Eva Karene Romero
Bio
Eva Karene Romero is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona and Assistant Editor of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. Her minors are in Literary Theory and Gender and Women's Studies. She is currently finishing her dissertation entitled, "Cine en Emergencia: National Identity in Post-Dictatorial Audiovisual Production in Paraguay," which will be the first manuscript-length academic study of narrative and documentary from Paraguay. She has an M.A. in Hispanic Literature from the University of Arizona and a B.A. in English and Spanish from the University of Iowa. She received several Arizona Daily Wildcat Arts Desk Editor Awards and the Darwin T. Turner Award for a Student of Color who has Shown Devotion to Scholarship and Shown Exemplary Qualities as a Teacher and Leader from the University of Iowa. She has taught a variety of undergraduate and some graduate-level courses at The University of Arizona since 2005. Her teaching interests include Spanish Language (All Levels); Portuguese Language (Beginning Levels); Luso-Brazilian and Hispanic American Literature and Culture; Cultural Studies--Political Science, Economics, Affect, Transnationalism, Feminisms; Latin American/Latino@ Studies; Visual Culture--Film Studies, Popular Culture, New Media Technologies; Creative Writing--in Spanish, English, and Bilingual. She has published in Divergencias and The Arizona Daily Star. She also maintains a local interest blog: TucsonQuerido.com. Her future research plans include explorations of New Media Technologies, particularly “virality” and transnational social media networks. Eva has worked for The Rotary Foundation and The Patient Education Institute.