Alumni Spotlight
Dr. Montse Feu received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from the College of Liberal Arts and Social
Sciences in 2011. She is an associate professor at Sam Houston State University, the
co-coordinator of the Spanish M.A. program, and advisor of Latin American and Latinx
Minor and Laitnx student organizations. Dr. Feu recovers the literary history of the
Spanish Civil War exile in the United States, US Hispanic periodicals, and migration
and exile literature at large. She is the author of Correspondencia personal y política
de un anarcosindicalista exiliado: Jesús González Malo (1943-1965) (Universidad de
Cantabria, 2016) and Fighting Fascist Spain. Worker Protest from the Printing Press
(University of Illinois Press, 2020). She is co-editor of Writing Revolution: Hispanic
Anarchism in the United States (University of Illinois Press, 2019). She can be reached
at https://montsefeu.wixsite.com/montsefeu.
María Patricia Ortiz earned her Ph.D in Spanish from the Department of Hispanic Studies
in 2004. She is now the Assistant Chair and Professor of Hispanic Studies in the Department
of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Appalachian State University. Her years
as a graduate student at UH were instrumental in her current accomplishments in teaching
and research. Curriculum Vitae
María Teresa Vera-Rojas came from Venezuela to the University of Houston to pursue her PhD in Spanish (earned
in 2007) aiming at exploring and fulfilling her research interests at the Recovering
the US Hispanic Literary Project. Her time as a research assistant there defined her
research path, and she has since then continued working on early twentieth-century
New York City’s Hispanic culture, literature, and feminism, publishing several journal
articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries on these subjects, as well as her
awarded book “Se conoce que usted es ‘Moderna’”: Lecturas de la mujer moderna en la colonia hispana
de Nueva York (1920–1940) (2018). Her interdisciplinary research and publications also focus on gender and
sexuality studies, queer theory, with a particular interest on contemporary Hispanic
Caribbean, Venezuelan, and Spanish literature and culture. She currently teaches Latin
American Literature at the Universitat de Lleida (Catalunya, Spain) and is a researcher
at ADHUC–Research Center for Theory, Gender, Sexuality at the Universitat de Barcelona.