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Allison White

Instructor of Spanish

Ph.D., Tulane University, 2017
Phone: 225-578-6679
Email: awhite13@lsu.edu
Room: 349 Hodges Hall

Publications

Journal Articles:

“A Nightmare on the Horizon: Sarmiento’s Oriental Pampas in Borges’ ‘El Sur’” (March 2020, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos).

“’Minha terra tem mais terra’: Poetic and National Geographies in Oswald de Andrade's Pau Brasil” (May 2017, Chasqui).

Book Chapter: 

“China en los comentarios: la (falta de) comunicaciĂłn y sus imaginarios”, in Narrativas de lo chino en las AmĂ©ricas y la PenĂ­nsula IbĂ©rica (ed. MarĂ­a Montt Strabucchi and Amelia SĂĄiz LĂłpez).

Book Review:

Review of Edward King, Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture (Palgrave Macmillan: 2015). Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, “Memory and Migration” Special Issue, March 2016.

Service to the Community and LSU

Tertulias (Spanish Conversation Table) Facilitator

Committee Assignments

Tech committee

Teaching Assignments

Fall 2021: SPAN1101, SPAN1152

Spring 2022: SPAN2101, SPAN3010

Conference Presentations

May 2019, Session Co-Organizer, "Asia and Latin America: Cultural Studies Perspectives", presenting "Queer (Mis)communications: Orientalism as Latin American dialogue", Latin American Studies Association; Boston, MA.

May 2018, Session Organizer, “Versions of Asia: Cultural Representations of Asia in the Hispanic World”, presenting “Between Sides: Representations of Orientalist and Latin American Regionalisms in the Cold War”, Latin American Studies Association; Barcelona, Spain.

February 2018, “Beyond Politics: Challenges to Study Abroad in Cuba, in the Eyes of Students”, Association of Academic Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean; New Orleans, LA.

December 2017, “Tercer mundo, primera opciĂłn: Cuestionando la Guerra FrĂ­a a travĂ©s del orientalismo mexicano”, Miradas al oriente desde Cuba, AmĂ©rica Latina y el Caribe; Havana, Cuba.

Invited Talk

December 2017 "El Orientalismo de Jorge Luis Borges: un imaginario geogrĂĄfico entre aquĂ­ y allá”, Miradas al oriente desde Cuba, AmĂ©rica Latina y el Caribe; Havana, Cuba. Pre-conference seminar.

 

 

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