Proposal for an MLA Permanent Section and a Discussion Group on Galician Studies

Modern Language Association 26 Broadway, 3rd floor New York, NY 10004-1789 http://www.mla.org

May 5, 2013

Dear Professors Marianne Hirsch and Margaret Ferguson,

We, the signatories of this letter, graduate students, research fellows, lecturers, professors, and administrators of Galician, Luso-Hispanic and Modern Language Studies in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, , and beyond, would like to respectfully request the creation of both a Permanent Section and a Discussion Group on Galician Studies (including –but not limited to– Language, Linguistics, Literature, and Culture) at the Modern Language Association. , along with Catalonia and the Basque Country, is one of the three Spanish autonomous communities with the constitutional status of ‘historic nationalities.’ Like Catalonia and the Basque Country, it has a language, literature and culture distinct from Castilian, with a long and dynamic history. The westernmost corner of current Spain, Galicia became a separate kingdom in 409 and a full part of the Crown of Spain in the 16th century. As the centre during the Middle Ages of Galician-Portuguese language and literature, which eventually gave rise to the current Galician and Portuguese languages, Galicia is a bridge between the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds. Despite the centralization process promoted by Castile and, later, Spain, the has survived, being spoken (often along with Spanish) by almost 70 percent of the region’s current population. Galicia’s own history is inherently outward-looking. It was settled by both Celts and Romans, who left their marks in different ways, allowing Galician Studies today to enter into dialogue with both Romance and Celtic Studies. From the Middle Ages, the place of Galicia’s capital, , as the third holiest site in Christendom and destination of Europe’s most famous pilgrimage route, connected Galicia with Europe and the Christian world. Meanwhile, its position on Iberia’s Atlantic coast made Galicia a key staging-post for transatlantic migration, trade and exploration, creating close connections with the Caribbean, North and South America. Thanks to this outward-looking history, during the last 15 years, Galician Studies has begun to stake a claim in the Anglophone academy as an interdisciplinary field connecting Spanish, Portuguese, Romance, Celtic, Caribbean and Latin American Studies. In addition, it has an important but as yet underexploited role to play in the current emergence of Iberian and Transatlantic frameworks for Hispanic Studies. The current consolidation of Galician Studies in the Anglophone academy builds on a long and prestigious history. Prominent Galician scholars were welcomed in the United States after the Spanish Civil War, and many eventually became leading figures in Luso-Hispanic Studies. These include Ramón Martínez López (a hispanic medievalist at the University of Texas-Austin), Ernesto Guerra da Cal (a lusitanist at Washington

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Square College), Xosé Rubia Barcia (a literature professor at UCLA), and Emilio González López (a hispanist at the City University of New York). Professor González López also founded the first academic Center for Galician Studies in the early 1980s at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. During the 1980s and 1990s, the US and UK hosted the first four conferences of the International Association of Galician Studies (AIEG; http://www.estudosgalegos.org/) at: U Maine at Orono, 1985; Brown, 1988; CUNY Graduate Center, 1991; Oxford, 1994. Subsequent conferences, which attract a large international audience, have taken place at Trier, Germany (1997), Havana, Cuba (2000), Barcelona, Spain (2003), Bahia, Brazil (2006), Santiago/A Coruña/Vigo, Spain (2009), and Cardiff, UK (2012). The next edition will be in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2015). During the last three decades, Galician government-funded Centers for Galician Studies have been created at the universities of Birmingham, Oxford-Queen’s College, Cork (Ireland), Stirling (Scotland), Bangor (Wales), California-Santa Barbara and La Trobe (Australia). Galician language, literature and culture are now taught at Universities such as Liverpool, Exeter, Southampton and Warwick (UK), and Wisconsin- Milwaukee; they appear ‘below the title’ as part of many more Peninsular and Iberian Studies programs, and over 50 doctoral dissertations on Galician language, literature and culture have been completed in Anglophone universities since 1995 (see Appendix 1). Galician Studies has a significant and growing presence in English-speaking countries, above all the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand as evidenced by the number of scholarly monographs on Galician subjects in MLA fields (see Appendix 2). Since 2004, the González-Millán Galician Studies Email Discussion List (https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/galician-studies) has provided an online forum for Galician Studies in English-speaking academia. Galician Studies scholars are becoming an increasingly familiar presence at high-profile scholarly conferences in the US, including the Mid-American Conference on Hispanic Literatures, the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, the International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI) and, most importantly, the MLA, through both its Annual Convention and its regional partner conferences. Since 2005, Galician Studies has had a regular presence at the MLA Annual Convention, primarily through Special Sessions.1 The publication in 2011 by MLA of Hooper & Puga’s edited book Contemporary Galician Cultural Studies: between the Local and the Global is a clear endorsement of Galician Studies’ growing institutional presence. The establishment of a Permanent Section and Discussion Group on Galician Studies would provide a focus for Galician Studies within the MLA and the wider English-speaking academy. It would raise the profile of Galician language, literature and culture not only as a discrete object of study, but also as inherently connected to wider interdisciplinary debates in Spanish, Portuguese, Romance, Celtic, Caribbean and Latin American Studies. It would be an invaluable means of building capacity in this emerging field whose potential contribution to the ongoing development of Iberian and

