Alison Maginn, Ph.D.

• Professor of Spanish
• Department Advising Coordinator (DAC)
• Director, Study Abroad program in Cádiz, Spain
• Service Learning Faculty Fellow

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Department: World Languages and Cultures

Office: Plangere Center Lot 128

Phone: 732-571-3612

Email: amaginn@monmouth.edu

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Education

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

M.A., University of Wisconsion-Madison

B.A. (Hons), University of Ulster, N. Ireland

Research Interests

Specialization: Eighteenth to Twenty-first Century Spanish Peninsular Literature/Culture; Spanish Art History; Hispanic Film; Cultural Studies; Service-Learning and Community Engagement; Study Abroad

Language: Oral Proficiency/Communicative Learning; World Language Critical Pedagogy; Social Justice Teaching and Learning through World Languages; Project Based Learning; Translation Studies

Scholarly Articles

Recent peer-reviewed publications (single-authored):

“The Spanish Civil War through the Phantasmagorical Lens of Guillermo del Toro” in Ciberletras. Revista de critica literaria y de cultura. Special Number: Perspectives on Spanish, Latin American and Latinx Television and Cinema. (48) January, 2023.

“Rubén Darío’s Final Chapter: Archer Milton Huntington and the Hispanic Society” in Docta y Sabia Atenea: Studia in honorem Lía Schwartz, edited by Sagrario López Poza et al. A Coruña: Universidade da Coruña, Servizo de Publicacións. 445-472. 2019.

“Language Acquisition through Service Learning and Community Engagement: Critical Reflection, Intercultural Competence and Action Agency” in Project-Based Learning in Second Language Acquisition: Building Communities of Practice in Higher Education, edited by Adrián Gras-Velázquez. ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series, New York: Routledge. 192-213. 2019

“Female Erotica in Post-Franco Spain: The Will-to-Disturb” in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Edited by Lawrence J. Trudeau, Volume 430.  Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. 24-34. 2018. Reprint.

“Feminismos posfranquistas:interrogando la subjetividad femenina desde Fernández-Cubas hasta Etxebarria.”  SIGLO XXI Literatura y cultura españolas: Revista de la Cátedra Miguel Delibes. 12. (2014): 123-142.

Presentations/Invited Talks

Recent Conference presentations:

“Trans-languaging through Physical and Linguistic Frontiers: A pedagogy of Diversity in National and International Practices of Service-Learning and Community Engagement.” XI International Conference of the Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades, Universitat Rovira y Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. June, 2024.

“Virtual Storytelling in Spanish: Access for All at the Local Public Library.” International Association of Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA. Poster Presentation.  October 2023.

“The Education of Interculturality through SLCE: Crossing Borders at Home and Abroad.” International Association of Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM. Paper delivered. October 2019.

“Performing ‘The City that Smiles’: Street Theatre, Branding and Identity in Cádiz.” VIII International Conference of the Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain. Paper delivered, June 2016.