1. Art and Diseño

We gratefully acknowledge the funding support of the
Jay & Ruth Halls Visiting Scholar Fund, the Latin
American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program,
and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese in
making our plenary speakers’ presence on campus
possible.
MID-AMERICA CONFERENCE
ON HISPANIC LITERATURE
PYLE CENTER
702 LANGDON STREET
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINMADISON
Guillermo Gómez-Peña's residency at the Center for
Visual Cultures is generously supported by the
following: Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies
Program, Department of English, Department of Art
History, UW-Madison Lectures Committee, Fredric
March Play Circle Theatre, Memorial Union, and the
Anonymous Fund. And generously co-sponsored by
the Art Department, Chican@ and Latin@ Studies
Program, Department of Gender and Women’s
Studies, and Department of Theatre and Drama.
MACHL 2014 Organizing Committee
(UW-Madison, Spanish and Portuguese)
OCTOBER 9 – 11, 2014
Alicia Cerezo Paredes
Loredana Comparone
Paola Hernández
David Hildner
Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014
3. Heroines, Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Medieval Spanish
Literature
Pablo Ancos-García, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
Registration (Pyle Center Lobby), 12:00 noon – 5:30 p.m.
2:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Room
205
1. Neoliberal Scraps: Representations of Violence in Recent
Latin American Narrative
Rubén Medina, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
John Burns, Rockford University (discussant)
Room
213
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Joseph Patteson, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“Narconarratives: A Reconsideration ‘Beyond the
Aesthetics of Sobriety’”
Anna Hundt-Golden, University of WisconsinMadison, “Policide and Feminicide: the
Manifestations of Violence in Roberto Bolaño’s
Literary Aesthetic”
Giosuè Alagna, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“The subversivo Subject in Times of War: Four
Peruvian Novels”
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4:00 – 5:45 p.m.
4. Allegories and Metaphors in Mexican and Argentine Film
Pablo Ancos-García, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
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Room
225
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2. Spaces of Dictatorship in the Southern Cone: Prisons,
Museums, Magazines and Exile
Nancy Gates-Madsen, Luther College (chair)
Room
225
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Megan Corbin, West Chester University, “The
Material Ally in Survival: Uruguayan Prison
Narratives and the New Noticing of Things”
Nancy Gates-Madsen, Luther College, “Speaking for
Itself? Jonathan Perel’s El predio”
Gonzalo Montero, Washington University –St.
Louis, “Revista Manuscritos: Intervenciones críticas
en el Chile dictatorial”
Eric Rojas, Pittsburg State University, “Exilio y
enajenación en Morir en Berlín de Carlos Cerda”
Katherine P. Oswald, University of WisconsinMadison, “The Evolution of a Hero: Bernardo del
Carpio’s Presence in the Wars of Alfonso III”
Rocío Rubio Moirón, University of WisconsinMadison, “Las heroínas del Libro de Apolonio: una
mujer en tres”
Priya Ananth, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“Alexander the Great’s Kingship and Sin: The
Duality of a Medieval Hero”
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Herbert J. Brant, Indiana University-Purdue
University Indianapolis (IUPUI), “¿Por qué será que
los putos se divierten así?: Cynicism and Sexuality
in Bizzio’s ‘Cinismo’”
Luis Alberto Rodríguez Cortés, The University of
Kansas, “Buscando el axolote: alegorías de la
identidad en filmes de formación mexicanos”
Javier Barroso, The University of Kansas, “Cuentas
pendientes: El tropo de la venganza en tres filmes
mexicanos de la época de la guerra contra el narco”
Parizad Dejbord-Sawan, The University of Akron,
“La mirada sobre el cuerpo de la mujer en el Nuevo
Cine Argentino”
5. History, Memory, and Materiality: Telling and Re-telling the
Past
Frieda Blackwell, Baylor University (chair)
Room
213
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María López Soriano, University of Kentucky, “La
