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Special Session: 12:00
Mujer negra, raza y género: propuestas de comunicación descolonizadoras del Caribe Migrante. El proyecto La Güira
Georgina Marcelino and Yania Concepción
Organized by Ana Hontanilla and Moderated by Anna Tybinko
Executive Committee Meeting 5:30 – 6:30
Keynote address : 5:30 to 7:30
7:30 – 8:30 – Virtual cocktail hour
Business Meeting, 12:00 – 1:00
12:00
Dean John Kiss, College of Arts and Sciences, UNCG
Roberto Campo, Head of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, UNCG
Mariche Bayonas, President MIFLC 2022, UNCG
Special Session: 12:00
Mujer negra, raza y género: propuestas de comunicación descolonizadoras del Caribe Migrante. El proyecto La Güira
Georgina Marcelino and Yania Concepción
Organized by Ana Hontanilla and Moderated by Anna Tybinko
Session 1: 1:00 – 2:15
1.
Hispanic Studies I: Beyond Catching the Bad Guy: New Directions in Spanish and Latin American Crime Fiction
Organizer and Chair: Leslie Maxwell Kaiura, University of Alabama in HuntsvilleMetafictional Detection and the Search for Identity in Carla Guelfenbein’s Contigo en la distancia
Iana Konstantinova, Southern Virginia UniversityNarcos vs. Fariña: banalización y explotación cultural de lo narco
Sabrina S. Laroussi, Virginia Military InstituteAtheism and the Critique of Religion in Claudia Piñeiro’s Catedrales
Leslie Maxwell Kaiura, University of Alabama in Huntsville
2.
Pedagogy I: Learning Spanish in Virtual Settings
Chaired by Emilia Alonso-Sameño, Ohio UniversityPoliteness Strategies of Foreign Language Spanish Learners in Virtual Educational Settings
Emilia Alonso-Sameño, Ohio UniversityUsing Virtual Exchange to Achieve ACTFL’s Standards in The Foreign Language Classroom
Maripaz García, Yale UniversityForeign Language Teaching and Learning in an Online Context: A Comparative Perspective
Rodica Frimu, The University of Tennessee
Bernard Issa, The University of Tennessee
3.
German Studies: Fossils: Excavation and Memory in Interdisciplinary German Studies
Chaired by Faye Stewart, The University of North Carolina GreensboroReaching Out: The Lyrical Fossil as Catalyst for Thinking Beyond the Human
Martin Dawson, Colgate UniversityFossils of Forgotten Pasts: Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Zülfü Livaneli in Dialogue
Jocelyn Aksin, The University of North Carolina GreensboroFossils of Schnitzler and Hemingway: Queer Failure in Strubel’s In den Wäldern des menschlichen Herzens
Faye Stewart, The University of North Carolina Greensboro
4.
Hispanic Studies II: The Traumatic Memory of the Spanish Civil War
Chaired by Katrina Marie Heil, East Tennessee State UniversityMemory as a Collective Heritage from Trauma: A Confrontation with the Past in El monarca de las sombras (2017) by Javier Cercas
Yenisei Montes de Oca, James Madison UniversityThe Tragedy of Memory: Authentic History in Buero Vallejo’s La tejedora de sueños
Katrina Marie Heil, East Tennessee State UniversitySpectral Poetic Voices of the Spanish Civil War
Lynn Purkey, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Session 2: 2:30 – 4:00
5.
Hispanic Studies III: Music to Make it Through: Latin American Songs in Film and Video Narratives of Escape and Migration
Chaired by Andrea Meador Smith, Shenandoah University“Some Dance to Remember, Some Dance to Forget”: Nostalgia and Fernweh in the music of La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Rivas by Luis Mandoki
Patricia Reagan, Randolph-Macon CollegeCautionary Tale and Crucible: Persuasive Messaging of Migration Corridos
Amy Frazier-Yoder, Juniata CollegeVuelvo para vivir: Going Home Through Music in Lina de Lima
Andrea Meador Smith, Shenandoah UniversityA cal y canto: The Use of Popular Songs in Diego Albala’s Pacto de fuga
Eunice Rojas, Furman University
6.
