Graduate Students’ Success
Recent Graduate Student Accomplishments
Fulbright:
- Jan Diaz Hernandez Recipient of the 2026/2027 AI Teaching Fellows cohort at UW–Madison, sponsored by the Center for Teaching, Learning & Mentoring. There will be the opportunity to collaborate with interdisciplinary faculty exploring generative AI in education, develop and refine AI-focused pedagogical strategies and course materials, share key findings with the campus teaching community, create an AI-integrated course assignment or pedagogical artiface and gain recognition at the UW–Madison Teaching & Learning Symposium on May 13, 2027.
- Tyler Sampson Recipient of the 2026–2027 Fulbright academic year. Through this prestigious opportunity, Tyler will be placed in a public school in Mexico where he will teach English while engaging with students and local communities. Tyler plans to focus his research on the Mexican diaspora in the United States, with particular attention to families and their relationships with schools and their broader communities.
- Jamie de Moya-Cotter Recipient of the 2023-2024 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) to continue research on his project titled Narrating the Pluriverse: Eco-Storytelling from the Andes and Amazon. Jamie will spend six and a half months doing fieldwork in Peru and Ecuador on the ways in which contemporary Andean and Amazonian narratives in music and film critique practices of extractive development and reimagine the entanglements between humans and the more than human world.
- Katherine Ward Recipient of 2023 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship to support her dissertation titled Intercultural Bilingual Educators’ Perceptions of Non-Standardized Spanish in Ecuador: A Case Study in Combatting Linguistic Discrimination in Schools. Katherine will spend six months in Otavalo, Ecuador, working collaboratively with Indigenous and non-Indigenous teachers to explore their stances and pedagogies surrounding minoritized language features associated with the Indigenous language Kichwa.
- Sabina Madrid Malloy Recipient of the 2022-2023 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award (DDRA) for her project titled Resonating Resistance: The Body in Contemporary Mexican Theatre and Performance. Through the support of the award, Sabina will spend six months in Mexico City doing fieldwork for her dissertation exploring how contemporary Mexican theatre and performance arts critique social, economic, and political vulnerabilities and the ways in which artists engage in somatic resistance to violence through embodied acts of dissidence.
- Brandon J Goodale US Fulbright Open Study/Research Award to Uruguay 2022. Project title: Diatopic, Diastratic, Diaphasic Variation in the Intonation of Uruguay in Spanish. He will use this award to support his Fulbright research on Variation in Intonation of Uruguay Spanish, and this award will allow him to visit previously unreachable departments and populations.
Lois Roth Foundation Award 2022:
- Brandon J Goodale will use this award to support his Fulbright research allowing him to visit previously unreachable departments and populations. https://loisrothfoundation.org/areas-of-interest/fulbright-and-international-exchange-programs/
Newberry Fellow:
- Elizabeth Neary Short Term fellow (2022-2023) Charles Montgomery Gray Fellow
“The Flawless Family Tree: Rooting Out Heresy and Cultivating Purity in Cartas Ejecturias de Hidalguia “ https://www.newberry.org/research/fellowships/awarded-fellowships
Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) at the Rare Book School (RBS):
- Gloria Morales Osorio (2022-2024) Junior Fellow
https://rarebookschool.org/announcing-2022-sofcb-fellows/
Lyman S.V. Judson and Ellen Mackechnie Judson Graduate Student Award in the Creative Arts:
- Ruth Llana Fernández (2023). Presented to a graduate student in the creative arts “who has made the greatest contribution to the field(s) of study covered.”
- Carlos Ortiz (2022). Awarded by the Division of the Arts at University of Wisconsin–Madison for theatrical projects on campus.
Bolsa FLAD/ Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal – Summer 2022
- Mariana Oliveira
https://www.flad.pt/bolsa-de-investigacao-flad-biblioteca-nacional-de-portugal-2021/
Teaching Awards
- Letícia Maria Guedes Barbosa (2024). University of Wisconsin- Madison Campus-wide Teaching Assistant Awards in the category Advanced Achievement in Teaching Award.
