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Manuela Borzone

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Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A. Universidad de M獺laga; M.A. Nottingham University; M.A., Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Appointed In
2025
Office
Johnson Hall 411
Hours
MW 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. & by appointment

Prof. Borzone is a literary scholar whose work focuses on the representation of the Argentine gaucho in literature, illustration, and film. She also works on Western comics created in Argentina. At 酴圖弝け, she teaches a variety of courses which range from Spanish language to upper-level literature and culture.

Research

On Literature and Culture

  • Paper Frontiers: Refiguring National Belonging through Gaucho Literature and Print Culture (book manuscript in progress)
  • ���Illustrating Alliance: Florencio Molina Campos���s Pan American Propaganda in World War II��� (article draft in progress)
  • ���Lines of Tradition: Artistic Legitimacy and Representation in Illustrated Gaucho Editions��� (article draft in progress)
  • ���The Transnational Comic Book Western in Mexico and Argentina,��� with Christopher Conway, in The Routledge Companion to the Transnational Western, edited by Christopher Conway et al (under review).
  • ���Modestia Aparte: Women���s Rights in the First All-Women Feminist Murga in Argentina��� in Bodies on the Line: Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean, ed. by Brenda Werth and Katherine Zien, University of Michigan Press (2024). Association for Theatre in Higher Education Honorable Mention.
  • ���Jorge Luis Borges���s Gauchesca and the Issue of Genre Death,��� The Latinamericanist, vol. 67, issue 2, June 2023 (102-120). 
  • ���Old and New Voices in the Gaucho Frontier: Undoing the Legacy of Silence in Las Aventuras de la China Iron (2017) by Gabriela Cabez籀n C獺mara,��� in The Literary Western in the Global Imagination, ed. by Christopher Conway et al, Brill Publishers, 2022.
  • ���Argentina���s Outlaws and the Revisionist Western: The Case of H矇ctor Germ獺n Oesterheld and Hugo Pratt���s Sargento Kirk��� in Another West: The Comic Book Western. New Perspectives on a Global Genre, ed. by Christopher Conway and Antoinette Sol, University of Nebraska Press, 2022. Winner of the ���Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular and American Culture.���

On Teaching and Learning

  • ���Advancing Inclusive Teaching through Student Pedagogical Partnerships during the COVID-19 Pandemic,��� International Journal for Students as Partners, vol. 6, no. 1, May 2022. In collaboration with Tracy M. Addy et al.
  • ���The Development of the Protocol for Advancing Inclusive Teaching Efforts (PAITE),��� in collaboration with Tracy M. Addy et al, Journal of Educational Research & Practice, vol. 12, issue 0, 2022 (65-93).

Honors

  • Helen Delpar Award for Best Peer-Reviewed Article in The Latinamericanist for ���Jorge Luis Borges and the Issue of Genre Death��� (2024)
  • Faculty Scholar of the Year, Nebraska Wesleyan University (2024)
  • Distinguished Teaching Award. Center for Teaching and Learning, UMass Amherst (2018)
  • Pre-Dissertation Research Award. Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies, UMass Amherst (2016)

Teaching

  • SPA 102: Beginning Spanish II
  • SPA 374: Imagining the Argentine Nation
  • SPA 375: Narratives of Confinement in Latin American Literature