Raelene (Rae) Wyse, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Spanish, Career Track – Scholarly

 

Biography

Raelene Wyse holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research centers on multilingualism in contemporary Latin American and US Latinx cultural production as a creative strategy to ensure the survival of less widely spoken languages, especially Ladino and Yiddish, in the Americas. She also earned a Master’s in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from New York University and a Bachelor’s in English Literature from Seattle University.

Her research has brought her to Argentina, Chile, and Brazil. Before joining the community at WSU, she taught Spanish for four years at the University of Texas at Austin. She has always loved learning languages and teaching them as well. When she is not teaching, she enjoys spending time with her daughter, learning new skills, cooking, gardening, and getting to know the Palouse.

 

Publications

• Wyse, Raelene. “Aurora Levins Morales.” Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 23 June 2021. Jewish Women’s Archive.

• Wyse, Raelene. “Reframing Jewish Forms of Speaking to God: The Use of Apostrophe in David Rosenmann-Taub’s Cortejo y epinicio.” Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, vol. 42, no. 2, 2018, pp. 1-21.

• Wyse, Raelene. “Constructing Community through Fiction in Helena María Viramontes’s Their Dogs Came with Them and Susana Sánchez Bravo’s Espacios Condenados,” in Rebozos de Palabras: An Helena María Viramontes Reader, edited by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, University of Arizona Press, 2013, pp. 48-63.

• Wyse, Raelene. “Foreword”. Sodom’s Threshold, by Isaac B. Rosler, iUniverse, 2017, pp. vii-xi.