comedia salvaje o por qué España no existe”
Katie Ginsbach, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“The Historical Novels of Arturo Pérez-Reverte and
Pío Baroja: History, Storytelling and Popular
Literature”
Frieda Blackwell, Baylor University, “Materiality,
Text, and Historical Memory in El rayo dormido by
Carmen Amoraga”
7. Female Modernities in the Press, Photography and
Literature of the Late 19th and Early 20th Century
Carmen Pereira-Muro, Texas Tech University (chair)
Room
205
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6. Unmasking Power: Articulating Challenges to Official
Discourses
Katarzyna Beilin, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
Room
309
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Edith Beltrán, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“Sicario Testimonies in México: Divulging Public
Secrets of the Narcosphere; the Victim, Narcolanguage, and Bodies”
Evelyn Galindo-Doucette, University of WisconsinMadison, “Re-membering Political Violence:
Performance and the Image in Salvadoran and
Guatemalan Artistic Production (Muriel Hasbún,
Jorgelina Cerritos, Regina José Galindo)”
Francisco Puerto, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“El espejo quebrado: denuncia social y sátira política
en el humor gráfico de Andrés Rábago, ‘El Roto’”
Deneille Erikson, University of Wisconsin Madison,
“Private Violence and Public Discourse: ‘Situated
Knowledges’ in Icíar Bollaín’s Te doy mis ojos”
Michelle M. Sharp, University of Saint Thomas,
“Page Turners: Carmen de Burgos’s Kiosk
Literature and Spanish Modernity”
Louise Ciallella, Northern Illinois University, “The
Ladies Vanish: Notes on Women and Photography
in Early 1900’s Spain”
Carmen Pereira-Muro, Texas Tech University, “Los
caminos profundos: tiempo y modernidad en La
madre naturaleza de Emilia Pardo Bazán”
Yesenia Blanco, Texas Tech University, “La
creación de una comunidad imaginada a través de la
prensa en La tribuna de Emilia Pardo Bazán”
8. Textos literarios vistos desde la psicología, la lingüística y la
evolución
Diana Frantzen, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
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Room
220
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Michael Rueter, Augustana College-South Dakota,
“Some Considerations on Memetics and AljamiadoMorisco Literature”
Sean Gullickson, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“A Matter of Perspective, a Question of Belief:
Jerónimo de Pasamonte and Cognitive Behavioral
Theory”
Tatevik Gulyamiran, Purdue University, “Sancho reacentuado y su teoría de mente”
Diana Frantzen, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“Linguistic Cues to Changing Perspectives in
Cortázar's ‘Axolotl’”
6:00 p.m. Plenary Lecture: Jacqueline Bixler
(Alumni Distinguished Professor of Spanish,
Virginia Tech University), “Oblivion and
Obsession: Contemporary Mexican Theatre and
Present Pasts” (Room 325/326)
10. Moving Stages: Migrating and Trans Bodies
Stuart Day, University of Kansas (chair)
Room
309
7:00 p.m., Post-Plenary Reception (Alumni
Lounge, 1st floor at rear of building)
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Friday, October 10
(Morning and afternoon break refreshments will be available on
the Pyle Center 3rd floor, outside Room 325/326.)
9:00 – 10:45 a.m.
9. Transoceanic Representations in Colonial Spanish American
Discourses
Margarita Zamora, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
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Room
225
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Kallie Abreu-González, University of WisconsinMadison, “The Imagined Roots of Borinquén: The
Intersection of Race and Gender in La palma del
cacique by Alejandro Tapia y Rivera”
Ben Post, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“Staging Mexican Geography in González de
Eslava”
Verónica Rodríguez, University of WisconsinMadison, “Japan Tlaca: a Chance of (EconomicPolitical) Independence”
Monica Styles, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“The Influence of the African in Bartolomé de las
Casas’ Philosophical Development”
Katherine Ford, East Carolina University, “Inventing
the Past on the Dominican Stage to Write the Future:
