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University of Oregon

 

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Graduate Student Conference
Dep't of Romance Languages
1233 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1233
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READING FEAR:
REPRESENTATIONS OF FEAR
IN ROMANCE LITERATURES

 

GRADUATE CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

 

Nicolino Applauso
Doctoral Candidate, Romance Languages
Main Research Interests: comic medieval literature and ethics in Italy and Spain, comparative medieval and modern philosophy, film studies and theater. Research project: The ethics of comedy in medieval Italian and Spanish Literature.

Blanca Aranda
Doctoral Student, Romance Languages
Researching orality in the Mesoamerican, Caribbean and Andean Twentieth-Century novel and contemporary textual production.

Sonja S. Burrows
Doctoral Student, Romance Languages
Researching cultural displacement as a vehicle for Spanish language and culture acquisition for non-native and heritage readers via encounters with contemporary Chicano literary production. Sonja is also the web designer for this conference.

Olivier Clarinval
Doctoral Candidate, Romance Languages
Completing a dissertation titled: "Temple of the Unfamiliar: Childhood Memories in Nina Bouraoui, Ying Chen, and Gisèle Pineau"

Lisa DiGiovanni
Doctoral Candidate, Romance Languages
Dissertation title: "Confrontations with Totalitarian Pasts: The New Historical Novel in Spain and Chile"

Ramon A. Fonkoué

Doctoral Candidate, Romance Languages
Dissertation title: "The Aesthetics and Ethics of Agency in the French Caribbean Novel"

Ana Paulina Mross
Doctoral Student, Romance Languages
Researching the construction of nationalisms in XIXth century Mexico and the representations of Indigenous people and women.

Virginia Piper
Doctoral Student, Comparative Literature
Virginia studies questions of narrative theory with a focus on British, French and Russian nineteenth century novels.

Luis G. Portugal
Doctoral Student, Romance Languages
Researching the Twentieth Century Latin American Baroque and transatlantic poetry.

Jamie Richards
Doctoral Student, Comparative Literature
Working on twentieth century Italian and British literatures, the theory and practice of literary translation, psychoanalysis, and queer theory.