University of Wisconsin–Madison

Year: 2019

Former Undergraduate Enhances Perspectives on Law and Education through Global Experiences

Environmental Cultural Studies Through Time: The Luso-Hispanic World

Link to Book Author Name: Kata Beilin Kathleen Connolly Micah McKay Publisher: Hispanic Issues Online Publication Year: 2019 Environmental Cultural Studies is a transdisciplinary field that examines relationships between power structures and every day practices of adaptation and resistance, where power fluxes are conducted not only by humans but also non-human forms of life and …

Congratulations to the 2019 Joaquim Nabuco Essay Award Winners!

Congratulations to Logan Krishka and Carlos Andrés Rojas on their award-winning papers!  

2018-19 Best Paper Award

We would like to thank our colleagues for encouraging students to submit their work for the 2018-2019 graduate student “Best Paper Award.” There were three papers submitted for consideration, with a $500 prize up for grabs: The Future as Imperative in Ecuador -Katherine L. Ward Representaciones del amor no correspondido en la poesía cancioneril y …

Congratulations to our 2019 Marsha Gray Ehrlich Scholarship Fund Recipients

The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is delighted to announce this year’s Marsha Gray Ehrlich Scholarship Fund recipients. Marsha Gray Ehrlich was a former graduate student in our Department, and an inspirational teacher during her long professional career. She received a Master of Arts, with a major in Spanish, on August 17, 1968. She carried …

Key Issues in the Teaching of Spanish Pronunciation: From Description to Pedagogy, 1st Edition

Link to Book Author Name: Rajiv Rao Publisher: Routledge Publication Year: 2019 A resource that encourages Spanish teachers and curriculum designers to increase their incorporation of pronunciation into the classroom. Combining theory and practical guidance, it will help language practitioners integrate the teaching of Spanish pronunciation with confidence and effectiveness. The international group of scholars …

Female Corpses in Crime Fiction: A Transatlantic Perspective

Link to Book Author Name: Glen Close Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Publication Year: 2018 This book examines the central significance of sexualized female corpses in modern and contemporary Hispanic and Anglophone crime fiction. Beginning with the foundational detective fictions of the nineteenth century, it draws from diverse subgenres to describe a transatlantic tradition of necropornography characterized …

Biodrama/Proyecto Archivos: Seis documentales escénicos de Vivi Tellas

Link to Book Author Names: Paola Hernández Pamela Brownell Publisher: Papeles Teatrales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Publication Year: 2018 El presente libro dirige la mirada hacia el concepto de Biodrama, que surgió como el nombre de un interés por explorar (y valorizar) la vida de las personas desde el teatro, y se consolidó como un …

Poner el cuerpo: Rescatar y visibilidad las marcas sexuales y de género de los archivos dictatoriales del Cono Sur

Author Names: Ksenija Bilbija Bernardita Llanos Ana Forcinito Publisher: Editorial Cuarto Propio (Chile) Publication Year: 2017 Desde una perspectiva multidisciplinaria este libro reconoce la violencia de género en el marco del terrorismo de Estado en Argentina (1976-1983), Uruguay (1973-1985), Chile (1973-1990) y Paraguay (1954-1989). Las colaboradoras plantean una revisión del pasado y del activismo realizado …

Cuando lo nuevo conquistó América. Prensa, moda y literatura en el siglo XIX.

Author Name: Victor Goldgel Publisher: Fondo Editorial Casa de las Américas Publication Year: 2017 Winner of the Premio Iberoamericano (Latin American Studies Association) Winner of the Ezequiel Martínez Estrada Award (Casa de las Américas) This book analyzes the impact that periodicals (understood as new media) and fashion (defined as a pattern of cyclical renovation) had …