Pedagogy II: Critical Perspectives in Spanish Heritage Language Education
Organized and chaired by Kelly Lowther Pereira, The University of North Carolina GreensboroCritical Service-Learning: Research and Practice in SHL Education
Kelly Lowther Pereira, The University of North Carolina GreensboroA Dynamic Approach to Assessing Critical Language Awareness (CLA) as Critical Language Educator Selves in a Mixed Service-Learning Setting
Ellen J. Serafini, George Mason UniversityTeacher and SHL Student Beliefs about Oral Corrective Feedback: Unmasking Its Underlying Values and Beliefs
Sergio Loza, University of Oregon
7.
Hispanic/Italian Studies: Fairy Tales, Zombies, Pollution and Apocalypse
Chaired by Greg C. Severyn, Susquehanna UniversityThe Figure of The Zombie, across the Time
Ricardo Sevilla, University of Tennessee KnoxvilleFantasy and Fairy Tales in Fanny Buitrago’s Señora de la miel (1993)
Nancy Denisse Durán, Danville Area Community CollegeMaternity in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction in Works by Costa Rican Anacristina Rossi and Guatemalan Cristina Camacho Fahsen
Greg C. Severyn, Susquehanna UniversityMilitary Activities in Times of Peace: Representations of Pollution
Anna Chiafele, Auburn University
8.
Hispanic Studies IV: Politics and Transgression in the Mexican Novel
Chaired by José Adrián Badillo Carlos, Queens University of CharlotteIs Violence Necessary in a Patriarchal World? Female Transgression in Las mujeres matan mejor and La ira de los murciélagos.
Andrea Garcia de las Bayonas Mayor, The University of North Carolina GreensboroAllegories with Norteño Rhythm: Representations of The Mexican Political System in Corridos
José Adrián Badillo Carlos, Queens University of CharlotteNarcos vs. Fariña: banalización y explotación cultural de lo narco
Sabrina S. Laroussi, Virginia Military Institute
Session 3: 4:15 – 5:30
9.
Pedagogy III: Promoting Inclusive Educational Outcomes of World Language Learning through Course Development, Extra-Curricular Design and Community-Engaged Learning
Chaired by Meiqing Sun, The University of North Carolina at GreensboroFacilitating Critical Consideration of Language and Identity in Heritage Learners through Community-Engaged Learning
Kun-Shan Carolyn Lee, Duke UniversitySoTL in Language & Culture Teaching and Learning
Wen Xiong, Winston-Salem State University in North CarolinaExpand Students’ Engagements: Using Co-Curricular Programs to Build Their Self-efficacy and Community Based Learning Environment
Meiqing Sun, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
10.
Pedagogy IV: Roundtable, Mindfulness Practices in Language Teaching and Learning
Moderated by Michelle Bettencourt, University of North Carolina at AshevilleMichelle Bettencourt
University of North Carolina at AshevilleLorrie Jayne
University of North Carolina at AshevilleChristine LaRocque Swoap
Warren Wilson College
11.
Hispanic Studies V: The Work of Nona Fernandez in Light of Theories of Memory, Human Rights, Space, Contact Zones and Intertextuality
Chaired by Jennifer Miller, Virginia TechIntertextuality and the Spell of the Magazine Cauce in The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernández
Jennifer Miller, Virginia TechThe Scope of Human Rights Discourse in The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernández
Silvia Ranson, Virginia TechThe Spatiotemporal Transformations in the Representation of Nido 20 In Nona Fernández’s The Twilight Zone
Ángela Rubio Coronado, Virginia Tech
Executive Committee Meeting, 5:30 – 6:30
Session 4: 9:00 – 10:30
12.