- Felipe Moraga (2023). University of Wisconsin–Madison Graduate School Campus-Wide Innovation in Teaching Award. Recognizes TAs who bring extraordinary creativity to their work and have developed or adapted teaching methods or techniques in new and innovative ways.
Other Awards
- Letícia Barbosa (2026). 4W Engagement Grant for Emerging Scholars for the project Claiming Belonging, a two-day feminist decolonial art workshop designed to support UW–Madison’s self-identified female Latinx and Black undergraduates during this period of sociopolitical instability. The workshop invites students to critically engage with contemporary and historical biased representations of race, migration, and gender, transforming them into visual and textual acts of resistance and structural critique.
- Martiniano Etchart (2025). Graduate Student Award, American Association for Applied Linguistics. The Graduate Student Award (GSA) is a merit-based award that supports the attendance of AAAL graduate student members at the annual conference. The primary consideration in granting the award is the academic merit of the student’s proposal submitted to the conference. Upon completion of the strand review process, the conference chair will identify the 20 top-scoring student proposals and will invite eligible students to send their applications. The Graduate Student Awards Committee determines the awardees.
- Rocío González-Espresati Clement (2025). Best Abstract Award, GRAPHSY 2025 Conference, Georgetown University.
- Anhelé Sánchez Delgado (2025). Tinker-Nave Short-Term Field Research Grant. University of Wisconsin–Madison. Research in Lima, Peru.
2025
Estefanía Galindo
Galindo-Navarro, Estefania, Annika Brody Wallander, and Rajiv Rao. “The Impact of L2 Spanish Learners’ Attitudes toward Spanish Sociophonetic Variation on Use and Belonging.” Language Teaching, First View, 2025, pp. 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444825000187
Specht, Kiley, Estefania Galindo-Navarro, and Rajiv Rao. “Shaping Language Attitudes: An Exploratory Look at the Impact of Discussing Bilingualism in the Language Classroom.” The Journal of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, vol. 31, 2025, pp. 125–146. https://doi.org/10.2458/jslat.7903
Pedro Gonzales Durán
Gonzales Durán, Pedro de Jesús. “Andean Actancy: The Role of Objects in Yuyachkani’s Antígona.” Chasqui, vol. 53, no. 2, 2024, pp. 185–202. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/27339959.
Rocío González-Espresati Clement
González-Espresati C., Rocío. “Miedo a la Participación en la Era del Escrutinio Digital,” in Conference Proceedings CIVINEDU 2025, edited by Redine, 2025, Madrid, Spain: Adaya Press. Pp: 454-7. https://doi.org/10.58909/adc25777576.
González-Espresati C., Rocío. “Symphony in White: The Attribution of Guilt,” Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies, 2025.
González-Espresati C., Rocío. “Regina José Galindo: lo abyecto, lo excesivo y lo necesario,” LACIS REVIEW, 3, 2025.
Anhelé Sánchez Delgado
Sánchez Delgado, Anhelé. Review of Atusparia, by Gabriela Wiener. Confluencia, vol. 41, no. 1, 2025, pp. 194–196.
2024
Rocío González-Espresati Clement
González-Espresati C., Rocío. “Constructions and Reactions to Trauma(s) in Myriam Gurba’s Mean” TROPOS, 2024.
Denise Oyuki Castillo
Denise Oyuki Castillo, journal reviewer “Literatura Mexicana“, Vol. 35-2. La Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2024.
Journal review for the “Literatura Mexicana”, vol. 35-2, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2024
Tyler Sampson
Sampson, Tyler. “¿La lucha o la huida?: Un análisis de género, deseo e identidad en ‘Sergio’ (1976) de Manuel Mujica Lainez. Revista Luso-Hispánica, vol. 1, no. 1, 2024, pp. 62-73. https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.aatsp.org/resource/resmgr/revistalusohispanica/20252803_RHL_revista_azul__1.pdf
2023
Rocío González-Espresati Clement
González-Espresati C., Rocío. “Embellecimiento Cinematográfico en Cine de Crisis.” LACIS REVIEW issue #02, 2023.
