Six Seniors Participate in 10th Undergraduate Research Symposium Organized by Pitt’s Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures

Six seniors who have Spanish as a major or half of a double major participated in the 10th Undergraduate Research Symposium organized by the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures of the University of Pittsburgh and held on March 28. Four students presented conference papers drawing from their comps. Bethany Chien read “Imágenes de la familia judía en la producción cultural argentina contempóranea.” Katherine Deutch presented “Who owns the Chilean body: biopolitics and abortion issues in La espera, a film by Francisca Fuenzalida.” Tova Feinberg read “Develando la represión de la homosexualidad durante la dictadura de Stroessner: 108, cuchillo de palo (2010) de Renate Costa.” And Kaitlyn Torres read “Filosofía y literatura: Schopenhauer y los cuentos de Jorge Luis Borges.” In addition, two students presented papers based on research completed in a Fall 2013 senior seminar dealing with the cultures of drugs in Colombia: Kylie Mason read her “Sicarios y prepagos: representación de la juventud colombiana en Sangre ajena de Arturo Alape y Sin tetas no hay paraíso de Gustavo Bolívar,” and Clark Tritto presented “Jóvenes, falta de educación y la subcultura de drogas en la literatura popular de Colombia.”