Ana
Cara
Department/Program: Hispanic Studies (Chair)
Peters 408
Phone: 440-775-8660
Email: ana.cara@oberlin.edu
Homepage: www.oberlin.edu/hispanic/Faculty/Cara.html
FAC Keywords:
: USA, Southern
Cone, Caribbean, South
America
Time Period: 19th C,
20th C
Topics: Folklore/Popular
Culture, Literature, Music,
Heritage Speakers, Latino
Studies
At Oberlin since: 1980
Related courses this year: Survey of Latin American Literature (Part I)
(Fall), Reading Borges (Spring), Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, Spanish
for Heritage Speakers.
Selection of courses taught relevant to field of Latino-Latin American-Caribbean-Spanish
studies: Latino/Latin American Folklore, Modern Latin American Poetry.
Primary research interests: Latin American Folklore, Folklore and Literature,
Creolization Theory, Latin American Folk and Popular Music.
Selected publications: Various articles in Latin American and Folklore
journals.
Talk to me if you're interested in: Transfer of credit for Spanish courses.
Majoring in Comparative Literature or Latin American Literature.
Jed
Deppman
English/Comparative Literature
Rice 28
Phone: 440-775-8918
E-mail: jed.deppman@oberlin.edu
Homepage: Homepage Faculty profile
FAC Keywords:
Geography: Mexico,
Central America, South
America
Time Period: 19th
C, 20th C
Topics: Literature,
Comparative Literature, Modernism
At Oberlin Since: 2003
Courses: European Modernism and the World, Death and the Art of Dying
Sebastiaan
Faber
Hispanic Studies
404 Peters
Phone: 440-775-8189
Email: sebastiaan.faber@oberlin.edu
Homepage: www.oberlin.edu/faculty/sfaber
FAC Keywords:
Geography: Spain,
Mexico, South
America, USA
Time Period: 19th C,
20th C
Topics: Language,
Literature, Film,
Politics, Spanish
Civil War, Exile
At Oberlin since: 1999
Courses:
SPAN202, Intermediate Spanish I,
SPAN310, Survey of Spanish Literature II,
SPAN345 -The Discreet Charm of the Buñuels: Transnational Cinema
and the Surrealist Legacy,
SPAN 446 - Literature and Exile in Spain and Latin America
Span 423 - The Crisis of the Turn of the Century and the Discourse of
Decadence,
Span 445, The Spanish Novel After 1975
Span 465, ¡Viva la raza! Constructions of Hispanic Identity.
Primary research interests:
Literature of Spanish Civil War Exile (Max Aub, Luis Cernuda, Paulino
Masip, León Felipe, and others), Representations of the Spanish
Civil War, The Crisis of the Turn of the Century in Spain and Spanish
America, Institutional History of Hispanism.
Selected publications :
Exile and Cultural Hegemony: Spanish Intellectuals in Mexico (1939-1975).
Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2002; "Between Cernuda's Paradise and Buñuel's
Hell: Mexico Through Spanish Exiles' Eyes." Bulletin of Spanish Studies
80.2 (2003): 219-40; "Learning from the Latins: Waldo Frank's Progressive
Pan-Americanism." New
Centennial Review 3.1 (2003): 257-295; "El exilio mexicano de Max
Aub. La relación con el régimen anfitrión."
Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 26.3 (2002): 423-38.
Talk to me if you are interested in: Voces, Preshco (Programa de Estudios Hispánicos en Córdoba), or PMCSP (Program for Mexican Culture and Society in Puebla).
Kim
Faber
Hispanic Studies
Peters 124
Phone: 440-775-5125
Email: kim.faber@oberlin.edu
Homepage: www.oberlin.edu/hispanic/Faculty/TungsethFaber.html
FAC Keywords:
Geography: Spain,
Mexico
Time Period: 20th C.
Topics: Language,
Linguistics, Language
Pedagogy
At Oberlin since: 1999
Related courses this year: Spanish 101 & Linguistics for Language
Students (Spanish 311)
Primary research interests: Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition
& Language Pedagogy, Bilingual & Multilingual Issues: Bilingual
Education & Raising Children Multilingually
I have studied abroad in, and traveled throughout both Spanish and Mexico.
I am happy to talk with any students about either of these countries if
you're interested in perhaps studying and/or working there. Additionally,
I am affiliated with ACTFL which is an organization focused on the teaching
of foreign languages. If you are interested in knowing more, please see
me.
