Michele Davila Goncalves

Professor, Salem State University, World Languages & Cultures Department, Salem, MA, 2008 to present.

Puerto Rican and its Diaspora Literatures & Cultures, Detective Novel, Feminine Literature, Latinx & Brazilian Cinema.

- Have taught undergraduate Spanish classes: Elementary Spanish 101 & 102; Intermediate Spanish 201 & 202, Spanish Business, Travel & Tourism; Readings from the Hispanic World; Advanced Conversational Spanish; Spanish Composition thru Film; Advanced Spanish Grammar, Topics in Spain and LA Studies: The Latin American Short-story; Latinx Immigration: Context and Representation; Introduction to Spanish Literature II, Latin American Cultures, Latin American Literatures I & 2; US Latinx Literature in Spanish, Spanish Translation, Senior Seminar with Thesis; Honor Thesis.

- Have taught undergraduate English classes: ¡Sí se puede! The Impact of Latinx in the US; European Continental Literature I & II; Perspectives on World Cultures: Media and Diversity in the Hispanic World; The Spanish and Portuguese Speaking World in Film Honor course. 

- Have taught graduate Spanish classes: Advanced Spanish Grammar & Textual Analysis, Seminar in Latin American Literature and US Latino Literatures, Seminar in Latin American & US Latino Cultures, Seminar in Peninsular Literature, MAT Research = Monograph.

Academic:

“El noir en los tiempos de Google: Ficción y realidad en Betibú” (Noir in the Times of Google: Fiction and Reality in Betibú). Revista de estudios hispánicos, vol. 9, no. 2, 2022, pp. 339-355. Peer reviewed.

“The Fantastic in Susana Martín Gijón’s Detective Novellas.” Crisis Unleashed: Crime,Turmoil, and Protest in Hispanic Literature and Visual Culture. Ed. Diana Aramburu and Nick Phillips. Hispanic Issues On Line, vol. 29, 2022, pp. 105-122. Peer reviewed.

“Las ironías de la soledad en Doce versiones de soledad de Janette Becerra” (The Ironies of Solitude in Doce versiones de soledad by Janette Becerra). Cuadrivium, vol. 14, no. 21, 2021, pp. 72-78. Peer reviewed.

“Testimonio de torturas visibles e invisibles: trauma y espectralidad en Batismo de Sangue” (Testimony of Visible and Invisible Tortures: Trauma and Espectrality in Batismo de Sangue). Espectros del Poder: Representaciones y discursos de resistencia en literatura y cine - s.XX-XXI (Spectres of Power: Representations and Resistance Discourse in Literatureand Film – XX-XXI Century). Eds. JM. Persánch & Fabricio Silva. Madrid: Pliegos, 2020, pp. 71-98. Peer reviewed.

“Leer para sobrevivir: una microbiomitografía de Yanitzia Canetti"(Reading to Survive: A Microbiomythography by Yanitzia Cenetti). Lecturas atentas: Una visita desde la ficción y la crítica a veinte narradoras cubanas contemporáneas. Eds. Mabel Cuesta & Elzbieta Sklodowska. Almenara, 2019, pp. 37-47. Invited contributor.

“Los avatares de la muerte en la obra de Yanitzia Canetti” (Yanitzia Canetti’s Avatars of Death in Her Ouvre). Descifrando Latinoamérica: Género, violencia y testimonio (Deciphering Latin America: Gender, Violence and Testimony).  Eds. Margarita Peraza-Rugeley & Susana Perea Fox.  México: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, 2018, pp. 43-62. Invited contributor.

“Poéticas de la soledad en el Caribe: Janette Becerra y Tere Dávila” (Poetics of Solitude in the Caribbean: Janette Becerra and Tere Dávila).  Exégesis, nos. 1-2, 2018, pp. 249-253. Invited contributor.

“Miss Bala: agencia indirecta de un personaje entre la espada y la pared” (Miss Bala: Indirect Agency of a Character Against the Wall). Agencia, historia y empoderamiento femenino (Agency, History and Female Empowerment). Eds. Dianbe Marting, Eva París & Yamile Silva.  Santo Domingo, RD: CDLEH, 2018, pp. 51-64. Peer reviewed.

“Bildungsroman en el trópico: El arca de la memoria de Dinorah Cortés Vélez” (Bildungsroman in the Tropics: El arca de la memoria by Dinorah Cortés Vélez). Revista Identidad, no. 18, 2018, pp. 66-83. Invited contributor.

