Spanish

Cintia Santana specializes in 19th and 20th Century Spanish literature, particularly in the cultural relationships between Spain and the United States. Her research interests include transatlantic and translation studies, representations of immigration in contemporary Spanish literature, and the theory and praxis of the Latin American and Spanish short story. Her book, Forth and Back: Translation, Dirty Realism, and the Spanish Novel (1975-1995), is forthcoming from Bucknell University Press. Her short stories and poems have appeared in The Missouri Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, and Pleiades.

Ximena Briceño (Ph.D. Romance Studies, Cornell University, 2009) is Lecturer of Latin American Literature in ILAC since 2008. She specializes in modern Latin American literature and culture, with a concentration in the Andean region. Her research engages the intersections of aesthetics and politics, with emphasis on cultural consumption and critical theory. Apart from Stanford University, she has taught at Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú, Mount Holyoke College, Cornell University, and most recently at UC Berkeley. She is currently working in two manuscripts: one explores contemporary museum narratives and performances from Peru, Argentina and Chile; while the other focuses on the notion of productive life and animality in the Andean South between the 1920s and the 1940s.

Selected publications:

        “De animalidad y modos de estar en el mundo: Bellatin y Amorales.” De animales y mostruos. Museu D’Art Contemporari de Barcelona, 2012. 103-115.

       “La memoria en exhibición: El pasado y Museo de la revolución desde el Boom del Museo.” Nuevo Texto Crítico 23. 45-46 (2010): 337-347.

         (with Héctor Hoyos) “‘Así se hace literatura’: historia literaria y políticas del olvido en Nocturno de Chile y Soldados de Salamina.” Revista Iberoamericana 76.232-233 (2010): 601-620.

       “El crimen para la venganza: 'Emma Zunz' en el borde del melodrama.” Variaciones Borges 25 (2008): 137-154.

Caridad Ravenet Kenna specializes in 19th and 20th Centuries Iberian literatures. Her research has focused on the post-Franco narrative within the parameters of culture and politics, as well as the influence that time and memory have exerted on the production of such narrative, including the re-writing of the official history of the Franco years.

Her research interests also address the Hispanic Caribbean, in particular contemporary Cuba.  She is currently comparing and analyzing the literary production of authors of the Spanish diaspora before 1975 with those of the Cuban diaspora from 1961 to the present. 

Alice "Ali" Miano is interested in the study of immigrants in the United States and their interactions with U.S. school systems. Related research interests include native Spanish language literacy in the U.S., adult literacy, bilingualism, biliteracy, and second language acquisition. Within the study of second language learning, Ali is particularly interested in heritage and non-native students' acquisition of presentational (academic and professional) language.