Dr. Marina Llorente

Co-chair, Associate Professor of Spanish

Academic Biography

Marina A. Llorente, associate professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at St. Lawrence University, received her Ph.D and M.A in Spanish Literature from the University of Kansas and her B.A from the University of Málaga, Spain . In August 2009 she was awarded the Louis and Frances Maslow Award, given annually to the St. Lawrence University faculty member “who has shown the most interest in and understanding of the education and welfare of the student body as a whole.” She has published /Palabra y deseo: Espacios transgresores en la poesía española, 1975-1990/ and articles on the intersections between Hispanic literatures, gender and social justice with a focus on contemporary Hispanic poetry analyzed under the theoretical framework of cultural studies. Her current research addresses ethics, the politics of memory and contemporary literature and film in Spain and Latin America. She is co-editing an anthology of poems and short stories on the role of grandmothers in the Hispanic family and culture and is immersed in a book project tentatively titled /“So many things not yet invented”: Spain's New Generation of Social Poets/. She teaches elementary, intermediate and advanced Spanish language courses. Her upper level courses are Hispanic Cultural Studies, Cultures of Spain, Introduction to Spanish Literature, Literature, Film and Popular Culture in Contemporary Spain, Hispanic Poetry, Music and Ethics and Hispanic Women Writers. She has also taught a First-Year Seminar on Remapping the Old World: the Politics of Immigration in the New Europe. She has directed student research projects on the artistic movement of "La Movida" in Madrid, Education and Gender in Spain, Latino poetry writing in the United States, community-based learning in Bolivia, Latin American immigrant women in Madrid, and Hispanic women writers. She has directed the SLU Program Abroad in Spain three times.

Spring 2013: Dr. Llorente is teaching:
SPAN 202 A: Adv. Spanish
SPAN 202 B: Adv. Spanish
SPAN 448 A: SPTP Musica Protesta
 

Attachments: 

Llorente CV 2010-2011.pdf