Gloria Morales Osorio
Morales Osoria, Gloria Johana (2023). “Book History in South America: A Bibliography of Scholarship and Sources“
Luke Urbain
Urbain, Luke (Spring 2023). “Instructions for Uncertain Futures: Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s Safekeeping” Journal of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, 5.2.
2022
Matthew Burner
Burner, M.J. (2022). “Las vocales temáticas en castellano y asturiano: Un recurso para la interpretación semántica.” In E. Torre (Ed.), El mapa lingüístico del noroccidente ibérico: Contacto, variación y cambio (pp. 79-97). Munich: Lincom.
Pedro De Jesús Gonzales Durán
De Jesús Gonzales Durán, Pedro (2022). “Post-materialidad en los Andes: espacios performativos andinos en Yuyachkani”, Latin American Theatre Review 55-2 (Spring): 21-37.
Jamie De Moya- Cotter
De Moya-Cotter (2022). “Loss and Life in the Andean Pluriverse: Slow Unravelings and suma qamaña in Óscar Catacora’s Wiñaypacha.” Special Issue in Humanities titled “Socio-Environmental Emergencies and Futuristic Imaginaries in Iberian and Latin American Cinemas and Television.”
Emi Frerichs
Frerichs, Emi (2022). “Towards a Travesti Subjectivity and System of Aesthetics within Argentinean Literature: Trasheo Travesti, Irreverence, and Bold Visions for a New Humanity.” Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana 51.1: 303-323.
Ruth Llana Fernández
Llana Fernández, Ruth (2022). Translation and Prologue: Rukeyser, Muriel. US1. Translated by Ruth Llana; Prologue by Ruth Llana and Unai Velasco, Barcelona, Editorial Ultramarinos.
Gloria Morales Osorio
Morales Osorio, Gloria Johana (2022). «Semblanza de la Colección Biblioteca Popular de Cultura Colombiana (1942-1952)». En Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes – Portal Editores y Editoriales Iberoamericanos (siglos XIX-XXI) – EDI-RED
Morales Osorio, Gloria Johana (2022). “Apresar sin hacer daño: el buen gobierno en Ingermina o la hija de Calamar” in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (Washington University in Saint Louis), 56. 145-167.
Isabel Martín Sánchez
Martín Sánchez, Isabel (2022). “Violeta Luna: Dramaturgia sonora y performatividad de la desaparición en Requiem#3.” Latin American Theatre Review 56.1 (Fall 2022): 63-84. Article.
Carlos Ortiz
Ortiz, Carlos (2022). “Awaiting Revolution: Performing Chile’s Hierarchies in Ernesto Orellana’s Inútiles.” Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures.
Ortiz, Carlos (2022). “Manuela Infante.” Fifty Key Figures in LatinX and Latin American Theatre. eds. Paola Hernández and Analola Santana. Routledge, 2022. pp. 87-90.
Mariana Oliveira
Oliveira, Mariana (2022). “A ilha de Cecília Meireles.” Opiniães, São Paulo, n.o17 (July):20-30.
2021
Matthew Burner
Biedny, J., Burner, M., Macaulay, M. & Cudworth, A. (2021). “Classifier Medials across Algonquian: A First Look.” International Journal of American Linguistics (IJAL), 87:1, 1-47.
Ruth Llana Fernández
Llana Fernández, Ruth (2021). La primavera del saguaro. Barcelona, Ultramarinos editorial. Poetry book.
Gloria Morales Osorio
Morales Osorio, Gloria Johana (2021). Book Review: “Fruit of the Drunken Tree, Ingrid Rojas Contreras (2018)”. Latin American Literature Today, Number 17
2020
Matthew Burner
Rodgers, B., Rao, R. & Burner, M. (2020). “Biological codes and extended focus: Examining speaker-driven and pragmatically-based analyses of Chilean Spanish intonational plateau contours.” In J. J. Colmina-Almiñana & S. Sessarego (Eds.), Language Patterns in Spanish and Beyond: Structure, Context and Development (pp. 199-222). UK: Routledge.
