Aileen El-Kadi, Ph.D. - Faculty - University of Texas at El Paso

Century Latin American Literature. Paper entitled: “Eles eram muitos cavalos de
Luiz Ruffato, vértigo y anonimato en la ciudad mecánica”
2010 Participated in ASNE/IAPA Border Newspapers Editors Summit on Violence
Against Journalists Along the U.S.-Mexican Border. at University of Texas at
El Paso.
2010 (presenter) APSA (American Portuguese Studies Association) 7th Conference
“Trans-Atlantic Exchanges”(October 7-9) at Brown University. Paper entitled:
“O dia que matei meu pai: parricídio como arte biográfica”
2010 (presenter) BRASA 10th International Congress of The Brazilian Studies
Association – Brasília, Brazil. Panel entitled: “Arte-compassiva, Arte-corrosiva,
Apresentações da Violência na Cultura Brasileira.” Paper entitled: “Perversos
melodramas: Marçal Aquino 2005”
2010 (presenter) XV Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea – El Paso,
Texas. University of Texas at El Paso. Paper entitled: “El cuerpo evidente:
Balas de Plata de Elmer Mendoza y el narcothriller nacional”
2009 (presenter) AATSP 91st Conference –The American Association of Teachers
of Spanish and Portuguese – Albuquerque, New Mexico. Paper entitled “Luiz
Ruffato, Infernos da Modernidade”
2009 (presenter) Symposium on Portuguese Traditions. University of California Los
Angeles. Paper entitled “A violência e o imaginário nas ficções brasileiras e
colombianas”
2009 (presenter) XII Annual Symposium on Hispanic and Lusophone Studies. The
Ohio State University. Paper entitled “Violence and the Imaginary in Brazilian
and Colombian Contemporary Fiction”
2009 (presenter) The Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture Since 1900.
University of Louisville, KY. Paper entitled: “Keep them there! Patricia Melo’s
Inferno: Marginalizing the Favelados”
2007 (presenter) LASA (Latin American Studies Association) Conference, Montreal,
Canada. – Paper Titled “Inferno: El favelado como criminal pop”
2005 (participant) Primer Congreso Internacional de Docentes de Lenguaje y
Literatura.Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, and la Pontificia Universidad
Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
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