Our graduate student Kassandra Castillo presented her paper “Interpretations of Bodies After Death: Using Conocimeinto and Testimonio” at LSA (Latinx Studies Association Biennial Conference) in Austin, TX.
Our graduate student Raymond Lindquist presented his paper “Out of the Closet and Into the Fray: What I’ve Learned about Queer Joy, Resistance, and Existence Playing Dungeons & Dragons Across Unprecedented Times” at Lewis and Clark College and “Dungeons & Dragons as Mutual Aid Formation & Resistance” at WSU´s Palouse Queer Studies Summit.
Etna Ávalos, Assistant Professor of Spanish, has published her article “La Recta Provincia and the Logic of Resistance: Magic as Decolonial Heterotopia in the Film Brujería (2023),” in The Latin Americanist, 70.1, pp. 27-42.
Sandra Mina-Herrera, a WSU College of Education, Sport, and Human Sciences doctoral student who obtained her Masters of Arts in Foreign Languages & Cultures in SLCR, has worked with Researchers at the Honey Bee and Pollinators Program to produced a new video series for novice keepers titled ABEJAS.
Héctor Rendón has published the paper Information Subsidies in Mexican and U.S. Border State Journalism: Nonprofit Organizations’ Agenda Building in the News Research Journal.
Vilma Navarro-Daniels, Professor of Spanish and Film Studies, has published her research paper, “Heterotopías disidentes: edad, género y sexualidad en La nave del olvido de Nicol Ruiz Benavides” (“Dissident Heterotopias: Age, Gender, and Sexuality in Nicol Ruiz Benavides’s film, Forgotten Roads”) in Ciberletras. Journal of Literary Criticism and Culture, housed by Lehman College and the City University of New York.
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).
On Thursday, January 22, Francisco Arellano Serratos –Scholarly Associate Professor, Career-Track, based on the WSU Tri-Cities campus— presented his book, Ecotopías: una crítica radical del futuro (Ecotopias: A Radical Critique of the Future), at the Second International Conference on Literary Research organized by Universidad de La Frontera (UFRO, Chile).
At the SAMLA (Nov. 6 – 8, 2025), Insook Webber participated in a discussion panel on the theme of “Empowering Students: Teaching French and Francophone Women Writers and Filmmakers” and presented a paper on the French author Marie NDiaye (2003 Prix Goncourt – France’s most prestigious literary prize).
Vilma Navarro-Daniels, Professor of Spanish and Film Studies, has just published a peer-reviewed interview with the internationally acclaimed comic book author Marcela Trujillo (also known as Maliki).