Hispanic Studies VI: Representations of Latinx Identity: Gender, Sexuality and Being “In-Between”
Organized by Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez (Georgian Court University) and Michele Shaul (Queens University of Charlotte). Chaired by Michele ShaulMaking a Man: The Projection of Masculinity in Luis Alberto Urrea’s The House of Broken Angels
Bryan Pearce-Gonzalez, Shenandoah UniversityTraversing Difference in Young Man of Caracas by T. R. Ybarra
Michele Shaul, Queens University of CharlotteA Chicana’s Journey Back to the Source in Erlinda Gonzales-Berry’s Paletitas de guayaba
Amrita Das, University of North Carolina WilmingtonAnzaldúa’s Queer Joy
Betsy Dahms, University of West Georgia
13.
Francophone Studies I: Power and Female Resistance in Francophone Film and Literature
Chaired by Viviane Koua, Auburn UniversityThe Political Power of Female Friendship in Radu Mihăileanu’s La source des femmes
Sarena Tien, Cornell UniversityEloquent Rage and Gendered Emancipation in Victor Séjour’s “Le Mulâtre”
Andia Augustin-Billy, Centenary College of LouisianaÉcriture féminine et la critique sociale dans Le couteau brûlant d’Hamitraoré
Viviane Koua, Auburn University
14.
Luso-Hispanic Studies: Ways of reimagining and redefining territory, culture, and politics in Latin America
Organized and Chaired by Andreea Marinescu, Colorado CollegeRaúl Ruiz y La recta provincia: Una reimaginación poética del territorio
Ignacio López Vicuña, University of Vermont“Fuera de ley y de hallazgo” las Guaitecas y la imaginación archipelágica
Gonzalo Montero, Virginia TechFrom the Wallmapu to the Mayab: Indigenous rearticulations of language and territory
Andreea Marinescu, Colorado CollegeThe Moçambique Terno in the Our Lady of the Rosary Party in Dores do Indaiá, Brazil: Preservation and Adaptation of Rituals in Religion from Congo to Minas
Jeanine Lino Couto, Winston-Salem State University
Session 5: 10:45 – 12:00
15.
Hispanic Studies VII: Diálogos sobre la construcción de una identidad Latinoamericana Transnacional en la producción literaria del siglo veintiuno
Organizer and Chair: Lizely M. López, University of Tennessee in KnoxvilleLa dualidad identitaria en Smoking Mirrors
Federico González-Rivera, University of Tennessee in KnoxvilleLiteratura transfronteriza centroamericana: la nostalgia de exilio en las obras de Eduardo Halfón y Jacinta Escudos
Sara Rico-Godoy, Eastern Kentucky UniversityShadowshaper: espacialidad y su conexión con la libertad social
Morgan Schneider, University of University of Tennessee in Knoxville
16.
Pedagogy V: Teaching Japanese Culture and Traditional Chinese with Technology
Chaired by Chiaki Takagi, The University of North Carolina GreensboroDesigning Good Culture Courses: Teaching Japan in English
Chiaki Takagi, The University of North Carolina GreensboroTeaching Chinese Through Literature: Approaches to Using Literature with Novie-to-Intermediate Learners
Laura Xie, Virginia Military Institute
17.
Hispanic Studies VIII: 20th and 21st Century Fiction in Argentina and Chile
Chaired by Magdalena Maiz-Peña, Davidson CollegeGenerational Discord and Moral Degradation Seen Through Two Contemporary Argentine Novels
Jason Youngkeit, Claflin UniversityTraces of Jorge Luis Borges and Philip K. Dick in the Fictional Worlds of Roberto Bolaño
Timothy Ambrose, Indiana University SoutheastUrban Neogothic Aesthetics, Ghostly Staging, and Visceral Social Horror: La casa de Adela de Mariana Enriquez
Magdalena Maiz-Peña, Davidson College
Luis H. Peña, Davidson College
18.
