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Komla  Aggor

Komla Aggor

Emeritus Professor

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  • Aggor, Komla, ed. Francisco Nieva: Coronada y el toro. Critical Texts Series 64. Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2020. (Revised edition, 2021)
  • Agawu-Kakraba, Yaw and Komla Aggor, eds. African, Lusophone, and Afro-Hispanic Cultural Dialogue. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018
  • “Francisco Nieva en la encrucijada histórica del teatro europeo: homenaje a una leyenda.” Estreno 43.1 (2017): 125-29
  • Agawu-Kakraba, Yaw and Komla Aggor, eds. Diasporic Identities within Afro-Hispanic and African Contexts. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015
  • “Miguel Hernández’s Aesthetics of the Double.” Studia Iberica et Americana 2 (2015): 273-303
Tatiana  Arguello

Tatiana Arguello

Associate Professor

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  • “Ecology, Blackness and Poetry: National Epics of the Nicaraguan Revolution.” Co-written with Andrew Ryder. National Epics. Edited by David Wallace. Oxford University Press. (Forthcoming). 
  • "Epistemes del cauce: para pensar y sentir con los ríos, sumersión en la poesía fluvial de dos mujeres indígenas latinoamericanas.” Co-written with María Ximena Postigo. Brill-Foro Hispánico. Special Issue: Ecopoesía, ecopoéticas y nuevas políticas ecológicas en el poema. Edited by Azucena Castro, Santiago Acosta and Nuno Marques. (Forthcoming 2025).
  • “Bullets and Tattoos: War Artifacts and Prosthetics in the US Central American Literature of Salomón de la Selva and Héctor Tobar.” Co-written with Andrew Ryder. Latinx Literature in Transition. Edited by Marissa López and John Alba Cutler. Cambridge University Press (Forthcoming 2025)
  • “Creole Poetics of the Ocean: Carlos Rigby, Ecological Thought and Caribbean Diasporic Consciousness.” Central American Literature as World Literature. Literature as World Literature Series. Edited by Sophie Esch. Bloomsbury (2023).
  • “Javier Zamora’s Unaccompanied: Materiality, Citizenship and Salvadorian Identity.” Co-written with Andrew Ryder. Label Me Latina/o: Journal of Twentieth and Twenty- First Century Latino Literary Production. Special Issue Volume 12: Cultural Representations of Central American Migration to the US. (2022)
María  Ciriza Lope

María Ciriza Lope

Associate Professor

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  • Ciriza Lope, Maria. Forthcoming (2024). “Initiatives to Promote the Interfenerational Transmission of Basque: the Case of Worshops for Parents.” Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
  • Ciriza Lope, Maria. (2023). “‘Teaching English as service’ in Spanish language programs: A Translanuaging approach.” L2 Journal, 15(1) https://dx.doi.org/10.5070/L215159227 Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2cp127zr
  • Ciriza, Maria del Puy. (2019). Towards a parental muda for new Basque Speakers: assessing emotional factors and language ideologies. Journal of Sociolinguistics. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12363
  • Ciriza, María del Puy. (2018). Bringing parents together: An innovative approach for parental involvement in an immersion school in the Basque Autonomous Community. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 40 (1), 50-63. DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2018.1467424
  • Arxer, Steven, Maria del Puy Ciriza and Marco Shappeck. (2017). Aging in a Second Language: A Case Study of Aging, Immigration, and an English Speaking Community. New York: Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-57609-1.
Sohyun  Lee

Sohyun Lee

Chair / Associate Professor

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  • “Entre las dos Coreas: la formulación de la identidad (trans)nacional de la comunidad “coreana” de Cuba en Jerónimo (2019).” Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World. Volume 11, Issue 2, 2024.
  • “Gestación y encarnación del horror: el cuerpo femenino como instrumento monstruoso en el cine de Balagueró.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. Vol 22, 2018. 227-242.
  • “Monstruos (Re)productions: Mothering Patriarchy on the Spanish Horror Screen.” in Tracing the Borders of Spanish Horror Cinema and Television. Jorge Mari, Ed. New York: Routledge, 2017. 53-66.
  • “Entrevista a Daniel Quirós: la novela negra hispana en el siglo XX o el espacio rural centroamericano frente a los retos de la globalización.” with Agustín Cuadrado. Letras Hispanas. 13, 2017.
  • “El capricho de la razón: Goya en Burdeos de Carlos Saura.” Crítica Hispánica. Vol. XXXVIII. No. 1, 2016. 95-111.
Steven Sloan

Steven Sloan

Associate Professor

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  • “Racial Identity in the 1930s Urban Landscape in the Novels of Jorge Amado, José Lins do Rego and Lúcio Cardoso.” African, Lusophone, and Afro-Hispanic Cultural Dialogue, edited by Y. Agawu-Kakraba and K. Aggor, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018, pp. 59 – 77.
  • “Federico Gauffin’s En tierras de Magu Pela (1932): A Modernist Bildungsroman, an Intertextual Dialogue with Guiraldes and Arlt, and a Reaction to the Nationalist Project.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, vol. 95, no. 10, 2018, pp. 1123–1138.
  • “Work, Art, and Bourgeois Myths in Roberto Arlt’s Aguafuertes porteñas.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies: Hispanic Studies and Researches on Spain, Portugal, and Latin America 86 (2009): 809-27.
  • “Roberto Arlt’s Alter-travelogue against the Backdrop of Rio de Janeiro.” A Contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America 6.2 (2009): 122-43.
  • “Writing, Public Opinion, and National Identity in the Crônicas of Olavo Bilac,” Hispanófila 153 (2008): 79-95.
Esther Teixeira, Ph.D.

Esther Teixeira

Associate Professor

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  • Laura Murray, Esther Teixeira, and Meg Weeks. Introduction. Daughter, Mother, Grandmother and Whore: The Story of a Woman Who Decided to be a Puta, translated by Meg Weeks, Duke University Press, Durham and London, in press, September 2024.
  • Teixeira, Esther. “Prostitución, colonización crítica y revolución teórica: La reflexión de Gabriela Leite y demás trabajadoras sexuales organizadas y el canon.” A Contracorriente. (Forthcoming)
  • Ciriza, María del Puy and Teixeira, Esther. “On Interdisciplinary Presentism in Hispanic Studies: Notes on Service Learning with the Latino Community” Hispania, 104.1 (2021): 27-30. 
  • Teixeira, Esther."A narrativa de prostitutas por um viés literário: contraste entre as obras de Bruna Surfistinha e Gabriela Leite". In Climent-Espino, Rafael and Michel Mingote, Eds. Perspectivas críticas da literatura brasileira no século XXI: prosas e outras escrituras. São Paulo: EDUC [Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo], 2021. pp. 81-98.  
  • ---. “La prostitución de la mujer blanca en el contexto peruano decimonónico: análisis de Blanca Sol de Mercedes Cabello” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 97.10 (2020): 1075-1093.