Meredith
Gadsby
African American Studies
Rice 206
Phone: 440-775-8594
E-mail: meredith.gadsby@oberlin.edu
Homepage: www.oberlin.edu/gaws/faculty/gadsby.html
FAC Keywords:
Geography: Caribbean,
USA
Time Period: 19th C,
20th C
Topics: African Diaspora,
Race and Ethnicity, Literature
Courses: AAST 248 Literatures of the African Diaspora; AAST 347 Going
Away Coming Home: Caribbean Literature
Kristina
Mani
Politics
Instructor
Phone: 440-775-8657
Email: kristina.mani@oberlin.edu
Homepage: coming soon
FAC Keywords:
Geography: South
America, Southern Cone, Andes
Time Period: 19th C,
20th C
Topics: Politics,
International Relations, Military,
Democratizations, Human
Rights
At Oberlin since: FALL 2003
Related courses this year:
Polt 222: International Relations Of Latin America (Fall) Polt 326: Seminar:
The Military And Security Issues In Latin America. (Fall), Polt 210: Latin
American Politics (Spring)
Primary research interests: International Security, Democratization And
War/Peace, Strategies of Non-Violent Conflict.
Alicia
Martínez Marco
Hispanic Studies
G 31 Peters Hall
Phone: 440-775-5590
Email: amarco@oberlin.edu
Homepage: coming soon
FAC Keywords:
Geography: Spain
Time Period: 20th C
Topics: Language,
Language Pedagogy
At Oberlin since: 2000
Related courses this year: Spanish language courses (intermediate and
advanced)
Primary research interests: Language and linguistics
Esmeralda
Martínez-Tapia
Hispanic Studies
Peters 411
Phone: 440-775-6735
Email: esmeralda.martinez.tapia@oberlin.edu
Homepage: coming soon
FAC Keywords:
Geography: Mexico
Time Period: 20th
C
Topics: Language,
Language Pedagogy
At Oberlin since: 1972
Related courses this year: Español 102
Primary research interests: I am interested in the Spanish language and
the cultures of the Spanish speaking world and Brazil.
Talk to me if you are interested in: La Casa Hispánica, Winter
Term in Guadalajara, Mexico
James
Millette
African American Studies
Rice 212
Phone: 440-775-8406
E-mail: james.millette@oberlin.edu
Homepage: coming soon
FAC Keywords:
Geography: Caribbean
Time Period: 19th C,
20th C
Topics: African Diaspora,
Literature,
Pablo
Mitchell
History
Rice 311
Phone: 440-775-8191
E-mail: pablo.mitchell@oberlin.edu
Homepage: coming soon
FAC Keywords:
Geography: USA, Mexico
Time Period: 19th C,
20th C
Topics: Race and Etnicity,
Latino Studies, History,
Gender Studies, Politics
Pablo Mitchell is the author of "Accomplished Ladies and Coyotes: Marriage, Power, and Straying from the Flock in Territorial New Mexico, 1880-1920," in Martha Hodes, ed., Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History (NYU, 2000). He is currently completing a manuscript titled Bodies on Borders: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920 that analyzes the link between bodily coherence and American citizenship in turn of the twentieth century America.
Mr. Mitchell teaches course on Latina/o History, US-Mexico Borderlands, History of American Sexualities, Mixed Heritage in US History, and Gilded Age America.
Patrick
O'Connor
Hispanic Studies
Peters 402
Phone: 440-775-8922 (773 425-1767)
Email: poconnor@oberlin.edu
Homepage: coming soon
FAC Keywords
Geography: USA, Mexico,
Southern Cone, Caribbean
Time Period: 19th C,
20th C
Topics: Language,
Film, Literature,
LGBT
At Oberlin since: 2002
Courses: Fantasy and Violence in Argentine Literature, 1930 – 1955.
Primary research interests: Latin American Literature, primarily 20thc.
Novel and Short Story, primarily Río de la Plata, Mexico, and the
Caribbean; literary theory, especially psychoanalytic and queer theory;
U.S. Latino literature, esp. gay and women's writing
Most recent publications have been on the Argentine César Aira
and gay
Chicano novelist John Rechy. I'm also trying to work on post-Boom "neoliberal"
argentine literature and culture.