1 MLA2005: session 127, Twenty-First-Century Galician Studies: New Spaces, New Voices. MLA2007: session 106, Galician Cultural Identity within and beyond Geographic and Linguistic Borders, and session 557, Feminist Trajectories: Desde las Monjas to the New Left. MLA2009: session 431, Construction of Galician Identity in Nineteenth-Century Journalism and Literature. MLA2011: session 104. Fragmented Memories, Languages, and Identities in Contemporary Galician Literature, and session 761, Language Ideologies, Policies, and Discourse in Contemporary Galicia: A Cross-Dimensional Analysis.

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Transatlantic frameworks for Hispanic Studies remains distinctly under-recognized. Finally, it would provide a crucial signal of solidarity with our colleagues in Galicia at a time when Galician language and culture, and the Galician academy itself, are facing unprecedented institutional, political, and economic pressure. For all of these reasons, and considering the growing presence of Galician Studies in English-speaking academia, the MLA’s recognition of other less-studied languages, literatures and cultures (including Catalan Studies) we most enthusiastically encourage the MLA to create both a Permanent Section and a Discussion Group on Galician Studies.

Respectfully submitted,

1. Xesús Alonso Montero, President, Royal Academy of the Galician Language (RAG); Emeritus Professor of Galician Literature, University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia (Spain) 2. Alex Alonso Nogueira, Associate Professor, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, City University of New York 3. Nadia R. Altschul, Assistant Professor of Spanish, The Johns Hopkins University 4. Rafael Álvarez, Graduate Student, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California at Santa Barbara 5. Rosario Álvarez Blanco, Distinguished Professor of Galician and Portuguese Philology, Institute for the Galician Language, University of Santiago de Compostela; Member and Treasurer, Royal Academy of the Galician Language; Vice President, Council for the Galician Culture 6. María Álvarez de la Granja, Assistant Professor; Coordinator, BA in Galician Language and Literature, University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain) 7. Pedro Álvarez Mosquera, Associate Professor, University de Salamanca (Spain) 8. Xosé Afonso Álvarez Pérez, Research Fellow, Center for Linguistics, University of Lisbon (Portugal) 9. Neil Anderson, Graduate Teaching Fellow, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 10. Amália Teresa da Costa Andrade, Research Fellow, Center for Linguistics, University of Lisbon (Portugal) 11. Samuel Amago, Associate Professor of Spanish, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 12. Rene Antrop-Gonzalez, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction/Second Language Education, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 13. Diana Arbaiza, Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, North Carolina State University 14. Mariña Arbor Aldea, Assistant Professor of Romance Philology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia (Spain) 15. Xosé Bieito Arias Freixedo, Associate Professor, University of Vigo (Galicia, Spain) 16. Michael Armstrong-Roche, Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, Wesleyan University, CT

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17. Bettina Arnold, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee 18. Atzin Baires de Moctezuma, Teaching Assistant and Graduate Student, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 19. Burghard Baltrusch, Associate Professor, University of Vigo (Galicia, Spain) 20. Iria Basoa Calvo, Teaching Assistant and Graduate Student, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 21. Joel Berkowitz, Director, Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 22. Silvia Bermúdez, Professor and Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California-Santa Barbara 23. María Teresa Bermúdez Montes, Assistant Professor, University of Vigo (Galicia, Spain) 24. Maryellen Bieder, Professor of Spanish, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Life Member of MLA 25. Nancy Bird-Soto, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 26. Roy C. Boland, Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, University of Sydney (Australia) 27. Giovanni Borriero, Associate Professor of Galician Language and Literature; Director, Center for Galician Studies, Department of Languages and Literatures, Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy) 28. Ana I. Boullón Agrelo, Associate Professor, University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain) 29. Paula Bouzas, Lecturer in Luso-Hispanic Linguistics, University of Göttingen (Germany) 30. Ana Maria Brito, Professor, School of Letters, University of Porto, Porto (Portugal) 31. Claudia Cabello-Hutt, Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of North Carolina, Greensboro 32. Antonio F. Cao, Associate Professor, Hofstra University 33. Arturo Casas, Associate Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, Department of Spanish Literature, Literary Theory & Linguistics, University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain) 34. Susana Castillo-Rodríguez, Lecturer, University of New Hampshire 35. Obdulia Castro, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literature, Regis University, Denver 36. Olga Castro, Lecturer in Translation Studies and Spanish, Aston University, Birmingham (UK) 37. Lars Winther Christensen, Associate Professor, Texas Tech University 38. Xabier Cid, Independent Scholar (Former Lecturer at the Univesity of Stirling) 39. Francisco Cidrás Escáneo, Chair, Department of Galician Philology, University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain) 40. Sonia Colina, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 41. Laureano Corces, Associate Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson University

