Languages, Cultures, and Race
adrianaCarmen R. Lugo-Lugo and Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, professors, languages, cultures, and race, coauthored “Social Death in the Times of a Pandemic” in Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice.
Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo and Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, professors, languages, cultures, and race, coauthored “Social Death in the Times of a Pandemic” in Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice.
John Streamas, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, authored “Not Down but Different: Depression in the Shadow of the Black Dog” in Re/Imagining Depression: Creative Approaches to “Feeling Bad” (Palgrave Macmillan).
Vilma Navarro-Daniels, professor, languages, cultures, and race, authored “‘Sobreviviremos como dos robinsones’: La pérdida de referentes sociopolíticos como disolución del sujeto en ’La muerte mientras tanto’, de Ignacio Martínez de Pisón” (“‘We will survive as two Robinsons’: The loss of sociopolitical referents as the dissolution of one’s own subjectivity in Ignacio Martínez de Pisón’s ‘Death meanwhile'”), a chapter in Crear Entre Mundos. Nuevas Tendencias en la Metaficción Española (Albatros Ediciones, València, Spain, 2021).
Faculty, staff, and students in languages, cultures, and race publish and present widely on an array of topics and receive honors for their work. Numerous examples appear in the school’s newsletter.
Vilma Navarro-Daniels, professor, languages, cultures, and race, authored “Edipo se hizo mendigo y habitó entre nosotros: una interpretación de La Historia Oficial y Cuerpos Prohibidos” (“Oedipus became a beggar and dwelled among us: An interpretation of The Official Story and Forbidden Bodies”) in Iter (Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences Press, Santiago, Chile).
She also presented “El ‘Otro’ radical como guardián de la memoria: cuerpo, voz, y disidencia en Una Mujer Fantástica, de Sebastián Lelio” (“The Radical ‘Other’ as the Guardian of Memory: Body, Voice, and Dissent in Sebastián Lelio’s A Fantastic Woman”) at the 39th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association.
John Streamas, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, authored the poem “Parallel Waters” in High Desert Journal.
John Streamas, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, presented “Steering Around the Transpacific in the Contemporary American Nuclear Imaginary” at the Association for Asian American Studies’ annual conference online.
Streamas also presented “Displacement and the Japanese American Experience”: a reading and conversation with graphic novelist Kiku Hughes for the Get Lit! literary festival of Eastern Washington University.
John Streamas, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, authored two poems, “Shelter Out of Place” and “Golden Years,” in Tales from Six Feet Apart.
Vilma Navarro-Daniels, professor, languages, cultures, and race, presented “’We will survive as two Robinsons’: The loss of sociopolitical referents as the dissolution of one’s own subjectivity in Ignacio Martínez de Pisón’s ‘La muerte mientras tanto’ (‘Death meanwhile’)” at the 27th International Conference on Literature and Hispanic Studies organized by Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania.
Navarro-Daniels also coauthored En la Elocuencia del Silencio (In the Eloquence of Silence); Critical Edition of the Poetry of Marta Ortiz Lorca (Valparaíso University Press) through a grant from the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage, Government of Chile.
Emmiyan Ferro, doctoral student, languages, cultures, and race, presented “Latinx barbershop masculinities” in an online presentation hosted by the University of Washington School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences.