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Professor Roberta Johnson co-edited book (with Silvia Bermudez of UCSB) A New History of Iberian Feminisms was published this year (2018) with the University of Toronto Press. She will also be presenting at a conference on International Hispanism on September 25 in Madrid in the presence of King Felipe.

Professor Barbara Fuchs, Jennifer Linda Monti, and Laura Muñoz co-edited “90 Monologues from Classical Spanish Theater,” published by Juan de la Cuesta.

Jennifer Linda Monti published the article “Madness, Parricide, and Incest: A Revision of Myths in Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo” in Spanish and Portuguese Review.  Current Issue

Graduate Student Adelmar Ramirez published an article in Argentina called “La memoria traumatica como elemento estructurante el La ciudad ausente de Ricardo Piglia.” file:///C:/Users/spoffice/Downloads/2785-8607-1-SM.pdf

Graduate Student Maria Teresa Monroe has published a new article, “Spring Is for Me! Floral and Binary Representations in The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez.” Tradition and (R)evolution: Reframing Latina/o Identities in Contemporary U.S. Culture, edited by Carmen M. Méndez García, Instituto Franklin-UAH, 2018, 00. 79-88.

Assistant Professor Ji Young Kim has co-authored a chapter in Geeslin, K. L.Cambridge Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics, “Speech Perception” (pp. 237-257). https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-handbook-of-spanish-linguistics/speech-perception/E71E72CF2E46570B03E1129606667817

Assistant Professor Ji Young Kim has published a new article in the International Journal of Bilingualism called “Heritage speakers’ use of prosodic strategies in focus marking in Spanish.” http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1367006918763139  

Professor Verónica Cortínez has just published a new book, Fértil provincia y señalada: Raúl Ruiz y el campo del cine chileno.

Professor Efraín Kristal has just published a new book, Tentación de la Palabra: Arte literario y convicción política en las obras de Vargas Llosa.

The UCLA Spanish and Portuguese Department is pleased to announce two new undergraduate essay prizes honoring two of our distinguished professors, Randal Johnson and Claudia Parodi. Essay entries are submitted in the Spring. For more information on available undergraduate essay prizes, please contact Denise Barragan, the department undergraduate advisor. The Randal Johnson Essay Prize —Essay on…