About
Dr. Ruth Z. Yuste-Alonso is an educator, scholar, and translator with over 10 years of teaching experience. She is currently a visiting assistant professor and Murphy Fellow in Spanish at Hendrix College where she teaches courses on Spanish language, literatures, and (visual) cultures in the Spanish Program and serves as mentor to a selected cohort of students pursuing advanced studies in literature and language through the Murphy Scholars Program. Her research focuses on visual culture within the Hispanic world with an emphasis on contemporary Spanish women’s cinema from an intersectional lens. Her dissertation problematized the concept of the female gaze through the lens of film genres in the works of contemporary Spanish women filmmakers in a critical effort to reframe our understanding and discussion of gendered ways of seeing and storytelling within women’s cultural production. Her articles, chapters, and reviews have appeared in
Escenarios de crisis: dramaturgas españolas en el nuevo milenio,
Guiniguada,
Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies, among other contributions. She collaborates with research group
Lingüística Aplicada a la Docencia de la Lengua Extranjera, su Literatura y su Traducción (LinDoLenEx). For more information about the research group, please visit
http://www.lindolenex.com.
Education
- PhD, Spanish Studies, University of Connecticut, 2021
- Graduate Certificate in Feminist Studies, 2021
- Graduate Certificate in College Instruction, 2016
- MA, Spanish Studies, University of Connecticut, 2015
- MA, Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language and Culture, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), 2011
- Teaching Qualification for Higher Education Institutions, Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio – ICSE, 2008
- BA, Translation and Interpreting (English & French), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2007
Publications
Refereed Journal Article
Yuste Alonso, Ruth Zenaida. “‘Como pez en el agua, una propuesta didáctica a partir del análisis de la imagen publicitaria.” Guiniguada, vol. 20, 2011, pp. 197-214.
Book Chapter
Yuste-Alonso, Ruth Z. “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.
Book Review
Yuste-Alonso, Ruth Z. “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.
Projects
Translation Collaborations
The Essential Enthymeme. Propositions for Educating Students in a Modern World, edited by Jorge J. Vega y Vega, Bern, Peter Lang, 2015.
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. Upcoming Talks and Conferences
“Off Course, Off the Narrative: Representations of Spanish Women’s Migrant Stories in Perdiendo el norte (2015).” Presenter, 75th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 2022
“Cuerpos en tránsito: la mirada peripatética de Manuela Burló Moreno y Mar Coll.” Presenter, 1st International Conference of Hispanic Women Filmmakers (CIMCiH), online, October 2021
“The Dread of Difference(s): Horror, Gender, and Cinematic Defiance.” Seminar Co-Chair, 52nd, Annual NeMLA Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2021 Memberships
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- Popular Culture Association (PCA/ACA)