Languages, Cultures, and Race
adrianaJohn Streamas, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, authored “The War Between ‘School Time’ and ‘Colored People’s Time'” in Teaching in Higher Education.
John Streamas, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, authored “The War Between ‘School Time’ and ‘Colored People’s Time'” in Teaching in Higher Education.
Vilma C. Navarro-Daniels, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, presented “Marco Antonio De la Parra’s Cuerpos Prohibidos (Forbidden Bodies): A Tyrannical and Neoliberal Chilean Oedipus,” at the 26th International Conference on Literature and Hispanic Studies at Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania.
Charles Toye, graduate student, languages, cultures, and race, received the 2020 CAS Master’s Student Achievement in Humanities award.
John Streamas, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, presented “Topaz, Utah” by Toyo Suyemoto and his own poem “Social Justice 101” in the GetLit! literary arts festival held annually in Spokane, Wash., but this year hosted online to accommodate social distancing.
Charles Toye, graduate student, languages, cultures, and race, presented “Su espacio propio: heterotopía y feminidad masculina en Los Motivos de Circe, de Lourdes Ortiz.” (“A Space of Her Own: Heterotopia and Masculine Femininity in Lourdes Ortiz’s Circe’s Motives) at the 11th Annual Graduate Student Conference, “Voices of Marginality: Literary and Linguistic Reflections on Cultural Hierarchies in Spain and Latin America,” University of Colorado, Boulder.
Carmen Lugo-Lugo and Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, professors, languages, cultures, and race, coauthored “The End of the World, Hollywood, and the Endurance of Military Violence: Elysium and World War Z,” and Lugo-Lugo authored “Latinas/os in Hollywood: Contemporary Representations in Black and White,” both in The Myth of Colorblindness: Race and Ethnicity in American Cinema (Palgrave).
Vilma Navarro-Daniels, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, edited a special volume of Contextos: Estudios de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, a peer-reviewed journal by the Metropolitan University of Sciences of Education Press, Santiago, Chile, on “Approaches to Teaching the Humanities and Cultural Studies Through Latin American and Spanish Theater.”
She also authored the article “Dibujar para subvertir: Cuerpo, género y poder en las crónicas y los diarios gráficos de Marcela Trujillo” (“Drawing to Subvert: Body, Gender, and Power in Marcela Trujillo’s Chronicles and Graphic Diaries”) in Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos published by the Canadian Association of Hispanists; and she authored the chapter, “De himno y elegía: La Guerra, de Gabriela Mistral, y Mientras los Hombres Mueren, de Carmen Conde” (“On Hymn and Elegy: The War, by Gabriela Mistral, and While Men Die, by Carmen Conde”), in Spanish Civil War Poetry: A Comparative Approach (Peter Lang Publishing).
John Streamas, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, presented “Time in History and History in ‘Colored People’s Time’: Octavia Butler and Ruth Ozeki Cross the (Time) Lines” at the Modern Language Association’s 2020 convention in Seattle.
John Streamas, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, authored “Asia-Pessimism: Modeling a Revolution in Failure” in The Comparatist.
Vilma Navarro-Daniels, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, authored “Dibujar para subvertir: Cuerpo, género y poder en las crónicas y los diarios gráficos de Marcela Trujillo” (“Drawing to Subvert: Body, Gender, and Power in Marcela Trujillo’s Chronicles and Graphic Diaries”) in Revista Canadiense de Estudio Hispanicos.