“Lego: el mundo neo-fantástico maravilloso de Tere Dávila” (Lego: The Marvelous Neo-Fantastic World of Tere Davila).  Literatura a través de las culturas (Literature Throughout Cultures).  Eds. Raymond L. William & Gina Ponce de León. Bogotá, Colombia: Diente de León, 2017, pp.  89-115. Peer reviewed.

“Navegando mundos virtuales: literatura femenina puertorriqueña” (Navigating Virtual Worlds: Puerto Rican Feminine Literature). Entornos Digitales: Conceptualización y praxis. Eds. Beatriz Trigo & Mary Anne Dillinger. Barcelona: Editorial UOC, 2017, pp. 181-201. Peer Reviewed. 

“Detectives de aquí y de allá: enigma, metaficción y búsqueda de la verdad en la novela policial puertorriqueña” (Detectives from the Island and its Diaspora: Enigma, Metafiction and the Search for Truth in the Puerto Rican Detective Novel).  Revista del Instituto de cultura puertorriqueña. Tercera serie, 6 (2017): 114-126. Web. Selected contributor. https://issuu.com/revistaicp/docs/revista_del_icp_tercera_serie_num._

Editor. Transnational Orientalisms in Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Cinema. Contributor. Chapter 4 - "“The ‘Oriental’ Subject in Brazil’s Melting Pot: Portrayals of Jewishness in O ano em que meus pais saíram de férias." Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

“Subversions of Motherhood: The Sleuth in Claudia Piñeiro’s Crime Fiction.” Twenty-first Century Latin American Narrative and Postmodern Feminism. Ed. Gina Ponce de León. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, pp. 53-74. Invited contributor. 

Poetry:

Mosaicos. Poetry book. Puerto Rico: Casa de los poetas, 2011.

Poetas sin tregua. Book of poetry selections from six Puerto Rican Female Poets. Madrid: Publidisa, 2006, pp. 10-17.

“Tras la mirada del Otro: Narrativa neohistórica femenina puertorriqueña” (Behind the Gaze of the Other: Neohistorical Puerto Rican Female Narrative”), New England Council of Latin American Studies Annual Meeting (NECLAS), Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA, November 8, 2023.

“Herejía femenina en Sagrada Familia de Johanny Vázquez Paz” (Heretical Feminism in Sacred Family by Johanny Wazquez Paz) at the Calibans and Caribbeanisms: Troubling the Image Conference, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, April 4, 2023.

“El noir en los tiempos de Google: Ficción y realidad en Betibú" (Noir in the Times of Google: Fiction and Reality in Betibú). Congreso internacional de literatura detectivesca en español (CILDE), Zoom, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, November 19, 2022.

“Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro: Recuperando la voz de los marginados” (Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro: Recovering Marginal Voices). 1er Encuentro internacional de investigadores en estudios afrolatinoamericanos/1st International Meeting of Afro Latin American Studies Researchers, Zoom, Cartagena, Colombia, June 2, 2021.

“Writing Bilingual Texts: The Polyphonic Poetry of Johanny Vázquez Paz,” 57th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA), Boston, March 7, 2020.

Invited Guest Panelist: “Female Metaphors of Disobedience,” Gender Disobedience - Panel of Sex, Gender, Politics, and Social Transgression, Merrimack College, MA, April 24. 2019.

“Creating Community among our Students: Understanding the Latinx,” MaFLA Diversity Day, Melrose High School, June 8, 2019.

Invited Guest Speaker. “Immerse Yourself in Spanish: Latin American Intercultural Competence in the Global Classroom,” 3-hour Pre-Convention Workshop, Annual American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Convention (ACTFL), Boston, MA, November 17, 2016.

Invited Guest Speaker. “De aquí y de allá: Vertientes de la poesía puertorriqueña trasatlántica” (From Here and From Over There: Transatlantic Puerto Rican Poetry), Spanish Section, New England Modern Language Association (NEMLA), March 17, 2016.

“Detectives de aquí y de allá: enigma, metaficción y búsqueda de la verdad en la novela policial puertorriqueña” (Detectives From the Island and its Diaspora: Enigma, Merafiction and the Search for Truth in the Puerto Rican Detective Novel), Programa Académico del 6to Festival de la Palabra, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 21, 2015.

“La teología de la liberación y la crisis de la memoria en Batismo de sangue” (Liberation Theology and the Memory Crisis in ‘Blood Baptism’), Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Chicago, IL, May 23, 2014.

“’Al otro lado’: perspectivas sobre la inmigración mediante la mirada de niños” (‘On the Other Side’: Perspectives on Immigration Through Children’s Gaze), New England Modern Language Association (NEMLA), Harrisburg, PA, April 4, 2014.

- Reading

- Traveling (59 countries/territories and counting!)

- Good Restaurants

- Good Movies