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42. Xosé Luís Couceiro Pérez, Associate Professor of Galician Literature, Department of Galician Philology, School of Philology, University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain) 43. Robert A. Davidson, Associate Professor of Spanish & Catalan, General Editor, Toronto Iberic Series, UTP, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada 44. Garry Davis, Professor of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 45. Gimena del Rio Riande, Research Fellow at the Seminario de Edición y Crítica Textual (SECRIT, CONICET), Buenos Aires (Argentina) 46. José Del Valle, Professor and Executive Officer (Chair), Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literature & Language, Graduate Center, CUNY 47. Amy Lynn Dillon, Associate Lecturer of Spanish, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee 48. Jason P. Doroga, Lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Madison 49. Simon R. Doubleday, Professor, Hofstra University 50. Dru Dougherty, Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of California, Berkeley 51. Francisco Dubert García, Associate Professor of Galician Linguistics, Institute for the Galician Language, University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain) 52. Jennifer Duprey, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Catalan Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, Rutgers University 53. William Egginton, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Chair, German and Romance Languages and Literatures, The Johns Hopkins University 54. Leticia Eirín García, Assistant Professor, Department of Galician-Portuguese, French and Linguistics, School of Philology, University of A Coruña (Galicia, Spain) 55. Cecilia Enjuto Rangel, Associate Professor of Spanish, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon 56. Javier Entrambasaguas Monsell, Visiting Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) 57. Zachary Erwin, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin; Assistant Professor, Monmouth College 58. Francisco Fernandez de Alba, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, Chair, Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, Wheaton College, Norton, MA 59. Manuel Santiago Fernández Álvarez (Manuel Forcadela), Associate Professor, Department of Galician and Latin Philology, University of Vigo (Galicia, Spain) 60. María del Pilar Fernández Pedraza, Teaching Assistant and Graduate Student, Spanish Department, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee 61. Carme Fernández Pérez-Sanjulián, Associate Professor of Galician and Portuguese Philology, Department of Galician-Portuguese, French, and Linguistics, University of A Coruña (Galicia, Spain) 62. Elisa Fernández Rei, Associate Professor of Galician Philology, Institute for the Galician Language (ILG); Member, Executive Committee of the International Association of Galician Studies; Secretary, School of Languages, University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain)

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63. Benigno Fernández Salgado, Associate Professor of Galician Language, University of Vigo at Pontevedra (Galicia, Spain) 64. Xosé Antonio Fernández Salgado, Department of Galician and Latin Philology, University of Vigo (Galicia, Spain) 65. Ofelia Ferrán, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 66. César Ferreira, Professor of Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 67. Michael J. Ferreira, Associate Professor of Philology and Linguistics, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University 68. Manuel Ferreiro, Professor of Galician and Portuguese Philology, University of A Coruña (Galicia, Spain) 69. Xesús Ferro Ruibal, Research Coordinator, Center for Research in the Humanities Ramón Piñeiro; Member, Royal Academy of the Galician Language 70. Xosé Ramón Freixeiro Mato, Professor of Galician and Portuguese Philology, University of A Coruña (Galicia, Spain) 71. Joseba Gabilondo, Department of Romance and Classical Studies, Michigan State University 72. Francisco Gago-Jover, Professor of Spanish and Dean, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA 73. Valentín García Gómez, Secretary of Language Policy, Education Department, Galician Government (Xunta de Galicia, Spain) 74. Elena García Oliveros, Teaching Assistant and Graduate Student, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 75. José Enrique Gargallo Gil, Associate Professor of Romance Philology, University of Barcelona (Spain) 76. Tania Gentic, Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University 77. Michelle C. Geoffrion-Vinci, Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures, Lafayette College, Easton, PA 78. Valéria Gil Condé, Associate Professor, Department of Classical and Vernacular Languages, University of São Paulo (Brazil) 79. Katie Ginsbach, Head TA and PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison 80. Xosé María Gómez Clemente, Associate Professor, University of Vigo (Galicia, Spain) 81. Miguel Ángel González-Abellás, Professor of Spanish and Chairperson, Department of Modern Languages, Washburn University of Topeka, Topeka, KS 82. Francisca González Arias, Adjunct Faculty, Cultural Studies, Cyber Education, The University of Massachusetts, Lowell 83. Ernesto González-Seoane, Professor and Director of the Institute for the Galician Language (ILG), University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain) 84. María Luisa Guardiola, Professor, Swarthmore College 85. Timothy Gupton, Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics, University of Georgia 86. María Hernández Ojeda, Associate Professor, Hunter College, NY 87. Kirsty Hooper, Reader in Hispanic Studies, University of Warwick (UK) 88. International Association for Galician Studies (AIEG), Executive Committee: http://www.estudosgalegos.org/

