Allison White
Instructor of Spanish
Ph.D., Tulane University, 2017
Phone: 225-578-6679
Email: awhite13@lsu.edu
Room: 349 Hodges Hall
Publications
Journal Articles:
“A Nightmare on the Horizon: Sarmiento’s Oriental Pampas in Borges’ ‘El Sur’” (March 2020, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos).
“’Minha terra tem mais terra’: Poetic and National Geographies in Oswald de Andrade's Pau Brasil” (May 2017, Chasqui).
Book Chapter:
“China en los comentarios: la (falta de) comunicación y sus imaginarios”, in Narrativas de lo chino en las Américas y la Península Ibérica (ed. María Montt Strabucchi and Amelia Sáiz López).
Book Review:
Review of Edward King, Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture (Palgrave Macmillan: 2015). Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, “Memory and Migration” Special Issue, March 2016.
Service to the Community and LSU
Tertulias (Spanish Conversation Table) Facilitator
Committee Assignments
Tech committee
Teaching Assignments
Fall 2021: SPAN1101, SPAN1152
Spring 2022: SPAN2101, SPAN3010
Conference Presentations
May 2019, Session Co-Organizer, "Asia and Latin America: Cultural Studies Perspectives", presenting "Queer (Mis)communications: Orientalism as Latin American dialogue", Latin American Studies Association; Boston, MA.
May 2018, Session Organizer, “Versions of Asia: Cultural Representations of Asia in the Hispanic World”, presenting “Between Sides: Representations of Orientalist and Latin American Regionalisms in the Cold War”, Latin American Studies Association; Barcelona, Spain.
February 2018, “Beyond Politics: Challenges to Study Abroad in Cuba, in the Eyes of Students”, Association of Academic Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean; New Orleans, LA.
December 2017, “Tercer mundo, primera opción: Cuestionando la Guerra Fría a través del orientalismo mexicano”, Miradas al oriente desde Cuba, América Latina y el Caribe; Havana, Cuba.
Invited Talk
December 2017 "El Orientalismo de Jorge Luis Borges: un imaginario geográfico entre aquí y allá”, Miradas al oriente desde Cuba, América Latina y el Caribe; Havana, Cuba. Pre-conference seminar.