People Type: Graduate Student

Biography Ana completed her BA in Translation and Interpreting and earned an MA in “Teaching Spanish and its Culture” at the University of Las Palmas de GC, Spain. Her master’s thesis focused on “culture and non-verbal communication in the Spanish as a foreign language classroom with Chinese students.” Following her MA she spent an academic …

Biography Anthony Ippolito is an MA student in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. He holds a BA in Spanish Teacher Education with a minor in Psychology from Western Illinois University (2024). His research interests include postwar Spanish literature and the use of social realism to draw attention to societal issues and promote social change …

Alan Javier Valdez is a PhD student in Spanish at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He holds an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing from the University of Iowa and a BA in Spanish Literature from the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua. His research examines modern and contemporary Mexican and Latin American literature, with particular emphasis on poetry, …

Biography Lucy is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Spanish with a concentration in Linguistics. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Spanish and Communication Sciences and Disorders from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (2025). Her research interests include multilingualism, cross-linguistic interference in bilingual and multilingual individuals, and the influence of multiple languages on phonological patterns.

Biography Enrique Larrea is PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is currently working on his doctoral thesis: Las batallas por la memoria: representaciones conflictivas del Otro en la posmemoria del conflicto armado peruano. His research interests focus on the following areas: 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American …

Biography Sabina is a PhD candidate focusing on contemporary Latin American Theatre and Performance. She holds a BA in Spanish from Siena College and an MA from New York University in Spanish and Latin American Literary and Cultural studies. Her dissertation examines how 21st century Mexican and Chicanx theatre and performance respond to and resist …