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89. Javier Irigoyen-García, Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 90. Ibon Izurieta Otazua, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Modern Languages, MSU Denver (Metropolitan State University of Denver) 91. Roberta Johnson, Professor of Spanish, Emerita, University of Kansas 92. Johannes Kabatek, Professor and Chair, Romance Linguistics, University of Tübingen (Germany) 93. Jo Labanyi, Director, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University 94. German Labrador Mendez, Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Cultural Studies, Princeton University 95. María Xesús Lama López, Associate Professor, Galician Studies, University of Barcelona (Spain) 96. Covadonga Lamar-Prieto, Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Colonial Studies, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of California, Riverside 97. Ricardo Landeira, Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese; Director, Comparative Literature Graduate Program, University of Colorado at Boulder 98. Margarita Ledo Andión, Professor of Audiovisual Communication, University of Santiago de Compostela; Member of the Royal Academy of the Galician Language (Galicia, Spain) 99. Laura Lesta García, PhD Student, University of Colorado at Boulder 100. Stefania Licata, Graduate Student, Stony Brook University 101. José Liste Noya, University of A Coruña (Galicia, Spain) 102. Vicente Lledó-Guillem, Associate Professor, Hofstra University 103. Michele Longino, Professor, French & Italian Studies, Department of Romance Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC 104. Teresa López, Associate Professor of Galician and Portuguese Philology, School of Philology, University of A Coruña (Galicia, Spain) 105. Laura Lopez Fernandez, Spanish Convenor and Senior Lecturer, Editor of Experimental Poetics and Aesthetics, School of Arts/ University of Waikato, New Zealand 106. Paloma López Serrapio, Galician Language and Culture Teaching Fellow, Centre for Galician Studies, University of Birmingham (UK) 107. Anxo M. Lorenzo Suárez, Associate Professor of Galician Linguistics, University of Vigo (Galicia, Spain)/ Secretary of Culture and Education, Galician Government (Xunta de Galicia, Spain) 108. Ramón Lorenzo Vázquez, Emeritus Professor and ad honorem Research Professor, Institute for the Galician Language (ILG), University of Santiago de Compostela; Member of the Royal Academy of the Galician Language (Galicia, Spain) 109. Angel Loureiro, Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University 110. Verónica Loureiro-Rodríguez, Assistant Professor, Departments of Linguistics & FSI, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB (Canada) 111. Cilha Lourenço Módia, Associate Lecturer, School of Philology, University of A Coruña (Galicia, Spain)

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112. David Mackenzie, Emeritus Professor of Spanish, University College, Cork (Ireland) 113. Kathleen March, Professor of Spanish, Department of Modern Languages & Classics, University of Maine-Orono, ME 114. Cristina Martínez-Carazo, Associate Professor, Spanish Department, University of California, Davis 115. Carlos Paulo Martínez-Pereiro, Professor of Galician and Portuguese Philology, University of A Coruña (Galicia, Spain) 116. Pilar Martínez-Quiroga, Lecturer, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 117. Ana Maria Martins, Distinguished Professor, Center for Linguistics, School of Letters, University of Lisbon (Portugal) 118. Kerry Ann McKevitt, Associate Lecturer, Center for Modern Languages, University of A Coruña at Ferrol (Galicia, Spain). 119. Ana-Maria Medina, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Modern Languages Department, Metropolitan State University of Denver 120. María del Pilar Melgarejo Acosta, Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 121. Isabel Méndez-Santalla, Senior Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 122. Eyda M. Merediz, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Maryland 123. Viola G. Miglio, Associate Professor of Linguistics/ Barandiaran Chair of Basque Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Santa Barbara 124. Helena Miguélez Carballeira, Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, School of Modern Languages, Bangor University, Wales (UK) 125. David Miranda-Barreiro, Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, School of Modern Languages, Bangor University, Wales (UK) 126. Henrique Monteagudo, Professor, University of Santiago de Compostela; Secretary of the Royal Academy of the Galician Language 127. Alberto Moreiras, Professor and Head of Hispanic Studies, Texas A&M University 128. Eduardo Moscoso Mato, Associate Professor, Department of Galician Philology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia (Spain) 129. Cássio Muniz, PhD Candidate in Political Science; Lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 130. Luciana Namorato, Associate Professor, Luso-Brazilian Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 131. Robert Patrick Newcomb, Assistant Professor of Luso-Brazilian Studies, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of California-Davis 132. Mercedes Niño-Murcia, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa 133. Alba Nogueira López, Associate Professor, Public Law Department, University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain) 134. Lunden MacDonald, Interim Director, Center for Faculty Development, Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Modern Languages, Metropolitan State University of Denver

