Spanish Faculty Profiles
Department of Literature and Languages

Archibald, Priscilla

parchibald@roosevelt.edu

College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Literature and Languages

Associate Professor of Spanish

              Chicago phone: 312-341-6453

              Chicago office: AUD 719

Priscilla Archibald (MA, University of Chicago; Ph.D, Stanford University) is an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Literature and Languages.  Her area of expertise is modern Latin American literature and culture.  Specialties include Andean literary and cultural studies, transatlantic literature and postcolonial discourse theory.  Recent course offerings include “Transatlantic Literature,” “The Latin American Nation” and “Politics and Sexuality in Latin America.”  She has published articles in Social Text and Revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos, among other journals, and has contributed to a variety of edited volumes, most recently to a special edition of Revista Iberoamericana dedicated to the Andes.  She has recently completed a book about the modern Andes titled, Imagining Modernity:The Politics of Representation in the Andes.

Benedet, Sandra María

sbenedet@roosevelt.edu

Department of Literature and languages

Assistant Professor of Spanish

              Chicago phone: 312-341-2385

              Chicago Office: AUD 736B

Sandra María Benedet, Assistant Professor of Spanish at Roosevelt University, holds a Masters Degree and a Ph.D. from Stanford University and has taught at Northwestern University, The University of Iowa, and Stanford University.  Professor Benedet teaches a wide range of courses, including language, composition, and literature and culture courses on such subjects as women and the Mexican Revolution, Mexican national identity, urban imaginaries, and literary utopias and dystopias.  Her principal area of interest is Mexico and she has worked extensively on the Estridentistas, a Mexican avant-garde movement of the 1920s.  Her most recent publication appears in a special edition of Revista Iberoamericana that is devoted to the avant-garde. In her free time, Professor Benedet practices yoga.

Buttes, Steve

Steve Buttes is a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  His main area of study is 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literature with special emphasis on the Southern Cone.  His teaching and research interests center on nationalism, the city, representations of poverty and the relationship between poverty and literature.

Damjanovic, Anita

Anita Damjanovic holds a B.A. in Art History, Spanish and Humanities from the University of Louisville. Anita's M.A. in Romance Languages and Literature (Spanish) is from the University of Chicago where she is currently working on her
doctorate. Her research interests lie in the intersection of visual representations and the supernatural in Spanish Golden Age Literature. Anita joined Roosevelt as Adjunct Faculty in 2006.

Sánchez, Jorge Abril

Jorge Abril Sánchez is a graduate student in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures of the University of Chicago, where he is completing a PhD degree. Abril Sánchez focuses his research on the topics of folklore, magic, demonology and superstitions in the Spanish Golden Age. Previously, in 2004 Abril Sánchez graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, with an MA in Hispanic Literature and Linguistics. A native of Spain, Abril Sánchez attended the Universidad de Oviedo (Asturias), where he completed a BA in English. At Oviedo, Abril Sánchez is finishing an MA and also a second Ph D in English Renaissance literature. Academically, Abril Sánchez has worked at several institutions, including the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, the University of Chicago, Roosevelt University and Loyola University-Chicago. Author of a couple of literary articles, Abril Sánchez has published his work in a book entitled Avalon Revisited: Re-Workings of the Arthurian Myth, prestigious magazines, such as Celestinesca and Lexis, and several encyclopedias about US Latino society and culture.

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