Dosinda G. Alvite
Dosinda G. Alvite, from A Coru?a, Spain, studied Hispanic Philology at Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. Interested in education, cultural history, ethnic and migration issues she got a Master¡¯s in Bilingual Education from Eastern Michigan University and taught ESL at Wayne County Public Schools (MI). She also taught Spanish, worked as a translator and did cross cultural training for upper management at Ford Motor Company and General Motors Headquarters (Detroit). After completing her Ph.D in Hispanic Studies at the University of Michigan, Dosinda chose to come to ±Ø²©ÓéÀÖ,±È²©ÓéÀÖÍøÖ· ######### University, deeply passionate about the tradition of the liberal arts education.
Dosinda loves to engage with cultural difference and learn from it. Her visits to over 20 countries in 5 continents and 40 states in the USA were connected to her research projects, or to visit family members who, for political or economic reasons, migrated to England, Switzerland, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba and Mexico.
In Ohio, ¡°the heart of it all¡±, Dosinda misses the Atlantic Ocean of her hometown, but enjoys its many and distinctive cultural festivals: Latino, Italian, African, Asian, Irish, German, Eastern European, Amish, including Comfest, and likes to trek through the Appalachian trails.
Learning & Teaching
- SPAN 111: Beginning Spanish I
- SPAN 112: Beginning Spanish II
- SPAN 211: Intermediate Spanish
- SPAN 213: Communication Skills in Spanish, ¡°A Film Tour through Spanish-speaking Countries¡±
- SPAN 215: Writing Workshop in Spanish
- SPAN 220: Introduction to the Analysis of Hispanic Literature
- SPAN 314: Translation Studies: On Being Translingual and Transcultural (Fall ¡¯12, Spring ¡®17, Spring ¡®18)
- SPAN 320: Survey of Peninsular Literature
- SPAN 323: Hispanic Culture through Service Learning
- SPAN 330: Survey of Peninsular Culture
- SPAN 430: Seminar on Peninsular Culture, ¡°Ethnicity, Sexuality and Globalization: The Performance of National Identity in Contemporary Spain.¡±
- SPAN 430: Seminar on Peninsular Culture, ¡°Espa?a contempor¨¢nea: Naci¨®n y globalizaci¨®n¡±
- SPAN 420: Seminar on Peninsular Literature, ¡°Cuerpos vivos: materia y esp¨ªritu en las artes de la Espa?a contempor¨¢nea¡±
- SPAN 430: Seminar on Peninsular Culture, ¡°Migraci¨®n, transnacionalismo y globalizaci¨®n en la Espa?a contempor¨¢nea¡±
- SPAN 430: Seminar on Peninsular Culture, ¡°La persistencia de la memoria: fronteras identitarias en la Espa?a contempor¨¢nea¡±
- SPAN 430: Seminar on Peninsular Culture, ¡°Creatividad y movimiento en la Espa?a contempor¨¢nea¡±
Research
Works
SELECTION OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Peer-refereed articles
¡°Feminizaci¨®n e invisibilidad de inmigrantes ecuatorianos en Espa?a: Rabia de Cordero.¡± Hispanic Journal. 38.1 (2017): 45-62.
¡°Paisajes del exilio en la poes¨ªa de Juan Balboa Boneke: Compromiso social con la patria guineoecuatoriana.¡± Revista Iberoamericana 248. 9 (2014): 813-34.
¡°Unlikely Hero: Rapping with Petey Greene.¡± Journal on African Philosophy 6 (2012): 70-83. (Co-authored with Prof. John Jackson).
¡°Womanism and Social Change in Trinidad Morgades Besari¡¯s Ant¨ªgona from Equatorial Guinea.¡± Cincinnati Romance Review 30 (2010): 117-29.
¡°Madrid y la cultura popular en la serie ¡®Manolito Gafotas¡¯ de Elvira Lindo.¡± Hispania 91.3 (2008): 547-557.
¡°Desde Guinea Ecuatorial a la escena global: Cuentos y m¨²sica de Mar¨ªa Nsu¨¦.¡± Ciberletras 19 (2008). Reprinted in Alcira Arancibia, Juana and Rosa Tezanos-Pinto, eds. La mujer en la literatura del mundo hisp¨¢nico, Vol. VIII. Instituto Literario y Cultural Hisp¨¢nico, Buenos Aires, 2009.
¡°Teaching a Foreign Language in a Service Learning Context: A Case Study.¡± International Journal of Learning. 12:10 (2005/2006) 143-148. Reprinted and revised in Academic Service-Learning Across Disciplines. Models, Outcomes and Assessment. Jonathan H. Westover, ed. Champaign, Illinois: Common Ground, 2012. 303-312.
Peer-refereed book chapters
¡°La Reina del Sur: Problemas ¨¦ticos de un protagonismo excesivo.¡± Camelia la texana y otras mujeres de la narcocultura. Tabuenca, Mar¨ªa Socorro and Juan Carlos Rodr¨ªguez-Pimienta, eds. Universidad Aut¨®noma de Sinaloa, Sinaloa, M¨¦xico, 2016. 55-88.
¡°The Odyssey of Spanish Jews: Un-homely Sefarad.¡± Literary Constructions of National Identity in the Literatures of the Iberian Peninsula. Dorothy Odartey-Wellington ed. A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula, Anxo Abu¨ªn, Fernando Cabo and C¨¦sar Dom¨ªnguez, eds. International Comparative Literature Association. 74-86. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2016.
¡°Huerfanitos en el cine peruano contempor¨¢neo.¡± Cine andino: estudios y testimonios. Morales Mena, Javier Juli¨¢n and Julio E. Noriega, eds. Universidad Mayor de San Marcos/Pakarina Ediciones, Lima, Per¨², 2015. 215-227.
¡°Un multiculturalismo perif¨¦rico en la Espa?a contempor¨¢nea: Sefarad en Jerusal¨¦n: una historia de amor de Leopoldo Azancot.¡± Un Hispanismo para el Siglo XXI. Ensayos de cr¨ªtica cultural. Cornejo-Parriego, Rosal¨ªa and Alberto Villamandos, eds. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2011. 38-61.
Service
- Asociaci¨®n Europea de Profesores de Espa?ol (AEPE)
- Asociaci¨®n Hisp¨¢nica de Humanidades (AHH)
- African Literature Association (ALA)
- Asociaci¨®n Universitaria de Estudios de las Mujeres (AUEM)
- Asociaci¨®n Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hisp¨¢nica (AILCFH)
- Canadian Association of Hispanists (CAAHS)
- ±Ø²©ÓéÀÖ,±È²©ÓéÀÖÍøÖ· Language Association (CLA)
- International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS)
- Modern Languages Association (MLA)
- The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
Other
The following are websites created by students in my advanced Spanish classes (300 and 400 level).
The projects are examples of collaborative learning and the students¡¯ abilities to evaluate, synthesize, compare and contrast theoretical, literary and historical knowledge. The ability to establish interdisciplinary connections and to make links between academic pursuits and daily news/everyday culture is very relevant as well.
Persistencia de la memoria: Fronteras identitarias en Espa?a
