Professor of Spanish Katy Ross and Andrea Stanescu ’24 presented their paper “La doble alteridad en Carmen & Lola” at the Northeastern Modern Languages Conference in Boston, MA, March 8-10.

—March 2024

Professor of Spanish Katy Ross had an article, “Las técnicas de reproducción asistida y la donación: el caso de Samanta Villar,” published in the Revista de ALCE SXXI, Journal of Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film.

—January 2024

Professor of Spanish Katy Ross presented a paper titled “La Adopción Internacional en La Adopción de Daniela Féjerman” at the Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cine Españoles Siglo XXI annual conference, held July 12–15 in Oviedo, Spain.

—August 2022

An article cowritten by Professor of Spanish Katy Ross and Lizzeth Cepeda Lozano ’20, “La Adopción China en El Alfabeto de los Pájarosde Nuria Barrios,” was recently published by ConSecuencias.

—July 2021

Professor of Spanish Katy Ross presented a paper titled “La Ovodonación Dentro del Marco Neoliberal” at the ALCE SXXI virtual conference during the week of July 12–16.

—July 2021

Professor of Spanish Katy Ross and Bailey Barlow ’23 presented a paper titled “The Commercialization of Infertility: Quien Quiere Ser Madre (2017) by Silvia Nanclares” at the 2021 MLA Annual Convention on January 8. The talk was part of the panel “Politics as Usual: Women Writers in Contemporary Spain Confronting a Bias System,” and the paper is the result of a faculty–student research project that began in the summer of 2020 and was made possible by funding from the Wilhelmina Cullen Robertson endowed professorship held by Ross.

—January 2021

Professor of Spanish Katy Ross and Lizzeth Cepeda Lozano ’20 had their article “Un Viaje Fantástico: La Adopción China en El Alfabeto de los Pájaros de Nuria Barrios” accepted for publication in the Journal ConSecuencias. The article started as a summer faculty–student research project and continued as a semester-long independent study that culminated in this publication. Ross and Lozano examine the adoption of Chinese babies by Spanish families, as depicted in the novel El Alfabeto de los Pájaros by Nuria Barrios.

—September 2020

Professor of Spanish Katy Ross participated in Maternidad, Reproducción Social y Cuidados en la Época Neoliberal: Descolonizando el Imaginario Patriarcal,  a virtual conference hosted by the Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cine Españoles Siglo XXI (ALCES XXI) July 13–16. She presented the paper “Maternofobia: El Miedo a la Maternidad Patriarcal,” in which Ross analyzes the book Maternofobia by Diana López Varela. The conference was scheduled to be held in Oviedo, Spain.

—July 2020

Professor of Spanish Katy Ross presented her paper titled “Baby Space: Narrating Infertility in Spain” at the Strong Foundations: 100 Years of Hispanism in Kansas and Beyond symposium at the University of Kansas.

—October 2019

Professor of Spanish Katy Ross presented her paper titled “Baby Space: Narrating Infertility in Spain” at the Centennial Symposium: 100 years of Hispanism in Kansas and Beyond at the University of Kansas.

—October 2019

Professor of Spanish Katy Ross wrote a chapter titled “Isabel: Mito, Madre y Mujer: Exploration of the Cultural Role of Isabel” in Mito e Historia en la Televisión y el Cine Español, edited by Christine Blackshaw Naberhaus and published by Albatros Hispanófila, 2019. The chapter examines the representation of Queen Isabel of Spain, from the conflicting embodiments of Isabel as mother to her depiction as queen in the television series Isabel.

—September 2019

Professor of Spanish Katy Ross presented a paper titled “Narrating Crossings: Mother/Daughter, Morocco/Spain” at the 50th Northeast Modern Language Association in Washington, DC, on March 21. Her paper was part of a panel she organized called “Transnational Spain: Porous Borders and New Nationalist Tendencies.”

—March 2019

Professor of Spanish Katy Ross presented a paper titled “Left Behind: Cultural Assimilation and the Mother/Daughter Relationship in Najat El Hachmi’s La Hija Extranjera” at the Women in Transition Conference at Oxford University, Sept. 2022.

—September 2018

Professor of Spanish Katy Ross’ most recent article came out in an edited volume called Gender in Urban Spaces: Literary and Visual Narratives of the New Millennium (Palgrave MacMillan 2017). She will share this work with the SU campus at the Representations Lecture Series on Tuesday, February 20.

—January 2018

Professor of Spanish Katy Ross and SU alumna Lauren Fellers ’14 published “Subversive Texts: MommyBlogs to Blog-Books in Spain” in the Hispanic Studies Review 2.2.

—November 2017

Professor of Spanish Katy Ross and Lauren Fellers ’14 presented the paper “From Mommyblogs to Blog-Books” as part of the conference of the Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica (AILFCH) in Houston on Nov. 11, 2016.

—November 2016

Associate Professor of Spanish Katy Ross published an article titled “The Failed Quest-Romance: Lucía Etxebarria’s Nosotras que no somos como las demás” in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Volume 70, Issue 2.

—May 2016

Professor of Spanish Katy Ross presented a paper on the representation of motherhood in the 2010 film “Biutiful” at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference in Lexington, Kentucky.

—April 2016

The Board of Trustees approved the following recommendations regarding promotion of faculty:

Associate Professors promoted to the rank of Professor:

—April 2016

Associate Professor of Spanish Katy Ross recently signed a book contract with Bucknell University Press for her book “The Changing Face of Motherhood in Spain: The Works of Lucía Etxebarria.” This interdisciplinary work focuses on how the representation and construction of motherhood has changed in recent films and fictional works by Spanish author Lucía Etxebarria.

—September 2015