LAURA COLANERI, PH.D.
Service
Conference Panel Co-Organizer, "Beyond Magical Realism: Revindicating the Irreal in Contemporary South America," Modern Language Association Conference, January 2024
Faculty Board, Spanish and Portuguese Review, July 2023-present
Peer Reviewer, Spanish and Portuguese Review, July 2015-present
Event Organizer, Horror Vanguard Live!, University of Chicago, April 2022
Co-Coordinator, Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean, University of Chicago, July 2018-June 2020
President, Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies Student Committee, University of Chicago, April 2017-June 2019
Conference Planning Committee, Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies Student Committee, University of Chicago, September 2016-June 2019
Board Member, American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Upstate New York Chapter, May 2014-August 2016
Professional Development
Participant, "Fundamentals of Teaching in the Humanities" Workshop, University of Chicago, October 2021
Participant, "Workshop on Teaching Portfolios," University of Chicago, May 11, 2020
Participant, "Seminar on Teaching Portfolios," University of Chicago, April 15, 2020
Participant, "Course Design and College Teaching," University of Chicago, Winter 2020
Mentorship in Literature Instruction, University of Chicago, Fall 2019
Participant, "The Archive: Theory, Form, Practice" Seminar, Newberry Library, September 2019-December 2019
Mentorship in Language Instruction, University of Chicago, Spring 2018
"Foreign Language Acquisition, Research and Teaching," University of Chicago, Fall 2017
Editorial Experience
Spanish and Portuguese Review
Senior Managing Editor, January 2020-January 2023
Managing Editor of Production, January 2016-December 2020
Production Editor, July 2014-December 2015
Proofreading Assistant
Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and Graciela Montaldo (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America (Routledge, under review).
Luca Bacchini and Victoria Saramago (eds.). Literature Beyond the Human: Post-Anthropocentric Brazil (Routledge, 2023).
Victoria Saramago, Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America (Northwestern University Press, 2020)
Mount Ida Press
Research and Publications Coordinator, September 2014-August 2016
SUNY Press
Intern, Acquisitions Department, August 2013-December 2013
Scholarly and Professional Memberships
Modern Language Association
Latin American Studies Association
American Comparative Literature Association
Northeast Modern Language Association
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society
Sigma Delta Pi National Collegiate Hispanic Studies Honor Society