Position Title
Graduate Student in Spanish
Position Title
Graduate Student in Spanish
609 Sproul hall
Office Hours
SQ 24: Thursdays 10:30-11:30am in Sproul 609 or by Zoom appointment M/W/Th (email me to set a time!)
Bio
Education and Degree(s)
- BA in Spanish Translation and MA in Hispanic Literatures, Brigham Young University
Honors and Awards
- Dean's Distinguished Fellow 2019-2024, UCD Graduate Studies
- Dean’s Graduate Summer Fellowship 2023, UCD College of Letters and Sciences
- Winner of three FLAS Fellowships for the study of Brazilian Portuguese and to conduct archival research at the Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros at the University of São Paulo
Courses
- Elementary Spanish 1, 2, and 3
- Spanish Composition 1
- Introduction to Latin American Culture
Research Interests & Expertise
- Latin American Literature and Culture
- 20th and 21st century narratives and cultural production
- Brazil, Mexico, Argentina
- domesticity, motherhood, gender/women's studies, food studies
Publications
- Krause, James R., David P. Wiseman, and Faith Blackhurst. “The Boom Novel that Never Was Grande sertão: Veredas by João Guimarães Rosa”, Hispania, Portuguese Special Issue, vol. 103, no. 4, December 2020, pp. 603-619, Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/hpn.2020.0119. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/775799
- Blackhurst, Faith. Review of How Borges Wrote by Daniel Balderston, Spanish and Portuguese Review vol. 5, 2019, pp. 153-155. https://spanishandportuguesereview.org/archives/volume-5-fall-2019/
- Blackhurst, Faith. “‘Dios en la tierra’: La desconexión como modelo del odio”, Entremundos, vol. 1, 2016. https://entremundos.byu.edu/files/2017/09/Faith-Blackhurst_Dios-en-la-tierra-_F_Published.pdf