Susan Carvalho

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Susan Carvalho, born in the United States, received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, and currently serves as Assistant Provost for International Programs at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Carvalho has served as Associate Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences, as Acting Chair of the Department of Political Science, and as Acting Chair of Hispanic Studies, and is an Associate Professor of Spanish American literature, at the University of Kentucky. Professor Carvalho has served as Director of Graduate Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Kentucky, and as Executive Director of the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Her classroom teaching earned her the Alumni Association Great Teacher Award in 1997, and she has been nominated as Advisor of the Year (2000). In 2002 she received the prestigious William Sturgill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate Education. She was awarded an American Council of Education Fellowship in 2005, and spent the year at the University of North Carolina, where she broadened her knowledge of college and university administration. Her book, Taking her Place: Space and Power in Novels by Spanish American Women, was published by Boydell & Brewer in 2007, and her current research focuses on masculinity studies in Latina/o literature. She also edited Modernisms and Modernities: Studies in Honor of Donald L. Shaw, published by Juan de la Cuesta Monographs in 2006. This will be her sixth summer as Director of the Spanish School at Middlebury.

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