Vicente
Pérez de León
Hispanic Studies
Peters 403
Phone: 440-775-8581
Email: vdeleon@oberlin.edu
Homepage: coming soon
FAC Keywords:
Geography: Spain
Time Period: Premodern,
Colonial Period, Renaissance,
Golden Age
Topics: Language,
Literature, Theater
At Oberlin since: 2000
Courses:
203. Intermediate Spanish II,
309 Survey of Spanish Literature I,
314 Humor and Horror in Pre- Modern literature,
306 Colloquium: Literary Commentary of Hispanic,
427 Cervantes and Don Quijote: Art, Context and Fiction,
450 Picaresque
Narratives: The World Vision of Female and Male pícaros.
Primary research interests:
Teaching and technology. Humanistic approaches to Higher Education. Information
Literacy and its applications into the classroom. Cervantes works: Genre
manifestations in Cervantes´ corpus: picaresque novel, burladores,
celestinas, short drama. Cervantes´s life: the figure of the Conde
de Lemos and Cervantes as a captive.
Selected publications:
Cervantes Interludes and Exemplary Novels
Calderón´s Interludes
Evolution of Humor in Spanish Classical Interludes (Lope de Rueda, Cervantes
and Calderón)
Viaje a ninguna parte, a film by Fernando Fernán Gómez
Delmira Agustini´s Poetry
Leopoldo Alas Clarín´s La Regenta.
Talk to me if you're interested in : PMCSP (Program for Mexican Culture and Society in Puebla)
Gina
M. Perez
Comparative American Studies
King 141 D
Phone: 440-775-8982
Email: gina.perez@oberlin.edu
Homepage: coming soon
FAC Keywords:
Geography: USA, Caribbean
Time Period: 19th C,
20th C
Topics: Race and Etnicity,
Transnationalism, Latino
Studies, Folklore/Popular Culture
At Oberlin since: 2003
Related courses this year: Latinas/os in Comparative Perspective.
Selection of courses taught relevant to field of Latino-Latin American-Caribbean-Spanish
studies : Militarization of American Daily Life (Spring 2004) and other
courses in Latina/o Studies.
Primary research interests: Latina/o Studies,
migration, gender, political economy, urban anthropology, poverty.
Selected publications : forthcoming with University of California Press
"The Near Northwest Side Story: Puerto Rican Families and the transnational
politics of belonging," In the Journal of Latin American Anthropology
"Puertorriqueñas rencorosas y mejicanas sufridas: gendered
ethnic identity construction in Chicago's Latino Communities," as
well as other publications.
Geoff
Pingree
Cinema Studies and English
Rice 111
Phone: 440-775-6585
Email: geoff.pingree@oberlin.edu
Homepage: coming soon
FAC Keywords:
Geography: Spain
Time Period: 20th C
Topics: Film, Spanish
Civil War
At Oberlin since: 2001
Courses: Form, Style, and Meaning in Cinema (CINE 101)
Related courses: Next year I plan to teach a seminar on questions of cinematic
authorship that focuses comparatively on the work of Luis Buñuel
and Pedro Almodóvar.
Primary research interests: history and theory of documentary film, Spanish
cinema
Selected publications: a recent book on new media; several articles
on documentary cinema in Spain.
Lisa Abend (History Dept.) and I are
sponsoring a winter term project
this January called "Rendering Place: Barcelona" that takes
students to Barcelona and works with them as they devise different ways
to represent Barcelona.
Baron
Pineda
Anthropology
King 220C
Phone: 440-775-8790
Email: baron.pineda@oberlin.edu
Homepage: coming soon
FAC Keywords:
Geography:
Time Period:
Topics: Anthropology,
Indigenous Cultures, Race
and Ethnicity, Environment, Human
Rights
At Oberlin since: Fall 2003
Related courses this year: Anth 210, Indigenous Peoples of Latin America;
Humans Rights and Anthropology
Primary research interests: Race and Ethnicity, Latin America, Indigenous
Peoples, Environment
Selected publications: "The Chinese Creoles of Nicaragua: Identity, Economy, and Revolution in a Caribbean Port City," Journal of Asian American Studies 4(3): 209-233, 2001; "Creole Neighborhood or Miskito Community?: A Case Study of Identity Politics in a Mosquito Coast Land Dispute," Journal of Latin American Anthropology 6(1): 94-130, 2001; "Cosmopolitan or Primitive? Environmental Dissonance and Regional Ideology in the Mosquito Coast," American Indian Culture and Research Journal 25(4): 35-55, 2001.
