UW-Madison Department of Spanish and Portuguese May '23 Newsletter

MAY 2023

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FEATURED EVENTS Ongoing Events

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Past Events

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STUDENT NEWS Awards and News

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FACULTY NEWS Awards

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Publications

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Dear friends and colleagues, As the spring semester officially ends and summer weather returns to Madison, we would like to highlight some of the exciting and engaging events and activities sponsored by our department. In this volume we also call attention to the many scholarly accomplishments that our students, instructional academic staff, and faculty have recently achieved.

Looking back at everything we have achieved since we launched the newsletter last February, I would like to thank faculty, staff, and students for their hard work to keep the department thriving during this busy and eventful semester.

Of course, as we conclude this academic year, we would like to congratulate all our graduating students, and wish them the very best in their new academic and professional endeavors!

We hope that you will enjoy this issue, that you will continue sending us feedback, and that you keep letting us know what you are up to (we love hearing from you!).

Wishing you all the best for a productive and joyful summer!

Ellen Sapega Department Chair

Committed to Change Video Project Saylín Álvarez

This project aims to develop digital content about topics that are inclusive and representative to a diverse student audience. Its goal is to emphasize the diversity of the people and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world, to address current needs in terms of inclusion in language teaching, to reflect on how diversity is represented in the classes we offer, and to help us reach and engage Black, Latinx and other minoritized students by tackling issues that matter to them and that are not sufficiently represented in language teaching materials. The project involves recording interviews and short videos that will be placed on a UW website with the potential to invite students from different ethnicities and backgrounds to explore and discover commonalities between their own experiences and the multiplicity of cultural expressions and ethnic identities of the Spanish-speaking world.

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RICHARD ZENITH A specialist on the work of Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith is an awardwinning author and translator; his most recent book, Pessoa: A Biography, was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography.

In conversation with Mariana Oliveira, PhD student in Portuguese at UW-Madison, Zenith will discuss Pessoa’s experiments in literature, politics, sexuality, and spirituality. He will talk as well about his method for drawing a portrait of the shy office worker lurking behind the many personae he called heteronyms.

ENRIQUE PATO The morning of April 28th, graduate and undergraduate students in our Department enjoyed a presentation by Professor Enrique Pato (Université de Montréal, Canada) on “El español en Montreal: ¿una nueva variedad lingüística?” as part of his project entitled: Corpus Oral de la Lengua Español en Montreal. In the afternoon of the same day, Professor Pato presented another aspect of his research: “On Vernacular Universals and Grammatical Variation in Spanish.”

Both events were made possible by the UW-Madison Anonymous Fund.

WRITING WORKSHOP In the last Writing Workshop of the spring semester, students gathered to discuss Luke Urbain's draft, "'The World from Below’: Affecting Uncertainty through Alternative Photographic Art in Cuba and the Cuban Diaspora".

JOB MARKET WORKSHOP The Department of Spanish and Portuguese presented a two sessionworkshop to help all graduate students have a clear idea and understanding of the job market and the process of applying for jobs here in the US.

DICCIONARIO DEL ESPAÑOL DE MÉXICO The Consul of Mexico in Milwaukee and poet and lexicographer Francisco Segovia (Colegio de México, COLMEX) visited UW-Madison for the presentation of the new online edition of the Diccionario del Español de México.

MAKING ART IN CUBA Cuba is torn apart by economic crisis, political division, and climate change. It is also an aesthetic powerhouse in which art is the privileged site of civic engagement. On this one-day Symposium, four young Cuban artists presented their work and discussed their aesthetic strategies and philosophies, the relationship between artists and the state, and about making art after Cuba.

CRIMINAL

TEATRO DÉCIMO PISO PRESENTS

PEQUEÑA TRAGEDIA SOBRE UNA TRANSFERENCIA CONTRATRANSFERENCIAL

(

A SHORT TRAGEDY ABOUT A COUNTERTRANSFERENTIAL TRANSFERENCE

A play by Javier Daulte Directed by Sabina Madrid-Malloy

)

Javier Daulte’s Criminal follows the story of two psychoanalysts, Juan Bueras and Dr. A, trying to stop a crime from being committed. Through multiple therapy sessions, the doctors begin to piece together the lives of their patients including marital issues, mental unrest, and even an affair. In this short tragedy, the logic of desire governs the characters’ actions – and the result has serious, lasting consequences.

