Skip to main content Skip to navigation
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Pullman & Spokane

Languages, Cultures, and Race

Samuel Ginsberg.Samuel Ginsburg, assistant professor, languages, cultures, and race, authored The Cyborg Caribbean: Techno-Dominance in Twenty-First-Century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican Science Fiction (Rutgers University Press). Ginsburg also presented “Untouched: Speculative Visions of Quarantine in the Works of Maielis González and Brenda Peynado” at the 2023 Latin American Studies Association conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Languages, Cultures, and Race

Vilma Navarro-Daniels.
Navarro-Daniels
Maria Serenella Previto.
Previto

Vilma Navarro-Daniels and Maria Serenella Previto, professors, languages, cultures, and race, WSU Pullman, coauthored “Del oscurantismo a la Ilustración: esbozo de una educación para la democracia en The Others de Alejandro Amenábar” (“From Obscurantism to Enlightenment: Outline of an Education for Democracy in Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others”) published in Contextos: Estudios de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, Santiago, Chile).

Languages, Cultures, and Race

Spencer Martin.
Martin
Amanda Hussein.
Hussein
Abigail Romero.
Romero

Spencer Martin, Amanda Hussein, and Abigail Romero, PhD candidates, languages, cultures, and race, presented a panel titled “The Power of Narratives: Informed by and Informing Realities in Latin America and Beyond” at the 2023 Annual Conference of the Latin American Studies Association in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. They read their respective research papers, “Re-membering the Massacre: Collective Memory and Nation-Building in La Noche de Tlatelolco and Cien Anos de Soledad”; “La crueldad y el amor: una exploración de la crueldad, el amor y la muerte en la novela El Amor en Los Tiempos del Colera”; and “Sleep Dealer: A Reflection on the Disposability of Migrant Individuals and Bodies.” Martin organized the panel chaired by Hussein with Romero as the discussant.

Languages, Cultures, and Race

Vilma Navarro-Daniels.
Navarro-Daniels

Vilma Navarro-Daniels, professor, languages, cultures, and race, presented “Oblivion and Crisis of Historicity: An Interpretation of Dominga Sotomayor Castillos’s Thursday Till Sunday” at the 2023 Annual Conference of the Latin American Studies Association in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. She also organized and chaired the session, “Representations of Memory, Post-memory, and Oblivion: New Trends in Southern Cone and Latinx Literature and Film.”