Hispanic Studies

Julia Garner

Silvia Goldman

Maria del Mar

Arturo Márquez-Gómez

Natalia Matta Jara

Kyle Matthews

Ezio Neyra

Maria Pizarro Prada

Carmen P. Saucedo

Jorge Terukina Yamauchi

Felipe Valencia  

Felipe Valencia, B.A. (Universidad Complutense de Madrid ’06), A.M. (Brown University '10) studies Spanish Golden Age literature with an emphasis on lyrical poetry, melancholy, poetics, the pastoral, tragedy, and medicine. Other interests include Colonial Latin American literature. In the spring of 2012, Felipe will be the J.M. Stuart fellow at the John Carter Brown Library, where he will explore lyrical poetry and poetics in Spanish America at the turn of the seventeenth century.

Daniella Wittern

Daniella Wittern A.M. (Hispanic Studies, Brown University, 2008); B.A. (summa cum laude with honors in Spanish, Creative Writing, Hamilton College, 2002). In her senior year at Hamilton, Daniella received a fellowship to spend a semester in Spain writing a bilingual novel entitled Entre lenguas. Now an advanced PhD candidate (degree expected for May of 2011) in Hispanic Studies at Brown University, her dissertation, titled "Words that Act, Literature that Speaks: Diamela Eltit's Narrative Performances," explores the performances within the work of contemporary Chilean artist and author Diamela Eltit, as her narrative crosses dictatorship, the transition to democracy, and the most recent earthquake. Daniella's master's thesis explored the artificiality of language in the dialogue Fernando Vallejo maintains with the picaresque genre in La virgen de los sicarios. Her teaching and research interests trace the intersections of contemporary film, literature, and performance, as they span the Americas, and explore issues of urban space, cultural/gender identities, trauma and memory studies, and border studies. To learn more about Daniella's teaching interests, please visit her Teaching Portfolio at daniellawittern.wordpress.com.