Natalie Kubasek, a second year doctoral student in American Literary Studies, has been named a recipient of UNM’s 2011-2012 Latino/a Graduate and Professional Student Fellowship. Sponsored by El Centro de la Raza and the Title V Resource Center, the $1,000 award seeks to increase the representation of Latina/o graduate and professional students within the UNM community. The goal is to serve as a support system by making resources, networks, and skills available for the successful completion of the graduate degree.
Also, her article, “‘The Ghosts of Ages Past’: Gothic Doubles and Traumatic Transformation in George Lippard’s ’Bel of Prairie Eden,” has been accepted for publication in Neo-Americanist: An Interdisciplinary Online Journal for the Study of America. The essay, which she penned in Dr. Alemán’s seminar on the American Gothic, argues that the gothic tropes that appear in Lippard’s 1848 sensational text emerge from the uncanny relationship that characterizes the border between the US and Mexico.
Ms. Kubasek joined the doctoral program in Fall 2010 after earning her MA in English from Simmons College, in Boston, MA, and her BA in English from Whittier College, in her hometown of Whittier, CA. Her focus is on Chicano/a Literature, and she will be writing her dissertation on Chicana feminist performance art and theater. Dr. Alemán chairs her Committee on Studies and will serve as her faculty mentor for the Latino/a Graduate and Professional Student Fellowship.
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