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Alumni Corner

Alumni Corner

Alumni Corner

Welcome to the Alumni Corner! Here you'll find out what our alumni are up to since they graduated. We're proud of all of them and are happy to share their accomplishments with you. If you have any news you would like posted for yourself or other alumni, please let us know.

 

Dr. Donna M. Rogers

Donna Rogers

Dr. Donna M. Rogers

Since July 2011, Dr. Rogers has been the Associate Dean Academic at Dalhousie University's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She joined Dalhousie's Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies in 2003, after teaching at the Pennsylvania State University (1986-1998) and Middlebury College (1998-2003). Her research interests include Spanish and Catalan historical linguistics, particularly text editing and lexicography. She is the author of an edition and study of the Historia de la donzella Teodor (2000, with Isidro J. Rivera) and editions of several treatises of Francesc Eiximenis’ Dotzè del Crestià (2006 and forthcoming), as well as a number of articles on Spanish and Catalan topics. At present she is preparing an edition and translation of Eiximenis’ Regiment de la cosa pública, with the support of a research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is Editor of Catalan Review, the journal of the North American Catalan Society, on whose executive board she serves. Dr. Rogers teaches courses in Spanish language and linguistics.

 

Dr. Maria João Dodman

Maria Dodman

Dr. Maria João Dodman

Dr. Maria João Dodman is Assistant Professor of Portuguese Studies at York University's Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics. She completed her PhD in 2007. She specializes in early modern Spanish and Portuguese literature. Her research interests include representations of beauty and ugliness in several early modern genres as well as in travel narratives that document the encounters between the Portuguese and the natives of Brazil. Further information can be found at: http://www.yorku.ca/mdodman/index.html.

 

Dr. Alejandro Cuza

Alejandro Cuza

Dr. Alejandro Cuza

Dr. Alejandro Cuza completed his PhD in Hispanic linguistics and second language acquisition at the University of Toronto in 2008. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at the School of Languages and Cultures at Purdue University. His research focuses on the linguistic and cognitive processes involved in the L2 acquisition of Spanish morphosyntax, first language attrition, heritage language development and child bilingual acquisition.http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~acuza/index.htm

 

Berenice Villagómez

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Dr. Berenice Villagómez

Dr. Berenice Villagómez, a former MA and PhD student who graduated in 2009, is now the coordinator for the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Toronto. Dr. Villagómez has explored issues of memory, trauma and history in Latin American literature. Her edition of a previously unpublished manuscript by Pedro Henríquez Ureña, México o el hermano definidor, (in collaboration with Néstor Rodríguez) is forthcoming from El Colegio de México.

 

Marjorie Ratcliffe

Prof. Marjorie Ratcliffe

Congratulations to Prof. Marjorie Ratcliffe, Univ. of Western Ontario, for being elected Vice-President of the Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval.

 

Marta Batiz-Zuk

Marta Batiz Zuk

Dr. Marta Batiz-Zuk

Dr. Marta Batiz-Zuk received her doctoral degree in Spanish from the University of Toronto in 2010 and is currently a course director in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University.

 

Dr. Ramón Ant. Victoriano-Martínez

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Dr. Ramón Ant. Victoriano-Martínez

Ramón Ant. Victoriano-Martínez (Arturo) was born in the Dominican Republic (1969), where he studied law at the Universidad Católica Santo Domingo. He has taught Criminal Law, Philosophy of Law and Criminology in various Dominican universities. He played several roles in the Presidential Council for Culture from 1997 to 2000, where he published, jointly with Dr. Luis O. Brea Franco, Report on the Diagnosis of the Cultural Sector: Compendium of Cultural Legislation Dominican (1998). He is also the translator of the book The Struggle for Political Democracy in Dominican Republic (Jonathan Hartlyn, Ramón A. Victoriano Martínez), published by the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development in 2008. Since 2001 he lives in Mississauga, Ontario and earned his Ph.D  at the University of Toronto in 2010. His research revolves around the question about Dominican identity, departing from the figure of the “rayano” (the one from the border), leaning on a critical reading of the following texts: El Masacre se pasa a pie (Freddy Prestol Castillo), The Farming of Bones (Edwige Danticat) Dominicanish (Josefina Báez), and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Diaz). He currently teaches at the Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga.

 

Dr. Natalia Mazzaro

Natalia Mazzaro

Dr. Natalia Mazzaro

Natalia Mazzaro, Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Texas in El Paso, completed her Ph.D. in 2011. She specializes in Spanish sociolinguistics, phonetics, quantitative and laboratory approaches to the study of sound variation and change and morphosyntactic variation in Spanish. She is currently working on a project in collaboration with Laura Colantoni (University of Toronto) and Alejandro Cuza (Purdue University) on the perception and production of sounds by Spanish/English bilinguals.

 

Dr. Violeta Lorenzo

Dr. Violeta Lorenzo

Dr. Violeta Lorenzo

A native of Puerto Rico, Violeta Lorenzo received her doctoral degree in Spanish from the University of Toronto in 2011 and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Skidmore College's Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures. She often collaborates with the Latin American Studies program at Skidmore. Her research interests include coming of age narratives, Latin American cultural essays, and Hispanic Caribbean literatures and cultures.

 

Mike Field

Mike Field Jazz Quintet - Ashes

Mike Field

Congratulations to jazz trumpeter and composer, Mike Field, for releasing his debut album this fall. Mike received his MA in Spanish in 2006 and began a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics before starting his career in jazz in 2008. Now he plays at festivals and local Toronto jazz clubs such as The Rex and Gate 403, and also performs internationally. His album, Ashes, is available on iTunes, Amazon.com and CD Baby. Listen to his music and stay tuned for concert dates at www.mikefieldjazz.com.

 

Shanna Lino

Shanna Lino

Dr. Shanna Lino

Dr. Shanna Lino received her doctoral degree in Spanish from the University of Toronto in 2008 and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University. Her research interests include immigration in contemporary Spanish literature and film, the Novela negra, lusophone and regional Iberian literatures and Equatoguinean literature.

 


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