Department: World Language & Culture
Email: briess@allegheny.edu
Office Phone:
(814) 332-2323
Office Building: Ruter Hall
Office Room: 107
Box #: 30
Professional Title/s
ProfessorFaculty Credentials
BA, MA, University of Connecticut PhD Arizona State University w/Certificate of TranslationBiographical Information
Selected Publications - Translations
- An Address in Havana/Domicilio habanero. Selected Stories by María Elena Llana.
- Critical introduction, translator’s note, translation. (Chico: Cubanabooks Press, 2014).
- Puppet: A Chicano Novela by Margarita Cota-Cárdenas (University of New Mexico Press, 2000).
Selected Publications - Articles
- “Telling the Revolutionary Tale: National Identity, Literary history, and María Elena Llana’s Liminal Cuba.” Latin American Literary Review, 2008 - 72(2008): 83-106.
- “Counting Women, Women Who Count: A Cultural Measure of the ‘Revolution within the Revolution’” Cuban Studies/Estudios cubanos - 42 (2011), 115-35.
- “The Niche in the Numbers: The Need for Programmatic Collaboration vs. Course Innovation in Liberal Arts Foreign Language Programs” Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) Bulletin - 44:2 (2018), 56-62.
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Office Hours
- Monday: 3:30 - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Wednesday: None
- Thursday: 1:30 - 3:30 pm
- Friday: None
By appointment available. Email to schedule.