Spanish, Portuguese and English into Italian, and from 2005 to 2007 has worked in a Publishing House and published in Italy three Latin American novels as translator; also she collaborated in several projects of translation and has been involved as art director in a documentary film about South Italian culture for the Italian Department at Emory University (2006). She also published her first poem written in Spanish in a Spanish anthology (2006).