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Education
Toggle EducationPh.D., University of Kentucky, 2017
M.A., University of Kentucky, 2015
B.A., University of Genova (Italy) 2011
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Specialties
Toggle SpecialtiesSpanish language (elementary, intermediate, advanced level), Spanish linguistics,
migration studies
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Research and Teaching Interests
Toggle Research and Teaching InterestsResearch: Ecuadorian Studies; 20th-21st Peninsular Literature; Critical Discourse
Analysis;Spanish Linguistics, Migration Studies, Transnational Studies
Teaching: Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced Spanish; Immigration in the US in the
21st Century
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Courses Offered
Toggle Courses OfferedSPN 1120: Beginning Spanish I
SPN 1121: Beginning Spanish II
SPN 2220: Intermediate Spanish I
SPN 2221: Intermediate Spanish II
SPN 3400: Conversation and Composition
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Publications
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- Masala, Francesco. “YOU Think Therefore I Am: Constructing and (Re)presenting Identity In and Outside Ecuador.” Bristol (UK),
Intellect Ltd. Expected Publication: Spring 2020.
- Masala, Francesco. “Identity Crisis: Representation of Migrant Ecuadorians in La Utopía de Madrid.” Nomenclatura. Aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos, vol. VII, no. 1, 2019. In Press.
- Masala, Francesco. “Ecuatorianos en España en el siglo XXI: Prometeo deportado y la representación del migrante a través del Análisis Crítico del Discurso.” Polifonía, vol. VII, no. 1, 2018, pp. 57-75.
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Conference Presentations
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- “La Guerra è finita! E adesso, che? The Influence of Italian Neorealism in Spanish Cinema,” Kentucky Foreign Language
Conference, University of Kentucky, Apr. 11-13, 2019.
- "El poder del discurso y el discurso de poder. Españoles y ecuatorianos a comparación
en Nunca pasa nada de José Ovejero," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Apr.
19-21, 2018
- “Making the City in Latin America and Spain: A Transnational Study between Ecuador
and Spain,” Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies Conference, University of
Kentucky, Sep. 30, 2016.
- “Viajo, luego existo: Las interminables peripecias de los ecuatorianos migrantes en la literatura latinoamericana,”
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Apr. 14-16, 2016.
- “El inmigrante ecuatoriano en España: representaciones literarias en el siglo XXI,”
South East Coastal Conference on Languages and Literatures, Georgia Southern University,
Apr. 7-8, 2016.
- “Identity Crisis: Representation of Migrant Ecuadorians in La utopía de Madrid,” 22nd
Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages, Literatures and Films, Stetson University,
Feb. 25-27, 2016.
- “La imagen del inmigrante ecuatoriano en España a través del análisis crítico del
discurso literario,” 35th Annual Romance Languages Conference, University of Cincinnati,
Apr. 9-11, 2015.
- “La inmigración ecuatoriana en España: un viaje a través de la película Prometeo deportado,”
34th Annual Romance Languages Conference, University of Cincinnati, Mar. 27-29, 2014.
- “La inmigración y el desarrollo intercultural en el ámbito educativo en Estados Unidos
e Italia”, 9th Annual Colloquium in Latin American and Peninsular Languages, Literatures,
and Cultures “Convergences II: Literary, Linguistic, Cultural and Film Studies”, UC,
Davis, Oct. 18, 2013.
- “Los ecuatorianos en Italia: guetización, asimilación, ventajas y desventajas,” 5th
Crossing Over Symposium, Cleveland State University, Oct. 11-13, 20
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Grants & Awards
Toggle Grants & Awards2019: Scholarship-Research Venture Capital Fund Award, Florida Gulf Coast University
2016: Provost's Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Kentucky
Graduate Research Grant Award, Sigma Delta Pi
Travel Research Grant, Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies, University of
Kentucky
2014: Kentucky Festival de Cine Estudiantil, University of Kentucky