Francophone Studies II: Tales of Revolution and Wisdom: Marie de France and Beauvoir
Chaired by Vincent Grégoire , Berry CollegeSisterly Wisdom: Echoes of Hildegard of Bingen in the work of Marie de France
Ellen Thorington, Ball State UniversityBeauvoir Silenced in Quebec in 1959
Vincent Grégoire, Berry College
Lunch 12:00 – 1:00
Session 6: 1:00 – 2:15
19.
Hispanic Studies IX: Mexican Writers in the US or How to Spot a Mexican
Chaired by Krysheida Ayub Unzon,The University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleThe “Patriot Bodies” in the Campus Novels of Mexican Writers in the United States: Deserted Cities by Agustín and the Woman of the Novelist by Urroz
Raúl Carrillo Arciniega, College of CharlestonThe Construction of Mexican Identity in The Southern United States in the Novel Tenesí River by Raúl Carrillo Arciniega
Krysheida Ayub Unzon,The University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleSelf-Objectification in the Novel Hotel Francés by Raúl Carrillo Arciniega
Federico González Rivera, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
20.
Pedagogy VI: Teaching Language, Literature, Culture, and Identity through Food
Chaired by Claudia Valdez, Wake Forest UniversityTeaching Language, Literature, Culture, and Identity Through Food in the Novice-Level Language
Claudia Valdez, Wake Forest UniversityTeaching Language, Literature, Culture, and Identity Through Food in the Intermediate-Level Language Classroom
Alison Atkins, Wake Forest UniversityTeaching Language, Literature, Culture, and Identity Through Food in the Advanced-Level Language Classroom
Silvia Tiboni-Craft, Wake Forest University
21.
Hispanic Studies X: Poetry and Editions as Collaboration
Chaired by Rudyard J. Alcocer, The University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleSolitude in the Americas: “Mi vida con una ola” by Octavio Paz
Rudyard J. Alcocer, The University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleJosé Miguel Ibáñez and the Poetics of Dogma
Adam Glover, Winthrop UniversityEditions*, Editorial Project as Archive and Collaboration
Gretel Acosta,Tulane University
Session 7: 2:30 – 3:45
22.
Translation Studies: Experiential Learning and Translating Neruda
Chaired by Monica Rodríguez-Castro UNC Charlotte‘Parlaying my Internship into a Job Offer’: Curricular Design of a Graduate Internship Course in Translation and Interpreting Abstract
Monica Rodriguez-Castro UNCTechnics & Techniques in Translating Select Passages of Neruda’s Veinte poemas de amor
John E. Cerkey, Virginia Military Institute
23.
Hispanic Studies XI: Psychology, Social Instability and the Mind
Chaired by Alan G. Hartman, Mercy CollegeHéctor Abad Faciolince’s Voicing Trauma in Testamento Involuntario
Alan G. Hartman, Mercy College“Hijos del cañaveral:” Refashioning Puerto Rico’s Transnational Identity
Lizely López, University of Tennessee KnoxvilleEl Doppelgänger como síntoma de la enantiodromía en Tres tristes tigres de Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1965)
Charles B. Moore, Gardner-Webb University
24.
Linguistics I: Spanish Linguistics
Chaired by Luis Mora, Georgia Gwinnett CollegeOn the Role of Entrenchment and Conventionalization in the “Intransitivization” of Certain Verbs in Spanish
David Korfhagen, East Tennessee State UniversityCross-Linguistic Influence in L2 Explicit Word Syllabification
Juan Garrido-Pozú, Furman UniversitySpanish Idioms Related to Body and Face Vocabulary
Luis Mora, Georgia Gwinnett College
25.
Hispanic Studies XII: Women’s Artistic and Intellectual Networks
Chaired by Verónica Grossi, University of North Carolina GreensboroRebeldes en red: condiciones y efectos del pensamiento radical feminista
Claudia Cabello Hutt, University of North Carolina GreensboroAutoría colectiva de los Enigmas de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Verónica Grossi, University of North Carolina GreensboroEl programa político, artístico e intelectual de Antonieta Rivas Mercado
Leslie Daniel, University of North Carolina Greensboro
Session 8: 4:00 – 5:15
26.
