Ana Isabel Simon-Alegre | Faculty Profiles

Diplomas/Degrees

Ph.D., University Complutense of Madrid, Spain (2011)

M.A., University of Barcelona, Spain (2012)

M.A., Feminist Research Institute-University Complutense of Madrid, Spain (2008)

B. A., University Complutense of Madrid, Spain (2002)

Professional Experience

2016 Adjunct Associate Professor. Hofstra University. Department of Romance Languages.

2015-2016 Adjunct Associate Professor. Molloy College. Department of Modern Languages.

2013-2017 Adjunct Associate Professor. Adelphi University. Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.

2012-2017 Adjunct Associate Professor. Nassau Community College. State University of New York. Department of Foreign Languages.

2011-2012 Assistant to the Professor Lou Charnon-Deutsch. Stony Brook University, State University of New York.

2003-2004 Graduate Student Instructor. University Complutense of Madrid. Department of Contemporary History.

Recent Courses

S/T: Food,Movies,And Texts In The Hispanic World

S/T: Food,Movies,And Texts In The Afro-Latinx World

S/T: Food.Movies,And Texts In The Afro-Latinx World

First Year Seminar: From Tierra Del Fuego To Pyrenees: Transatlantic Visual Culture

First Year Seminar: Gender, Race, Film, & The Us In The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

Food,Movies,And Texts In The Afro-Latinx World

Courses Previously Taught

0137-228-001 Party 360: Why We Party. Session Sep. 28^th, 2020: Spanish and Mexican Salon.

0173-210-001 Western Translation Theory, fall 2019, spring 2018, spring 2017, fall 2016, spring 2015.

0173-345-345 Introduction to Interpreting, fall 2018, spring 2016, fall 2015.

0173-455-001 Advanced Translation, spring 2019, fall 2017, spring 2016.

0173-490-002 Independent Study Western Translation Theory, fall 2018, fall 2017, spring 2016.

0173-490-003 Independent Study Advanced Translation, fall 2017, spring 2017.

0172-111-001 Level I Spanish, fall 2020, spring 2020, fall 2017.

0172-121-003 Level III Spanish, fall 2020, fall 2016, fall 2015.

0172-122-001 Level IV Spanish, fall 2020, fall 2020, fall 2019, fall 2018, fall 2017, spring 2017, fall 2016, spring 2016, fall 2015.

0172- 231-001 Spanish Cross-Cultural Concepts, fall 2018.

0172-246-001 Spain Today, fall 2019, fall 2017.

0172-310-001 Strategies in Spanish Oral Communication, fall 2018.

0172-331-001 Survey of the Literature of Spain, fall 2020.

0172-344-001 Spanish Translation Techniques, spring 2018.

0172-390-001 Special Topics: Social Movements in Spain, spring 2019.

0172-412-001 Seminar in Spanish Literature, spring 2020.

0172-422-001 Seminar in Hispanic American Literature, spring 2017.

0172-490-002 Independent Study Advanced Spanish Language and Culture, fall 2019.

0172-490-002 Independent Study Development of Hispanic-American Identity, spring 2017.

0172-490-002 Independent Study Survey of the Literature of Hispanic America, spring 2016, fall 2016.

0172-490-002 Independent Study Survey of Spanish Poetry, fall 2015.

0172-490-003 Independent Study Spanish Translation Techniques, fall 2016.

0172-490-004 Independent Study Seminar in Hispanic American Literature, spring 2017, fall 2015.

0172-490-004 Independent Study Social Movements in Latin America and in Spain, spring 2016.

Research Interests

Nineteenth-century Iberian literatures and cultures (popular music, journalistic discourse, archival studies, and narratives of punishment, trauma and prison);

Transatlantic studies;

Spanish realism and naturalism;

Spanish women’s transnational literary and cultural networks;

Comparative literature;

Mexican studies;

Slavery and antislavery in the Hispanic world;

Gender, Sexualities, Queer, and Women studies;

Food studies;

Postcolonial studies and Indigenous studies;

Global Hispanophone studies;

Digital Humanities, Public Humanities, and Environmental Humanities

Translation Studies & Activism;

Visual and Written fiction narratives in the Hispanic Movies;

Inclusive Language;

Books

1- Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer (1850-1919): Her Personal Letters, Short Stories, and Journalism. Delaware: Vernon Press, 2023. 283 pages.