1 Pelletieri, Osvaldo. “Javier Daulte y el teatro de la desintegración.” Criminal, Corregidor, 2006.

Roberto G. Sanchez Distinguished Lectureship Fund The purpose of the fund is to provide financial support for guest lectures and events focused on theater and performance, dramatic productions, performances and academic symposia in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.

To donate to the Roberto G. Sanchez Fund, click here.

NORT HWES TERN WORK SHOP

Several of our students participated in a movement workshop with artist Lukas Avendaño in the cluster of performances and conversations entitled: "Labor and Corporealities: Queer of Color Embodied Explorations as Activist Work." This cluster of performances and conversations was part of the Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora Event Series, which this year centered on the theme, "Fatigue: An Ongoing Feeling."

Migrations: Mapping de Body and Memory 4W-STREETS Workshops in Collaboration with the UW UNESCO Chair on Gender, Wellbeing and Culture of Peace, and the Residencia de Estudiantes

Project Directors and Coordinators: Dr. Saylín Álvarez and Álex Lara Participants: Ace Filter, Annika Kennerhed, Hailey Hoff, John Herath, Lizbeth Amaro and Lucy Jumbeck The project Migrations: Mapping the Body and Memory was inspired by the activism and extensive fieldwork and research on human rights, women’s migration, and human trafficking conducted

by Dr. Esperanza Jorge Barbuzano (University of Sevilla, Spain) and Dr. Araceli Alonso (UW-Madison). Working with students from Residencia de Estudiantes and guests, we organized a series of movie screenings, reflection and discussion sessions. These activities were followed by a lecture entitled: "Migrations, Human Trafficking and Maps of the Body and Memory" (Migrant Women from Central America and Sub-Saharan Africa), by Drs. Araceli Alonso and Esperanza Jorge Barbuzano. The last stage of this learning journey were two creative workshops, or Talleres de libros cartoneros, led by Saylín Álvarez and Álex Lara, in which the participants made hand-painted, cardboard-cover books, a modest tribute to all women who migrate, to all migrants in transit.

The cardboard-cover books were part of the Virtual Art Exhibit for the 2023 Conference Sustaining Hope: Feminisms, Freedom, and the Future (April 13-15), co-convened by the UW System Women's and Gender Studies Consortium, and the UW System Office of the Gender and Women's Studies Librarian.

Books by: Residencia de Estudiantes

Book by: John Herath, Annika Kennerhed, and Hailey Hoff

Congratulations to our recent Ph.D. graduates on the defense of their dissertations

Dr. Caitlin Beduhn Caitlin's dissertation, “Una Criatura Racional: Scientific Discourse and Female Participation during the Spanish Enlightenment,”

relates

to

how

terms

of

scientific

discourse and effects of scientific rhetoric, especially in botanical texts, influenced women’s participation and its reception in public and private spheres in Spanish society during the Enlightenment. Her areas of interest include Modern Peninsular Literature, Visual Culture, Science and Technology Studies, and Gender Studies.

Dr. Matthew Burner Mateo's research focuses on the Syntax and Morphology of mass neuter in Asturian, a language spoken in northern Spain.

Other

research

interests

include

Colombian

intonation and prosody and the the derivation of nouns within a DM framework.

Mateo received his BA and MA in Spanish from the University of Central Florida

Congratulations to our recent Masters graduates Lucía Can Estafanía Galindo Leticia Guedes Barbosa Thao Kahn Sara Rodríguez Londoño Daphne Williams-Hutfilz

Spanish Linguistics Spanish Linguistics Portuguese Portuguese Spanish Literature Spanish Literature

College of Letters & Science Teaching Mentor PhD candidate Denise Oyuki Castillo has been offered a position as a College of Letters & Science Teaching Mentor. Every year, L&S welcomes and trains hundreds of new TAs. Teaching Mentors are the heart of this crucial undertaking: they serve as facilitators at the annual L&S Fall TA Training event and provide mentorship throughout the semester. Those selected to be Teaching Mentors have not only a proven track record of excellence as educators, but also a strong desire to share their experience and mentor new TAs navigating their first year.

Congratulations, Oyuki, on this well-deserved recognition!

The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is delighted to announce this year’s Marsha Gray Ehrlich Scholarship Fund recipients. Marsha Gray Ehrlich was a former graduate student in our Department, and an inspirational teacher during her long professional career.

