April D. Marshall

Publications:

• "Being Ready Means Responding to the Question of Who Is Enrolling." Response to "Not What It Used to Be: The Future of Spanish Language Teaching." Hispania. 100.5 (2017): 93-94.
• "Naming Clues to the Layers of Transgression in El Crimen del Padre Amaro." NAMES. 62.2 (2014): 100-06.
• "Onomastic Emphasis' in Julia Álvarez's Saving the World." NAMES. 57.4 (2009): 229-235.
• "Representing Suffering. El dolor de Colombia en los ojos de Botero." Hispanic Research Journal. 9.5 (2008): 478-492.
• "Practices and Principles for Engaging the Three Communicative Modes in Spanish through Songs and Music." Co-author Frank Nuessel. Hispania. 91.1 (2008): 139-146.
• "Portraying Plague: The Possibilities in Puenzo's La peste." Into the Mainstream: Essays on Spanish American and Latino Literature and Culture. Ed. Jorge Febles. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006. 170-182.
• "Metaphors We Die By." Perspectives on Metaphor. Ed. Frank Nuessel. Spec. issue of Semiotica. 161.1/4 (2006): 345-61.

Book Review:

• Growing Up Bilingual: Puerto Rican Children in New York. Language Problems and Language Planning 21.3 (1997): 295-97.

Awards:

• Helen M. Young Leadership Fellow, 2015-2016

Current Professional Memberships:

• ACAD – American Conference of Academic Deans
• AATSP - American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
• CUR – Council of Undergraduate Research
• MLA - Modern Language Association

Papers Presented:

• "Spanish for Specific Purposes: Overview and Examples." Co-presenter Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville. 99th Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Chicago, IL. July 2017.
• "Hispanic People and Events on U.S. Postage Stamps." Co-presenter Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville. 98th Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Miami, Florida. July 2016.
• "Six Ideas for the Elementary Spanish Classroom." Co-presenter Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville. 97th Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Denver, Colorado. July 2015.
• "Understanding Spanish cyberspeak: Some pedagogical applications." Co-presenter Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville. 96th Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Panama City, Panama. July 2014.
• "Language Games in the Spanish Classroom." Co-presenter Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville. 94nd Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. San Juan, Puerto Rico. July 2012.
• "Cyberspeak, netspeak, and textspeak in Spanish." Co-presenter Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville. 92nd Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Guadalajara, Mexico. July 2010.
• "Spanish Proverbial Language: Practical Recommendations for Use in Elementary and Intermediate Classrooms." Co-presenter Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville. 91st Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Albuquerque, New Mexico. July 2009.
• "Love in the Time of Cholera's Framing of Elderly Passion." Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. New Orleans, Louisiana. April 2009.
• "Maladies on the Move: Travel and Disease Metaphors in Julia Álvarez's Saving the World." Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. San Francisco, California. March 2008.
• "The Integration of Songs and Music into the Spanish Language Curriculum." Co-presenter Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville. 89th Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. San Diego, California. August 2007.
• "Representing Suffering: El dolor de Colombia en los ojos de Botero." Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. Boston, Massachusetts. April 2007.
• "Testimonial Literature, Torture and Language: Reading and Surviving the Lessons of The Little School by Alicia Partnoy." VI Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica. Riviera Maya, Mexico. March 2007.
• "Antes que anochezca: Reinaldo Arenas and AIDS as Plague." Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. Atlanta, Georgia. April 2006.
• "Imagining Tubercular Beauty." International Word and Image Conference. Worcester, Massachusetts. June 2005.
• "Portraying Plague: The Possibilities in Puenzo's La peste." Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. San Diego, California. March 2005.
• "La tuberculosis y lo romántico en La ciudad de los tísicos de Abraham Valdelomar." III Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica. Lima, Peru. March 2004.
• "The Pathology of Conquest: Disease and the Spanish in the Americas." Patologías, 10th Annual NYU/Columbia Graduate Conference on Spanish and Portuguese Literatures, New York University. New York, New York. April 2001.
• "Testimonial Literature: Reading and Surviving the Lessons of The Little School by Alicia Partnoy." Time, Memory, Text Conference, State University of New York at Binghamton. Binghamton, New York. March 2001.
• "Writing the Asylum as Autobiography." Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville. Louisville, Kentucky. February 2001.
• "Intertextualidad e intratextualidad en 'Te amaba tanto'." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky. April 1998.
• "Morirás si da una primavera y la narrativa de la homosexualidad." Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Louisiana State University. Baton Rouge, Louisiana. February 1998.
• "The Missing Element of Exile in Next Year in Cuba." Cincinnati Graduate Conference on Literature, University of Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Ohio. April 1997.
• "La catarsis como proceso creativo en 'Conversación con Emily Dickinson' de Kyra Galván." Nuevas ideas, viejas creencias: La cultura mexicana hacia el siglo XXI. Mexico City, Mexico. July 1995.