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135. Robert John McCaw, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 136. Camiño Noia, Professor of Galician Literature, University of Vigo (Galicia, Spain) 137. Ernesto Ortiz-Díaz, Lusophone Studies Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor at Macalester College 138. Jeffrey Oxford, Professor, Midwestern State University 139. Pedro Schacht Pereira, Assistant Professor of Portuguese, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University 140. Carmen Pereira-Muro, Associate Professor, Texas Tech University 141. Jose M. Pereiro-Otero, Associate Professor, Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Temple University 142. Alberto Julian Perez, Professor , Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, Texas Tech University 143. Jorge Pérez, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Kansas 144. Gabriel Pérez-Durán, PhD Candidate, University of Vigo (Galicia, Spain) 145. Amanda Petersen, Assistant Professor, Languages and Literatures, University of San Diego 146. Patrice Petro, Professor of English, Film Studies, and Global Studies; Vice Provost for International Education. Center for International Education, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 147. Acrisio Pires, Associate Professor and Graduate Chair, Linguistics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 148. Kristin Pitt, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 149. María do Cebreiro Rábade-Villar, Assistant Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, Department of Spanish Literature, Literary Theory and General Linguistics, University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain) 150. Fernando Ramallo, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Vigo (Galicia, Spain) 151. Maria Ana Ramos, Portuguese Studies, University of Zürich, Romanisches Seminar, Zürich (Switzerland) 152. Montserrat Recalde, Linguistics, University of Santiago de Compostela at Lugo (Galicia, Spain) 153. Xosé Luís Regueira, Professor of Galician and Portuguese Philology, University of Santiago de Compostela; Member of the Royal Galician Academy of Language, Galicia (Spain) 154. Gabriel Rei-Doval, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 155. María Rey-López, Metropolitan State University of Denver 156. Chad Andrew Rice, Tulane University 157. Eva Roa White, Associate Professor of English, Humanities Department, Indiana University, Kokomo 158. Clelia O. Rodríguez, Department of Modern Languages, University of Ghana 159. Mercedes M. de Rodríguez, Associate Professor, Hofstra University

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160. José María Rodríguez-García, Associate Professor, Spanish & Latin American Studies, Romance Studies, Duke University 161. Luciano Rodriguez-Gómez, Associate Professor, University of A Coruña (Galicia, Spain) 162. Alexandre Rodríguez-Guerra, Associate Professor, Department of Galician and Latin Philology, University of Vigo (Galicia, Spain) 163. Ana M. Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa 164. Guillermo Rojo, Distinguished Professor of Spanish Language and Linguistics, University of Santiago de Compostela; Member, Royal Academy of the Spanish Language (RAE) 165. Miguel Rojo Polo, Teaching Assistant and Graduate Student, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 166. Eugenia Romero, Associate Professor, Ohio State University 167. John Rutherford, Emeritus Fellow, The Queen's College-University of Oxford/ Honorary Professor, Bangor University (UK) 168. Benita Sampedro Vizcaya, Associate Professor, Hofstra University 169. Carmen Sanjuán-Pastor, Assistant Professor, The Hispanic Studies Department, Scripps College, Claremont, CA 170. Mônica Heloane Carvalho de Sant'Anna, Teaching Fellow in Portuguese, University of Vigo (Galicia, Spain) 171. João Camilo dos Santos, Professor, Director of the Center for Portuguese Studies, University of California Santa Barbara 172. Miguel Ángel Santos, Teaching Assistant and Graduate Student, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 173. Rosa Sarabia, Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto (Canada) 174. João Saramago, Research Coordinator, Center for Linguistics, University of Lisbon (Portugal) 175. Elizabeth Scarlett, Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 176. Stephanie Sieburth, Professor, Department of Romance Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC 177. Harvey L. Sharrer, Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara 178. Benjamin Smith, Professor of Spanish and Chair, Department of Languages and Cultures, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN 179. Antonio Sobejano-Moran, Chair, Romance Languages and Literatures, Binghamton University 180. Ruth N. Solarte González, Teaching Assistant and Graduate Student, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 181. Xulio Sousa, Associate Professor and Secretary of the Institute for the Galician Language (ILG), University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain) 182. Melissa A. Stewart, Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Western Kentucky University

