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Francine A'ness
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Dartmouth College
Emiliano Corral
Post-Doctoral Scholar, Dartmouth College
Mona Domosh
Department of Geography,
Dartmouth College
Mona Domosh is a cultural/historical/feminist geographer with research interests
in the form and function of 19th-century cities, theories of consumption in
relation to urban space, and 19th-century American imperialism. In her new
research project she explores the gendered and racialized ideologies and
discourses of American 19th-century commercial imperialism.
Gerd Gemünden
Department of German,
Dartmouth College
Gerd Gemünden, Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, studied
German, English and Philosophy at the University of
Tübingen and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon (Ph.D. 1988). His
specialties include contemporary German literature and film, literary theory, and
travel literature. He is the author of articles on R. W. Fassbinder, Peter
Handke, Heiner Müller, and Wim Wenders. In 1990 he published Die hermeneutische
Wende: Disziplin und Sprachlosigkeit nach 1800 and, in 1998, Framed Visions:
Popular Culture, Americanization, and the Contemporary German and Austrian
Imagination. He co-edited The Cinema of Wim Wenders: Image, Narrative, and the
Postmodern Condition (1997) and Wim Wenders, Einstellungen (1993). Two of his
recent studies are available on the web: an analysis of East German
'Indianerfilme' and an essay on Brecht's work in the film industry in Hollywood.
He is currently working on a study of German and central-european exiles and
émigrés who worked in the Hollywood film studios between 1933 and 1950.
Melissa Hyams
Department of Geography, Dartmouth College
Patricia McKee
Department of English,
Dartmouth College
Boris Muñoz
Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Boris Muñoz was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and studied journalism at
the Universidad Central de Venezuela. He
is a graduate student from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at
Rutgers University.
As a journalist he has published several
many articles in different Venezuelan and Latin American newspapers, journals and
magazines. He also is co-author of the
book La ley de la calle. Testimonios de jovenes protagonistas de la
violencia en Caracas (The Streets' Law), in collaboration with Jose Roberto
Duque. At this moment he is
writing his Ph.D. Dissertation entitled Ciudad, violencia y globalizacion
en la
cronica latinoamericana (City, Violence and Globalization in Latin
America's
Chronicles. This project is an attempt to combine both spheres of his
creative and intellectual activity. Among others, he has received the
following honors: the Primer Accesit a la Primera Edicion del Premio
Internacional de
Periodismo Fernando Lazaro Carreter (First Accesit to The I International
Prize for Journalism Fernando Lazaro Carreter), Madrid 2000, the First
Place for the Louis Bevier Fellowship and The Dissertation Teaching Award,
both from Rutgers University.
Donald Pease
Department of English, Dartmouth College
Claudia Sadowski-Smith
Department of English, State University of New York at Fredonia
Claudia Sadowski-Smith is assistant professor of English at SUNY Fredonia. She
has published articles on border theory, literatures of the U.S.-Mexico border,
and post-Wall Eastern Europe in journals such as Diaspora, Postmodern
Culture, and The Comparatist. Sadowski-Smith is currently editing a
collection of essays, entitled Globalization on the Line: Culture, Capital, and
Citizenship at U.S. Borders and is at work on a book, tentatively titled Border
Fictions: Globalization and Translationalism in Literature about U.S. Borders.
Claudia Sadowski-Smith
Department of English, SUNY-Fredonia
Silvia Spitta
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Dartmouth College
William Summers
Department of Music, Dartmouth College
William John Summers, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., is a historical musicologist on the
faculty of music at Dartmouth College. He is the founder and Coordinator of the
International Hispanic Music Study Group, a worldwide confederation of
approximately 150 scholars and performers who explore music from or inspired by
the cultures of the Iberian Peninsula. Summers is author of the book
Fourteenth-Century English Polyphony (1983), and more than seventy articles and
reviews that have appeared in Early Music History, Music and Letters, The Journal
of Musicology, Revista de Musicología, Inter-American Music Review, Research
Chronicle of the Royal Musical Association, and four Congress Reports of the
International Musicological Society. The more than twenty published studies on
the music of the Missions of Alta California place Summers as the leading scholar
of this musical tradition.
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Maarten van Delden
Hispanic and Classical Studies, Rice University
Maarten van Delden is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature at Rice
University. He is the author of Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity
(Vanderbilt UP, 1998). Currently he is working on a series of articles on
literary and cultural relations between the US and Mexico.
Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez
Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, The Pennsylvania State University
Dennis Washburn
Department of Asian Studies, Dartmouth College
Kenton Wilkinson
Division of English, Classics, Philosophy, and Communications
University of Texas at San Antonio
Kenton T. Wilkinson is an international communication researcher specializing in
Spanish and Portuguese language media in the Americas. He taught at the
Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico before joining the University of Texas at San
Antonio's faculty in 1996. He holds a Ph.D. in Radio-Television-Film from the
University of Texas at Austin, and an MA in Latin American Studies from the
University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Wilkinson's current research interests
include cultural-linguistic markets for electronic media, media advocacy by U.S.
Latino groups, and the reconfiguration of mediated linguistic spaces through the
advent of new communication technologies.
Mark Williams
Department of Film Studies, Dartmouth College
Mark Williams is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Film and
Television Studies at Dartmouth College. He guest-edited a special issue of The
Quarterly Review of Film and Video on U.S. Regional and Non-Network Television.
His study of early television history in Los Angeles, Remote Possibilities, is
forthcoming from The University of California Press. Along with Silvia Spitta,
he is the co-director of this Humanities Center Institute.
Ulises Juan Zevallos-Aguilar
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Dartmouth College
Ulises Juan Zevallos-Aguilar has participated in outreach programs for
the Latino Community in Philadelphia from 1997 to 2000. His latest research is
about the Cultural Identity of Andean Migrants in both the USA and Mexico.
Professor Zevallos' book Indigenismo y nacion. Desafíos a la representación de
la subalternidad quechua y aymara (1926-1930)is forthcoming.
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