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Lecturer

• PhD (Comparative Literature, HKU)
• MA (Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, UCM)
• BA (Hispanic Philology, UCM)

Contact Details:

Room 5.16, 5/F, Run Run Shaw Tower

Centennial Campus,

The University of Hong Kong,
Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong.

Tel: 3917 4264

Fax: 2548 0487

E-mail:

Teaching

First semester

• From cinema to society: Understanding Europe through film (EUST2015)
• Spanish for Business and Intercultural Communication (SPAN3028)
• Spanish I.1 (SPAN1001) groups A and C

Second semester

• Introduction to the Cultures of Latin America (SPAN1023)
• Hispanic Film and Literature (SPAN3023)
• Spanish I.2 (SPAN1002) groups A and C
• Internship for students of Spanish (SPAN3029)

Research Interests

• Latin American Cinema and Politics
• Teaching Approaches to Film, Society and Language
• China-Latin America cultural interconnections
• Development of Spanish Studies in Asia
• Digital Storytelling

Selected publications

• “Brazil at a Socio-cinematic Crossroads. State Intervention On Screen” in Pueo Wood, Naomi, ed. Brazil in Twenty-First Century Popular Media. Culture, Politics, and Nationalism on the World Stage. Maryland: Lexington Books, 2014.
• Sanchez, A., J. M. White, N. Arriaga, L. Chen, P. Deza, M. Vazquez. Contexts ELE teaching and learning in the field sinohablante. Monographs SINOELE, 4.
• “Secuestro Express and La Clase: Politics of Realism in Contemporary Venezuelan Filmmaking.” Jump Cut, 52.
• “Teaching Film or Using Film to Learn Language and Culture? Diverse Approaches to Teaching Film in Foreign Language Centres.” Lenguas Modernas, 34.
• "The growing interest in Spanish in Hong Kong" in the Spanish in the World. Cervantes Institute Yearbook (Yearbook of the Cervantes Institute), 2004.

Selected Conference Papers, Seminars and Workshops

• Seminar “The Cinematic Return of “El Pueblo.” Comparative Literature, HKU 2016.
• Seminar “Latin American Writers Reading the World: Alejo Carpentier and Octavio Paz.” Hong Kong Book Fair 2015.
• Seminar “From Novel to Film: Works by Nobel Prize Laurate Mario Vargas Llosa.” Hong Kong Book Fair 2014.
• Paper "Options film construction of the past to illuminate the present," LASA Congress.
• Paper “Neither simpletons nor gangsters. Mutual cultural (miss)understandings on Latin American and Chinese screens.” LASA Congress.
• Paper "Digital stories in Spanish." World Congress of Teachers of Spanish. COMPROFES. Instituto Cervantes, Madrid.
• Paper “Reflecting “Geographies of Injustice”: Heterotopias and Class Differences in Latin American Cinema.” ACS CROSSROADS.
• Research seminar “Politics of realism in contemporary Venezuelan filmmaking.” Research Seminar Series of the SMLC, HKU.
• Workshop for teachers titled “Cinema in Spanish as a Foreign Language Classroom (ELE). Review of teaching and learning approaches”. Series of workshops for teachers of Spanish in Asia held at the Spanish Education Office in Beijing.

Cultural Projects

• Panorama of Contemporary Cinema from Latin America and Spain: Film Series at HKU in collaboration with PRAGDA Spanish Film Club (March-April 2016)
• First Venezuelan Film Series in Hong Kong in collaboration with the Consulate General of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Hong Kong and the Arts Centre (March 2010)
• Visits of contemporary Spanish writers to HKU (Jose Carlos Somoza, Javier Puebla and Espido Freire (2006-08)