Isabel Díaz, beneficiary of the Washington Irving 2024 Scholarship, begins her research at the Instituto Franklin-UAH
On January 20th, 2025, the beneficiary of the Washington Irving 2024 Scholarship, Isabel Díaz, began her research stay at the Instituto Franklin-UAH. For fifteen days, Isabel Díaz will develop her project “Critical-Comparative Study of Latinx Poetry Written in Spanish in the United States in the Twentieth Century”, which 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 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 her research project 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.
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.
The Washington Irving scholarship is the result of a collaboration between the Instituto Franklin-UAH and the Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS) and consists of the award of €1,600 for a 15-day research stay on American Studies at the Instituto Franklin-UAH.
You can find more information about the Washington Irving Scholarship here.