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Stephanie Contreras

Lecturing Fellow of Romance Studies
Romance Studies
205 Languages Center, Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708
205 Languages Center, Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Raising Cubans in Exile: José Martí and the Education of Children in "the other America" · July 2023 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute: The Immigrant Communities of Florida and José Martí in Cuban Independence and the Dawn of the American Century, Tampa
Celebrating Latinx Culture with a Spanish Reading Program: Evaluation of Program Impact on Latinx Families and Undergraduate Students (co-chair) · March 2023 International Meeting or Conference Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Antigua
Unearthing Home in Exile: Re-Mapping Cuba as Far as the Hand Can Reach · June 2022 International Meeting or Conference Modern Language Association, Glasgow
Contra Fronteras: Caribbean Women Confronting Hostile Borders and (Re)mapping Home (co-chair) · June 2022 International Meeting or Conference Modern Language Association, Glasgow

(co-chair)

The STD Sermon: Discussing HIV Prevention and Exile in Graphic Testimonio · November 2020 International Meeting or Conference South Atlantic Modern Languages Association, Virtual
Reassuring and Uncanny Voices: Recovering the Cuban Sexile Testimonio · July 2019 International Meeting or Conference Modern Language Association, Lisbon
The Politics of Censorship in Reinaldo Arenas’s Testimonio, Antes que anochezca · November 2018 International Meeting or Conference South Atlantic Modern Languages Association, Birmingham
The Moonlight of Miami: Race in the Cuban Enclave · November 2017 International Meeting or Conference South Atlantic Modern Languages Association, Atlanta
Desarrollando un(a) estétic@ transgénero en la diáspora - 3rd Biennial Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism Conference · April 2017 International Meeting or Conference New York

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Bass Connections Team Leader - Celebra mi herencia: A Spanish Reading Program · 2023 - 2024 Projects & Field Work flag North Carolina
Bass Connections Team Leader - Celebrating Latinx Culture with a Spanish Reading Program · 2022 - 2023 Projects & Field Work
Home Fire Campaign Member · 2021 Community Outreach American Red Cross (Cape Fear Chapter)
Disaster Relief Team Member · 2021 Community Outreach American Red Cross (Cape Fear Chapter)
Latino Engagement Team Member · 2021 Community Outreach American Red Cross (Cape Fear Chapter)