Barbara
Sawhill
Language Lab Peters Hall 331
Director and Language Technology Specialist
The Cooper International Learning Center (ILC)
Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio)
Phone: 440-775-8595
E-mail: barbara.sawhill@oberlin.edu
Homepage: coming soon
FAC Keywords:
Geography:
Time Period:
Topics: Language,
Language Pedagogy
At Oberlin Since: 1998
The ILC provides computer assisted language learning for the Oberlin College
community. (approximately 2000 students, including the Conservatory of
Music) The languages taught at Oberlin and supported by the ILC include:
ESL, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, German, Japanese and Chinese.
Responsibilities included: Research, evaluation and promotion of appropriate
instructional technologies for existing language instruction
László
Scholz
Hispanic Studies
Peters 304
Phone: 440-775-6535
Email: fscholz@oberlin.edu
Homepage: coming soon
FAC Keywords:
Geography: Spain,
Mexico, Southern
Cone, Andes
Time Period: Colonial
Period, 19th C, 20th
C
Topics: Translation,
Literature, Language
At Oberlin since: 1990
Related courses this year: Translating Latin American Literature, "The
Other" in Modern Peruvian Fiction.
Selection of courses taught relevant to field of Latino-Latin American-Caribbean-Spanish
studies: Latin American New Narrative, Modern Peruvian Short Fiction,
Literary Genres of Colonial Literature, The Nouvelle in Latin America.
Primary research interests: 20th C. Latin American Fiction, Short Story
Analysis, Translation Theory and Practice.
Selected publications: El arte poética de Julio Cortázar,
Ensayos sobre la modernidad hispanoamericana, Los avatares de la flecha,
Traducciones de J. L. Borges, G. García Márquez, J. Cortázar,
C.J. Cela, Don Juan Manuel, M. de Unamuno, J. Ortega y Gasset, J. Martí,
A. Reyes, G. Arciniegas, A Carpentier, O. Paz, A. Dorfman, M. Benedetti,
etc.
Talk to me if you're interested in: studay away programs, private readings,
publications, translations.
Steve
Volk
History
Rice 309
Phone: 440-775-8522
Email: steven.volk@oberlin.edu
Homepage: coming soon
FAC Keywords:
Geography: Mexico,
South America, Southern
Cone
Time Period: 19th
C, 20th C, Colonial
Period
Topics: History,
Politics, Nationalism,
Art, Human
Rights, Military
At Oberlin since: 1986
Related courses this year: History 109 (Latin America: Conquest and Colonization);
History 110 (Latin America: State and Nation since Independence); History
294 (The United States and Latin America); FYSP 175 (How Images Matter:
Latin America Through U.S. Eyes); Hist 365 (Narrating the Nation); LAST
150 (Historical and Political Significance of the Chilean Coup - Minicourse).
Selection of courses taught relevant to field of Latino-Latin American-Caribbean-Spanish
studies : All the above courses plus "Dirty Wars and Democracy,"
"Peasants, the State and Revolution in Mexico," "Gender
in Latin American History."
Primary research interests: Nationalism and Imagery, 19th Century Chilean
history, Frida Kahlo, Alexander Walker
Recent publications include:
“Judgment Day in Chile,” NACLA Report on the Americas 36:1
(July/August 2002), pp. 4-6, 43-44; “Frida Kahlo Remaps the Nation,”
Social Identities 6:2 (June 2000): 165-188; “Pinochet’s Heirs:
The Fractured Chilean Right,” NACLA Report on the Americas XXXII:
6 (May/June 1999), pp. 21-30.
Talk to me if you’re interested in: Study away programs in Latin
America, the Borders Program (El Paso-Ciudad Juarez), Latin American Studies
(which I chair)
Nanette
Yannuzzi-Macias
Art Department
166A
Phone: 440-775-8161
Email: nanette.yannuzzi-macias@oberlin.edu
Homepage: coming soon
FAC Keywords:
Geography: USA
Time Period: 20th C
Topics: Art
At Oberlin since: 1993
Primary research interests: I work in the area of sculpture, mixed media
Installation, and artists books.
Selected publications : Exhibitions since my arrival at Oberlin College.
Snapshot: A group exhibition of snapshots portraying intimate or family
photos, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.
Wooster College Museum of Art, An exhibition of drawings and sculptures
entitled: North/South/East/West/Center.
White Walls: a journal of language and art. Photographs and writings are
featured in issue #41 Crafting History. The piece is titled: The Many
Faces of Chief Wahoo and other Lawn Jockey Poems.
Transitional Spaces for the Millennium: The Mathematical Equation of Randomness...a
collaboration between the artist and African dance choreographer Adenike
Sharpley. Crane Pool Oberlin, Ohio.