2.- Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer (1850-1919): Cartas, cuentos cortos y artículos periodísticos. Delaware: Vernon Press, 2023. 281 pages.

3.- Queer Women in Modern Spanish Literature: Activism, Sexuality, the Otherness of the Chicas Raras. Co-editor with Lou Charnon-Deutsch. New York: Routledge, 2022. 180 pages

4.- Del salvaje siglo XIX al inestable siglo XX en las letras trasatlánticas: una mirada retrospectiva a través de hispanistas [From the Wild Nineteenth century to the Unstable Twentieth century in Transatlantic Letters: A Retrospective Look at Hispanists.] Editor Ana I. Simón Alegre. Delaware: Vernon Press, 2022. 316 pages.

5.- Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer: Maura, Sofía y Una Eva Moderna. Sevilla: Renacimiento. [Under contract]

Chapters

1.- “Queer Literary Friendships in Salons: Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer, Carmen de Burgos, and Others.” Queer Women in Modern Spanish Literature: Activism, Sexuality, the Otherness of the Chicas Raras. Edited by Ana I. Simón-Alegre and Lou Charnon-Deutsch. New York: Routledge, 2022. 51-83.

2.- “No pestañees: Activismo, identidad y firma visual en Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer (1873-1909)” [“Don't Blink: Activism, Identity and the Visual Signature of Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer (1873-1909).”] Del salvaje siglo XIX al inestable siglo XX en las letras trasatlánticas: una mirada retrospectiva a través de hispanistas [From the Wild Nineteenth century to the Unstable Twentieth century in Transatlantic Letters: A Retrospective Look at Hispanists.] Edited by Ana I. Simón-Alegre. Delaware: Vernon Press, 2022. 117-140.

3- “Introduction: From Chicas Raras to Queer Women in Spanish Modern Culture.” Co-written with Lou Charnon-Deutsch. Queer Women in Modern Spanish Literature: Activism, Sexuality, the Otherness of the Chicas Raras. Edited by Ana I. Simón-Alegre and Lou Charnon-Deutsch. New York: Routledge, 2022. 1-16.

4.- “Introducción. Una mirada transatlántica plural” [“Introduction. A Multifarious Transatlantic Gaze.”] Del salvaje siglo XIX al inestable siglo XX en las letras trasatlánticas: una mirada retrospectiva a través de hispanistas [From the Wild Nineteenth century to the Unstable Twentieth century in Transatlantic Letters: A Retrospective Look at Hispanists.] Edited by Ana I. Simón-Alegre. Delaware: Vernon Press, 2022. XXIII-XXXI.

5.- “Activismo social a través de la traducción y el periodismo: Colombine y Magda Donato y sus críticas al sistema penal en el primer tercio del siglo XX” ["Social Activism through Translation and Journalism: Colombine and Magda Donato and Their Criticism of the Penal System in the first third of the Twentieth century."] Crime, Justiça e Sistemas Punitivos [Crime, Justice and Punitive Systems.] Coordinated by Tiago da Silva Cesar, Wellington Barbosa da Silva, and Flavio de Sa Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Neto. Editora Fi, 2021, pp. 500-536.

6.- “Algo más que palabras: Investigar y enseñar siguiendo la senda del lenguaje inclusivo,” [More than Words: Investigate and Teach Along the Path of Non-Gender Designation.] Por un lenguaje inclusivo: Reflexiones y estudios sobre estrategias no sexistas en la lengua española [For an Inclusive Language: Reflecitons and studies on non-sexist strategies in the Spanish Language.] Edited by Tina Escaja and Natalia Prunes. New York: Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, 2021. 95-127.

7.- “El suicidio en el Ejército español como detonante de la crisis de la masculinidad hegemónica a principios del siglo veinte” [Suicide in the Spanish Army as Trigger of the Crisis of Masculinity Hegemonic in the Early Twentieth century."] Muerte y crisis en el mundo hispano: respuestas culturales. Edited by Esther Alarcón-Arana. Boston: Peter Lang International Academic Publisher, 2020. 83-102.

8.- “Soldados que fueron presos, Cuba 1898: arquetipo viril, ciudadanía y violencia” ["Soldiers Who Were Prisoners, Cuba 1898: Gender, Citizenship, and Violence."] History of Prison and Punitive Institutions: From disciplinary controls to securitarian control. Edited by Pedro Oliver Olmo. Ciudad Real: University of Castilla-La Mancha Press, 2020: 587–597.

