CLASS Newsletter: Modern and Classical Languages
Publications
Alessandro Carrera
In the year 2006, Alessandro Carrera, Director of Italian Studies received the "Bertolucci Prize" for literary criticism with his book "I Poeti sono impossibili" [Poets Are Impossible]. Rome: Edizioni Il Filo, 2005. The Bertolucci Prize, named after the Italian poet Attilio Bertolucci, is awarded by the City of Parma, Italy. The Academy Award Winner filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, Attilio's son, is president of the jury. Says Professor Carrera, “It is rather amusing to win a literary prize with a book that now and then it is rather sarcastic about literary prizes and the poets who crave them, but I suppose that sometimes it pays to be the bad boy."
Professor Carrera also published one collection of poems and three edited books:
- "La stella del mattino e della sera" [Star of Morning and Night]. Rome: Edizioni Il Filo, 2006.
- "La luce migliore: Poeti americani in Italia" [The Best Light: American Poets in Italy]. An anthology edited by A. Carrera and Thomas J. Simpson. Milan: Edizioni Medusa, 2006.
- "Prospettive italiane: Prosa e critica degli italianisti del Nord America" [Italian Perspectives: Prose and Criticism from North America Italianists]. No. 44 Issue of the literary journal "Nuova Prosa" (published in Milan, Italy), guest-edited by A. Carrera.
- Bob Dylan, "Lyrics 1962-2001". Translated into Italian and annotated by A. Carrera. Milan: Feltrinelli, 2006.
Gabriela Ventura Baeza
Gabriela Ventura Baeza Recent publication: La imagen de la mujer en la crónica del "México de afura" Ciudad Juárez, UACJ: In extenso, 2006. "Grants-in-aid award for the Recovering Religious Thought and Practice in the United States, 2006 . From Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, University of Houston
Casey Dúe Hackney
In 2006, Casey Dúe Hackney published: Dué, C. The Captive Woman’s Lament in Greek Tragedy. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. She was also nominated for the Women's Classical Caucus award for her article Dué, C. “Achilles, Mother Bird: Similes and Traditionality in Homeric Poetry.” Classical Bulletin 81 (2005): 3-18.
Guillermo De Los Reyes
Guillermo De Los Reyes publishedA Brief History of Male (Homo) Sexuality in Colonial Spanish America." in Journal of Homosexuality 51:3, and "Translating, Smuggling, and Recovering Books in Nineteenth Century Mexico: Thomas Smith Webb's El Monitor de los Masones Libres: ó, Illustraciones sobre la Masonería." in The Critical Importance of Region: Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project Vol. VI with Arte Público Press.
Marc Zimmerman
Marc Zimmerman published 5 books in 2006, including:
- Literatura y testimonio en Centro-América: Posiciones post-insurgentes. Guatemala City. Casa Editorial de la Universidad Rafael Landívar. 2006
- Stores of Winter. Short stories of childhood and not-so-innocents abroad, plus a Jewish American tragi-comedy. Santiago, Chile. Bravo y Allende 2006.
- South to North: Framing Latin and Central American, Caribbean and Latino Literatures. Overview essays distinguishing and relating various literatures of the Americas. Santiago, Chile. Bravo y Allende 2006.
- Mixing the Personal and Professional Essays tracing an intellectual trajectory from the 1970s to the present. 2006.
- América Latina en el nuevo [des]orden mundial. Essays on globalization and transnational processes, cities, borders, universities, pre- and post-9/ll concerns. Santiago, Chile. Global CASA/Bravo y Allende, 2006.
Awards
Nicolás Kanellos
Nicolás Kanellos received the 2006 Texas Association for Bilingual Education Award for contributions to higher education.
Guillermo De Los Reyes
Guillermo De Los Reyes received the 2006 Provost's Core Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Houston. Research Grant: Program for Cultural Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Spain. "From Sins to Crimes: Sexual Moral Discourses and Sexualities in New Spain."
