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<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/strong>Josef Raab has been Founding President of the International Association of Inter-American Studies since 2009. He is Professor of North American Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen, specializing in literature, media, race and ethnicity, borders, and Inter-American Studies. Most recent among the books he edited or co-edited are New World Colors: Ethnicity, Belonging, and Difference in the Americas<\/em>, The New Dynamics of Identity Politics in the Americas: Multiculturalism and Beyond<\/em>, and Spaces\u2014Communities\u2014Discourses: Charting Identity and Belonging in the Americas<\/em>. He also co-edits two Inter-American book series, one published by Routledge, the other co-published by Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier and Bilingual Press.<\/p>\n
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Maria Herrera-Sobek <\/p>\n Graciela Mart\u00ednez-Zalce S\u00e1nchez <\/p>\n \u00a0Sarah Corona Berkin <\/p>\n Olaf Kaltmeier <\/p>\n Emron Esplin <\/p>\n Francisco A. Lomeli <\/p>\n Jos\u00e9 Carlos Lozano <\/p>\n Alejandra Bottinelli <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Antonio Barrenechea <\/p>\n<\/a><\/strong>
\nMaria Herrera-Sobek is a founding member of our International Association of Inter-American Studies which was founded in 2009. Since then she has been a very active member of the IAS attending every single conference held every two years and presenting papers. She also has served as Vice President of the IAS and during this tenure she hosted the 2016 IAS biennial conference titled with the theme of \u201cHuman Rights in the Americas.\u201d She is highly motivated to continue serving our beloved organization.\u00a0 That is why she wants to continue serving in a new capacity; now as a member of the IAS Advisory Board. Regarding her scholarly output in the discipline of American Studies she published a three volume encyclopedia titled, Celebrating Latino Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Cultural Traditions<\/em> (2012), She edited anthologies, published numerous articles in the area of Chicana literature and Chicana\/o art.\u00a0 She was awarded the HISPA\/USA\u2019s scholarly organization\u2019s Luis Leal Award (2014), and was nominated and voted a Fellow of the International Ballad organization in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>
\nGraciela Mart\u00ednez-Zalce S\u00e1nchez is new \u2018Directora del Centro de Investigaciones sobre Am\u00e9rica del Norte (CISAN) at the UNAM since2018. She is member of the National System of Researchers CONACYT and of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. She is founding member of the Taller de Teor\u00eda y Cr\u00edtica Literarias Diana Mor\u00e1n<\/em>, a pioneer workshop on gender studies in Mexico. Since 1992 she has worked s researcher in Canadian Cultural Studies, where she mainly studies film in North America (Canada, Mexico, USA) and theory of adaptation at the CISAN. For many years she coordinated the Globalization Studies Area. She also directed the Revista Mexicana de Estudios Canadieneses<\/em>. Among her publications are Fronteras de tinta, la literature y los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n en las Am\u00e9ricas<\/em> and the co-edited book with W. Raussert (Re)Discovering \u2018America\u2019 (Re)Descubriendo \u2018Am\u00e9rica\u2019: Road Movies and Other Travel Narratives in North America<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/strong>
\nSarah Corona-Berkin has taught at several prestigious universities in M\u00e9xico, and is currently Professor of Communications at the Universidad de Guadalajara. She has being invited to teach at the University of Florida (Gainsville), the University of Bielefeld in Germany and the University of Sofia in Tokyo, Japan. Her research focuses on written and visual intercultural communication. She has published extensively on the subjects of education and communication, indigenous education, the history of government-sponsored education programs in Mexico and the politics of education. Sarah Corona-Berkin received her PhD in Communication from the Universit\u00e9 Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Dr. Corona-Berkin is currently Director of the Center for Advanced Latinamerican Studies (CALAS), based in the University of Guadalajara.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/strong>