9.- “Face to face with Carmen de Burgos: the influence of Nineteenth-century writers on her career and her work.” Multiple Modernities. Carmen de Burgos, Author and Activist. Edited by Michelle Sharp and Anja Louis. New York: Routledge, 2017. 60-76.

10.- “Concepción Gimeno y el ocio teatral madrileño, en 1873” ["Concepción Gimeno and Theatrical Entertainment in Madrid in 1873."] Pasado, presente y porvenir de las humanidades y las artes. Edited by Diana Arauz. México: AZECME, 2012. 433-466.

Articles

1.- “Prensa, publicidad y masculinidades a través de El Álbum Ibero-Americano (1890-1909)” ["Press, Advertising and Masculinities in The Ibero-American Album (1890-1909)"]. Historia y MEMORIA [History and Memory.] special issue Medios de comunicación y memoria: la mediatización del pasado [Media and Memory: The Meditation of the Past] coordinated by Sergio Gálvez Biesca, 22, 2021: 29-75.

2.- “Armando cuerpos armados: Ideario de la masculinidad en los cuarteles a principios del siglo XX”, [“Arming Armed Bodies: Ideology of Masculinity in the Barracks in the Early Twentieth century.”] Alcores. Revista de Historia contemporánea. Masculino/Femenino: Leyendo el cuerpo, 19 (2015): 77-89.

3.- “Corregir, castigar y olvidar a los delincuentes díscolos. Los resortes de la justicia militar en el primer tercio del siglo XX” [“Correct, Punish and Forget the Unruly Criminals. The Tactics of Military Justice in the First Third of the Twentieth Century.”] Segle XX. Revista Catalana d'Història, 6 (2013): 37-61.

4.- “Prácticas y teorías de descubrir paisajes: Viajeras y cultivadoras del estudio de la geografía en España, desde finales del siglo XIX hasta el primer tercio del XX” [“Practices and Theories to Describe Landscapes: Travelers and of the Study of Geography in Spain from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Early Twentieth.”] Written with Arancha Sanz Álvarez. Arenal, 17. 1 (2010): 55-79.

5.- “Entre el amor y la sexualidad: Palabras de mujeres en torno a las cuestiones sexuales, desde el final del siglo XIX y el inicio de la Guerra civil española (1939)” [“Between Love and Sexuality: Womens’ Words on Sexual Issues, from the Late Nineteenth Century and the Beginning of the Spanish Civil War (1939).”] Arenal, 16. 2 (2009): 281-304.

Conference Presentations

1.- “El mapa digital de Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer: activismo global a principios del siglo XX” [“Reconstruction of the Activism of Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer through Mapping.”] Sesión: Redes de escritoras decimonónicas: Mapas digitales de activismo allende idiomas y naciones [Session: Networks of Nineteenth-Century Women Writers: Digital Maps of Activism Across Languages and Nations.] XXIII Congreso de la Asociación Alemana de Hispanistas: Nuevos ambientes de la hispanística: digitalización – reinscripciones – interfaces [23^rd Congress of the German Association of Hispanists New Environments of Hispanistics: Digitization – Reinscriptions – Interfaces.] Coordinated by Ana I. Simón-Alegre and Catarina von Wedemeyer. Graz, Austria, February 25, 2023.

2.- “La noticia de la epidemia como excusa para hablar de globalidad y activismo femenino trasatlántico” [“The News of the Epidemic as a Pretext to Talk about Globalism and Transatlantic Women Activism.”] Seminar: Pandemia, enfermedad, género, activismo, producción y representación cultural en el mundo global lusohispano [Seminar: Pandemic, Disease, Gender, Activism, Production and Cultural Representation in the Luso-Hispanic Global World.] Modern Language Association (MLA), Washington D. C, January 8, 2022.

3.- “Living Indigenous Cultures: Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer and the Aztec World.” Roundtable: Transatlantic Dissidences from Tierra del Fuego to the Pyrenees. Coordinated by Feministas Unidas-Ana I. Simón Alegre. Modern Language Association (MLA). San Francisco, January 6, 2023.

4.- “Teaching to Translate: Learning to be Activist Citizens with Global Consciences.” Media, Lingualism, Translations: Technologies of Language and Power, Arizona State University, School of International Letters and Cultures, November 13, 2021.

