Damián Solano Escolano
Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish
Assistant Director, Spanish Basic and Intermediate Language Programs
133 Burrowes
Phone: (814) 863-7616
Education:
PhD, Spanish, Indiana University / Universidad de Sevilla (cotutela)
MA, Spanish, Indiana University
MA, Teaching Spanish as a Second Language, Universidad de Sevilla
BA, Spanish, Universidad de Sevilla
Biography:
I recently earned a PhD in Hispanic Literatures & Cultural Studies with a minor in Portuguese from Indiana University-Bloomington. My dissertation title is “Martyrdom and Testimony in Central America during the Cold War: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua (1970-1990).†My research focuses on testimonial discourses from a Transatlantic point of view.
Before becoming a teaching faculty member at Penn State, I taught Spanish language, linguistics, and Hispanic culture at the University of Malta and Indiana University, along with summer study abroad programs in Spain, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic.
Publications
- “Miguel Mármol, aspirante a mártir marxista: Testimonio y verdad en Miguel Mármol (1972), de Roque Dalton.†Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 45, n. 3, 2022 (forthcoming).
- “En el umbral del horror: Técnicas y funciones del terror en AutobiografÃa del esclavo de Juan Francisco Manzano.†Latin American Research Review, vol. 56, n. 1, 2021, 113-125.