\nOlaf Kaltmeier, is chair for Ibero-American History and director of the Center for InterAmerican Studies at Bielefeld University as well as director of the Maria Sybilla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS). He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from M\u00fcnster University, Germany. He has taught at Bielefeld University, Germany; the Universidad Andina Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar, Quito, Ecuador; the University of Guadalajara, Mexico; the Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Temuco and the Universidad de Chile. He has edited more than 15 books amongst them Entangled Heritages Postcolonial Perspectives on the Uses of the Past in Latin America (2011, with Mario Rufer, Routledge). His recent monographies include Politische R\u00e4ume jenseits von Staat und Nation. G\u00f6ttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2012. and Konjunkturen der (De-)Kolonialisierung. Indigene Gemeinschaften, Hacienda und Staat in den ecuadorianischen Anden von der Kolonialzeit bis heute. (2016). At Routledge he is editor (together with W. Raussert, S. Thies, and J. Raab) of the series \u201cInterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict.\u201d Olaf Kaltmeier’s general research interests include ethnicity, social movements, heritage, environmental history, Postcolonial Studies, Inter-American Studies, and Latin American History.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/strong>
\nEmron Esplin is an Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University where he teaches courses in US literature and inter-American literary studies. He is the editor, with Margarida Vale de Gato, of Translated Poe<\/em> (Lehigh University Press, Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe series 2014), which examines Poe translations in nineteen different literary traditions. His first monograph, Borges\u2019s Poe: The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America<\/em>, was published by the University of Georgia Press in the New Southern Studies series in 2016. He has also published articles on Katherine Anne Porter, Nellie Campobello, Pancho Villa, William Faulkner, Julio Cort\u00e1zar, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/strong>
\nFrancisco A. Lomel\u00ed, a Full Professor from UCSB, has been at this campus for almost 40 years, having participated in numerous administrative posts (3 times Chair of Chicana\/o Studies, Black Studies, Spanish & Portuguese; plus director as director of Education Abroad in Costa Rica during l994 & l995, and also for Santiago, Chile & Buenos Aires, Argentina). He specializes in Latin American literature and culture (theory of the novel, Mexico, Central America, Southern Cone) and Chicana\/o Studies (literature, culture, literary history of the Southwest, language). He has written extensively on his two areas of expertise, particularly numerous reference books on Chicano literature, such as Handbook of the U.S. Hispanic Heritage: Literature and Art which won a literary prize in 1995. He has received numerous awards, including Chicano Critic Award from the University of New Mexico (2006), elected to the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (2016) and granted the Galard\u00f3n Luis Leal in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Jos\u00e9-Carlos Lozano is Full professor and Chair of the Psychology and Communication Department at Texas A&M International University (Laredo, Texas). He got his M.A. in Communication Research from Leicester University, England and his Ph.D. in International Communication and Media Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a Regular Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 2007 and a fellow of the Mexican National System of Researchers (Level 3). He is the author of numerous books and journal articles in the areas of mass and international communication, in particular a textbook in mass communication theories widely used in Mexican and Latin American schools.\u00a0 He is Co-Principal investigator and coordinator of an international research project comparing the historical exhibition of films and cinema going in Laredo, Texas, Barcelona, Spain, Barranquilla, Colombia and the Mexican cities of Monterrey, Torreon, Tampico and Mexico City.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/strong>
\nAlejandra Bottinelli.\u00a0Es doctora en Estudios Latinoamericanos y profesora del Departamento de Literatura de la Facultad de Filosof\u00eda y Humanidades de la Universidad de Chile. Es\u00a0coordinadora del Diplomado \u201cLiteraturas del Mundo: problem\u00e1ticas actuales\u201d, y del Grupo de Pedagog\u00eda Intercultural de las\u00a0Artes y la Literatura del Departamento de Literatura de la Universidad de Chile. Forma parte del\u00a0N\u00facleo de Investigaci\u00f3n\u00a0Cuerpos-mundos. Problemas en torno a cine, literatura y artes esc\u00e9nicas<\/em>\u00a0que re\u00fane a profesoras de distintas universidades latinoamericanas.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/strong>
\nAntonio Barrenechea teaches\u00a0in the Department of English, Linguistic, and Communication at the University of Mary Washington.\u00a0 He is the author of America Unbound: Encyclopedic Literature and Hemispheric Studies<\/em> (U of New Mexico P), and the winner of last year\u2019s IAS best essay award. \u00a0In addition to serving on the IAS board during this last term, he is on the advisory boards of Comparative American Studies<\/em>, the International American Studies Association (IASA) and the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA).<\/p>\n