5.- “Effectiveness, Inclusion and Affectivity in University Spanish Courses.” Seminar: Effective and Affective Teaching in the Time of Coronavirus. The 52^nd Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention (NEMLA). Organizer and chaired by Ana I. Simon Alegre & Clara Bauler. Philadelphia, March 14, 2021.

6.- “Cuerpos de mujeres en las letras peninsulares: desde los folletines a las series de televisión” [“Women’s Bodies in Peninsular Literature: From Folletines to Television Series.”] Seminar: Aging and Gender in Iberian and Latin American Visual Culture. The 51^st Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention (NEMLA). Organizer and chaired by Barbara Zecchi and Christina Beaubien. Boston, March 6, 2020.

7.- “Tracking the female ‘self’ and the author ‘self’ in Correspondence in the Late Nineteenth Century.” The Nineteenth Century in 2019. Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century. California State University, Long Beach, April 26, 2019.

8.- “Queer Women in Peninsular Spanish Literature.” Roundtable: Queer Women: Readers and Writers in 19^th & 20^th Peninsular Spanish Literature. Modern Language Association (MLA). Organizer and chaired by Ana I. Simón-Alegre and Lou Charnon-Deutsch. Chicago, January 4, 2019.

9.- “Maura: una novela por entregas de Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer” [“Maura: a Serialized Novel by Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer.”] 100^th Annual American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Conference (AATSP). University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, June 28, 2018.

10.- “Un hombre llamado Flor de Otoño como biopic de la heroicidad transexual a principios y a finales del siglo XX” [“A man named Flor de Otoño: A Biopic of Transsexual Heroism at the Beginning and End of the 20th Century.”] 71^st Annual Kentucky Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference (KFLC). University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 19, 2018.

Invited Presentations

1.- “Inclusive Language in the Classroom.” More than Words: Research and Teaching Following a Path of Gender Non-Conformity. Keynote speaker. Andrew W Mellon Foundation CNY Humanities Corridor Group. Syracuse University, April 20, 2023.

2.- Activista a tiempo completo: Investigar y enseñar a partir del feminismo y la justicia social [Full-Time Activist: Researching and Teaching from the Feminism and Social Justice.] IV Congreso de Investigadoras del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI) y de Iberoamérica [4^th Congress of Researchers of Ibero-America and the World Association of Researchers.] University Autónoma of Puebla, México, November 10, 2022.

3.- Murcia y Cartagena antes de Carmen Conde a través de la pluma de Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer [Murcia before Carmen Conde through the Quill of Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer at the Beginning of the Twentieth century.] I Congreso Internacional de estudios sobre Carmen Conde. Homenaje en el 25 aniversario de su Fallecimiento [1^st International Congress of Studies on Carmen Conde. Tribute on the 25^th Anniversary of her Death.] Patronato Carmen Conde-Antonio Oliver de Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain, December 13, 2021.

4.- Feminismo y literatura (Feminism and Literature.) Graduate Seminar. Friedrich-Schiller Universität, Berlin, Germany, May, 24 2022.

5.- Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer en México: Impacto de la literatura escritas por mujeres antes de la Revolución (1883-1890) [Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer en México: Impact of Literature Written by Women in Mexico, before the Revolution (1883-1890).] Colloquium. College of Latin American Studies of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, México, August 3, 2020.

6.- Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer en México: libertad para escribir y publicar [Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer in México: Freedom to Write and to Publish.] Colloquium. University of Zacatecas, Zacatecas, México, June 23, 2019.

Other Work

Edited Book

1.- ¡Oh Dios mío! ¡Qué guapo es el asesino de papa, My God, How Handsome is My Father’s Killer! By Wladimir Chávez Vacas. Co-editor by Kimberly Moreira. México: Destiempos, 2018. 250pp. (Bilingual edition, translation from Spanish to English by students of the Translation Certificate, Depart. Languages, Cultures, and Literatures in Adelphi University.)

2.- En el corazón del silencio. In the Heart of the Silence by Wladimir Chávez Vacas. México: Destiempos. 150pp. (Second reedition 2018) (Bilingual edition, translation from Spanish to English by students of the Translation Certificate, Depart. Languages, Cultures, and Literatures in Adelphi University.)

