Amanda Hussein, PhD

Lecturer of Comparative Ethnic Studies

 

Education

2025 PhD American Studies, Washington State University
2018 M.A. in Foreign Languages and Literature, Washington State University
2011 Teacher Education Program – Secondary Education Certification in French and Spanish, Lewis-Clark State College
2010 B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) in Spanish with a French minor, University of Idaho

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles:

Hussein, Amanda. “Amor traicionero: La reescritura de dos heroínas, Juana la Loca y Malintzin.” Alba de América. 41 (2024): 136-150. https://journals.calstate.edu/alba/issue/view/282/92

Hussein, Amanda.  “Salvar a doña Marina: un análisis de la representación de doña Marina de Jerónimo López-Mozo y la metaficción historiográfica.” El Cid. XXVIII (2018): lvi-lxvii. https://www.citadel.edu/mlng/wp-content/uploads/sites/86/el_cid_edition_2018.pdf

Hussein, Amanda.  “Honor y amor en la reescritura neo-histórica de la conquista y fundación de Chile en Inés del alma mía.” International Journal of Language and Linguistics. 4.3 (2017) 102-106. https://www.ijllnet.com/journals/Vol_4_No_3_September_2017/12.pdf

Conference Presentations

Refereed International Conferences:

Hussein, Amanda.  (2023, May). “La crueldad y el amor: una exploración de la crueldad, el amor y la muerte en la novela El amor en los tiempos del cólera.” Part of session, The Power of Narratives: Informed by and Informing Realities in Latin America and Beyond. LASA 2023 Congress: América Latina y el Caribe: Pensar, Representar, y Luchar por los Derechos. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. VIRTUAL.

Hussein, Amanda. (2022, September). “Dreaming American.” Part of the session, El excepcionalismo estadounidense y el sueño americano desde la perspectiva de los medios masivos de comunicación y la inmigración indocumentada. 1^st Latin American Congress in American Studies. VIRTUAL.

Hussein, Amanda.  (2022, July). “Finding Colita García: A study of a fictitious female protagonist who incites equality.” CICELI III. Universitat de València, Spain. VIRTUAL.

Hussein, Amanda.  (2022, June). “She’s a Brick…House: An analysis of meaning and memorialization of two monuments of black women in the United States in connection to nation and race.” Global Knowledge Academics Visual. Madrid, Spain. VIRTUAL.

Hussein, Amanda.  (2021, November). “Amor traicionero: La reescritura de tres heroínas, Juana la Loca, Inés Suárez y doña Marina.” Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies Annual International Congress. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. VIRTUAL.

Refereed National Conferences:

Hussein, Amanda.  (2023, October). “So, why did she lie? An analysis of Gender, Race, and Colonized Consciousness in the film Miriam miente.” PAMLA 120^th Annual Conference. Portland State University, Portland, OR. United States.

Hussein, Amanda.  (2019, March). “Salvar a doña Marina: un análisis de la representación de doña Marina de Jerónimo López-Mozo y la metaficción historiográfica.”  CineLit 9: Mujer y Género. International Congress in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Film. Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States.

Hussein, Amanda.  (2017, October). “Honor y amor en la reescritura neo-histórica de la conquista y fundación de Chile en Inés del alma mía.” 76^th RMMLA Conference. Spokane, WA, United States.

Refereed Regional/Local Conferences:

Hussein, Amanda. (2024, April). “Monuments and Memory.” Interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities Conference. Washington State University, Pullman, WA. United States.

Hussein, Amanda.  (2024, April). “History, Film, and Passing: the stories they tell.” HGSA 2^nd Annual Conference. Washington State University, Pullman, WA. United States.

Hussein, Amanda.  (2018, March). “La mujer perfecta.” XXI Spanish Graduate Conference. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States.

Hussein, Amanda.  (2017, April). “Culture, Art and VTS in the Foreign Language Classroom.” 4^th Annual Palouse Symposium. University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States.

Hussein, Amanda.  (2017, March). “Voces de Mujer.” XX Spanish Graduate Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States.

WSU Refereed Presentations:

Hussein, Amanda.  (2022, March). “Finding Colita García: An analysis of Race, Gender, Memory, and Subversion of Aída Cartagena Portalatín’s ‘La llamaban Aurora (Pasión por Donna Summer)’.” Poster presentation. GPSA Showcase. Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States.

Hussein, Amanda.  (2019, March). “Saving Lady Marina: An analysis of Jerónimo López-Mozo’s Yo Maldita India… using historiographic metafiction by Linda Hutcheon.” Poster presentation. Academic Showcase. Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States.

Awards

2017-2018 Outstanding Graduate Student, Master of Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences

2017-2018 Outstanding Graduate Student, Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures