Spanish & Portuguese
University of Wisconsin – Madison

Graduate Students’ Success

Recent Graduate Student Accomplishments

Fulbright:

    • 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 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:

Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) at the Rare Book School (RBS)

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

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

    • 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.

2025

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. “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.

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

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.

2025

Jan Díaz Hernández

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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/.