Iván García Guerra’s Andrómaca”
Carolyn Malloy, Siena College, “(De)construcción
de fronteras en Selena: La reina del tex-mex de
Hugo Salcedo”
Melissa Huerta, Denison University, “Negotiating
Trans-Mexican Feminidad: Fugue, Memory and
(Im)Migration in Tanya Saracho’s Kita y Fernanda
(2008) and El Nogalar (2010)”
11. 20th and 21st Century Argentine Writers: The Affective
Emotions of Characters
Anna Gemrich, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
Room
220
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Rebecca J. Ulland, Northern Michigan University,
“Novia que te veamos: Reinscribing Women’s Roles
in Liliana Allami’s Short Texts”
Luz Bibiana Fuentes, University of Wisconsin-Eau
Claire, “The Experience of the Body and the
Creative Process in Alan Paul’s El pasado”
Dora Grisel Aranda, Texas Tech University, “El
silencio en ‘La salud de los enfermos’ de Julio
Cortázar”
Matt Johnson, Indiana University –Bloomington,
“The Reflection and Mediation of 1968 in Osvaldo
Lamborghini’s ‘El fiord’”
12. Poetic Answers to Historical Challenges from Dictatorship
to the Transition
Sharon K. Ugalde, Texas State University (chair)
Room
320
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Suzette Acevedo Loubriel, Universidad de Puerto
Rico-Cayey, “La muerte lícita y la propaganda
franquista”
Ángel Otero-Blanco, University of Richmond,
“James Dean, emblema del recuerdo en la poesía de
Alejandro Céspedes”
Paul Cahill, Pomona College, “‘¿Oís la llamada?’:
Everyday Evil and Millenial Memory in Félix
Grande’s La cabellera de la Shoá”
13. Liberal Ideology, Capitalism and the Right to Space:
Alternative Accounts
Ian Davies, Edgewood College (chair)
Room
205
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Antonio Parrilla Recuero, Indiana UniversityBloomington, “From the Right to the City to the
Slums: The Novelization of the Reconstruction of
Post-Civil War Madrid”
Ricardo López, University of California-Berkeley,
“Progressive Politics in Spain’s Fin de Siglo and
José Martínez Ruiz’s La voluntad”
Ian Davies, Edgewood College, “The Crisis of
Capitalism in Recent Spanish Narrative”
14. Masculinities in Motion: Transhistorical Identity
(Re)construction
Britta Anderson, Washington University in St. Louis (chair)
Room
213
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Javiera Jaque, Washington University-St. Louis,
“Masculinidades en crisis: construcciones
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identitarias de misioneros jesuitas en el Chile
colonial del siglo XVII”
Stacy Davis, Washington University in St. Louis,
“Hacer las Américas es hacer el hombre:
(Re)constructions of Masculinity in the Colonial
Characters of Benito Pérez Galdós”
Britta Anderson, Washington University in St.
Louis, “Virgins in Prison: Incarcerated Chicanos’
Appropriations of Guadalupe Imagery”
11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
15. Cuatro problemas para la poesía mexicana
Marcelo Pellegrini, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
Room
220
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Cristián Gómez Olivares, Case Western Reserve
University, “Mónica de la Torre: Post
Mexicanidades”
Sarah Pollack, College of Staten Island-City
University of New York, “‘Todo está de pie’: notas
para la traducción orientada a los objetos”
Tamara R. Williams, Pacific Lutheran University,
“Hacia una poética del libro-poema: Peceras de
Maricela Guerrero y Antígona González de Sara
Uribe”
José Ramón Ruisánchez, University of Houston,
“Poéticas de la intersubjetividad”
16. New Approaches to the Theatre and Narrative of Mexico,
Puerto Rico, and Costa Rica
Hortensia Morell, Temple University (chair)
Room
225
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Hortensia Morell, Temple University, “La
irresistible narrativa criminal de José Luis Ramos
Escobar”
Elaine M. Miller, Christopher Newport University,
“Male Friendships on the Costa Rican Stage in
Mabel Marín’s El último juego”
Deb Cohen, Slippery Rock University, “Teatro de
coincidencia: un acercamiento a la crítica social en
las obras de la costarricense Claudia Barrionuevo”
18. From a Woman’s Perspective: Creation and the Right to
Self-Assertion
Ana Gómez-Pérez, Loyola University-Maryland (chair)
Room
320
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17. Politics and Ethics in Latin American Novels
