Congratulations to Romance Languages faculty and graduate students, who have had the following papers accepted to HLS21, to be held on the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX on October 26-28, 2017! For a current presentation schedule, visit the HLS website here.

Professor José Antonio Rodríguez Garrido
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
"Identidades múltiples y agencias culturales en la construcción de la biografía de Juan de Espinosa Medrano (¿1629?-1688)"

Vera Bulla:

"Mother & daughter: The two female characters  of A Moralista, written by Dinah Silveira de Queiroz"

Lunara Gonçalves: 

"Epiphany and death in the tales A Casa de Fayola, by Abílio Ferreira & Alice está morta, by Miriam Alves"

Melissa Carruth

"Contextualizing Feminine Auto/biographical “I’s” as Viewed from within Cuba"

Leticia Silva

"Remarks on transitive Locative Alternation in Brazilian Portuguese"

Preston Hayes:  “Spilling Blood, Pushing the Envelope: Horror Cinema in the Romance-Speaking World”

Julia Hernández:  “On ‘Translating’ Homer in Fifteenth-Century Spain: Philological Posturing, Vernacular Humanism, and the Curious Case of Juan de Mena’s so-called Omero romançado”