Dr. Alejandra Carballo

Associate Professor

English and World Languages Department
Dean Building
402 West O St
Russellville, AR 72801
Phone: (479) 968-0639
E-mail: acarballo@atu.edu

Education

BA - University of Rio Cuarto
MA - University of Pennsylvania
PHD - Florida State University

Recently Taught Courses

SPAN 1013 - BEGINNING SPANISH I
SPAN 1023 - BEGINNING SPANISH II
SPAN 2013 - INTERMEDIATE SPANISH I
SPAN 2033 - INTMD SPAN II FOR HERIT SPKRS
SPAN 2303 - SPAN FOR MED INTERPRETATION I
SPAN 2313 - SPAN FOR MED INTERPRETATION II
SPAN 3213 - ADVANCED GRAMMAR/USAGE
SPAN 4993 - SP: PRINCIPLES OF INTERPRETAT

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Dr. Carballo's research interests are Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature with a major emphasis in cultural, gender representation, transatlantic and performance studies as well as Late Twentieth-Century Dictatorship and Human Rights Literature with a major emphasis in theatre, novel, and film productions.

Publications:

"Estrategias subversivas: el silencio y lo asumido en Primaveras y La historia oficial" (Forthcoming May 2019- Chasqui)

“Hispanismo e identidad gallega en tres obras de José Costa Figueiras.” Espacios de libertad. Nuevos modos, medios y motivos de creación literaria y comunicación social. Ed. Fidel López Criado. Andavira. 2018. 279-286.

Conference presentations:

“Cuerpos extranjeros en El conventillo de Luis Pascarella: género y eugenesia en la Buenos Aires de principios de siglo XX” at the XLV Simposio Internacional de Literatura Argentina. Un universo de voces, desde el siglo XXI, Sociedad Argentina de Escritores, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 13-16, 2018.

“Civilización y barbarie en Cumandá: Espacios intermedios, ambigüedad e hibridez.” at the XXII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispanoamericana (XXII CILH), Granada, Spain, June 27-29, 2018.