Alicia Cerezo Paredes, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
Room
309
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Megan O’Neil, University of Kentucky, “A Return
to Indigenismo: Andrés Chiliquinga and Hatuey as
Contemporary Myth”
Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz, University of Delaware,
“‘Un policía honesto, no me haga reír’: (Relatively)
Honest Policemen Investigate Organized Crime in
Novelas Negras by Guillermo Orsi and Ernesto
Mallo”
Carlos Yushimito del Valle, Brown University,
“McOndo en perspectiva: Mapas de la literatura
latinoamericana cosmopolita reexaminados casi
veinte años más tarde”
Francisco Solares-Larrave, Northern Illinois
University, “Hacia una reformulación del realismo
mágico”
Ana Gómez-Pérez, Loyola University-Maryland,
“Feminismo y Vanguardia en Estación. Ida y Vuelta
y La sinrazón de Rosa Chacel”
María Alejandra Zanetta, University of Akron,
“Maruja Mallo y Raquel Forner: la búsqueda de un
nuevo humanismo a través de la pintura”
Allison Libbey, University of WisconsinMilwaukee, “Sociopolitical Allegory in Ana María
Moix’s Julia”
Irina Mozuliova, Texas Tech University, “La
venganza de la bella durmiente en Un noviazgo de
Carmen Laforet”
19. Images of Un/Holy Bodies
Steven Hutchinson, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
Room
205
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Nora Díaz Chávez, University of WisconsinMadison, “Santas y sus reliquias”
Jodie Parys, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater,
“Portaying the Epidemic? Cultural Reflections of
AIDS in López Lage’s ‘Costuras del corazón’ and
Kuropatwa's ‘Cóctel’”
Melissa McCarron, University of Chicago,
“Mapping Neverland: Language, Poetics, and the
Lesbian Body in María-Mercè Marçal’s Terra de
mai (1982)”
Gary L. Atwood, University of Utah, “HIV/AIDS,
Corporeal Malediction and Melancholy: Queer
Temporalities in Luis Antonio de Villena’s Madrid
ha muerto”
20. En la intersección de la sobrevivencia y de la subversividad
Patricia Rengel, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
Room
213
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Irene Jacobsen, Eastern Illinois University,
“Iconoclasm in the Picaresque and the Tango”
Martha Heard, Independent Scholar, “‘Hablando se
entienden’: historia oral en un pueblo de Castellón”
Mónica Simal, Providence College, “Boarding
Home: La poética del espacio como vertedero”
Adrián Xavier Cuevas, Loyola University-Chicago,
“Las múltiples voces de Jesusa Palancares en la
novela de Elena Poniatowska”
4:00 – 5:45 p.m.
21. Reading Practices in Late Medieval and Early Modern
Iberia
Ryan Prendergast, University of Rochester (chair)
Room
205
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1:15 – 2:15 p.m.
Pre-plenary Reception 1:15 – 2:15 (Alumni
Lounge, 1st floor at rear of building)
2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Plenary Session: Paul Julian Smith (Distinguished
Professor, PhD Program in Hispanic and LusoBrazilian Languages and Literatures, The
Graduate Center, City University of New York),
"Ficciones de la crisis: novela, cine, televisión"
(Room 325/326)
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Ryan Prendergast, University of Rochester,
“Avellaneda’s Quijote: Ways of Reading and
Storytelling”
Amy M. Austin, University of Texas-Arlington,
“Reading Images of Translatio Studii in Ramon
Llull’s Arbre de filosofia d’amor (Tree of the
Philosophy of Love)”
Isidro Rivera, University of Kansas, “Reassessing
the Retablo de la vida de Christo (Toledo, Juan de
Ayala, 1545)”
Paul Larson, Baylor University, “Breaking the
Mold: the Non-parable of the Ants in El Conde
Lucanor”
22. Performing “Place”: International Tours, Human Rights,
Diaspora, and Memory in Contemporary Latin American
Theater
Sarah Misemer, Texas A&M University (chair)
Room
213
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Sarah Misemer, Texas A&M University, “Sergio
Blanco’s Kassandra Complex: The Plan for Gender
Equality in Uruguay”
Camilla Stevens, Rutgers University, “Memory and
Masculinity in Marco Antonio Rodríguez’s Barceló
con hielo”
Michelle L. Warren, University of NebraskaKearney, “Photographic Representation: Negotiating
Sites of Memory in Eduardo Rovner’s ¿Una
foto…?”
