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Graduate Student Bios

  • Brian Brewer. BA en español (U. de Arkansas) y MA en español (Middlebury College). Área de interés: Siglo de Oro.
  • Polina Decker.
  • Carlos Fernández González se licenció en Filología Hispánica en la Universidad de Valladolid (2004), donde también estudió Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada. Intereses: literatura peninsular del Siglo de Oro y narrativa española contemporánea.
  • Julia Garner has a BA from Bowdoin College, where she wrote an honors thesis on political perspectives and narrative form in four novels by Mario Vargas Llosa. Her area of interest is twentieth-century Latin American literature.
  • Silvia Goldman.Técnico en Periodismo en la Universidad ORT Uruguay. Profesorado de Inglés en el Instituto de Profesores Artigas. Maestría en Literatura Hispana en la Universidad de Washington. Interés en la poesía, énfasis en la poesía del siglo XX (Vallejo, Lorca, Borges, Vilariño).
  • Chad Leahy received a B.A. with Distinction, Summa cum laude in Hispanic Literature, and a Mus.B., Summa cum laude in Music Education, both from Boston University. His undergraduate Thesis was entitled "Monjes y amantes: la ideología religiosa del amor en Cervantes". Chad is currently completing his M.A. at Brown, with a Thesis exploring problems of orality and textuality in the 15th-century Cuenca manuscript of the "Proverbios morales" of Sem Tob de Carrión. Other research interests include: Golden Age narrative, Gonzalo de Berceo, music in literature, mystics and the religious palimpsest. Chad plans to specialize in Siglo de Oro at Brown.
  • Arturo Márquez-Gómez. Psicólogo egresado de la Universidad de Chile, con estudios de Postgrado en Teoría de Género y Sociedad en la Universidad Academia Humanismo Cristiano. Se desempeñó desde el año 2001 como investigador en la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) sede Chile. Es coautor del libro "Puertas adentro. Mujeres, vulnerabilidades y riesgo frente al VIH/SIDA" (2006) y coeditor de "Varones: entre lo público y la intimidad" (2004) . Cursó su Maestría en Español en Middlebury College en Vermont y sus áreas de interés abarcan los temas sobre sexualidad, poder e identidad en la novela hispanoamericana.
  • Natalia Matta Jara. BA (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú). Research interests: Latin American Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries, Colonial Andean chronicles, Peruvian oral tradition.
  • Kyle Matthews recibió su BSOF en Español y Música magna cum laude y con honores de la Universidad de Indiana en Bloomington en 2003. Sus intereses incluyen la narrativa mexicana contemporánea (de la Revolución en adelante), la intersección de historia, memoria y el proyecto historiográfico, y el mantenimiento de este sitio.
  • Allison Moore is in her third year at Brown. Originally from Northen California, she holds a BA and an MA in Spanish from Middlebury College in Vermont. After spending a year at the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara in Mexico, Allison’s accent and her heart are Mexican. However, her research interest is Golden Age Spain.
  • Ezio Neyra
  • María del Mar Patrón Vázquez. Honors B.A. in Literature from the Universidad de las Americas-Puebla (Mexico). Her B.A. thesis dealt with the literary portraiture as a reflection of the portrait writer’s conception of the author as a subject of creation. She is interested in studying the status reshaping of the critic and the fictional writer in contemporary Latin-American societies. Other interests include the intellectual history of Latin America of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries; Latin American contemporary literature and essay writing; and Inter-American contemporary relations in the literary, critical, cinema, popular, and cultural fields.
  • María Pizarro Prada. Licenciada en Filología Hispánica en la Universidad de Salamanca (España). Actualmente en proceso de redacción de su tesis doctoral sobre las Obras reunidas del escritor nacionalizado mexicano Alejandro Rossi para la misma universidad. En Brown cursa su primer año de PhD. Interesada en Literatura Latinoamericana en general, insular en particular.
  • Maria Sardinas.
  • Carmen Saucedo received her BA in Humanities with mention in Linguistics and Literature from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, in Lima. She also got a diploma in Librarian and Information Sciences at the same institution. Her area of interest is twentieth-century Latin American Narrative.
  • Heike Scharm, a native from Germany, received her B.A. in French and Spanish and her M.A. in Romance Languages from the University of Alabama. Her main research interest is contemporary Spanish literature, especially the works of writer and King of Redonda, Javier Marías.
  • Sara Snider
  • Jorge Terukina Yamauchi. B.A. (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 1999), MA (University of Kentucky, 2003). Research interests focus on 16th and 17th centuries, especially Juan de Espinosa Medrano, theater, emblem studies and imperial festivities. Other interests include medieval exempla, 18th-century colonial Peru, and 19th-century Latin American poetry.
  • Esther Truzman. Esther's major paper examined how the medical and mystical discourses in Clarin's LA REGENTA complement each other in portraying a case of hysteria. She is currently working on her dissertation, which examines fin de siècle Spanish authors: How the changing relationship with Latin America informs and shapes national identity in the press; and how these articles provide a key to interpreting their literature. Her main areas of interest are 19th and 20th Century Peninsular Literature.
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  • Felipe Valencia (Colombia-Spain; B.A. in Hispanic Philology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid ’06) is interested in Renaissance and Early Modern literature, particularly lyrical poetry, humoralism, love and melancholy. (Colombia-Spain; B.A. in Hispanic Philology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid ’06) is interested in Renaissance and Early Modern literature, particularly lyrical poetry, humoralism, love and melancholy.
  • Charlotte Whittle
  • Daniella Wittern recibió su BA en Español summa cum laude y con honores de Hamilton College en 2002, donde escribió una novela bilingüe titulada, Entre lenguas. Sus áreas de interés incluyen la literatura contemporánea de América Latina, y cine de ambas orillas del Atlántico.