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I am a scholar of contemporary Spain and a Professor of Hispanic Studies at Oklahoma State University. My research studies how people make sense of time and identity through literature, music and film after events that alter collective worldviews. I work across disciplines, combining literature with political and cultural theory, and I pay particular attention to minoritized languages like Asturian.
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I have examined narratives written in exile following the Spanish Civil War, and cultural production\u2014especially fantasy and sci-fi cinema\u2014in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. My current work explores cultural activism and how traditions are being reimagined in present-day Asturias. My research has appeared in journals such as Bulletin of Hispanic Studies<\/a>, MLN<\/a>, Catalan Review<\/a>, Lletres Asturianes<\/a>, and Linguistic Minorities in Europe Online<\/a>. <\/em>I am the co-editor of the book Asturian Studies in the 21st century<\/a>, and have two forthcoming edited collections on Asturian women writers and migration. My work has been supported by grants from the Spanish Ministry of Education (Hispanex) and by Oklahoma State University, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I serve as President of\u00a0Asturian Studies \/ SAnTINA<\/a><\/em>, an international research network that promotes scholarship on Asturias. I organized the network\u2019s second international conference at OSU in 2023. I am part of the Modern Language Association liaison group within\u00a0ALCESXXI<\/a> (Asociaci\u00f3n de Literatura y Cine Espa\u00f1ol Siglo XXI), and co-edit the Asturiana Studies book series at De Gruyter. I serve on the scientific committees of ARLAS (Archivu de la Represi\u00f3n Lling\u00fc\u00edstica del Asturianu) and the Textos UEx<\/em> collection at the Universidad de Extremadura. As co-founder and coordinator of\u00a0Voces y versos-Tulsa<\/a>, I promote Spanish-language poetry and music performances in the local community.
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Before arriving at OSU, I taught at Central Michigan University and at the Univerzitet D\u017eemal Bijedic\u00b4 in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. I earned my PhD in Hispanic Cultural Studies from Michigan State University, and my BA and MA in Hispanic Philology from the Universid\u00e1 d\u2019Uvi\u00e9u in Spain.
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In addition to my academic work, I translate and write creatively in Spanish, English and Asturian. I belong to the creative writing collective Alisa Lubeldo, whose literary debut is forthcoming. I bring this multilingual and multicultural approach to my teaching, where I aim to engage students with the richness and complexity of Iberian languages and cultures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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