Sotomayor to Present "History on Walls" at Lebanon Valley College

Talk focuses on Spanish poster production during Civil War; March 22 at 2 p.m.

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Dr. Carmen T. Sotomayor will present “History on Walls: the Spanish Poster Production of the Civil War Period and Beyond” in a talk at Lebanon Valley College March 22 at 11 a.m.

ANNVILLE, PA (03/09/2012)(readMedia)-- Spanish professor and scholar Dr. Carmen T. Sotomayor will present "History on Walls: the Spanish Poster Production of the Civil War Period and Beyond" in a talk at Lebanon Valley College March 22 at 2 p.m. in the Neidig-Garber Science Center room 312. The program is sponsored by the Department of Languages at LVC.

Sotomayor is professor of Spanish and director of undergraduate studies in Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her research interests include the visual and written representations of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and the analysis of current literary and cultural issues, such as the artistic impact of the recuperation of historic memory in Spain, and questions of space, place and identity in contemporary Spanish narrative.

She is the recipient of UNCG's College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award, and has published her research extensively. Most recently, Sotomayor authored a book chapter titled "Space and the Construction of the Self in the Narratives of Josefina Aldecoa" in "Women in the Spanish Novel Today: Essays on the Reflection of Self in the Works of Three Generations."

Sotomayor earned a bachelor's degree in English literature at the Universidad de Extremadura in Spain, and a master's and doctoral degree at Michigan State University in Hispanic literature.

Her Lebanon Valley College presentation is free and open to the public.