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183. Erika M. Sutherland, Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA 184. María P. Tajes, Associate Professor, Department of Languages and Cultures, William Paterson University 185. Laura Tato Fontaíña, Associate Professor, Department of Galician-Portuguese, French and Linguistics, University of A Coruña (Galicia, Spain) 186. Joyce Tolliver, Associate Professor of Spanish, Translation Studies, and Gender & Women's Studies, Associate Head, Dept. of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Illinois 187. Osvaldo de la Torre, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, Austin College (Sherman, TX) 188. Ánxeles Torres Padín, Galician Assistant and PhD candidate, School of Modern Languages, Bangor University, Wales (UK) 189. Laura Trafí-Prats, Associate Professor, Art Education Area Head, Department of Art and Design, Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 190. Juan Uriagereka, Professor and Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, University of Maryland 191. Tracy Van Bishop, Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas at Little Rock 192. Ricardo Vasconcelos, Assistant Professor of Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Studies, Portuguese Program Coordinator, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 193. José Luis Venegas, Baker Family Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Interdisciplinary Humanities, Romance Languages, Department and Program of Interdisciplinary Humanities, Wake Forest University 194. Gustavo Verdesio, Associate Professor, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 195. Kathleen M. Vernon, Associate Professor and Department Chair, Hispanic Languages and Literature, SUNY Stony Brook 196. Aurelie Vialette, Assistant Professor of Iberian Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Ohio State University 197. William Viestenz, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Global Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 198. Teresa M. Vilarós-Soler, Professor of Hispanic Studies, Affiliated Professor of Film Studies, Texas A&M University 199. Jennifer Watson, Associate Professor of German and Scandinavian Literature, Associate Dean of the Humanities, College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 200. Ruth Westfall, PhD, Lecturer, University of Iowa 201. Kathleen Wheatley, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 202. Linda M. Willem, Secretary and Treasurer of the International Association of Galdosistas, Betty Blades Lofton Professor of Spanish, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures, Butler University 203. Tami M. Williams, Assistant Professor, English Department & Film Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 204. Miguel Ángel Zapata, Associate Professor, Hofstra University

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APPENDIX 1 | SUMMARY OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS FOCUSING ON GALICIAN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND CULTURE COMPLETED AT ANGLOPHONE INSTITUTIONS SINCE 1995:

U Auckland (2010); U Birmingham (2010); U Bristol (2000); Brown (2003); U Cardiff (2011); U Colorado at Boulder (1995); Columbia (2009); CUNY (2005); Dublin City U (2005); Duke (2010); Emory (2004); The Florida State U (2004); U Greenwich (2004); Harvard (1996); Houston (2009); U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1995); U Iowa (1995; 2010); U Liverpool (2000); U Maine (2002); U Manchester (2005); U Missouri- Columbia (2004); U Nottingham (2008); U Oxford (1996, 2002, 2003, 2004); The Ohio State U (2011; 2012); U Southampton (1996); U Southern Illinois at Carbondale (2002); Stanford (1998); Strathclyde (2005); SUNY Stony Brook (2010); Temple (2000); Texas Tech (2003); Toronto (1998); University College Cork (2007, 2009 [2]); UC Davis (2008); UC Irvine (2008); UCLA (2008; 2009); UC Santa Barbara (2011); University College London (2008); Yale (2006); Montana Tech, U Montana (2007); U Massachusetts Amherst (2000); Louisiana State U-Shreveport (2002); Florida State U (2005); U Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (2011)

APPENDIX 2 | SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SCHOLARLY BOOKS PUBLISHED ON GALICIAN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND CULTURE IN ENGLISH SINCE 2000:

Beswick, Jane. Regional Nationalism in Spain: Language Use and Ethnic Identity in Galicia. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2007. Buechler, Hans C. and Judith-María Buehler. Carmen: The Autobiography of a Spanish Galician Woman. Cambridge, MA: Schenkman, 1996. Carreño, Antonio, ed. Proceedings of the Second Galician Congress. Vigo: Galaxia, 2001. Courteau, Joanna. The Poetics of Rosalía De Castro's Negra sombra. Lewiston/ Queenston/Lampeter: Edwin Mellen P, 1995. Dever, Ailleen. The Radical Insufficiency of Human Life: The Poetry of R. de Castro and J.A. Silva. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2000. Fernández-Ferreiro, Manuel & Fernando Ramallo, eds. Sociolinguistics in Galicia: Views on Diversity, a Diversity of Views. Monographic issue of Estudios de Sociolingüística 3.2/ 4.1, 2002-03. Gemie, Sharif. Galicia: a Concise History. Cardiff: U of Wales P, 2006. Geoffrion-Vinci, Michelle. Between the Maternal Aegis and the Abyss: Woman as Symbol in the Poetry of Rosalia de Castro. Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2002. Hooper, Kirsty and Manuel Puga Moruxa. Contemporary Galician Cultural Studies: between the Local and the Gobal. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2011. Hooper, Kirsty. Writing Galicia into the World: New Cartographies, New Poetics. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2011.

