Spanish & Portuguese Professor Adriana Méndez Rodenas publishes article in influential journal

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

cover of journalProfessor Adriana Méndez Rodenas of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese has published an article titled, “El abolicionismo transnacional cubano: los relatos antiesclavistas de Félix Tanco y ‘el tiempo de la nación,'” in “Cuba y el Caribe: Diáspora, raza e identidad cultural,” América sin nombre, no. 19 (December 2014), 61-72. This issue of América sin nombre, a journal published by the Universidad de Alicante in Spain, studies the African diaspora in Cuba and the Caribbean and features articles, creative writing, and essays on architecture and the arts.

Méndez Rodenas joined the UI faculty in 1985. She specializes in nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American literature. In addition to her latest published article, her essays on Cuban-American literature have appeared in two interdisciplinary anthologies: Negotiating Identities in Art and Literature: Cuban Americans and American Culture (2009) and Cuba—Idea of a Nation Displaced (2007). Recently, she served as faculty representative for two inaugural trips to Cuba sponsored by Iowa Voyagers for the UI Alumni Association.

The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is part of the Division of World Languages, Literatures & Cultures in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.