She received a Master of Arts, with a major in Spanish, on August 17, 1968. She carried the preparation she received from our Department and her joy for Spanish to New York, where she taught Spanish and Latin in public schools for more than thirty years, before retiring in 2002. Ms. Ehrlich carried her love and passion for languages inside and outside the classroom, inspiring colleagues and family alike.

To honor Marsha’s lifelong interest in and commitment to Spanish language and culture, the Donors wish to support students and research through the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. Each year, awards are presented to three third- or fourthyear students who show a sustained commitment to community service related to the Spanish or Portuguese language and/or culture. We congratulate these students on their sustained commitment to community service.

To donate to the Marsha Gray Ehrlich Scholarship Fund, click here.

2023 Marsha Gray Ehrlich Scholarship Fund Recipients Graduating senior William Voigt took advantage of not one, but several opportunities to work with Spanish-speaking and marginalized children. From a summer school opportunity in his hometown, to a parish program in the poorest neighborhood in all of Spain while studying abroad, to an after-school program here in Madison, he built relationships with these students while helping them succeed in both large and small ways. Upon learning he had been selected, William had this to say: “I am deeply humbled and honored to be a 2023 Marsha Gray Ehrlich Scholarship Fund recipient. As an undergraduate at UW-Madison, I have had the amazing opportunity to put my Spanish language skills to use in a way that has allowed me to grow."

Senior Inès Bengana has focused, since a young age, on helping people. She was recognized for her work as an interpreter in a free medical clinic in Madison helping the resident doctors provide patient care to a largely Latinx population. Additionally, she has volunteered with her high school to discuss Spanish in the real world and encourage Spanish study as a way of understanding and connecting with Latinx culture. She says, “I am exceptionally grateful and honored to be chosen as a recipient of the Marsha Gray Ehrlich scholarship this year. The UW-Madison Department of Spanish & Portuguese has equipped me with knowledge not only on the Spanish language, but the cultural and linguistic diversity that exists within Spanishspeaking populations, which has allowed me to apply Spanish in a meaningful way in the community. Volunteering at a free medical clinic working with and interpreting for Spanish speaking patients has opened up my eyes to the very real struggles of immigrants as well as the language barriers that may exist for them. This experience has had a strong impact on me and reaffirmed my goal as a hopeful future physician to serve those from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.

I would like to thank the Marsha Gray Ehrlich Scholarship Fund, the UW-Madison [Department of Spanish & Portuguese] , Belinda Bjerkvold, who planted the seeds for my love of Spanish, Charlotte Wiley, who gives me constant reassurance and confidence in my Spanish, and my family and friends for undying support.”

Hilldale Award Recipient Congratulations to Cailie Keating for her 2022 Hilldale research project award completed with Professor Grant Armstrong! Cailie presented parts of her project this spring semester at the 17th Workshop in General Linguistics (“Quechua’s Pseudo-Reflexiveku, Voice, and Little v”) and at the Linguistics Fridays Colloquia (“An analysis of Quechua’s pseudo-reflexive morphemes”). Cailie plans to continue her work on Quechua during her graduate studies at Georgetown University where she has been accepted into the Ph.D. program in Spanish Linguistics to start next Fall 2023. Congrats and Best Wishes, Cailie!

Departmental TA Awards Jamie de Moya-Cotter was selected to receive the Fall Semester Theme-Based Departmental Teaching Award. This award recognizes "one TA for their creativity and innovation regarding the following topic: Encouraging students’ language development through purposeful and engaging classroom practices."

Congratulations, Jamie! Congratulations as well to our finalist: Florencia Mazzei.

Isabel Martín-Sánchez was selected as the recipient of the Spring Semester Departmental TA Award. This award “aims to recognize one TA for their all-around performance, dedication, and collegiality." Felicidades, Isabel! Congratulations also to our two finalists: Jorge Hernández Lasa and Luke Urbain.

The winners and finalists will present their materials next semester.