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Kulp-Hill, Kathleeen. Manner and Mood in Rosalia de Castro; a Study of Themes and Style. Madrid, Porrua Turanza. Miguélez-Carballeira, Helena. Galicia: A Sentimental Nation: Gender, Culture, and Politics. Cardiff: University of Wales P, 2013. O’Rourke, Bernardette. Galician and Irish in the European Context: Attitudes toward Weak and Strong Minority Languages. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Palacios, Manuela and Laura Lojo. Eds. Writing Bonds: Irish and Galician Contemporary Women Poets. Bern/Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009. Patterson, Craig. Galician Cultural Identity in the Works of Ramón Otero Pedrayo. Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: Edwin Mellen P, 2006. Roa White, Eva. A Case Study of Ireland and Galicia’s Parallel Paths to Nationhood. Lewiston/Lampeter: Edwin Mellen P, 2004. Romero, Eugenia R. Contemporary Galician Culture in a Global Context: Movable Identities. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2012.

APPENDIX 3 | SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ENGLISH-LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONS OF GALICIAN LITERATURE:

Blanco Amor, Eduardo. Trans. Craig Patterson. On a Bender. Aberystwyth: Planet, 2012. Casares, Carlos. Wounded Wind. Trans. Rosa Rutherford. Aberystwyth: Planet, 2004. Castelao, Alfonso R. Things. Trans. Kirsty Hooper, Isabel Mancebo Portela, Craig Patterson, Manuel Puga Moruxa. Aberystwyth: Planet, 2001. Castro, Rosalía de. Beside the River Sar. Trans. and ed. S. Grisworld Morley. Berkeley: U of California P, 1937. Castro, Rosalía de. Poems. Trans. Charles David Ley. Madrid: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1964. Castro, Rosalía de. Poems. Trad. Anna-Marie Aldaz, Barbara N. Gantt, Anne C. Bromley. State U of New York, Albany 1991. Castro, Rosalía de. Daughter of the Sea. Trans. Kathleen March. New York: Peter Lang 1995. Castro, Rosalía de. Selected Poems. Trans. Michael Smith. Exeter: Shearsman, 2007. Castro, Rosalía de. The Poetry and Prose of Rosalía de Castro. Trans. John Dever & Aileen Dever. Lewiston-Queenston-Lampeter: Edwin Mellen, 2010. Castro, Rosalía de. Galician Songs. Trans. Erín Moure. Small Stations-Xunta de Galicia, Sofia 2013. Cebreiro, María do. I Am Not from Here. Trans. Helena Miguélez-Carballeira. Exeter: Shearsman, 2010. Conde, Alfredo. The Griffon. Trans. Roy Boland. Melbourne: Bystander, 2000. Conde, Alfredo. Romasanta: Uncertain memoirs of the Galician wolfman. Trans. Roy Boland. Sydney: Antípodas, 2006. Cunqueiro, Álvaro. Merlin and Company. Trans. Colin Smith. London: J M Dent/ Vermont: Charles E Tuttle, 1996. Cunqueiro, Álvaro. Folks from Here and There. Trans. Kathleen March. Sofia: Small Stations-Xunta de Galicia, 2011. Dunne, Jonathan, ed. Contemporary Galician Poets. London: Poetry Review, 2010.