Mencioned in the News

Alfonso C. Cobo Espejo. “Lengua viva. Crónicas de la lengua: EE. UU. Un idilio académico a través de las ondas” [“Living Language Chronicles. Stories of the Evolution of Language: USA: An Academic Romance Over the Airwaves”] Revista de lengua y Arch-letras, no. 18 enero-marzo 2023, pp. 28-31.

Sessions Chaired

1.- “Redes de escritoras decimonónicas: Mapas digitales de activismo allende idiomas y naciones” [Session: Networks of Nineteenth-Century Women Writers: Digital Maps of Activism Across Languages and Nations]. XXIII Congreso de la Asociación Alemana de Hispanistas: Nuevos ambientes de la hispanística: digitalización – reinscripciones – interfaces [23^rd Congress of the German Association of Hispanists: New Environments of Hispanistics: Digitization – Reinscriptions – Interfaces.] Co-coordinated with Catarina von Wedemeyer. Graz, Austria, February 24-27, 2023.

2.- “Roundtable: Transatlantic Dissidences from Tierra del Fuego to the Pyrenees.” Modern Language Association (MLA). San Francisco, CA. January 6, 2023.

3.- “Seminar: Effective and Affective Teaching in the Time of Coronavirus.” The 52^nd Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention (NEMLA). Co-coordinated with Clara Bauler. Philadelphia, PA. March 14, 2021.

4.- “Seminar: El salvaje siglo XIX en las letras hispánicas: conversación con Lou Charnon-Deutsch” [The Wild Nineteenth Century in Hispanic Literature: Conversation with Lou Charnon-Deutsch.] The 51^st Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention (NEMLA). Boston, MA. March 5, 2020.

5.- “Roundtable: Queer Women: Readers and Writers in 19^th & 20^th Peninsular Spanish Literature.” Co-coordinated with Lou Charnon-Deutsch. Modern Language Association (MLA). Chicago,IL. January 4, 2019.

Grants

2022-2023 Dean’s Innovation Fund. CAS. Adelphi University ($ 2,000).

2020-2021 NeMLA Summer Fellowship ($ 1,200).

2019 AATSP Travel Stipend for Research Abroad ($ 1,000).

2019-2020 Adelphi Internal Grant. Faculty Development Grants ($ 2,500).

2015, 2016, 2017 Grant Spanish Film Club by Pragda.

2015 MLA Travel Grant

Dissertations Chaired

Spring 2021. Transgressive Spanish Women and their Agencies through the Lens of the Film Industry in Spain and the United States by Julia Griffo (Honors Thesis.)

Spring 2019. Teaching Spanish Inclusively: The Impacts of Gendered Languages on Femininity and How to Discuss Sexism in the Language Classroom by Justin Bergson (Honors Thesis.)

Honors and Accomplishments

2022-2023 Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching of Social Justice, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Adelphi University.

2022-2023 Dean’s Innovation Fund. Adelphi University. College of Arts & Sciences.

2019 Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society

2015 Sigma Delta Pi

2011 First Prize for “Diez cartas y una escritora: Concepción Gimeno” [Ten Letters and A Writer: Concepción Gimeno.] XIV Premio de Investigación SIEM Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer, Zaragoza University (Spain)

Ganadores | Seminario Interdisciplinar de Estudios de la Mujer (unizar.es)

xiv_premio_investigacion-ana_simon.pdf (unizar.es)

Professional Activities

2023-2027 Editor of the journal Ámbitos Feministas (Feminist Fields).

2022-2024 President of Feministas Unidas Inc.

2021-2024 Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography Fellowship (Section: Spanish, Education and Digital Studies)

2020-2021 Modern Language Association (MLA) Field Bibliographer (Section: Spanish, Education and Digital Studies)

2019- Present NeMLA´s Publishing Mentorship Program

2002-2003 Erasmus Fellowship. University of Paris IV (France)

Research Groups

2005-Present Study group co-founder of the History de la Prisión and its Cultural Representations [Culture Studies, Literature and History of the prison and Punitive Institutions] (Castilla la Mancha University, Ciudad Real, Spain).

2021-Present Research Group: “El desorden de género en la España contemporánea. Feminidades y masculinidades” [“The Gender Disorder in Modern Spain. Femininities and Masculinities.”] País Vasco University, Bilbao, Spain.

University Service

2018-2022 Advisor-The Multilingual Experience Club (Adelphi University)