Isabel Díaz Sánchez awarded with the 2024 Washington Irving Scholarship
Following the resolution on April 15th, 2024, the SAAS Secretariat and the Instituto Franklin-UAH awarded the 2024 Washington Irving Scholarship to Ms. Isabel Díaz, from the Universidad de Alicante, for her project “Critical-Comparative Study of Latinx Poetry Written in Spanish in the United States in the Twentieth Century”.
The Washington Irving Scholarship is the result of the collaboration between the Instituto Franklin-UAH and the Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS) and consists of a grant for a 15-day research stay at the Instituto Franklin-UAH. The grant amounts to €1600 for accommodation, transportation, meals, office supplies, computer equipment and books from the specific bibliography proposed by the applicant. The field of study of the research will be North American Studies or studies related to North America, and the candidate must be a full member of SAAS with at least one year of seniority in the association at the time of application and continue to be a member for at least two years after receiving the grant.
Isabel Díaz is Associate Professor and holds a PhD in English Philology from the Universidad de Alicante. She was hired at Arizona State University (Phoenix, USA), where she taught and carried out her studies for her second doctorate for three years in the College of Languages & Literatures (Department of Romance Languages). She has been Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Universidad de Alicante for six years, where she was co-director and founder of the first gender observatory (Observatori de les dones) created in a Faculty in the Alicante campus.
Her line of research focuses on the study of texts by Hispanic women writers in the United States from a gender perspective, as well as the analysis of the Hispanic community from the postcolonial paradigm. She has been Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UA for six years where she was co-director and founder of the first gender observatory (Observatori de les dones) created in a Faculty in the Alicante campus. She is strongly committed to the profile of gender studies in her teaching of modern English literature (19th and 20th Centuries) and 18th Century English literature. The main objective of the research project she will carry out is the compilation of poetry collections written exclusively in Spanish by Latinx poets in the United States from the 1970s to the end of the 20th Century.
You can find more information about the Washington Irving Scholarship here.