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Dunne, Jonathan, ed. Anthology of Galician Literature (1196-1981). Santiago de Compostela/Vigo: Xunta de Galicia/Xerais/Galaxia, 2010 Dunne, Jonathan, ed. Anthology of Galician Literature (1981-2011). Santiago de Compostela/Vigo: Xunta de Galicia/Xerais/Galaxia, 2012. Ferreiro, Celso Emilio. Long Night of Stone. Trans: Jack Hill. Sofia: Small Stations- Xunta de Galicia, 2012. González, Helena, ed. A tribo das baleas: An anthology of the latest Galician poetry. Trans. Minia Bongiorno García. Vigo: Xerais, 2001. March, Kathleen, ed. and trans. An Anthology of Galician Short Stories: Así vai o conto. Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: Edwin Mellen, 1991. March, Kathleen, ed. and trans. Festa da palabra: An Anthology of Contemporary Galician Women Poets. New York: Peter Lang, 1989. Méndez Ferrín, Xosé Luís. Them and Other Stories. Trans. John Rutherford, Xelís de Toro and Benigno Fernández. Aberystwyth: Planet, 1996. Murado, Miguel Anxo. A Bestiary of Discontent. Trans. Carys Evans-Corrales Lewiston- Queenston-Lampeter: Edwin Mellen, 1993. Neira Vilas, Xosé. Memoirs of a Peasant Boy. Trans. Camilo Ogando Vázquez. Victoria- Oxford: Trafford, 2004. O’Donnell, Mary & Manuela Palacios, eds. To the Winds Our Sails. Translation: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and others. Cliffs of Moher: Salmon, 2010. Otero Pedrayo, Ramón. Circling. Trans. Kathleen March. Santiago de Compostela: Amaranta, 2007. Oxford Centre for Galician Studies, University of Oxford. From the Beginning of the Sea: Anthology of Contemporary Galician Short Stories. Brighton: Foreign Demand, 2008. Pato, Chus. Charenton. Trans: Erín Moure. Exeter: Shearsman & Ottawa: Buschek, 2007. Pato, Chus. m-Talá. Trans. Erín Moure. Exeter: Shearsman & Ottawa: Buschek, 2009. Pato, Chus. Hordes of Writing. Trans. Erín Moure. Exeter: Shearsman & Ottawa, Buschek. Queizán, María Xosé. The Likeness. Trans: Ana Spitzmesser. New York-Bern-Berlin- Brussels-Frankfurt-Vienna: Peter Lang, 1999. Pereiro, Lois. Collected Poems. Small Stations Press-Xunta de Galicia, 2011. Pérez Sánchez, Manuel Antonio. Four to Four. Trans. John Burns. Orono: U of Maine, 2001. Rivas, Manuel. Butterfly's tongue: three stories. Trans. Margaret Jull Costa & Jonathan Dunne. London: Harvill, 2000. Rivas, Manuel. The Carpenter’s Pencil. Trans. Jonathan Dunne. London: Harvill, 2001. Rivas, Manuel. Vermeer's milkmaid and other stories. Trans. Jonathan Dunne. London: Vintage, 2003. Rivas, Manuel. In the Wilderness. Trans. Jonathan Dunne. London: Harvill, 2003. Rivas, Manuel. From Unknown to Unknown. Trans. Jonathan Dunne. Small Stations Press, 2009. Rivas, Manuel. Books Burn Badly. Trans. Jonathan Dunne. London: Harvill Secker, 2010. Rivas, Manuel. The Disappearance of Snow. Trans. Lorna Shaughnessy. Bristol: Shearsman, 2012.

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Rivas, Manuel. All is Silence. Trans. Jonathan Dunne. London: Harvill Secker, 2013. Rodríguez Fer, Claudio. Tender Tigers. Trans. Kathleen March. Noia: Toxosoutos, 2012. Toro Santos, Antonio de. Breogán's Lighthouse: An anthology of Galician literature. Trans. Juan Casas, David Clark, Alan Floyd, Ana Gabín, Anne MacCarthy, John Rutherford. London: Francis Boutle. Toro, Suso de. The Hunting Shadow. Trans. Antonio de Toro Santos & David Clark. A Coruña: Galebook, 2013. Toro, Xelís de. The Book of Invisible Bridges. Trans. John Rutherford. Brighton: Pighog, 2012. Various. By the Paths of Literature: Galician writers of PEN. Trans. María Casal, Kathleen March, Andrew Miller, Antonio de Toro Santos, Gabrielle Witthaus. Santiago de Compostela: PEN Club of Galicia, 1993. Various. Contemporánea. Trans. Jack Hill. A Coruña: Galician-Language Writers Association, 1995. Various. Galician Generation of the Eighties: Three poets. Trans. Victoria Fernández Cuesta, Susan Byrne, Mónica Schinaider, Sara Villa, Jeffrey Ruth. A Coruña: UDC, 1999. Various. To Visit Me the Sea: Galician poetry 1930-1996. Trans. Jack Hill. Colchester: Hamlet, 2000. Various. Poetry Is the World's Great Miracle: Poets of Galician PEN Club. Translation: John Burns. Santiago de Compostela: PEN Club of Galicia, 2001. Vilavedra, Dolores, ed. Let's Call Our Language Voice of Freedom: Prose writers of Galician PEN (drama-essay-stories). Trans. Marta Dahlgren, Liliana Valado, Concepción Noia Cela. Santiago de Compostela: PEN Club of Galicia, 2005. Villar, Domingo. Water-Blue Eyes. Trans. Martin Schifino. London: Arcadia, 2007. Villar, Domingo. Death on a Galician Shore. Trans. Sonia Soto.London: Abacus, 2011.

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