Our Graduates Publish
Books
Recent
Books by the Department of Romance Languages Students
Several
former students who received a degree from the Department of Romance
Languages have been successful in publishing books in 2001 and
2002.
Carlos M.
Coria-Sánchez, (MA, 1996; Ph.D., 1999) assistant professor
of Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and
German Torres (Ph.D., 1996), assistant professor of Spanish at
Georgia State University are the editors of Visiones:
Perspectivas literarias de la realidad hispana, published
in 2002 by Yale University Press’s Language Series books.
Written for intermediate and advanced students of business Spanish,
the anthology is also an appropriate supplement for Spanish culture
and international business classes.
Karen Guffey
(MA, 1988), assistant professor at Gordon College, has recently
published two books, one in the area of Spanish syntax and a novel
aimed at the adolescent reader. Her Spanish
Syllable Structure was published in 2002 by the University
Press of America; and her novel, Breathtaking
Changes, was published in 2001 by AmErica House Book Publishers.
Leonel Lemarchand
(Ph.D., 1998), assistant professor of French at Georgia Institute
of Technology, is the author of Lettres
Censurées des Tranchées–1917–Une place
dans la littérature et l’histoire, published
by Harmattan in the Collection Mémoires du XXème
Siècle.
Ignacio López
Calvo (MA, 1993; Ph.D., 1997), assistant professor of Spanish
at California State University at Los Angeles, recently published
Written
in Exile: Chilean Fiction from 1973-Present. This study of
the Chilean narrative following the Pinochet dictatorship was
published by Garland Publishers in 2001 as part of that press’s
Latin American Studies series. A second book, Religión
y militarismo en la obra de Marcos Aguinis 1963-2000 was published
by Edwin Mellen Press in 2002.
The latest
book by Alberto Moreiras (Ph.D., 1987), the Anne and Robert Bass
Professor of Romance Studies and Literature at Duke University,
is The
Exhaustion of Difference: The Politics of Latin American Cultural
Studies, published by Duke University Press in 2001.
Kristen E.
Shoaf (MA, 1995, Ph.D. 1999), assistant professor at Bridgewater
State College, recently authored La
evolución idealógica del teatro de José Triana:
Una contextualizacion de la identidad nacional cubana published
by the University Press of America in 2002.