Spring 2023 Spanish and Portuguese Graduates Jungwirth, Charlie CERTIFICATE IN SPANISH STUDIES SPANISH MAJOR Ross, Margaret Kasten, Jenna Rose FOR BUSINESS MAJORS Aldama Barreto, Sandra Russell, Leah Keating, Cailie M Andries, Claire Alvarez, Areli Vejar Salazar, Jocelyn Gissele Kennon, Erin Elizabeth Becker, Holly Ste. Marie Andes, Brody David Sanchez-Hernandez, Leslie Kesler, Karlee Jean Bodet, Katie Barta, Martha Savaglia, Meghan Arlene Kick, Ramona Jean Cardillo, Laura Battenberg, Samantha Jo Schulz, Nick Klare, Allison Morgan Carlin, Mackenzie Bazala, Mattea Joy Snell, Ashley Mae Klauser, Katie Carter, ABE Blad, Elsa Kathryn Songstad, Giana Knaak, Savannah Carolyn Coffey, Riley Blazek, Larissa Elizabeth Steinberger, Taylor Madison Koehler, Katherine Goldstein, Gabriella Alexis Boettcher, Emily Mae Stettbacher, Shalome Marie Koester, Faith Grady, Margaret Maddix Bono, Josie Jayden Stratman, Kaitlyn R Kostas, George Hanlon, Kelly Jean Bora, Ragini Tesch, Emily Lynn Kotz, Jack Harrison, Mary Talitha Breher, Nina Elizabeth Tolppi, Taylor Paige Krawczyk, Andi Hershkowitz, Maya Byerly, Louise Anne Tomes, Allison Nicole Kreuser, Hannah Xiaoyan Holtzman, Adam Chapin, Elizabeth Catherine Turicek, David Patrick Krisberg, Emma Kachel, Madeline Marie Chemer, Cassidy Jane Ura, Hirochi Nahomi Kucko, Gabrielle Rose Koehler, Audrey Click, Abri Roe Troutte Valine, Elijah Liebelt, Josh Kreger, Marley Rae Corliss, Brooks Lee Voigt, William Churchill Linsley, MaryGrace Lappe, Ryan John Corona, Francisca Ana Waddell, George William Livermore, Margaret Larson, Isabel Julia Darmody, George Andrew Walsh, Catherine Zelda Marquetti, Isabella Marie Mais, Nathan David Degnan, Maggie Webster, Amberlee Joy Mavencamp, Eileen Frances Whelan Tweedt, Grace Elizabeth Metz, EVAN Dentice, Emily Ann May, Nelson Daniel Micoley, Tahlia DiSano, Julia Anne White, Nathan Manley Miller, Sam Nietfeld, Hannah Elizabeth Distler, Emily Jo Wood, Carter Hayes Minner, Lucy Michael Navin, Cole Dugan, Anna Marie Wruk, Erin Grace Mjaanes, Gabriela O'Donnell, Alexandra Brianne Ekman, George Zadrazil, Kaleigh Jensen Montgomery, Skylar Joycelin Porras, Nina Grace Foth, Brianna Moreland, Brianna Renee Price, Morgan Elizabeth Friedrichs, Ashlyn Noelle Mulrooney, Sara Katherine Puccetti, Marissa Nicole Geise, Rylan Russell Nelson, Keely Sue Russell, Hanna Jane Gill, Alyssa C PORTUGUESE MAJOR Nestel, Julia Sanchez, Jaqueline Gogerty, Luke Ryan Cushman, Payton O'Neill, Anne Katherine Schoen, Julia Grindle, Emma Danielson, Larissa Caminha Ohm, Nicholas Christopher Siderits, Emily Gsell, Anna Christine Pelossof, Natasha Esther Stacker, Lauren Hawes, Madyson Perez, Aldana Leela Tocher, Caroline Helgeson, Marianna Pittman, Emma Jane Vilker, Madelyn Kae Henisz, Sophy Price, Elena Mary Hicks, Sophia Elizabeth Reid, Jessie Branigan Hill, Lauren Elise Reiter, Victoria Grace Hoffmann, Nicole Mae Rincon, Luam Hubing, Hannah Patricia Rinella, Cristina Isabel Hueffmeier, Bella Jo Rippentrop, Olivia Jane Ibanez, Francisca Monserrat Rodriguez, Alyssa Marie Innab, Adam

Congratulations to Kata Beilin The film Maya Land: Listening to the Bees has won Socially Relevant Film Festival in New York, in the category of documentaries. The film was written and directed by Kata Beilin and Avi Weinstein. It is based on research led for various years

by Kata Beilin and Sainath Suryanarayanan. The English version of the film was narrated by David Hildner. The music was a gift of Raquel Paraiso and her group Sotavento and Martiniano Pérez Angulo and his group “Tumen K’aay.” The film tells the story of the struggle of Mayan people against monocrop soy plantations in defense of their bees, forests, milpas and water.

