
On Friday, January 23, several members of the School of Languages, Cultures, and Race presented their research at the Second International Conference on Literary Research organized by Universidad de La Frontera (UFRO, Chile). Dr. Etna Ávalos presented her paper “Disability as Foreignness: Body, Affect, and Language in Sylvia Molloy’s Desarticulaciones.” Dr. Amanda Hussein read “So, why did she lie? An Analysis of Race, Gender, and Colonized Consciousness of Dominican film, Miriam miente.” Finally, Drs. Begoña de Quintana Lasa and Vilma Navarro-Daniels shared a preliminary draft of their research paper, “Forgiving the Irreparable: The Monstrous and the Sublime in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.”