Alex Saum-Pascual

Biography: I am Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of California Berkeley where my work has focused on the intersection between literature and digital technologies, specifically as these are expressed in electronic literature. I am both part of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Executive Committee…[Read more]

2015 marks seventy years since the publication of Laforet’s Nada. This panel proposes to offer new readings of the author’s ground-breaking work and/or to revisit her lesser-known works (i.e., Insolación, La mujer nueva, Un matrimonio, etc.). Please send abstracts (250 words) and a brief biography todochoa@trinity.edu by 3/20/15. You can find this…[Read more]

Landscape architecture and urban planning join aesthetics of design with the hard science of engineering. These areas foreground the complex influence of history and culture in the mapping and planning of social space. Since men have traditionally served as both prime architects and builders of metropolitan areas–designing plans and constructing…[Read more]

2015 marks seventy years since the publication of Laforet’s Nada. This panel proposes to offer new readings of the author’s ground-breaking work and/or to revisit her lesser-known works (i.e., Insolación, La mujer nueva, Un matrimonio, etc.). Please send abstracts (250 words) and a brief biography to dochoa@trinity.edu by 3/10/15. You can find…[Read more]

Pls. spread the word, East Carolina University is hosting a Digital Innovation and Scholarship in the Social Sciences and Humanities Symposium in Greenville, NC, March 18th, 2015. Speakers below, guests welcome, 5-7-minute lightning-round presentations are currently being solicited at our website. Both graduate students and faculty welcome.

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