research themes
Themes represented in cutting-edge research done by SIP faculty, and informed by the latest theories in their respective fields of linguistics and literary/cultural studies.
Norms: historical, linguistic, literary, cultural
Cultures in contact, marginal spaces, peripheries
Minorities: identities and/or language
1. Norms: historical, linguistic, literary, cultural
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Globalization of popular culture (Rushing, Tosta)
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Production economies in Latin American literature (Beckman)
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Ideologies as cultural expressions (Delgado)
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Obedience as a norm (Rota)
- Emotions and/in culture (Delgado)
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Epic literature (Stoppino)
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Propagation of minority types of couplings in Caribbean culture (Goldman)
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Emergence of Andean Spanish as a contact variety (Escobar)
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Propagation of language contact variants (Escobar)
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Intonational patterns (Hualde)
- Constructions of cultural identities (Delgado)
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Syntactic patterns (MacDonald)
2. Cultures in contact, marginal spaces, peripheries
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Diasporic idenity in the literatures of the Americas (Tosta)
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Contact varieties as peripheric language varieties (Escobar)
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Gender and sexuality: queer literature (Goldman)
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Gender and sexuality: passing in literature (Tolliver)
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Ports vis à vis central spaces in Colonial literature (Meléndez)
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Islands (Goldman)
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Classroom language learning (Bowles)
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Representations of masculine gender Spanish literature in the Phillipines (Tolliver)
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Popular culture and/or language (Rushing, Goldman, Escobar, Tosta)
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Underground economies, e.g. narco economies (Beckman)
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Oral traditions in Medieval and Early Modern (Stoppino)
- Relations among Iberian cultures (Delgado, Hualde, Irigoyen)
3. Minorities: identity and/or language
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Moriscos in Early Modern Peninsular literature (Irigoyen)
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Diaspora identities in Brazil (Tosta)
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Brazilians as Latinos in the US (Tosta)
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Quechua/Spanish language contact (Escobar)
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Heritage languages in the U.S. (Montrul, Bowles)
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Linguistic varieties: Palenquero, Sephardic Spanish (Hualde)
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Passing as acts of identity (Tolliver)
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The woman warrior in Medieval and Early Modern (Stoppino)
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Gender and sexuality: passing in literature (Tolliver)
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Gender and sexuality: queer literature (Goldman)
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Translation (Tolliver)
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Islands (Goldman)
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Writing and early printing (Stoppino)
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Oral and written literary tradition (Stoppino)
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Confluence narratives in the Americas (Tosta)
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Appropriation of Moorish legacy in Early Modern Spain (Irigoyen)
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Writing as existence (Rota)
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Language contact and bilingualism (Escobar, Montrul, Bowles)
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Second language acquisition (Montrul, Bowles)
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Interactions in the classroom (Bowles)
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Modes: Written literature, Visual, Film, Music (Rushing, Goldman, Tosta, Meléndez, Stoppino, Rota)
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Trans-Oceanic (Tolliver, Tosta, Delgado, Meléndez)
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Time / Aspect / Modality (MacDonald, Escobar, Montrul)
- The City and the Sertão in Brazil (Tosta)
Mediterranean (Hualde, MacDonald, Delgado, Tolliver, Wilcox, Rushing, Rota, Stoppino, Irigoyen, Tosta)
Iberian (Delgado, Hualde, Irigoyen, Tolliver)
The Americas (Escobar, Montrul, Bowles, Goldman, Beckman, Meléndez, Tolliver, Delgado, Tosta)