果冻传媒

Associate Professor of Spanish

Year Joined RCNJ: 2003

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-7195
• Email: pstraile@ramapo.edu
• Office: B-206
• Office Hours: TF 1:30-3:00 pm; Also By Appt.

Education:

• B.A., Grove City College
• M.A. and Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Courses Offered:

• Spanish Language all levels and Spanish Literature

Teaching Interests:

• Inter-American Literatures: (Spanish American and Brazilian Literatures; Literatures of the United States; Afro-Hispanic Literatures)
• Literary Theory and Criticism
• Communicative Language Teaching and Second Language Acquisition
• Languages of Scholarship: English (Native speaker), Spanish (Near-native), Portuguese (Brazilian Near-native), French (Reading fluency)

Research Interests:

• Inter-American Literatures: (Spanish American and Brazilian Literatures; Literatures of the United States; Afro-Hispanic Literatures)
• Literary Theory and Criticism
• Communicative Language Teaching and Second Language Acquisition
• Languages of Scholarship: English (Native speaker), Spanish (Near-native), Portuguese (Brazilian Near-native), French (Reading fluency)

Scholarly Activity:

• 鈥淕entrifying the Quilombo:聽 脫 Pa铆 脫, Afro-Brazilian Resistance, and Salvador鈥檚 Pelourinho,鈥� Proceedings from conference, 鈥淩usia e Iberoamerica en el mundo globalizante: historia y contemporaneidad鈥� (Russia and Iberoamerica in the Globalized World:聽 History and 聽 Contemporaneity鈥�), at St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 26-28, 2013, translated into Russian.
• “Myth and Ritual in The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea: Cherr铆e Moraga’s Xicana Ind铆gena Interpretation of the Medea.” Medea: Mutations and Permutations of a Myth. Anne Simon and Heike Bartel, Eds. (Forthcoming – contract with Oxford’s Legenda Publishing.)
• 鈥淚ndigenous Ecology and Chicanada Coalition Building in the dramatic works of Cherr铆e Moraga:聽 鈥楲iving Models鈥� for a Sustainable Future.鈥� NACCS 35^th Annual Conference Proceedings, 鈥淧oes铆a, Baile y Canci贸n: the Politics, Implications and Future of Chicana/os鈥� Culture Production.鈥� 聽Ed. Mari Casta帽eda. San Jos茅 State University 聽.
• “The Pillory/Pelourinho in Open Air Museums in the U. S. and Brazil: A Site of Racism and Racial Reconciliation.”聽Erasing Public Memory: Race, Aesthetics, and Cultural Amnesia in the Americas (Voices of the African Diaspora).聽Eds. Joe Young and Jana Braziel. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2007.

Presentations

• 鈥淗acking the Border: Undocumented Migration and Technologies of Resistance in the Digital Media and Film of Alex Rivera.鈥� University of Toronto, Scarborough campus, April 3, 2014.
• 鈥淰iolent Death and Xicana Ind铆gena Healing: Cherr铆e Moraga鈥檚 Digging Up the Dirt:聽 An Old Story of Loving to Death鈥� NeMLA conference, April 7-11, 2011, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J..
• 鈥溾��to be seen as the Earth is seen鈥︹��: Environmental Crisis in the Autobiographical Writings of Cherr铆e Moraga.鈥� presented at the LASA Latin American Studies Association conference in Toronto, Canada, October 2010.
• 鈥淓nvironmental Racism and Urban Decay:聽 Salvador, Bahia鈥檚 Pelourinho on Film.鈥� presented at the LASA Latin American Studies Association conference in Rio de Janeiro, June 11-14, 2009.

Grants

• 果冻传媒 Foundation Grant Proposal – “Faculty Colloquia through the Disciplines: Economic Crisis and The Worker: Historical Perspectives, Global Challenges”.