2026
Estefanía Galindo
Galindo-Navarro, Estefanía & Rao, Rajiv. The Intonation Patterns of Polar Questions in Colombian Caribbean Spanish: A Sp_ToBI and Sociolinguistic Analysis has been accepted to 12th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS12). Georgetown University. (Washington, DC, United States. [Oral presentation]
Etchart, Martiniano, Galindo-Navarro Estefanía, & Rao, Rajiv “Exploring speaker effects on the perception of L2 Spanish emotional prosody: An Acoustic analysis”. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Conference 2026, AAAL. (Chicago, IL, United States) [Individual paper]
Spanish-English Bilingual Question Intonation: The Case of El Paso, Texas, U.S. The Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World (BHL) 2026 Conference, Reading University. Reading, United Kingdom. Conference presentation.
2025
Jan Díaz Hernández
Resistencias literarias en las subjetividades femeninas postdictadura en Argentina y Chile. 58º Congreso Internacional de Americanistas (ICA), 150 años del Congreso Internacional de Americanistas: “Nuevos desafíos, nuevos espacios”, Novi Sad, Serbia (online)
Los invertidos (1914) como resistencia: representación queer y censura en el teatro argentino de principios del siglo XX. 2025 XXIX Graduate Student Conference of the Program in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures (LAILAC), The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, USA.
Espacios seguros y utopías queer en la literatura y el cine: representación y resistencia. XVIII Coloquio Anual Samuel G. Armistead, “Pensar el cuidado: fronteras, afectividades, resistencias,” Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Davis (online), USA.
Cuerpos en disputa: archivo, testimonio, y memoria trans en la Argentina postdictatorial. 2025 XXXIII Congreso de la Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades (AEGS), The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA.
Estefanía Galindo
Bilingual Prosody at the U.S.-Mexico Border: A Sp_ToBI Analysis of Spanish Question Intonation in El Paso. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2025, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States. Conference presentation.
Metalinguistic Knowledge Is Power: Teaching about Bilingualism to Enhance L2 Students’ Language Attitudes. SLAT Roundtable: Interdisciplinarity in Language Research, Leadership and Pedagogical Practices, 2025, Tucson, Arizona. Conference presentation.
The Impact of L2 Spanish Learners’ Attitudes toward Spanish Sociophonetic Variation. American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, 2025, Denver, Colorado. Conference presentation.
The Impact of L2 Spanish Learners’ Attitudes toward Spanish Sociophonetic Variation on Use and Belonging. Diálogos XXVII, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Indiana, 2025, Bloomington, IN. Virtual conference presentation.
Exploring Sociophonetic Attitudes and Belonging among Advanced L2 Spanish Learners. 2025 SLA Symposium, Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI. Conference presentation.
How Discussing Bilingualism Influences Language Perspectives: Measuring Spanish Learners’ Attitude toward Bilingualism in the Midwest. 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15), 2025, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain. Conference presentation.
Polar Question Intonation in Coastal Caribbean Colombian Spanish: An Acoustic and Sociolinguistic Analysis. 55th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages with a Special Focus on Caribbean Spanish (LSRL55-LEC), 2025, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Conference presentation.
Bilingual Question Intonation in El Paso, Texas. 55th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages with a Special Focus on Caribbean Spanish (LSRL55-LEC), 2025, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Conference presentation.
Rocío González-Espresati Clement
Emociones, sentimientos y afectos / Emoções, sentimentos e afetos / Emotions, feelings and affects. 2025 GRAPHSY, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
La Princesa Montonera: Postmemory Against Trauma Porn. 2025 Memory, Forgetting and Creating International Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Gdańsk, Poland.
Anhelé Sanchez Delgado
Del duelo individual a la memoria colectiva en El invencible verano de Liliana. XXIX Graduate Student Conference of the Program in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures (LAILAC), The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, USA.
Narrar el futuro desde la urgencia del presente: la política de la escritura en Atusparia (2024) de Gabriela Wiener. Imagined Futures: Ruins of the Present and Horizons of the Past Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Activar el archivo: memoria y denuncia en Belén López Peiró. XLV Congreso del IILI. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Lima, Peru. July 2025
Kiley Specht
Voices of the Caribbean: Analyzing Awareness, Attitudes, and Listening Comprehension of Caribbean Varieties in L2 Learners. 29th Conference of Spanish in the United States. San Antonio, Texas.