Hispanic Studies XIII: Migration, Disaster and Ecopoetry
Chaired by Adrienne Erazo, Appalachian State UniversityHurricane as feminine power in the work of Ana Lydia Vega, Mayra Santos Febres and Frances Gallardo.
Gretel Acosta, Tulane UniversityThe Making of Monsters: Intersections of Injury and Stigma in 21st-Century Migration Narrative
Adrienne Erazo, Appalachian State UniversitySinging the Triumph of Earthly Things: The Mexican Ecopoetry of Efraín Bartolomé
Jason Pettigrew, Middle Tennessee State University
27.
Pedagogy VII: Pedagogical Activities and Open Educational Resources
Chaired by Mariana Stone, University of North GeorgiaProject-Based Learning Activities and Assessments in Literature Survey Courses
Harrison Meadows, University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleA Theme Based Conversation Class: Using OER To Teach a Conversation Class Themed Around Murder Mysteries
Mariana Stone, University of North GeorgiaLinguistic Landscapes: Pedagogical Tools for the L2 Classroom
Lisa Wagner, University of Louisville
28.
Hispanic Studies XIV: Society and the Novel in Cuba and Bolivia
Chaired by Lori Oxford, Western Carolina UniversityFiction, History, and Memory in the contemporary Bolivian novel.
Jaime Salinas, University of North GeorgiaAllegories of Consumption in Pedro Juan Gutiérrez’s Special Period Narrative
Lori Oxford, Western Carolina UniversityIntellectual Rebellion of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda the Other Face of Sab (1841)
Geser Samuel Sosa Gálvez, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
29.
MIFLC Review Informational Session: Q/A about Submitting and Publishing in the journal
Moderated by Andrea Smith, Shenandoah UniversityAndrea Smith
Shenandoah UniversityEunice Rojas
Furman UniversityBryan-Pearce Gonzales
Shenandoah University
5:15 – 5:45
Nodia Mena
“Diversity without the Right Kind of Reflexivity Does not Yield Equity”
5:45
Ulloa Award winner, presented by Andrea Meador Smith
MIFLC 2023, Shenandoah University, Bryan Pearce-Gonzales
6:00-7:30
Dr. Glenn Martinez
Dean of the College of Liberal and Fine Arts at the University of Texas at San Antonio
“Teaching Spanish for Health Equity and Justice in Latinx communities: Reflections on Spanish in healthcare in and beyond COVID-19.”
The field of teaching Spanish for health professionals has grown considerably over the past two decades. From its beginnings in the 1970s as a “boutique-style” offering molded in the ESP tradition, Spanish for health professionals has blossomed into a multi-disciplinary educational enterprise that spans the medical education pipeline from the undergraduate level through to professional school programs and residencies across the health care disciplines. The National Association for Medical Spanish (NAMS) founded in 2018 reflects the progress and growing interest in the field. In this talk, I will reflect on the growth of the field and consider the ways in which the simultaneity of a global pandemic and a racial reckoning in the US have fundamentally altered its course of development. After describing these changes, I will outline a model of teaching Spanish for health equity and justice that emphasizes ethical listening, raciolinguistic perspectives, and continuous critical reflection. I will provide examples of how this model is put into practice and highlight outcomes in multiple educational settings.
Immediately following these sessions, all participants are invited to enjoy a virtual networking cocktail hour from 7:30 – 8:30.
Session 9: 9:00 – 10:15
30.
Hispanic Studies XV: Crisis, Revolution, and Exile
Chaired by Alvaro M. Torres-Calderón, University of North GeorgiaEncuentros postcoloniales en el exilio republicano en México en Los rojos del ultramar de Jordi Soler
Adriana Rivera Vargas, Asbury UniversityMemories Documented: Image and Narrative in the Film Memorias de un mexicano (1950)
Maria Zalduondo, Independent ScholarInternal Space, Change and Politics in Laura Esquivel’s Pierced by the Sun
Alvaro M. Torres-Calderón, University of North Georgia
31.
