Associate Professor of Spanish
Georgia Seminet is Associate Professor of Spanish at 六合彩库鈥檚 University in Austin, Texas. Her areas of interest are modern Latin American narrative, globalization, childhood and children's literature in Latin America and Latin American cinema. She coedited the volume Representing History, Class and Gender in Spain and Latin America: Children and Adolescents in Film (Palgrave 2012) and Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema (Lexington 2014). She has also previously published in academic journals. Professor Seminet enjoys being able to teach a variety of courses in Spanish at 六合彩库's University as well as sponsoring study abroad programs.
Ser biling眉e y poder viajar me abri贸 una ventana a otras culturas. Creo que es algo fant谩stico y me encanta compartir este inter茅s en las culturas globales con amigos, colegas, estudiantes y todos los que tienen el deseo de ver el mundo.
Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor of Spanish, 2000-2014
Associate Professor of Spanish, 2014-present
Languages Spoken
English, Spanish and conversational French
Ph.D. in Spanish at University of Texas at Austin
MA in Spanish at University of Florida, Gainesville
BA in Spanish at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Publications
- Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema. Eds. Carolina Rocha and Georgia
Seminet. Lexington Books/A division of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. August, 2014.
- Representing History, Class and Gender in Spain and Latin America: Children and
Adolescents in Film. Ed. Carolina Rocha and Georgia Seminet. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, July 2012.
Articles
- 鈥淎 Post-Revolutionary Childhood: Nostalgia and Collective Memory in Viva Cuba.鈥
Studies in Hispanic Cinema 8(2) (2011): 189-202.
- 鈥淚magining Globalization and Interculturality through Latin American Literature.鈥 Arts
and Humanities in Higher Education 8(I) (January, 2009): 89-101.
- 鈥淧ositioned Between Limits and Desire: National Reality vs. National Romance in Mal
de Amores.鈥 Hispania 90.4 (2007 Dec.): 662-671.
- 鈥淟a est茅tica del espacio y la memoria en La Madriguera de Tununa Mercado.鈥 Ed. Sara
Beatriz Guardia. Mujeres que escriben en Am茅rica Latina. Lima, Per煤:
CEMHAL, 2007. 289-295.
- 鈥淟a pareja/patria perfecta: el liberalismo y el amor conyugal en dos novelas de Gald贸s.鈥
Siglo Diecinueve (Valladolid, Espa帽a) 10-11 (2004-2005): 165-180.
- 鈥淟a recepci贸n de Minotauromaquia: cr贸nica de un desencuentro.鈥 Revista de
literatura mexicana contempor谩nea. 21 (March 2004).
- 鈥淒e Macondo a McOndo: nuevas voces en la literatura latinoamericana.鈥 Chasqui:
Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana 27.2 (1998 Nov): p. 14-26. (Essay and
interview coauthored with Kelly Hargrave.)
- 鈥淟a nostalgia y el anacronismo en la novela mexicana: una conversaci贸n con Luis Humberto Crosthwaite y Luis Eduardo Reyes.鈥 Dactylus 17 (1998): 77-91.
Presentations
- "Liberty and 'The Awkward Age:' Adolescence in a Recent Mexican Novel by Xavier Velasco." Children's Literature Association Conference. June 18th-20th, 2015. Richmond, VA.
- "What does the Future Hold? Teen Protagonists and the Representation of the Future in Latin American Cinema." Annual Conference of the Latin American Studies Association. Panel title: Adolescents, Youth and Emerging Practices in Latin American Cinema. Track: Film Studies. May 27 鈥 May 30, 2015, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- "The Representation of State Violence and Terrorism in El viol铆n (M茅xico, 2005)." Annual Conference of the Latin American Studies Association. Panel title: Representaciones de la violencia en el cine de Am茅rica Latina. Track: Film Studies. May 21 鈥 May 24, 2014, Chicago, IL.
- "Child Soldiers and Moral Agency in Innocent Voices (Mexico/El Salvador, 2004) and Paper Dove (Peru, 2003)." Conference presentation: Canadian Latin American and Caribbean Studies Association. 16-18 May 2014鈥, Quebec City, Canada.
- "Resisting Consumer Society: Youth and Nostalgia in La hija natural." Annual Conference of the Latin American Studies Association. Panel title: Consuming Youth/Youth Consuming: Children and Teenagers in Film. Track: Film Studies. May 29 鈥 June 1, 2013, Washington, D.C.
- "Redefining the Symbolic: Patriarchy, Desire, and Coming-of-Age in Joven y alocada/Young and Wild(Chile 2012)." Conference presentation: Society for Cinema & Media Studies; March 6-10, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois.
- El di谩logo con el pasado en La chica del tromb贸n. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, Kentucy, April 19-21st, 2012.
- El silencio a gritos: la historia postcolonial en "En silencio de Neto" (1994, Luis Argueta). Latin American Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, October 6th-10th, 2010.
- 鈥淥ntological Insecurity in El fin de la locura.鈥 Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 12th-15th, 2009.
- 鈥淟a memoria transgeneracional en La voz dormida y En el tiempo de las mariposas.鈥滱sociaci贸n Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hisp谩nica. Seville, Spain, October 24th-26th, 2007.
Why I Teach
Many of my family members have been teachers, and I think my grandmother, aunts, mother and cousins who chose to teach all influenced me in some way. I enjoy the interpersonal and social aspects of teaching, and sharing experiences with students, in particular study abroad, has always been invigorating. It is so exhilarating to see students delve into the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world and become excited about what they are learning!