Join graduate students in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese for their annual symposia on Hispanic Linguistics and Languages and Literatures.
A call for proposals will be out soon.
Keynote speakers include:
Dr. Christina García is an associate professor of Spanish at Saint Louis University whose research focuses on phonetics & phonology and sociolinguistics. Her main areas of research include sociophonetic variation in Ecuadorian Spanish and L2 acquisition of phonology. She also engages in developing community outreach and service-learning curriculum.
Dr. Meghan Armstrong is an Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at UMass Amherst whose work centers on intonation. Her main areas of research are intonational meaning in Spanish, Catalan, and English in both adults and children. More recently, her work involves caretaker and child interactions through a decolonial lens.
Dr. Emanuelle Oliveira-Monte is an Associate Professor of Luso-Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian Literature at the Vanderbilt University. Professor Oliveira-Monte’s research interests include Afro-Brazilian literature, race relations, race in comparative perspective, the Afro-Diasporic experience, the relationship between politics and literature, literature of human rights, as well as Brazilian Cinema and Popular Culture.
Dr. Elizabeth Monasterios is Full Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Pittsburgh and co-editor of the Bolivian Studies Journal. Her current research explores post-humanism and post-anthropocentric theories intersecting with Andean epistemologies, multispecies worlding, and feminist philosophy. She is currently preparing critical editions of Churata's unpublished manuscripts and an English translation of her award-winning book.