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Melba I. Amador, “Domestic Violence in Geographies of Home by Loida Maritza Pérez: La "Pasión" de Rebecca” (University of New Mexico, melba@unm.edu)
Robert K. Anderson, “La ficcionalización del exilio en Andamos huyendo Lola” (Brigham Young University)
José F. Bañuelos, “‘Nada es lo mismo, ni lo será mañana': Alienación y nostalgia en Destierro y atardecer” (University of New Mexico, jfb@unm.edu)
Jesús J. Barquet, “Lectura comentada de ‘Naufragios'” (New Mexico State University, jbarquet@nmsu.edu)
Steven M. Bell, “Literary Relocations: Transnational Dimensions of Multicultural Interaction in the Fiction of Junot Díaz and Sandra Cisneros” (University of Arkansas, sbell@uark.edu)
Valerie Benoist, “La triple comunidad chalca/mexica/española en las Relaciones de Chimalpahin” (Grinnell College, benoist@grinnell.edu)
May E. Bletz, “Utopian Thought in Alberto Gerchunoff's Los gauchos judíos” (Brock University, mbletz@brocku.ca)
Josie Bortz, “El exilio en la obra Sócrates y los gatos de Elena Garro” (Appalachian State University)
Peter G. Broad, “La pérdida de las raíces y del arraigo en dos novelas de Marco Tulio Aguilera” (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, pbroad@iup.edu)
Shannon Butler, “Ghosts in the Representational Machine: Geographical and Ideological Itineraries in 19 th -Century Travelogues Regarding Perú” (Marshall University, s.m.butler@earthlink.net)
Steven Byrd, “Calunga: An Afro-Brazilian Speech of the Triângulo Mineiro” (University of Texas at Austin, byrd@mail.utexas.edu)
I. Carolina Caballero, “Memory and Masquerade: The Performance of Exile in José Triana's La fiesta” (Regis University, icaballe@regis.edu )
Patricia Catoira, “Sex Travelers: Jineteras and Tourists in Recent Cuban Fiction” (Montana State University-Bozeman, pcatoira@montana.edu)
Carlota Caulfield, “Lectura comentada de ‘Movimientos mecánicos para jueguetes abandonados'” (Mills College, amach@mills.edu)
Pedro Cebollero, “Pilgrimage and Liberty in Early Creole Epics: From Allegorical Displacement and Migration in El Peregrino Indiano to Literal Migrant Communities in the History of New Mexico” (University of Missouri, cebollerop@missouri.edu)
María Inés Cisterna Gold, “El habla del escritor: Figuras de la autobiografía y el testimonio en Composicion de lugar (1984) de Juan Martini, Maldición eterna a quién lea estas páginas (1980) de Manuel Puig y Vudú urbano (1984) de Edgardo Cozarinsky” (University of Massachusetts, Boston, maria.cisterna@umb.edu)
Gerard Dapena, “In Search of Gardel's Guitar: Representing the Transhispanic Musical Nation” (Macalester College, dapena@macalester.edu)
Jorge Estrada, “Expatriadas internas en Los recuerdos del porvenir de Elena Garro” (University of New Mexico, jorest@unm.edu)
Isabel Ferreira Gould, “Percursos Filiais, Viagens ao Revés: Inverted Patterns of Travel in Maria Isabel Barreno's O Senhor das Ilhas” (University of Notre Dame, ferreira.5@nd.edu)
Paul Firbas, “The Place of Maroons in Colonial Geographies: Law, History and Poetry” (Princeton University, firbas@princeton.edu)
Sandra Garabano, “Viajeros ingleses e historias americanas: Nuevas construcciones del mito patagónico” (University of Texas at El Paso, sgarabano@utep.edu)
Mario T. García, “Presente! Father Luis Olivares and the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles—A Study in Faith, Ethnic Identity, and Ecumenism” (University of California, Santa Barbara, garcia@history.ucsb.edu)
Leila Gomez, “Viajeros, héroes y mártires. Los relatos de viajes científicos en Argentina y la imaginación de la nación moderna” (University of Colorado at Boulder, leila.gomez@colorado.edu)
Kiley Guyton, “Diaspora and the Post-Modern Subject: Violetta's (De) Construction of Identity in Xavier Velasco's Diablo guardián” (U. of New Mexico, kguyton@unm.edu)
Paola Hernández, “‘ Serena danza del olvido' de Héctor Levy Daniel: Escenas dislocadas de la Argentina de postdictadura ” (U. of Wisonsin-Madison, pshernandez@wisc.edu )
René Jara, “(Re)location and Identity” (University of Minnesota, jarax001@maroon.tc.umn.edu)
Carl Jubran, “Hispano-Arabism, an Alternative to Global Neo-Orientalist Discourses” (University of San Diego, cjubran@sandiego.edu)
Colleen Kattau, “Earth-centered Resistance: Lila Downs and the Tree of Life” (State University of New York at Cortland, kattauc@cortland.edu)
Emily Knudson-Vilaseca, “Disembodied Voices and Voicing Bodies” (University of Minnesota, knud0121@umn.edu)
Jeremy L. Lehnen, “Mundo can: Violencia e identidad en Amores perros” (University of New Mexico, jlehnen@unm.edu)
Leila Lehnen, “La autopista de los no-sueños; Viaje y nostalgia en Rainbows at Seven Eleven de Luis Arturo Ramos” (University of New Mexico, llehnen@unm.edu)
Tabea Alexa Linhard, “When Mexico City Became a Shore: Mediterranean and Transatlantic Crossings in the Work of Angelina Muñiz-Huberman” (Washington University, tlinhard@wustl.edu)