23. 19th- and Early 20th-Century Debates on Literature,
Criticism and Philosophy
Loredana Comparone, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
Room
225
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Ignacio Javier López, University of Pennsylvania,
“‘Idealismo’ frente a ‘Realismo’: Los orígenes
krausistas de una confusión crítica”
Carlos Andrés, California State UniversityStanislaus, “El delirio filosófico de Larra en ‘La
nochebuena de 1836’ desde el prisma
kierkegaardiano: una reflexión”
Patricia María Gamboa, University of Kentucky,
“‘¿Era esto la vida? ¡Bien! ¡Otra vez!’: Clarín a
través del vitalismo nietzscheano”
24. La guerra no ha terminado: continuidades y resistencias en
el conflicto permanente de la posguerra española
Antonio Cordoba, Manhattan College (chair)
Room
309
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Ana Corbalán, University of Alabama, “Memorias
del exilio: Silvia Mistral y su resistencia al olvido
historiográfico”
Daniel Arroyo-Rodríguez, Colorado College, “La
guerra continúa: la deshumanización del maquis en
Torrepartida (1956), de Pedro Lazaga”
Antonio Cordoba, Manhattan College, “‘Un latido
anormal’: Memoria, modernidad y ciencia ficción en
Una meditación de Juan Benet”
Daniel García-Donoso, Catholic University of
America, “La risa del fantasma: humor y memoria
en El lápiz del carpintero de Manuel Rivas”
25. Thinking Race and Immigration Across the Atlantic
Natalie Belisle, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
Room
320
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Axel Presas, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“Black Citizens-Writers in Chile, Argentina, and
Uruguay: A Literature of Negritude towards a
Material History of Culture”
Diana Santiago, Young Harris College, “Slaves and
Slavery in 19th Century Puerto Rican Literature”
Nick Phillips, Indiana University-Bloomington,
“Mapping Spaces of Immigration in Spanish
Cinema: Las cartas de Alou and Biutiful”
Carmen Toro González-Green, Washington
University-St. Louis, “Rap en la España
Multicultural: El MC como intelectual”
26. Spatial Thinking and Patriotism in Eighteenth-Century
Colonial Spanish America
Mariselle Meléndez, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign
(chair)
 Santa Arias, University of Kansas, “Creoles’
Room
Topophilia”
220
 Rocío Cortés, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh,
“Patria chica y medioambiente: discursos afectivos e
historia natural en textos del siglo XVIII en México”
 Mariselle Meléndez, University of IllinoisUrbana/Champaign, “Patriotic Views of the Port
City of Havana, 1761-1791”
8:00 p.m.--MULTIPLE JOURNEYS
The Life and Work of Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Multimedia Lecture Performance
Elvehjem Building (Chazen Art Museum), L160
Saturday, October 11
(Morning and afternoon break refreshments will be available on
the Pyle Center 2nd floor, near the front stairway.)
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9:00 – 10:45 a.m.
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27. Textos e instituciones en el Dieciocho español e
hispanoamericano
David Hildner, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
Room
320
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Thomas Neal, University of Akron, “Fictions of
Fracture: Representing Transatlantic Hispanic
Cultural Relations in Late 18th-Century Spanish
Narrative”
Argelia García Saldívar, Purdue University, “La
economía doméstica: cuestiones de estado en una
novela de Antonio Valladares de Sotomayor”
Caitlin Beduhn, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“Garden of Ideas: The Alameda as a Locus of
Female Participation during the Enlightenment in
Spain”
Mónica Botta, Washington and Lee University, “La
censura y el teatro público hispanoamericano en la
última fase colonial”
28. Beyond Acting: Expanding Notions of Theatre and
Performance Spaces in Latin(@) America
Paola Hernández, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
Room
309
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Megan Bailon, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“Toward a community of spectators in The
Incredible Disappearing Woman by Coco Fusco”
Laissa Rodríguez Moreno, University of WisconsinMadison, “‘Quien no teme morir cortado en mil
pedazos, se atreve a desmontar al emperador’: El
espectáculo del suplicio en la guerra civil de Perú”
Marin Laufenberg, University of WisconsinMadison, “Tempering Trauma with Humor in the
ESMA: Islas de la Memoria by Julio Cardoso within
el Espacio Cultural Nuestros Hijos”
Christina Baker, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“Dissident Sounds: Las Reinas Chulas’ Satirical
Sonic Performance of the Narcocorrido Genre”
29. Post-Detection Padura I
Vicky Unruh, University of Kansas (chair)
Room
225
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Anke Birkenmaier, Indiana University-Bloomington,
“Leonardo Padura and the New Historical Novel”
