Graduate Students
Brian Brewer. BA en español (U. de Arkansas) y MA en español (Middlebury College). Área de interés: Siglo de Oro.
David Colbert
Polina Decker
Thais Díaz Montalvo
Michele Gardner
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).
Carmen Granda just finished her Master’s degree in Spanish literature with Middlebury College’s program in Madrid. In 2005-2006, she received a Diploma of Spanish Language and Culture from Universidad Complutense in Madrid. In 2005, she graduated with a BA in French and music, Magna Cum Laude, from Middlebury College. Her love for Spain has sparked a passion for its literature, with the Golden Age taking a special place in her heart.
Joanne Kedzierski
Chad Leahy (A.M. Brown University; B.A., Mus.B. Boston University) specializes in Golden Age Spanish Literature, with secondary interests in the Colonial and Medieval periods. He has articles published or forthcoming in several peer-reviewed journals, including Cervantes, Anuario Lope de Vega, Romance Notes, and Revista de Literatura Medieval. His dissertation, under the direction of Antonio Carreño, studies representations of Jerusalem in texts of 17th-century Spain. Chad currently teaches as Visiting Instructor of Spanish at Villanova University.
Irene López-Rodríguez, a native from Salamanca (Spain), holds a BA in English and German from the University of Extremadura, Spain and an MA in comparative linguistics English and Spanish. She is also a sworn translator by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Her main areas of interest are foreign language acquisition, bilingual education, gender studies, literary representations of women and the linguistic and literary constructions of identities.
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 James Matthews. BSOF (Spanish and Music, honors, magna cum laude, Indiana University, 2003); A.M. (Hispanic Studies, Brown University, 2008). His literary interests include modern Latin American literature, with a particular eye for Mexican narrative and essay from all eras. His research interests include the intersection of history and memory in the historiographical enterprise, Jewish Latin American authors, and modern critical theory. Currently a fifth-year graduate student, his thesis research centers around the New Historical Novel in Mexico, focusing on the ways bodies are deployed to formulate and question conceptions of the nation.
Ezio Neyra
José Ramón Ortiz
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 mexicano Alejandro Rossi para la misma universidad. En Brown cursa su tercer año de Ph.D. Interesada en Literatura Latinoamericana y española de siglo XX, en especial cuento y "formas breves".
Carmen Saucedo. B.A. (Linguistics and Literature, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2000); Diploma (Librarian and Information Sciences, PUCP, 2000); M.A. (Hispanic Studies, Brown University, 2006). Her area of interest is twentieth-century Latin American Narrative. Her Dissertation intends to relate Peruvian literary texts that refer to the period of political violence in Peru (1980-1992) with contemporary ethical theory, and representations of difference and alterity. Other interests include the role and impact that disciplines such as Literature play in a national life, and traces of colonial thoughts in modern mentality and interaction in a society.
Sara Snider
Jorge Terukina Yamauchi (A.M. Brown University; M.A. University of Kentucky; B.A., Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) is currently studying the interdisciplinary nature and the political implications of Bernardo de Balbuena’s Grandeza mexicana (1604). His research interests encompass early modern transatlantic and 19th-century Spanish American artifacts and practices. He is also interested in book history, literary historiography, imperial festivals, and emblem studies.
Esther Truzman
Felipe Valencia, B.A. (Universidad Complutense de Madrid ’06): Spanish Golden Age and Spanish American Colonial literature; lyric; melancholy; poetics.
Charlotte Whittle
Daniella Wittern A.M. (Hispanic Studies, Brown University, 2008); B.A. (summa cum laude with honors in Spanish, Creative Writing, Hamilton College, 2002). In her senior year at Hamilton, Daniella received a fellowship to spend a semester in Spain writing a bilingual novel entitled Entre lenguas. Now a fourth-year graduate student at Brown, her master's thesis explored the artificiality of language in the dialogue Fernando Vallejo maintains with the picaresque genre in La virgen de los sicarios. Her current interests include contemporary Latin American literature and film, the interplay between bodies as texts and textual bodies, and the discourse of spectacle in the many versions of the literary endeavor.