Dr. Shannon Dowd
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Dunleavy - Third Floor, Room 349
Office Hours:
MWF 10-11 am, MW 3-4:30 pm
Phone: 716.286.8217
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Biography
Dr. Shannon Dowd teaches Spanish language and Latin American literature and culture courses. Her research focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century Latin American literature, film, and theory.
Her first book, The Other Border Wars: Conflict and Stasis in Latin American Culture (Pittsburgh, 2024), examines Central and South American border conflicts, showing how literature and film challenge ideas about borders and war. Her work has appeared in Hispanic Review, Revista Hispánica Moderna, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and others.
At present, she is working on a second book on toxicity in fiction and film and a series of articles on poetics and glyphs.
Focus of Teaching
- Spanish language acquisition: second language and heritage speakers
- Latin American literature and film
- Hispanic cultural education, especially cultural and linguistic diversity
- Spanish for the Professions
Current Research
- “Toxicity, Transgenics, and the Flesh of Fiction in Samanta Schweblin”
Hispanic Review, vol. 91, no. 1, 2023, pp. 1-23 - “The Olson Affair: Charles Olson, Heriberto Yépez, and Poetry in Translation”
Romance Notes, vol. 62, no. 1, 2022, pp. 109-120 - “Interregnum and Pharmacology: Hernán Ronsino’s Pampas Trilogy”
Revista Hispánica Moderna, vol. 74, no. 2, 2021, pp. 169-183 - “Moth-Eaten Maps and Empty Wells: Augusto Roa Bastos, Augusto Céspedes, and the Chaco War Archive”
Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, vol. 28, no. 2, 2019, pp. 179-194 - “Polemos: The Struggle between Being and History in Heidegger and Derrida”
Política común, vol. 13, 2019 - “Los pichiciegos on Sovereignty, Decolonization, and Democracy in the Falklands/Malvinas”
Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 52, no. 2, 2018, pp. 551-574
Current Involvement
- Coordinator, Inclusive Excellence Faculty Discussion Groups
- Faculty advisor, Spanish Club
Educational Background
- Ph.D. Romance Languages and Literatures, Spanish, University of Michigan
- M.A. Modern Languages and Critical Theory, University of Nottingham
- B.A. Spanish and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan