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BIO

Tina Escaja joined the department in 1993 after earning her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. She has published extensively on gender, technology and representation at the turn-of-the-twentieth century and their connections with the turn-of-the-millennium in Latin America and Spain. She has received international recognition as a creative artist and writer and is considered a pioneer in digital poetry in Spanish.

As a teacher and scholar, she has won the ¶¶Òõ̽̽’s Dean’s Lecture Award (2010), the Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award (2013), and the University Scholar Award (2015-16), and she has held the university’s highest rank of Distinguished Professor since 2019.

Her awards as poet include the International Poetry Prize "Dulce María Loynaz" for her collection Caída Libre, published in 2004, and the National Campoy-Ada Prize for children and youth literature in 2017. Her collection Manual destructivista/Destructivist Manual (2016), with English translations by Kristin Dykstra, was selected among top ten bilingual readings by Latino Poetry Review in 2017. Escaja’s creative work has been translated to multiple languages and her digital artefacts, including Robopoem@s, CAPTCHA Poem@, Emblem/as, and VeloCity, have been exhibited internationally. Some of her digital and literary works can be experienced .

Professor Escaja has served as Vice-President and President of the Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades (Association of Gender and Sexualities Studies, formerly AILCFH), Vice-President and President of ALDEEU (Spanish Professionals in America), and President of Feministas Unidas, Inc.. She is currently Full Member of ANLE (Spanish Language Academy in the USA), Corresponding member for RAE (Real Academia Española), and Vice-President of Red Poppy, a non-profit dedicated to promoting Latin American poetry in the United States. She is the director of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies program at ¶¶Òõ̽̽.

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Courses

• SPAN 2200: Intermediate II
• SPAN 3610: Analyzing Hispanic Literatures
• SPAN 4110: Advanced Composition and Conversation
• SPAN 4100: Topics in Spanish Language Study: Writing and Speaking Creatively
• SPAN 4685: Latin American Poetry
• SPAN 4990: Advanced Special Topics: 20th/21st Century Latin American Women Poets
• SPAN 4990: Advanced Special Topics: 20th/21st Century Spanish Poetry
• SPAN 4990: Advanced Special Topics: Pedro Almodovar and Post-Franco Spain
• SPAN 4990: Advanced Special Topics: The Turn of the Century Luso/Hispanic Repr
• SPAN 4990: Advanced Special Topics: Women’s Rep in Modernismo
• SPAN 3990: Advanced Special Topics: Poetry of Resistance
• SPAN 3990: Advanced Special Topics: Love, Sex and Censorship in Spain
• SPAN 3990: Topics in Hispanic Cultures: Mexican Culture Through the Arts

Publications

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Area(s) of expertise

20th-21st century Spanish and Latin American poetry; gender studies; turn of the century literature, society, and digital media