2016-2020 - University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
PhD Spanish/Literature, specializing in Contemporary Spanish Drama
Dissertation Title: Cleopatra y Antonio
2009-2011 - National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City
Master’s Degree in English Literature
2002-2005 - De Paul University, The Theatre School, Chicago, Illinois
Samuel Amago teaches courses on modern and contemporary Spanish literary history, cinema and culture. He is a former Chair of the Department of Romance Studies and Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
His current scholarship centers on waste and space, memory and modernity in post-dictatorship Spanish cultural production, including photography, documentary, narrative, comics, film and television.
A native of Madrid (Spain) Esther Poveda’s love for languages, literature and traveling started at a young age, when she decided to complete a B.A. in English Philology at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. Since then she has lived in Ireland, the United States, Spain and Guatemala, and she has travelled extensively in Europe and the Americas.
Lilian P. W. Feitosa finished her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2008. Her M.A. is also from UMass Amherst. She grew up in Brazil where she received her B.A. and teaching licensures in English and Portuguese from the Universidade de São Paulo before moving to the U.S. to study in 1996.
Dr Francesca Calamita’s interdisciplinary research, transnational and anchored in feminist theory, bridges Italian women’s writing, cultural studies and gender studies. More specifically, she investigates how women’s relationship with food and body is portrayed in fiction, as well as pop culture, advertisements, video performances and films. Her research interests also include the intersections between gender and medical humanities as well as migrant literature.
Ph.D.: The Johns Hopkins University, Italian, Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures (2007)
B.A.: Smith College, Italian and Government, Cum Laude, Department of Italian Languages and Literatures and Department of Government (2000)
University of Virginia, 2014 – present
Director for SPAN 3300
University of Virginia in Valencia, advisor, promotion
Ph.D. in Spanish, University of Virginia, 2009
M.A. in Spanish, University of Virginia, 2004
Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Philology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 2001