We are grateful to everyone who helped us create it, and to Knight Foundation, ASLE, and UW-Madison Graduate School, Nelson Institute, LACIS, and Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, for financial support. We hope that the festival award will help the film's message reach more people, appreciate the wisdom of the Mayan people, and support their fight to save their beautiful territory.

We are happy to announce the publication of Montañas and three or four Ríos. A Bilingual Anthology (2022), a book that includes the works by the award-winning Writers of the City and Nature José Emilio Pacheco and the essays of Scholars from UW-Madison and the University of Guadalajara (from our department: Prof. Kata Beilin, Dr. Sarli E. Mercado & Prof. Ksenija Bilbija).

This anthology was translated by the Women in Translation Project (4W WIT), which includes the participation of a group of local, national, and international writers, translators, and scholars. It was published with the support of the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS), the Spanish and Portuguese Department, the School of Human Ecology, at UW-Madison, Meninas Cartoneras Editorial (Spain), and the Museum of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guadalajara (México).

Meninas Cartoneras Editorial published the virtual version of the anthology in Madrid, Spain, and the Print version by Editorial Universidad de Guadalajara. The book was presented at the International Book Festival in Guadalajara (FIL2022).

4W WIT also includes and invites undergraduate and graduate students to participate in our project.

FIL GUADALAJARA 2022 (Left to right: Dr. Eduardo Santana (Director of the Museum of Environmental Sciences), Laura Martin (UW-Madison), Dr. Beatriz Botero (UW-Madison), Dr. Sarli E. Mercado (UWMadison), Jorge Galán (Salvador & the 2022 awardwinning Writer of the City and Nature J.E.Pacheco Literary Prize), Lori DiPrete Brown (UW-Madison), Dr. Carolina Cartes (Meninas Cartoneras Editorial) & Sayri Karp (Editorial Universidad de Guadalajara).

! s t a r g Con Guillermina De Ferrari, Halls-Bascom Professor of Caribbean Literatures and Visual Cultures, for receiving the Kellett Mid-Career Award.

This award recognizes the quality, significance, and productivity of the awardee’s research.

Professor De Ferrari has published dozens of articles on topics related to Cuban and Caribbean literature, visual culture, and world literature.

In addition to Professor De Ferrari’s most recent recognition, she has been named Guggenheim Fellow (2020) and has been awarded the Institute for Research in the Humanities Senior Fellowship (2018-2022).

She has also been the recipient of the Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Award (2017-2019).

Some of Professor De Ferrari’s work as author, editor, and curator include:

De Ferrrari (2007)

De Ferrari (2014)

De Ferrari,

De Ferrari et al.,

De Ferrari & Siskind,

curator (2015)

eds. (2017)

eds. (2022)

Alcalá Galán 2022

Armstrong & MacDonald (eds.)

2021

Armstrong et al. (eds.)

2021

Goldgel 2021

Goldgel Carballo & Domínguez (eds) 2021

Hernández 2021

Bilbija 2021

De Ferrari & Siskind (eds.)

2022

Egea 2021

Hernández & Santana 2022

Hutchinson 2020

Rao et al. 2022

Ellen W. Sapega

Fernando Tejedo-Herrero

Kory Deavers

Karen Francis

Morgan Zimmer

Tracy Deavers

Sam Weeks

Anabelle Bonilla & Michaela Stromberg

Alcalá Galán, Mercedes

Egea, Juan

Hutchinson, Steven

Álvarez Oquendo, Saylín

Mercado, Sarli

Medina, Rubén

Ancos García, Pablo

Pellegrini, Marcelo

Rodríguez-Guridi, Bárbara

Armstrong, Grant

Pujol, Eve

Sanchez, Kathryn

Beilin, Katarzyna

Rao, Rajiv

Sapega, Ellen

Bilbija, Ksenija

Ríos-Rodríguez, Jara

Stafford, Catherine

Cerezo Paredes, Alicia

Fondow, Steve

Tejedo-Herrero, Fernando

Close, Glen

Goldgel-Carballo, Víctor

De Ferrari, Guillermina

Hernández, Paola