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Mauricio Espinoza-Quesada has won the 2008 Mid-America American Studies Association Katzman-Yetman Prize for his paper entitled “Dying to be Here(oes): A Semiotic Analysis of the Construction of Latino Heroism Discourses in Post-911 Armed Conflicts and Border Security Rhetoric in the United States.” Named for long-time AMERICAN STUDIES co-editors and University of Kansas professors David M. Katzman and Norman R. Yetman, the prize this year recognized the outstanding graduate student paper presented at Nuestra America in the U.S.? a U.S. Latino/a Studies conference hosted by the University of Kansas in February 2008 and co-sponsored by the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
The Katzman-Yetman Prize is one of three awards issued annually by MAASA’s Executive Board. The Stone-Suderman Prize is awarded annually to the outstanding article published in American Studies. The Elizabeth Kolmer Prize recognizes outstanding teaching and mentoring.
Coming to the United States from the coffee-producing hills of southern San Jose province, Costa Rica, Espinoza-Quesada is a graduate student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University pursuing a PhD in Latin American Literatures and Cultures. He has an undergraduate degree in Journalism and Electronic Media Production from Ashland University (Ohio) and a Master of Arts in Latin American Literature from the Universidad de Costa Rica. His research interests deal primarily with underrepresented populations in the Americas—Latinos/as in the United States, Indigenous cultures in Central America, and Blacks in the continental Caribbean—and particularly on processes of identity construction/negotiation and the politics of representation. His publications include NADA MAS QUE SILENCIO (2000). His translations of poems by Costa Rican writer Eunice Odio have appeared in a number of literary journals, including MODERN POETRY IN TRANSLATION and MID-AMERICA REVIEW.
By D Anthony Tyeeme Clark, Tue, March 11, 2008 - 5:14 pmCategories: News
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