Margaret Kent Bass
Roy Caldwell
Ilia J. Casanova-Marengo
Martha Chew-Sanchez
Evelyn Jennings, Coordinator
Marina Llorente
Catherine H. Shrady   
Eve Stoddard
Steven F. White 

Jeffrey Campbell Fellows
Manuel Chávez-Jiménez 
Rosa E. Soto  
    
    
 
 
 
 
 

Dr. Roy Caldwell is an Associate Professor of French in the department of Modern Languages and Literatures. In the spring semester of 2006, Dr. Caldwell will teach a special topics course, FR248B Les Antille: histoire, culture, littérature. This course will focus on the creole cultures of the French Caribbean islands: Martinique, Guadaloupe, and Haiti.
Dr. Ilia Casanova-Marengo received her Ph.D. in Latin American literature from Rutgers University, New Brunswick and is an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages. She teaches all levels of Spanish language and courses on Spanish American literature and culture and Latinos in the United States. Her current research project centers around Latino Literature and the exploration crossroads of memory, identity and grandmothers. She is the author of El intersticio de la colonia: ruptura y mediación en la narrativa antiesclavista cubana (2002). The courses Dr. Casanova-Marengo teaches in CLAS include: Elementary Spanish, Intermediate Spanish, Latin American Cultures, Latin American Literature and Latinos in the United States.
Dr. Martha I. Chew Sánchez received her BA from La Escuela Nacional de Maestros in Mexico City and from The University of Texas at El Paso. She was a visiting scholar in International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxemburg, Austria where she worked on her M.A. Thesis on community development. She studied her Ph.D. from The University of New Mexico in intercultural communication and carried out her pos-doctoral studies in UCLA in the Chicano Studies Research Center. Her areas of interest are cultural studies, popular culture in Latin America, border studies, and migration, transnationalism and nationalism. Some of her courses are cross-listed with Caribbean and Latin American Studies. She has published in Third Text, Journal of Family Communication, Communication Year book of the International Communication Association and the Global Media Studies Series and has the manuscript Corridos in the migrant memory in press at The University of New Mexico.  Her two main current lines of research are: (1) the Chinese-Mexican population in the Mexico/US border, and (2) the role of the State in the moral regulation and redomestication of maquiladora women in Cd. Juárez.
Dr. Evelyn Jennings is an Assistant Professor and Margaret A. Vilas Chair of Latin American History at Saint Lawrence. She received her BA in Spanish Language and Literature from SUNY Oswego, her MA in Latin American history from SUNY Stony Brook, and her PhD from the University of Rochester in Modern European and Atlantic history. Her dissertation examined state enslavement in colonial Havana, Cuba between 1760 and 1840. She has published several articles and a book chapter on this subject, the latest an essay entitled “War as the ‘Forcing House of Change’: State Slavery in Late- Eighteenth-Century Cuba” in the July 2005 issue of the journal William and Mary Quarterly. At SLU Dr. Jennings is offering courses on colonial and modern Latin American history, Atlantic history, US and Cuban relations, and on slavery and freedom in the Americas. She also teaches the CLAS introduction to Latin American studies.
Dr. Marina A. Llorente, Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, received her Ph.D and M.A in Spanish from the University of Kansas and her B.A from the University of Málaga , Spain . Her research has been in intersections between Hispanic literatures and gender focusing in contemporary Hispanic poetry analyzed under the theoretical framework of cultural studies. Ethics and contemporary poetry in Cuba , Mexico , and Spain is her current field of interest.
Dr. Eve Stoddard is Professor of English and Chair of the Global Studies Department at St. Lawrence. She has been at St. Lawrence since 1986, having earned her A.B. at Mount Holyoke and her Ph.D. at UCLA where she specialized in the literature and philosophy of the Romantic era, writing her dissertation on Wordsworth and Kant.  The confluence of her work in literary theory and in 18th-century British attitudes toward slavery, she has moved into the field of post-colonial and cultural studies. Her current teaching interests include Irish and Caribbean literatures as well as post-colonial theory. She collaborates frequently with Grant Cornwell, former Professor and Chair of Philosophy at St. Lawrence. Together they have edited a book called Global Muilticulturalism: Comparative Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Nation and they have written a monograph called Globalizing Knowledge for the Association of American Colleges and Universities.  They team taught several courses for the Cultural Encounters program and they are writing a book on the semiotics of sugar mill ruins in the Caribbean .
Dr. Steven F. White is the co-founder of the Caribbean and Latin American Studies (CLAS) program, received his B.A. at Williams College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Oregon. In the Department of Modern Languages at St. Lawrence University, he teaches Spanish language classes and has worked with students who want to learn Brazilian Portuguese. He also offers classes in Hispanic American literature, Latin American film and literary translation. His students have published their book reviews, translations and articles in academic journals such Cadernos de Tradução (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil) Amazonian Literary Review (Smith College), Beacons (SUNY—Plattsburgh), and Translation Review (University of Texas at Dallas). Recent independent research projects with students he has mentored include Trabajando: Hispanic Workers on the North Country's Dairy Farms and El jaguar y la luna: El arte Náhuatl y el mundo natural , which appear in the online CLAS publication Inside the Area (http://www.stlawu.edu/clas/insidethearea/). He has edited and translated anthologies of poetry from Brazil, Chile, Cuba and Nicaragua. He is also the author of an ecocritical study of Pablo Antonio Cuadra’s poetry and the co-editor of Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon’s Sacred Vine. His other publications can be seen at http://it.stlawu.edu/~swhite/publications.htm
Manuel Chávez-Jiménez, Jeffrey Campbell Graduate Fellow, Caribbean and Latin American Studies Program, has a B.A. in Philosophy and Religion from Truman State University, and an M.A. in Philosophy (Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Program) from the State University of New York at Binghamton. His teaching and research interests include Latin American Philosophy, postcolonial philosophy, Multiculturalism, philosophies of praxis, and U.S. Latina/o Theory. As a Ph.D. candidate in the P.I.C. Program at SUNY-Binghamton, he is currently completing his doctoral work, which examines philosophies of praxis within the context of Chicana/o Theory.
Rosa E. Soto is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Florida . She is currently a Jeffrey Campbell Fellow at SLU, working within Film Studies, teaching such courses as Race, Class, and Gender in American Film, History of Women in Film and Introduction to Film.

  
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