2024
Levi Cross
The Future is the Birds and the Bees: Eroticism as Survival in A extinção das abelhas. APSA 13th International Conference, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
Estefanía Galindo-Navarro
How discussing bilingualism influences language perspectives: measuring Spanish learners’ attitudes towards bilingualism in the Midwest. Bilingualism, Bilingual Education, and Social Conflict Conference – Madrid, Spain.
Colombian Spanish Intonation: A Comparison between Colombian Caribbean Spanish Intonation in Cities and Towns. 11th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.
Letícia Barbosa
Tijolos em Rasantes Voos: Racialized Labor Dynamics and Disability in Conceição Evaristo’s Um Piano para Yá Dulcina. Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA), Chicago, Illinois.
Performing the Black Self in the Diaspora: Redaction and Flight in the Autobiographical Performances of Dori Nigro and Aline Motta. APSA 13th International Conference, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
Identidade e Alteridade entre Imigrantes Africanos em Portugal: Uma Análise de Os vivos, o morto e o peixe-frito, de Ondjaki. XIV Congresso da Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Kiley Specht
Analyzing the gap in mood choice of L1 and advanced L2 Spanish speakers with expressions of emotion in the past tense. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium – Omaha, Nebraska.
How discussing bilingualism influences language perspectives: measuring Spanish learners’ attitudes towards bilingualism in the Midwest. Bilingualism, Bilingual Education, and Social Conflict Conference – Madrid, Spain.
2023
Estefanía Galindo
Colombian Spanish Intonation: A Comparison between Colombian Caribbean Spanish Intonation in Cities and Towns. 17th Annual Kaleidoscope: Navigating Shifts in Space, Time and Topics, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI.
Colombian Spanish Intonation: A Comparison between Colombian Caribbean Spanish Intonation in Cities and Towns. Coloquio de Lingüística, Sociolinguistic Study Group, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia, 2023. Virtual presentation.
Colombian Spanish Intonation: A Comparison between Colombian Caribbean Spanish Intonation in Cities and Towns. 28th Midcontinental Phonetics and Phonology Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
De Moya-Cotter, Jamie, editorial board member of the new LACIS Review journal (UW–Madison), https://www.lacisreview.org/
González-Espresati Clement, Rocío, editorial board member in LACIS Review and Editor and translator of 4W_WIT’s project “Translation Ecologies: Unthinking the Binary”
Guedes Barbosa, Letícia, editor. “Luso-texugo Magazine”. Luso-texugo Magazine, vol. 1, no. 1, 2023, pp. 1-13, https://issuu.com/lusotexugomagazine
Ortiz, Carlos, journal reviewer for Brújula: Revista interdisciplinarian sobre estudios latinoamericanos. Vol 12. Contemporary Performance in Latin America. University of California-Davis.
Carlos Ortiz and Jorge Cienfuegos, directors
Alejandro Ricaño’s El amor de las luciérnagas (full production by Teatro Décimo Piso).
Hemsley Theatre, University of Wisconsin–Madison, February 28-March, 2020.
Guedes Barbosa, Letícia. PhD Student Editorial, Design, & Marketing Internship at Orange Hat Publishing through UW–Madison’s Graduate School Industry Internship Program.
Guedes Barbosa, Letícia. Received a 2026-2027 short-term residential fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library to pursue her proposed research project “The Bondswoman and the White Mistress in Colonial Brazil” in 2026-2027.
González-Espresati Clement, Rocío. Invited to visit Coe College as a Spring 2024 ACM Emerging Scholars Fellow in collaboration with the Big Ten Academic Alliance.
Fernández, Ruth Llana. Invited as an author representative of Spain to the XVI Festival Internacional de Poesía de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Mazzei, Florencia. The Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire (LEAP-Q); developed by Marian, Blumenfeld, and Kaushanskaya in 2007; was modified by its authors in 2024. I updated the Spanish translation to reflect the changes they implemented. This updated translation is available at Northwestern University’s Bilingualism and Psycholinguistics Laboratory website through the following link: https://bilingualism.northwestern.edu/leapq/.