Odette Casamayor-Cisneros, University of
Connecticut-Storrs, “‘Cansancio histórico’ y
obsesión utópica en las novelas de Leonardo
Padura”
David Lisenby, SUNY-Albany, “White Lies: The
Politico-Cultural Machinations of Domingo del
Monte in Leonardo Padura’s La novela de mi vida”
30. Gender and Agency in Spanish American Literature
John Burns, Rockford University (chair)
Room
213
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Erica O’Brien Gerbino, Temple University, “La
dicotomía de la mujer destructiva/destruida en la
poesía de Julián del Casal”
Zaida Godoy Navarro, Graduate Center-City
University of New York, “Man against His Female
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Other: Violence and the Formation of Masculinity in
Jesús González Dávila’s El jardín de las delicias”
Eduardo Huaytán Martínez, Purdue University, "La
ciudad de los hombres: Masculinidades,
homoerotismo y afectos homosociales en La ciudad
y los perros de Mario Vargas Llosa”
31. Escribir vidas y viajes desde la época imperial hasta hoy
Ana Rodríguez-Rodríguez, University of Iowa (chair)
Room
220
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Elia Armacanqui-Tipacti, University of WisconsinStevens Point, “Uncovering Writings by Women in
Colonial Latin America”
Ana Rodríguez-Rodríguez, University of Iowa,
“Narrar lo perdido: la escritura testimonial del
fracaso imperial en Libro de cassos impensados y
Memorias del cautivo en La Goleta de Túnez”
Gilberto Gómez, Wabash College, “Viajando por
América Latina sin ver nada: The Panama Hat Trail
y la mirada exótica del turista”
Ginett Pineda, University of Kansas, “La montaña:
el juego de la identidad en la Crónica del Perú de
Pedro de Cieza de León”
32. Exile, Crisis, and Migration as Impulse for Cultural
Creation
Vicente López Abad, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
Room
205
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Carmen Pérez-Marín, Universidad de Puerto RicoRío Piedras, “Las orillas múltiples de Carlos
Fuentes”
Yasmina Vallejos, Purdue University, “La
(re)apropiación de la memoria como mecanismo de
reflexión y acción en Para que no me olvides”
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Joshua Deckman, Pennsylvania State University,
“Hijas de la chingada: Queering of Chicano Identity
and Language in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La
frontera”
11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
33. Cervantes
Mercedes Alcalá-Galán, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
Room
309
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Andrew Schmiege, University of WisconsinMadison, “‘El juez de los divorcios’: Is Marriage a
Farce?”
Kelsey Ihinger, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“Cervantes and the Printing Press: How Studying the
Process of the Early Modern Printing of Comedias
Illuminates Cervantes’s Relationship to Theater”
Paul Chilsen / Matt Borden, Carthage College,
“Filming Don Quijote”
Mercedes Alcalá Galán, University of WisconsinMadison, “Retórica visual: Ekfrasis en el Quijote”
34. Story Spaces: Theatre and/as Power in Spanish America
Michelle Warren, University of Nebraska-Kearney (chair)
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Room
320
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Gail Bulman, Syracuse University, “Sex, Scandal,
and Story Space in Eduardo Adrianzén’s Cuatro
historias de cama”
Sharon Magnarelli, Quinnipiac University,
“Dreaming Places / Staging Dreams: Eduardo
Rovner’s En tren de soñar”
Priscilla Meléndez, Trinity College, “Paisajes en
movimiento: deplazamiento y peregrinaje en
Nuestra Señora de las Nubes de Arístides Vargas”
35. Post-Detection Padura II
Guillermina De Ferrari, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
Room
225
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Emily A. Maguire, Northwestern University, “Una
vida de perros: la ética perruna de Leonardo Padura”
James Buckwalter-Arias, Hanover College, “José
María Heredia, desde lo posmoderno: Una lectura de
La novela de mi vida de Leonardo Padura”
Désirée Díaz, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“Escuálidos y conmovedores: Nuevos sujetos y
subjetividades en la obra de Leonardo Padura”
Vicky Unruh, University of Kansas, "Heresy,
Heritage, Possession: Padura's Herejes”
36. Instances of Crisis: Gender and Sexuality in Modern and
Contemporary Spain
Ryan A. Davis, Illinois State University (chair)
Room
220
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Carmen Sanchis Sinisterra, Graduate Center-City
University of New York, “Directoras españolas
representan hombres en crisis: Gracia Querejeta y El
último viaje de Robert Rylands”
Isaac García Guerrero, University of WisconsinMadison, “Representaciones reaccionarias: La
pervivencia del patriarcado durante la Segunda
República española y su reproducción actual”
Ryan A. Davis, Illinois State University, “Sicaliptic
Sex Ed: The Literary Eugenics of César Juarros”
