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Dr. Gisabel Leonardo
Faculty
Humanities, Social Sciences, Media, and Arts
Modern Foreign Language Department
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
PhD in Spanish
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EXPERTISE
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
My teaching and research focus on contemporary Black and Afro-descendant Spanish Caribbean literary and cultural production, with an emphasis on performance in 20th and 21st-century U.S. Latinx aesthetic and musical cultures. -
COURSES
Courses Taught
- HFLS 201 - Intermediate Spanish
- HFLS 201 - Intermediate Spanish
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PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS
PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS
Conference Presentation
“An Unhurried Mood: Slowness, Abundance, and Refusal in Transnational Nigerian Women’s Video Installations,” paper presented at the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) annual conference, October 2024, New York, NY.
Review
“the end is near, the end is the beginning at SITE, The Goat Farm, Atlanta,” installation review in Burnaway, October 2024.
Conference Presentation
“Moving Through the Niger Delta: Zina Saro-Wiwa’s Sensuous Paradigm Shift,” paper pre- sented at the Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture Conference, February 2024, New Orleans, LA.Book Chapter
Awachie, Ifeanyi. “‘I Just Want it to Feel Like Something Real’: What Museums Can Learn from Independent Black Feminist Curating.” Institutional Change for Museums: A Practical Guide to Creating Polyvocal Spaces, edited by Marianna Pegno and Kantara Souffrant, Routledge, 2024.
Peer-reviewed journal article
Awachie, I. (2020). Archiving the African Feminist Festival Through Oral Communication and Social Media. Feminist Review, 125(1), 88-93. https://doi.org/10.1177/0141778920911368
Article
Awachie, Ifeanyi. “Maps of Attachment: On re-orienting our language(s) for African art and culture.” Seen Journal, Issue 6, 2 Oct. 2023, https://www.blackstarfest.org/seen/read/issue-006/maps-of-attachment/.
Exhibition review
Awachie, Ifeanyi. “Beyond a Punctuated History.” ASAP/J, 2022, https://asapjournal.com/review/beyond-a-punctuated-history-ifeanyi/.
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ORGANIZATIONS
ORGANIZATIONS
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
- Honorable Mention, ASAP Graduate Student Conference Paper Prize 2024
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
My teaching and research focus on contemporary Black and Afro-descendant Spanish Caribbean literary and cultural production, with an emphasis on performance in 20th and 21st-century U.S. Latinx aesthetic and musical cultures.Courses Taught
- HFLS 201 - Intermediate Spanish
PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS
Conference Presentation
“An Unhurried Mood: Slowness, Abundance, and Refusal in Transnational Nigerian Women’s Video Installations,” paper presented at the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) annual conference, October 2024, New York, NY.
Review
“the end is near, the end is the beginning at SITE, The Goat Farm, Atlanta,” installation review in Burnaway, October 2024.
Conference Presentation
“Moving Through the Niger Delta: Zina Saro-Wiwa’s Sensuous Paradigm Shift,” paper pre- sented at the Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture Conference, February 2024, New Orleans, LA.
Book Chapter
Awachie, Ifeanyi. “‘I Just Want it to Feel Like Something Real’: What Museums Can Learn from Independent Black Feminist Curating.” Institutional Change for Museums: A Practical Guide to Creating Polyvocal Spaces, edited by Marianna Pegno and Kantara Souffrant, Routledge, 2024.
Peer-reviewed journal article
Awachie, I. (2020). Archiving the African Feminist Festival Through Oral Communication and Social Media. Feminist Review, 125(1), 88-93. https://doi.org/10.1177/0141778920911368
Article
Awachie, Ifeanyi. “Maps of Attachment: On re-orienting our language(s) for African art and culture.” Seen Journal, Issue 6, 2 Oct. 2023, https://www.blackstarfest.org/seen/read/issue-006/maps-of-attachment/.
Exhibition review
Awachie, Ifeanyi. “Beyond a Punctuated History.” ASAP/J, 2022, https://asapjournal.com/review/beyond-a-punctuated-history-ifeanyi/.
ORGANIZATIONS
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
- Honorable Mention, ASAP Graduate Student Conference Paper Prize 2024