Pedagogy VIII: Second Language Acquisition
Chaired by Emily Claire Krauter, Furman UniversityDoes Language Matter? Investigating the Connection Between Linguistic Knowledge and Cultural Awareness in Short-Term Study Abroad
Emily Claire Krauter, Furman UniversityInteraction Opportunities in the Classroom: An Overview of a 4yr. Program
Tiffany Robayna, Samford University
Laura Gil, Florida State UniversityLa nostra impresa: Mock Products and Companies in the Business Italian Classroom
John Welsh,Wake Forest University
32.
Linguistics II: Bilingualism and Codeswitching
Chaired by Bryan Koronkiewicz, The University of AlabamaCodeswitching and Language Use in Bilingual Catholic Masses
Kristi Hislope, University of North GeorgiaElla se mordió her tongue: Inalienable possession in Spanish-English code-switching
Bryan Koronkiewicz, The University of AlabamaSimultaneous Spanish English bilingualism
Daniel J. Smith, Clemson University
Session 10: 10:30 – 11:45
33.
Pedagogy IX: Acquisition of Intercultural and Pragmatic Competence, and Grammatical Gender
Chaired by Valerie Wust, NCState UniversityRamifying Medical Spanish Pedagogy: Toward Pragmatic Competence and Cultural Humility
Michael J. Menzies, The University of Texas at San AntonioDeveloping Intercultural Competence Through Perspective-Taking
Rachel Krantz, Shepherd University
34.
Hispanic Studies XVI: Narratives of Defiance: Women, Violence and Power
Chaired by Xabier Granja, The University of AlabamaJusticia sangrienta: la función literario-legal de la efusión sanguínea en las novelas de María de Zayas
Xabier Granja, The University of AlabamaAna María Martínez Sagi’s Poetry in Exile
Francisco Javier Sánchez, Stockton University
35.
Hispanic Studies XVII: New Approaches to the Spanish Early Modern Canon
Chaired by Lourdes Albuixech, Southern Illinois UniversityTurning the Old Don Quixote into Kid Stuff
Lourdes Albuixech, Southern Illinois UniversityA Biblical Analysis of Wealth and Power in the poem Poderoso caballero es Don Dinero de Francisco Quevedo
Ismênia Sales de Souza, US Air Force Academy
Geraldo Soares de Souza, Jr., Independent ScholarApproaches to Teaching Garcilaso de la Vega: Reimagining Canonical Writers in the Spanish Mediterranean
Casey R. Eriksen, Independent Scholar
36.
Study Abroad I: Roundtable, DEI and Study abroad in the time of COVID 19
Moderated by Caroline Fache, Davidson CollegeCaroline Fache
Davidson CollegeCarole Kruger
Davidson CollegeSokrat Postoli
Davidson CollegeAmanda Vredenburgh
Davidson College
Business Meeting 12:00
All members welcome and encouraged to attend
We acknowledge that the land we are gathered on has long served as the site of meeting and exchange amongst a number of Indigenous peoples, specifically the Keyauwee and Saura.
Additionally, North Carolina has been home to many Indigenous peoples at various points in time, including the tribes of: Bear River/Bay River, Cape Fear, Catawba, Chowanoke, Coree/Coranine, Creek, Croatan, Eno, Hatteras, Keyauwee, Machapunga, Moratoc, Natchez, Neusiok, Pamlico, Shakori, Sara/Cheraw, Sissipahaw, Sugeree, Wateree, Weapemeoc, Woccon, Yadkin, and Yeopim.
Today, North Carolina recognizes 8 tribes: Coharie, Lumbee, Meherrin, Occaneechi Saponi, Haliwa Saponi, Waccamaw Siouan, Sappony, and the Eastern Band of Cherokee.
We honor and respect the diverse Indigenous peoples connected to this territory on which we gather.