37. Debates on Ethics of Life in Contemporary Spain I
Juan F. Egea, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
Room
213
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Eugenia Afinoguénova, Marquette University, “The
Ideologies of ‘Quality of Life’ at the End of
Franco’s Dictatorship”
Luis I. Prádanos, Miami University of Ohio, “Degrowth and Ecological Economics in 21st-Century
Spain: Toward a Posthuman Economy”
Sainath Suryanarayanan & Katarzyna Beilin,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Still Different?:
Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture in Spain”
38. Lo lúdico y lo virtual en el presente y el pasado hispánicos
Suzette Acevedo Loubriel, Univ. de Puerto Rico-Cayey (chair)
Room
205
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Yuriko Ikeda, Texas Tech University, “La España
Zombie: el surgimiento y la lucha de los muertos
vivientes por conquistar España”
Kyeongeun Park, Washington University-St. Louis,
“La imaginación capitalizada en la era de la
tecnología: Sol artificial de J. P. Zooey”
Juan Morilla, Texas Tech University, “El Atahualpa
ajedrecista: una observación a la negación de Olaf
Holm”
María Ghiggia, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“‘Jugando con el pasado’: historia, memoria y
juegos de guerra en El Tercer Reich de Roberto
Bolaño”
12:45- 2:00 p.m. Lunch
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2:15 – 4:00 p.m.
39. Genre and Identity in 16th-17th Century Peninsular
Literature
Mary Jane Kelley, Ohio University (chair)
Room
220
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Olympia González, Loyola University-Chicago, “La
epístola de don Juan de Arguijo a un religioso de
Granada: indicio textual de una comunidad de
emociones”
Cassidy Reis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “El
retrato frustrado en la poesía de Catalina Clara
Ramírez de Guzmán”
Rubí Ugofsky-Méndez, University of Mary HardinBaylor, “Impersonation and Disguise in Spanish
Baroque Poetry”
Mary Jane Kelley, Ohio University, “Ironic Echoes
of Love in María de Zayas's Novelas"
40. El mundo narrativo de Jorge Eduardo Benavides
Gabriel T. Saxton-Ruiz, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (chair)
Room
320
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Gabriel T. Saxton-Ruiz, University of WisconsinGreen Bay, “El amor en tiempos de terror: Un
asunto sentimental de Jorge Eduardo Benavides”
Eric Carbajal, Indiana University-Bloomington,
“Intrusos en la capital: la identidad multicultural
capitalina en El año que rompí contigo de Jorge
Eduardo Benavides”
Alex Lima, SUNY-Suffolk Community College,
“Deception and Displacement in the Trilogy of Jorge
Eduardo Benavides”
César Ferreira, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
“Los exilios interiores en La paz de los vencidos de
Jorge Eduardo Benavides”
41. Debates on Ethics of Life in Contemporary Spain II
Alicia Cerezo Paredes, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
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Room
213
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Daniel Ares López, University of WisconsinMadison, “An isolated ‘wild child’ or multi-species
companionship?: exploring the life history of
Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja”
John Trevathan, Indiana University-Bloomington,
The Prestige and Nunca Máis: Old Houses, Black
Holes and Ecological Collectivism”
William Viestenz, University of Minnesota, “Spain
and its Others: Animality, Sovereignty, and the
Bullfighting Polemic”
42. La otra nación del Otro: Identidad desde la distancia
Óscar A. Pérez, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
Sarli Mercado, University of Wisconsin-Madison (discussant)
Room
309
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Giannina Reyes Giardiello, Saint Mary’s College,
“Allá en el Rancho Grande: Espacios liminales en
Love and Rockets de los Hermanos Hernández”
Bretton White, Colby College, “The Impossible
Everyday: Seeing Cuba from Germany”
John Burns, Rockford University, “Jodorowsky:
Fantasy and National Violence”
Óscar A. Pérez, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“Inventions and Discoveries: Spain and Spanishness
in Avel·lí Artís-Gener’s Palabras de Opoton el
viejo”
43. Trash in Contemporary Argentine Cultural Production: A
New Aesthetic Horizon
Micah McKay, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
Room
225
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Djurdja Trajkovic, University of TennesseeKnoxville, “The Aesthetics of Trash in Post-Crisis
Argentina”
Micah McKay, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“The Place of Trash in Three Contemporary
Argentine Novels”
45. Poesía entre la experiencia individual y universal: lo lírico y
lo político en la poesía chilena del siglo XX
Marcelo Pellegrini, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
Room
225
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4:15 – 6:00 p.m.
