Notes on Contributors
Gail A. Bulman
is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Syracuse University, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on Latin American theater and narrative. Author of Staging Words, Performing Worlds: Intertextuality and Nation in Contemporary Latin American Theater (Bucknell UP, 2007), she has also published articles in Latin American Theatre Review, Gestos, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, Hispanófila, Ollantay Theater Magazine, Letras femeninas, and Symposium and has chapters in several books. Her new book project examines visuality and affect in twenty-first century Argentine and Chilean performance.
Ana María Burdach Rudloff
Senior Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Chile, is also an Assistant Professor at Universidad de Chile. She received her PhD in Spanish Linguistics and Philology from Universidad de Valladolid. She is currently researching digitization and computational analysis of nineteenth-century newspapers from the British colony in Chile (in collaboration with Hayward and Prain Brice). Her research and publications include representation of faith in the folk tradition of religious narrative singing in Chile (co-authored with Cortés, Cabrera, and Pons); author positioning, voice identity and evaluation in American and Chilean presidential speeches (co-authored with Samaniego, Ross, and Poblete).
James Craine
is Professor of Geography at California State University, Northridge. His main area of work is in the human and cultural subfields. His previous publications include work on lifestyle migrants in Panama and birth rates in the developing countries of Africa. He specializes in the geography of media and also works applying geo-visualization theory to cartographic design. His most recent books include The Ashgate Research Companion to Media Geography (co-edited with Paul Adams and Jason Dittmer) and The Fight to Stay Put: Social Lessons Through Media Imaginings of Urban Transformation and Change (co-edited with Giorgio Hadi Curti and Stuart Aitken).
Angela N. DeLutis-Eichenberger
earned her PhD from the University of Maryland in Spanish Language and Literature. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century Chilean history and literature. Her work on Andrés Bello and José Victorino Lastarria has appeared in such peer-reviewed journals as Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Revista Hispánica Moderna, and Bulletin of Hispanic Studies.
Carolina Di Próspero
received her PhD in Anthropology from the Universidad Nacional de San Martin, and is currently a researcher and professor at the Institute of Advanced Social Studies, Universidad de San Martin (unsam), Communication Coordinator at the cusam, a University educational program located at a Penitentiary, and a member of the Interuniversity Observatory of Society, Technology and Education (unipe/unsam/unpaz), and Postdoctoral Fellow from the National Council of Scientific Research. Her areas of research include: subjectivities and technology, techno-artistic expressions, digital ethnography, visual representations in the public space and learning within the context of confinement.
Gustavo Fares
a native of Argentina, is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Lawrence University. He received a J.D. degree from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; a Masters in Languages and Literature from West Virginia University; and a PhD in Latin American Literature from the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of five books and has published numerous articles and book reviews. In 2004 he was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, in Mendoza, Argentina. Fares is currently a Fulbright Specialist in Multiculturalism (2015–2020).
Jennifer Hayward
Professor of English at the College of Wooster, received her PhD in English Literature from Princeton University. A Fulbright Scholar in Chile in 2016–2017, she is currently working on a monograph on Scottish travellers in the Americas and collaborating with professors Michelle Prain Brice and Jessie Reeder on a grant-funded project to digitize the nineteenth-century Anglophone newspapers published in Chile. Her books include Consuming Pleasures: Active Audiences and Serial Fictions and scholarly editions of Maria Graham’s 1824 Journal of a Residence in Chile and (with Soledad Caballero) Journal of a Voyage to Brazil.
Silvia Hirsch
received her PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is currently a researcher and professor at the Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina, co-director of the Center for the Study of Anthropology and editor of the journal Etnografías Contemporáneas. She has been Visiting Professor at Princeton University and at the nyu program in Buenos Aires. Dr. Hirsch conducts research among native peoples, on issues relating to gender, health and education, on ephemera such as pamphlets and posters, and on murals and graffiti in the urban space.
Edward Jackiewicz
is Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at California State University, Northridge. He received his PhD from the University of Indiana. His interests connect the urban space, tourism, migration and transnationalism. His most recent research emphasis is on the sociocultural impacts and differentiated experiences of lifestyle migration, primarily in Central America. He is also the co-editor of Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Geography (Rowman and Littlefield), now in its Fourth Edition.
Magdalena Maiz-Peña
is Professor of Hispanic Studies and Latin American Studies at Davidson College. She specializes in contemporary Latin American Women Writers, Life-Writing, culture, and the politics of representation. She has co-edited critical works on Elena Poniatowska, La palabra contra el silencio; (2013), and Teaching the Works of Elena Poniatowska (2014). Current research includes urban spaces, gender, and cultural production in Mexico 1920–1950. She is passionately devoted to serving non-profit organizations engaged in education and empowerment of young Latinos and Latinas, literacy and information, access to education, eliminating the digital divide, the humanities, and the arts.
Lucía Melgar
is an independent scholar, activist and cultural critic. She received her PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Chicago. She teaches and researches on literature, gender studies and women’s rights. She has taught in academic venues such as the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (itam), Mexico’s National University (unam), and Universidad de Chile. Her publications include Realidades y falacias en torno al aborto: Salud y derechos humanos, with S. Lerner and A. Guillaume (El Colegio de México, 2016); Discriminación sobre discriminación: Una mirada desde la perspectiva de género (iedf/scjn, 2012).
