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Faculty News Tania Cantrell Rosas Moreno defends her doctoral dissertation Dr. Cantrell Rosas Moreno defended her dissertation in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin on Wednesday, October 14, 2009, earning her Ph.D. Her dissertation, “How Do News Issues Help Frame Telenovela Plots? A Framing Analysis of Brazilian Print National Press and TV Globo’s 8 p.m. Telenovela Duas Caras [Two Faced/s],” according to one of her dissertation readers, traces various contexts in Brazilian cultural production including the historical, the commercial, and the social. A successful dissertation defense is a milestone for Dr. Cantrell and her research will enrich greatly the Latin Americanist culture at Loyola University Maryland. Não há nada mais que dizer, exceto, “felitações doctora Cantrell Rosas Moreno”! Dr. Ward publishes a book on modern Peru
Professor Margarita Jácome has just published a book on what she calls, the novela sicaresca, a distinctly Colombian form of fiction that explores the role of hit men and women in the fabric of violence that blankets Colombia. What Dr. Jácome has discovered is that the violence perpetrated by hit men and women and by the people who hire them, the drug traffickers, has so permeated Colombian society that this new kind of fiction has sprung up, a form of fiction that can be considered a new literary genre. Yet this is not a purely literary study since Professor Jácome includes testimonial narratives, movies, and sociological and anthological studies in a successful attempt to understand the nature of violence her native Colombia.
Ms. Cantrell begins teaching in the Communications Department Fall 2009 and will bring a global perspective to her courses. She has published on new female heads of government during their first-200-days-in-office in Germany, Liberia and Chile, on the military massacres at My Lai (Vietnam) and El Mozote (El Salvador), and is presently writing on dissertation on broadcasting in Brazil. LALS Students studying with Ms. Cantrell will now be able to include the discipline of Communications in the minor. Welcome Professor Cantrell! To read Tania Cantrell’s article "New York Times Coverage of the My Lai and El Mozote Military Massacres" click here. | |||
Professor Ward’s book has many merits. Not only has its publication been sponsored by the prestigious Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and our Loyola University Maryland, but also goes deep into the concept of nation, an ongoing debate that today more than ever has regained relevance in our globalized world. The question "Is Peru a nation?" guides Dr. Ward’s analysis of some of the most important Peruvian essayists and the different nations represented in their work. Surely this book will be an excellent source for scholars and for those interested in understanding questions of identity within or outside national borders.