Jenny Lin-Martínez, “China and Peru in La primera espada del imperio (The First Sword of the Empire)” (maanlin@eartlink.net)
Kimberle S. López, “An Argentine in Paris: Alicia Dujovene Ortiz from Exile to Immigrant” (University of New Mexico, klopez@unm.edu)
Celia López-Chávez, “Ocupar la tierra que ‘jamás cristianos pies pisaron': poesía épica y geografía en las fronteras del imperio español americano” (University of New Mexico, celialop@unm.edu)
Frederick Luciani, “The Western Canal and the Dread Torrent: José María Heredia as Travel Writer” (Colgate University, fluciani@mail.colgate.edu)
Angela Marino Segura, “Performing (post) Structures of Class in Diablo guardián” (U. of New Mexico, amarino@unm.edu)
Ismael P. Márquez, “En busca del nuevo El Dorado: El éxodo andino en la literatura peruana” (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, imarquez@uwm.edu)
Ellen McCracken, “Exilic Displacement and Return: Battles of Ethnic Signification in La Conquistadora” (University of California, Santa Barbara, emccr@spanport.ucsb.edu)
Sara M. Misemer, “Still in Crisis? Gabriel Peveroni's El hueco (tribus urbanas)” ( Texas A&M University, smisemer@tamu.edu)
Pedro Monteiro, “Words in Alternative Locations: Jongos and the Shift from Folklorism to Cultural History in Brazil” (Princeton University, pmeira@princeton.edu)
Claudia Montoya, “Mujeres en tránsito, identidad femenina en el cine mexicano” (Midwestern State University, claudia.montoya@mwsu.edu)
Ricardo A. Moreira, “Cultura de consumo, influêcia social e comportamento em La noche es virgen (1997) de Jaime Bayly” (U. of New Mexico, ricardom@unm.edu)
Consuelo Navarro, “I dentities in-between: Los fronterizos y la frontera en El jardín del Edén de María Novaro” (Virginia State University, cnavarro@vsu.edu)
Robert A. Neustadt, “Reading Music to Locate Culture: The Negotiation of Identity in Indo-Spanish America” (Northern Arizona University, Robert.Neustadt@nau.edu)
Nury Nuila-Stevens, “Las migraciones internas de Claribel Alegría: El ir y venir en Saudades y Soltando amarras” (Saint Meinrad School of Theology, nnuila-stevens@saintmeinrad.edu)
Andrea Parada, “Mujer, identidad y nación en Madre que estás en los cielos de Pablo Simonetti” (State University of New York, Brockport, aparada@brockport.edu)
Marcela J. Pardes, “Una interrogación sobre el viaje del descubrimiento: Colombina descubierta de Alicia Freilich” (Temple University, mpardes@temple.edu)
Pablo Pérez, “Letelier y la vuelta de Berlin” (Duke University, psp6@duke.edu)
Emilio Ramón, “Discourse, Memories and Facts: The Perceptions of History and Her-Story in Por el cielo y más allá (2000) ( Cap al cel obert 1999)” (Siena College, eramon-garcia@siena.edu)
Sharon Reeves, “California Dreaming in the Nineteenth Century: Reinvented Identities in Isabel Allende’s Daughter of Fortune” (Queensborough Community College, CUNY, SREEVES754@nyc.rr.com)
Sonia Rey-Montejo, “From the Main Land to the Island: Transnational Displacements and Symbolic Return to the Hispanic Caribbean” (U. of Colorado at Boulder, Sonia.Rey-montejo@colorado.edu)
Dolores Rivas Bahti, (University of Arizona, drbahti@email.arizona.edu )
Juan Pablo Rivera, “Esa otra ridícula lengua: Sirena Selena vestida de pena” (Harvard University, jprivera@fas.harvard.edu)
Dylon Robbins, “Palenque Pictures: Reflections on the Place of Maroon Societies in Gutiérrez Alea's La última cena (1976) and Carlos Diegues' Quilombo (1984)” (Princeton University, dylon@princeton.edu)
Angélica Sánchez-Clark, “‘Death' of the Family in a Postmodern World: Reconstruction of the Self through Consumption in Xavier Velasco's Diablo guardián (2003)” (University of New mexico, asclark@unm.edu)
Eleuterio Santiago-Díaz, “En las oscuras fronteras de dos casas letradas: ‘El entierro de un hijo pródigo' en Down These Mean Streets” (University of New Mexico, esantia@unm.edu)
Martha Santillán, “ Elena Garro: una historia de ostracismo, entre el escándalo y la vida privada ” (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Camilla Stevens, “Borrowed Identities: Performing the Dominican Diaspora” (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, cstevens@spanport.rutgers.edu)
Michael Stone, “Garifuna Music, Cultural History & Global Intellectual Production, 1847-2005” (Princeton University, ms1@princeton.edu)
María P. Tajes, “De Camerún a Galicia: el discurso contestatario de Calela sen Saída de Víctor Omgbá” (William Paterson University, tajesm@wpunj.edu)
Michelle Wilson, “Liminality and Translations in Latin America's Southern Cone Exile Literature” (University of Nevada at Reno, wilso265@unr.nevada.edu)
Jennifer Jenkins Wood, “Spanish Women Travel Writers and the End of the Spanish Empire in America” (Scripps College, Jennifer_wood@scrippscollege.edu)
Erica M. Yozell, “Imagining Alternative Perspectives: Memory, Exile, and Creativity in Luisa Valenzuela's La travesía” (Moravian College, emy@moravian.edu)