Congratulations to Mellon-Morgridge Professor Paola Hernández for being awarded the Kellett Mid-Career Award!!
With this award the University recognizes Mellon-Morgridge Professor Hernández’s academic success and provides her an opportunity for continued development of her outstanding research program.
Since publishing her first monograph, El Teatro de Argentina y Chile: Globalización, resistencia y desencanto (2009)—for which she received the prestigious “Theatre of the World: First Prize” from the University of Buenos Aires—Professor Hernández has made significant contributions to Latin American theatre and performance scholarship through numerous peer-reviewed journal articles. Over the years, Mellon-Morgridge Professor Hernández has also edited three influential volumes that reflect her expanding research interests in human rights, documentary theatre, citizenship, and the intersection of performance and political activism: Biodrama/Proyecto Archivos: Seis documentales escénicos (2018), Fifty Key Figures in LatinX and Latin American Theatre (2022), and Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First-Century Theatre: Global Perspectives (2013).
Professor Hernández’s latest book, Staging Lives in Latin American Theatre: Bodies, Objects, Archives (2021), has received national and international acclaim. She will soon take on the role of editor for Latin American Theatre Review, the field’s leading scholarly journal, while completing her third monograph, (In)Visible Bodies: Performing Care on the US-Mexico Border.
Her contributions to the department, university, and profession—through both teaching and service—are exceptional, making the Department of Spanish & Portuguese proud.
The Kellett Mid-Career Award is provided by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research with funding from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.