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Macarena Tejada López teaches Spanish at the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University. She completed her Ph.D. in Romance Languages at the University of Oregon, focusing on 20th-21st century Spanish Literature and Culture, with a concentration on Masculinity and Fascism Studies. Her dissertation, titled 'Combatientes fascistas de España: La División Azul a través de los Estudios Culturales', examines personal narratives, fiction, and film related to Spain's Blue Division from the 1940s and 50s through the lenses of masculinity, trauma studies, and political economy of cinema. Macarena began her career teaching English as a Foreign Language at a high school in Spain before moving to Eugene, where she pursued a Master's degree in Spanish Literature. At Cornell, she teaches Intermediate and Advanced Spanish Writing and Conversation, as well as a forthcoming First-Year Seminar on Authoritarianism. She has also engaged in training programs related to Fascism, Holocaust Studies, and Jewish Life, participating in fellow programs through the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Holocaust Educational Foundation at Northwestern University, as well as the Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellows Program in 2018. Her recent projects include co-organizing a conference titled 'Connecting Language Teaching and Social Justice' in 2022 and integrating social justice into the language arts classroom.
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