Faculty Accomplishments

Academic Year 2017/2018:

Araceli Tinajero (CMLL) published Kokoro: A Mexican Woman in Japan (New York: Escribana, 2017); a translation of the Spanish version, Kokoro, una mexicana en Japón. The English text was translated by the poet and translator Daniel Shapiro (CMLL). The book was presented at the Cervantes Institute (New York) on February 20, 2018. At the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, Araceli organized and moderated the panel “Latin American Literary History: Continuities and Discontinuities” where Yale professors Rolena Adorno and Roberto González Echevarría discussed their new book, Breve historia de la literatura latinoamericana colonial y moderna (February 8, 2018). Tinajero was invited to the international conference, Cuba in War and Peace where she presented “José Martí and the Workers in Exile” (Temple University, April 21, 2018). This spring Araceli joined two editorial boards: the first is a new book series, “Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia” (Palgrave Macmillan); the second, “Anthem Studies in Latin American Literature and Culture Series” (Anthem Press). She is the Book Review Editor of the new journal Asia / América Latina.

FALL 2017 NEWS: Congratulations to Professor Kamal for being the recipient of the Rifkind Faculty Fellowship, awarded by the Steering Committee of the Rifkind Center for the Humanities and the Arts. Amr Kamal, Assistant Professor, Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, receives this award for the following project: “Empires and Emporia: Department Stores Stories across the Mediterranean."

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Press Release: In a ceremony at the Instituto Cervantes in New York, Raquel Chang-Rodríguez received the “Enrique Anderson Imbert Prize” from the North American Academy of the Spanish Language

On 6 June 2017 at the Instituto Cervantes of New York, Gerardo Piña Rosales, director of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE), an affiliate of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language, awarded Raquel Chang-Rodríguez the sculpture, medal and diploma of the “Enrique Anderson Imbert Prize.” This distinction, given annually by ANLE since 2012, recognizes the achievements and scholarship of individuals who have greatly contributed to the understanding, appreciation, and promotion of Hispanic culture in the United States, especially in the fields of language and literature. Chang-Rodríguez was also incorporated as a Corresponding Member of this prestigious organization.