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José Aguirre

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José Aguirre, coordinator of the remote language and instruction program in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Minnesota, is completing his doctoral studies with a specialization in Iberian and Latin American studies. Additionally, he holds degrees in philosophy and comparative literature from the University of Valladolid. His research interests include transatlantic studies, cinema, and contemporary Iberian and Latin American visual arts, memory studies, as well as urban and rural studies. In particular, he focuses on cultural and institutional policies between Spain and Latin America in the last century. He also explores the intersection of cultural production and political violence, with an emphasis on Spanish film production since the political transition.

11 de August de 2023

Sam Lengyel

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¡Hola! Me llamo Sam Lengyel, y soy de Minnesota. Soy un estudiante en la clase del 2025 en Carleton con doble especialización en el español e informática. Además de mi trabajo para el departamento de TI en Carleton como parte de los equipos de sistemas de datos y bases de conocimiento, he trabajado como ayudante de investigación para la profesora Palmar Alvarez-Blanco. Mis principales intereses incluyen la necesidad de y los aspectos prácticos de archivar y el software de código abierto.
10 de August de 2023

Cristina Chicharro Manzanares

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Cristina Chicharro Manzanares is a professional with a degree in History and a Master’s degree in Contemporary History from the Complutense University of Madrid. Throughout her career, she has gained relevant experience in the field of research and teaching. In the past year, she worked as a Spanish Language Associate at Carleton College in Minnesota.

Her experience at Carleton College allowed her to develop valuable skills such as effective communication, teamwork, and adaptability. These skills are essential in academic and research environments as they foster collaboration and the exchange of ideas.

In addition to her work experience, Cristina has demonstrated her commitment to advancing historical knowledge through her academic contributions. She has published an article titled “Africanist anthropology during Francoism: the Bernardino de Sahagún Institute, 1939-1951” in the Cultural & History Digital Journal. This achievement indicates her ability to conduct original research and contribute to the field of contemporary history.

17 de June de 2023

Roberto Robles-Valencia

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Roberto Robles-Valencia holds a PhD in Spanish from the University of Michigan and is currently a Faculty of Spanish at  the South Carolina Governor´s School for Sciences and Mathematics. He has taught previously at the University of South Alabama and

Kalamazoo College. His main research focus is Spanish Nationalism . He has co-edited Fuera de la ley. Asedios al fenómeno quinqui en la Transición española, Comares, 2015, and has published on immigration, precariousness and the crisis, as represented in different cultural artifacts.

18 de August de 2019

Sarah Calhoun

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Information & Metadata Architecture Advisor

Sarah is the Reference & Instruction Librarian for Humanities and Digital Scholarship at Gould Library at Carleton College. As part of this, she collaborates with partners in ITS and the Humanities Center to help support multiple digital scholarship projects and classes across campus. She helps digital project leads think through the big questions of description, preservation, and access, and then liaises with other library and campus partners to triage work appropriately across different units. She has Masters degrees in Languages and Cultures of Asia and Library and Information Studies, and her own work currently focuses around the history of library technology and the ways in which the structures of these systems have cast a long shadow on the work of Asian Studies scholars.

15 de June de 2019

Kha Huynh

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A 2019 graduate of Carleton, I majored in Computer Science with supplemental coursework in American Studies. I’m passionate about leveraging technology to engage public service and social change among the communities we live in, as well as living and learning across boundaries. In my next chapter post-grad, I’ll have the opportunity to do all these things at a social-impact-aware tech consulting firm!

13 de June de 2019

Susana Álvarez Rodilana

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Es licenciada en Filología Hispánica por la Universidad de Valladolid. Compagina su trabajo como administradora a cargo de la plataforma internacional ALCESXXI con la edición audiovisual y algunas incursiones en la fotografía. En la actualidad está terminando un módulo de especialización sobre Iluminación, Captación y Tratamiento de Imagen. Es la editora a cargo de los vídeos de las entrevistas archivados en La Constelación de los Comunes.

13 de June de 2019

Emmanuel Gimeno Lodosa

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Designer and editor of Creando Estudio Gráfico for more than 20 years, he combines her work life with the accompaniment of processes at the cultural space La Vorágine and of social movements in Santander, the city where she was born and now lives. Autodidactic, he never liked formal education; he is an expert in the fields of editorial, interactive, expository, and corporate design in addition to the field of information and communication technology. For years, he has organized digital training workshops for activists, collectives, local businesses, and educators.

8 de June de 2019

Celeste Sharpe

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Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe is an Academic Technologist at Carleton College, where she works on digital projects with faculty and staff across campus that integrate technology into the curriculum. In 2016, she received her PhD in History from George Mason University for her digital dissertation project titled “They Need You! Disability, Visual Culture, and the Poster Child, 1945-1980.” The introduction and bibliography are available in the George Mason University institutional repository, and access to the project in Scalar is available by contacting Celeste directly at csharpe@carleton.edu. She was interviewed by the American Historical Association about her process creating a groundbreaking digital project in history.

She has published on a range of topics related to teaching and learning with technology including “Making Digital Humanities Tools More Culturally Specific and More Culturally Sensitive,” and Teaching Computer Science Majors to Decode Discrimination and Design Diverse Futures.”

8 de June de 2019

Palmar Álvarez-Blanco

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Palmar Álvarez-Blanco is a Professor in the Spanish Department at Carleton College, MN. She earned her BA in Hispanic Philology from the University of Valladolid (Spain), her MA from Villanova University and her PhD in Spanish Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the co-founder of ALCESXXI, the co-founder of the Journal of Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film and Carleton’s International Film Forum. She is an active collaborator with the collectives Books in Action, OVNI and the Critical Institute of Unlearning. 

Alvarez-Blanco’s journey as a scholar engaging the world of artivism and grassroots movements has deeply informed her own research and teaching practices. Her pedagogical portfolio includes a variety of projects that serve to help students acquire a better sense of community engagement, visual literacy, the art of interviewing, the application of film language and the curating process of audio-visual materials, either through archives or traveling exhibitions. So far she has co-curated two traveling exhibitions that have been hosted by six other universities in the USA: Welcome to the World and Satirical and Political Graphics in the Modern World.

 Alvarez-Blanco’s research focuses on the transformation of cultural paradigms in the frame of capitalism and its crises. Among her essays focused on capitalist culture and alternative cultural imaginary are: “Culture a la contra: A Cultural Paradigm Toward Alternatives to the Civilizatory and Ecological Crisis”, in the book titled Spain After the Indignados/15M Movement: The 99% Speaks Out; “De-fencing: Notes on the Cultural Ecosystem of the Commons in the Post-15M Spanish State” (Forthcoming in Boundary 2) and  “Transformative and Emancipatory Research and Education: A Counter-Practice in Research and Teaching” with Steven Torres (in Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, VOL40, 2018). In addition to being the architect, curator and creator of the Constellation of the Commons project, she has coordinated and co-edited two collective volumes on the topic: Profiles of the Current Spanish Narrative (2000-2010): A Dialogue Between Creators and Critics; and Mortgaged Imagination: Contributions to the Debate on the Precariousness of the Present (2017). Her upcoming books In Route with the Commons. An Archival Memory of a possible Constellation (2017-19) and Towards a Common Sense are a road map and an academic reflection respectively on the culture of the commons in communities of practice and self-managed collectives that have emerged over the past decade in Spain.

8 de June de 2019