Ruth Z. Yuste-Alonso
Assistant Professor of Spanish & Hispanic Studies
Ruth Z. Yuste-Alonso is an educator, scholar, and translator with over 15 years of teaching experience. Her research examines questions of representation and identity from an intersectional lens in Hispanic literary and (audio)visual narratives with a particular emphasis on contemporary cinema.
- PhD, Spanish Studies, University of Connecticut
- MA, Spanish Studies, University of Connecticut
- MA, Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain)
- BA, Translation and Interpreting (English and French), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain)
Biography
Ruth Z. Yuste-Alonso is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Stetson University. Prior to joining Stetson, she served as a Visiting Assistant Professor and Murphy Fellow in Spanish at Hendrix College where she taught courses on Spanish language, literatures, and cultures. She has also taught French in secondary education and higher education in Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain), liaised as an instructor of Spanish for an international cooperation program in Agadir (Morocco), and volunteered as a translator for the UNHCR and África Fundación Sur.
Ruth hails from Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago off the Northwest African coast whose unique location, at the crossroad of a flux of peoples from around the world, instilled in her the curiosity for learning other languages and cultures. Passionate about new media and cinema, she combines her love for language, literature, and visual culture to explore from an intersectional lens how cultural artifacts shape the ways in which we see and understand ourselves and the world around us. From subversive uses of the public space to monstrous imagery unveiling social ills, her work examines how these artifacts mobilize discourses that condone or contest ideological constructs in the configuration of subjective and national narratives and searches for synergies, tensions, and cross-pollinations within Hispanic imagining communities and in-between other cultural hubs.
Her publications have appeared in Escenarios de crisis: dramaturgas españolas en el nuevo milenio, Guiniguada, Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies, among others. She is currently working on a series of manuscripts exploring questions of identity in the fields of queer, age, disability, horror, and border studies. In addition to her academic work in the US, she collaborates with the research group Lingüística Aplicada a la Docencia de la Lengua Extranjera su Literatura y Traducción (Lindolenex), founded by Jorge Juan Vega y Vega and led by Daniela Ventura in Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
More About Ruth Z. Yuste-Alonso
Areas of Expertise
- Spanish
- Hispanic Literatures
- Contemporary Spanish Women Cinema
Course Sampling
- Intermediate Spanish
- Spanish Conversation
- Gastronarratives: Food, Identity, and the Politics of the Kitchen
- Contemporary Spanish Cinema
- Feminist Film Studies
- Gender and Genre
- Age and Disability Studies
- Queer Studies
- Horror Studies
- Border Studies
“Reinscribing the Lesbian Subject On the Periphery: Age, Disability, and Abjection in Salir del Ropero (2019).” In Cultural Representations of Queer Aging in Spain, edited by Heather Jeronimo and Raquel Medina, Routledge [forthcoming]
Book review of “Guerras simbólicas: el papel del audiovisual en la lucha contra la violencia de género.” Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, April 2019, pp. 148-149
“Miradas entre bastidores: reflexiones sobre autoría femenina en escenarios de crisis.” Escenarios de crisis: dramaturgas españolas en el nuevo milenio, edited by Ana María Díaz-Marcos, Sevilla, Benilde Ediciones, 2018, pp. 523-531
“Como pez en el agua, una propuesta didáctica a partir del análisis de la imagen publicitaria.” Guiniguada, vol. 20, 2011, pp. 197-214
Translations
Del razonamiento a la argumentación. Teoría y práctica de las destrezas discursivas en la nueva sociedad del conocimiento, edited by Jorge J. Vega y Vega, Bern, Peter Lang, 2012 [selected chapters]
The Essential Enthymeme. Propositions for Educating Students in a Modern World, edited by Jorge. J. Vega y Vega, Bern, Peter Lang, 2015 [selected chapters]