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Carlos Parra Ph.D.
Education:
- Ph.D. in Romance Studies, Duke University, North Carolina.
- MA. in Languages & Literature, Spanish, University of Utah, Utah.
- BA. in Spanish & Latin American Studies, Weber State University, Utah.
ACADEMIC INTERESTS/RESEARCH AREA
- Cultural Studies
- Hemispheric Studies
- Diaspora
- Migration
- Communities Nostalgia
- Displacement
- Belonging
Awards
- Nominee — Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce’s International Ambassador (2012)
- Nominee — La Paz Latino Leadership Award, Chattanooga TN (2012 & 2013)
- Nominee — Harold Love Outstanding Community Involvement Award (2007)
- Recipient — Southern Adventist University, President’s Award for Community Service Excellence (2004)
- Recipient — Leadership Award, Adventist Colleges Abroad (ACA), North American Division Program Abroad (2004)
Selected Publications
- “A Glance at Identity (Trans/Con) Formation among Latino /Hispanic Communities in North America”
New Perspectives in Diasporic Experience (2014). pp. 3-8.
Ed. C. Rapoo, M.L. Coelho, and Z. Sarwar.
Oxfordshire: Inter-Disciplinary Press,
ISBN: 978-1-84888-291-1
"Representación y simulación autorial en Sab de G. Gómez de Avellaneda".
X Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latino-americana Actas de JALLA Colombia 2012. Tomo 1, p. 393-402 (9).
Escuela de Estudios Literarios, Universidad del Valle.
ISBN: 978-958-765-011-2
- “Latinos by Nationality and Illegal by Ethnicity: The Condition of Fear in the U.S.”
No Borders: Immigration and the Politics of Fear. Ed. Emma Bell. #22 (2012), pp. 131-40.
Universite de Savoie UP.
ISBN-10: 2-919732-07-2; ISBN-13: 978-2-919732-07-4.
- “Latino Presence in the U.S South: An (Un) Wanted Exchange”
Strangers in New Homelands: Deconstructing and Reconstructing of “Home” among Immigrants in the Diaspora. (2012), pp. 13-24.
Ed. M. Baffoe, M. Cheung, L. Asimeng-Boahene, and B. Ogbuagu.
Newcastle upon Tyne (UK): Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
ISBN (10): 1-4438-4136-6, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-4136-8
- “Dual Enrollment, a Key to Internationalization”
ADFL Bulletin, Vol. 41, No. 3 (2011), pp. 48-52 (5).
Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) Bulletin.
ISSN: 0148-7639