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44. Performing History, Identity and Belonging: From Golden
Age to Contemporary Theater
Alison Maginn, Monmouth University (chair)
Room
213
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Alison Maginn, Monmouth University,
“Performance and Identity: Street Theater and
Carnival in Cádiz, Spain”
Amanda Gierach, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“Metadrama and Perception in Paco Bezerra's
Dentro de la tierra”
Francisco León-Rivero, Arizona State University,
“La configuración discursiva del destino trágico en
La malquerida, de Jacinto Benavente, y Bodas de
sangre, de Federico García Lorca”
Katherine Robiadek, University of WisconsinMadison, “An Ambiguous Yoke: Human
Commonality in the Related Tragedies of Aeschylus
and Cervantes”
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Vicente López Abad, University of WisconsinMadison, “La concepción del tiempo en Pablo
Neruda: una lectura metapoética de Residencia en la
tierra”
Alec Schumacher, University of WisconsinMadison, “Destellos líricos dentro de la (i)lógica
patafísica: el descubrimiento de momentos líricos y
juicios políticos en las obras enigmáticas de Juan
Luis Martínez”
Carolina Balvín Arévalo, University of WisconsinMadison, “Experiencias individuales y colectivas de
violencia y sacrificio en La Bandera de Chile”
Isabel Suárez, UW-Madison, “Un haikú heavy
metal: marginalidad e intertextualidad en la poesía
de Yanko González”
46. Seres raros del Caribe: Una novelística de la auto-crítica de
los siglos XX-XXI
Chris Schulenberg, University of Wisconsin-Platteville (chair)
Room
205
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Chris Schulenberg, University of WisconsinPlatteville, “Empollones en pena: La breve y
maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao y cómo se pertenece
intertextualmente”
Beatriz L. Botero, University of WisconsinPlatteville, “Ideal del Yo y Yo ideal en Cobro de
Sangre de Mario Mendoza”
Nancy Bird-Soto, University of WisconsinMilwaukee, “¿No para ella?: Quién lee El monstruo,
novela inédita de Manuel Zeno Gandía”
47. Globalized Politics: The Space of Latin American Literature
Aníbal González, Yale University (chair)
Room
309
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Hannah Agauas, Indiana University-Bloomington,
“Cursing and Clamoring for Liberty: Landscape as
Nationalist Propaganda in the Poetry of Juan
Antonio Corretjer”
Aníbal González, Yale University, “Para escribir el
aquí y ahora: globalización y tiempo en Plegarias
nocturnas (2012) de Santiago Gamboa”
Mariel Martínez Álvarez, Washington University-St.
Louis, “Orientalismo y crítica política en Teoría del
alma china de Carlos Aguilera”
Sabrina S. Laroussi, College of Charleston, “Víctima
o heroína: cuando no queda de otra que ser sicaria o
prepago. Un análisis sicológico de los trastornos de
personalidad de Rosario y Catalina”
48. Alternative Communities in Contemporary Latin American
and Iberian Literature
Luis H. Castañeda, Middlebury College & Javier F. González,
Augustana College, South Dakota (co-chairs)
Room
320
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Javier F. González, Augustana College, South
Dakota, “New Cultural Identities in 1960s Mexico:
José Agustín’s ‘Cuál es la onda’”
Luis H. Castañeda, Middlebury College,
“Postnational Citizenship in El síndrome de Ulises
by Santiago Gamboa”
Wladimir Márquez, University of Denver,
“Abusado, O Dono do Morro Dona Marta by Caco
Barcelos, and Cabeça do Porco by Luiz Eduardo
Soares: the favela as an heterotopic
space/community”