Silvia Nagy-Zekmi
is Professor Emerita of Hispanic and Cultural Studies (Villanova University, Philadelphia). Her books include Global Academe: Engaging Public Intellectual Discourse, with Karyn Hollis (2012); Perennial Empire, with Chantal Zabus (2011); Truth to Power: Public Intellectuals In and Out of Academe, with Karyn Hollis (2010); Colonization or Globalization? Postcolonial Explorations of Imperial Expansion, with Chantal Zabus (2009); Moros en la costa: Orientalismo en Latinoamérica (2008); Paradoxical Citizenship: Edward Said (2006, paperback 2008); Democracy in Chile: The Legacy of September 11, 1973, with Fernando Leiva (2005), awarded the Arthur P. Whitaker prize for best book in Latin American Studies.
Luis H. Peña
is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Davidson College. His research focuses on literature and allegories of the nation, Latin American literary and cultural theories since the 1960s, images of the U.S.-Mexico border, and contemporary Latin American cinema. Publications include La metamorfosis del deseo: Una aproximación a la narrativa mexicana contemporánea 1958–1970, the co-edited Modalidades de representación del sujeto auto/biográfico femenino, and recent articles, such as “Intersticios, cruzamientos e intersecciones: Desafíos pedagógicos en La noche de Tlatelolco de Elena Poniatowska,” “Memoria, diálogo y escritura: Hasta no verte Jesús mío,” “Las Fronteras del sufrimiento y el sufrimiento en las fronteras.”
Jorge Saavedra Utman
is Lecturer in Media, Culture and Society at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. He received his PhD in Media and Communications from Goldsmiths, University of London. He has written on media and communicative practices of non-mainstream politics, media systems and cultures of participation, and Latin American cultural politics. Currently, his research interest is focused on the role that media and communicative practices have had for Latin American social movements (1959–2019) and on the general political implications and imbrications of the relationship between neoliberalism, communication and democracy. His latest book is The Media Commons and Social Movements: Grassroots Mediations Against Neoliberal Politics (Routledge, 2019).
Rosa Tapia
is Professor of Spanish at Lawrence University. Her current research focuses on contemporary films that resist outmoded forms of cultural and spatial categorization. Publications include the book Catalan Writers on the Border, a volume on Latin American cinema, and various articles and essays including “Body, Transition and Nation in Eduardo Mendicutti’s Anyone Can Have a Bad Night” (Una ética de la libertad, 2012); “Body, Gaze and Gender in Claudia Llosa’s The Milk of Sorrow (Revista Internacional d’Humanitats, 2013); and “Andrés Wood’s Violeta Went to Heaven and the Ethics of Latin American Melodrama” (Mapping Violeta Parra’s Cultural Landscapes, 2018).
Juan de Dios Torralbo Caballero
is Associate Professor of English Literature and Literary Translation at the University of Córdoba. He received his PhD in English Studies from the University of Córdoba. He has been a research fellow at King’s College, the University of Montpellier, and the University Clermont Auvergne. His research interests include seventeenth-century literature and culture, and eighteenth-century literature, the advent of the English novel, and the reception of English literature in Spain. He has been an organizer of international symposia, such as “Cervantes from Andalucía” (1547–2016) (2016), and the “xv International Conference Translation, Text and Interferences” (2018).
Tera Trujillo
is a graduate student in environmental geography at California State University, Northridge. She was a former collegiate athlete who completed her bachelor’s degree in Journalism with a minor in Geography. She is passionate about the environment and its direct connection to human beings and their behavior choices and/or social injustices. She is currently a teaching associate for a physical geography lab. She enjoys the opportunity to spread knowledge as well as continue to learn from the environment around her.
Patricia Vilches
is Professor of Spanish and Italian and Scholar in Residence at Harlaxton College. She received her PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Chicago. Her research subjects include Violeta Parra, the Chilean Nueva Canción, and Salvador Allende. She also studies the transatlantic impact of Machiavelli and Cervantes, and the intersections of Machiavelli and Cervantes with nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America with focus on Alberto Blest-Gana (1830–1920). Her publications include Mapping Violeta Parra’s Cultural Landscapes (Palgrave, 2018), editor and contributor. Blest Gana via Machiavelli and Cervantes: National Identity and Social Order in Chile (Cambridge Scholars, 2017).
Gareth Wood
is Senior Lecturer at University College London. He studied Modern Languages at St Peter’s College, Oxford, where he earned a Master and a PhD in European Languages (Spanish). He has published articles on, among others, Benito Pérez Galdós, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Leopoldo Alas, Miguel de Unamuno, Lucía Etxebarria, and Almudena Grandes. His book Javier Marias’s Debt to Translation: Sterne, Browne, Nabokov was published by Oxford University Press (2012). An article on Unamuno’s attitudes towards the Nationalist uprising that caused the Spanish Civil War, and his reading of Shakespeare in this crucial late period of his intellectual engagement with his homeland, appeared in the Bulletin of Spanish Studies in 2013, 90 (6): 971–92.