Keynote Speakers
2009
Dr. Nydia Flores-Ferrán
Assistant Professor, GSE Dept. of Learning & Teaching
Rutgers University
Dr. Flores-Ferrán holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the City University Graduate Center as well as an M.Ed. in TESOL from Temple University. Her research interests include Bilingualism (Spanish and English in contact, specifically), Spanish in the U.S., SLA, and ESL Methods and Research. She is experienced in Elementary, Secondary, College ESL/EFL teaching in USA and abroad, and teaching Spanish as a Second Language to non-Heritage speakers. She also has a background in the administration of language programs in institutions of higher education. An abstract of her proposed presentation can be downloaded at the link below.
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Dr. Elena Gascón-Vera
Professor of History of Ideas
Marion Butler MacLean
Dr. Gascón-Vera has a licenciatura en Filosofía y Letras from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. both from Yale University. Since 1973 she has been teaching at the Department of Spanish at Wellesley College where she was Chair from 1974-84 and 1999-2001. She has authored numerous works on topics that range from Spanish Medieval Literature and Feminist Studies to Spanish Postmodernism and Spanish and Mexican Cinema. She has been awarded research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Instituto de la Mujer de España and the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and the United States. An abstract of her proposed presentation can be downloaded at the link below.
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Dr. Milagros Peña
Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies
Director of the Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research
University of Florida
Dr. Peña holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and is author of numerous distinguished texts. Recent publications also include: “Latinas, Border Realities, Empowerment, and Faith-based Organizations,” published in 2003 in Michele Dillon (Editor) Handbook for the Sociology of Religion, New York: Cambridge University Press; and “Encountering Latina Mobilization: Lessons From Field Research on the U.S./Mexico Border,” published in James V. Spickard, J. Shawn Landres, and Meredith B. McGuire (Eds.) Personal Knowledge and Beyond Reshaping the Ethnography of Religion New York: New York University Press, 2002. Her research interests include Women's Studies, Social Movements, and Race and Ethnic Relations. An abstract of her proposed presentation can be downloaded at the link below.
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