杏吧原创

Professor of Spanish

Year Joined 杏吧原创: 2007

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-7426
• Email: nsantama@ramapo.edu
• Office: A-212
• Office Hours: MR 1:00-2:30 pm ; Also by Appt

MR 1:00-2:30 pm ; Also by Appt

Education:

• B.A. Deusto University
• M.A. University of British Columbia
• A.M. Harvard University
• Ph.D. Harvard University

Courses Offered:

• Capstone Seminar: Rewriting Hispanic Identity Constructions
• Spanish for Health Care and Human Services Professionals
• Readings in the Humanities
• Topics in Contemporary Hispanic Literature and Film
• Spanish History, Art and Storytelling

Research & Teaching Interests:

• Spanish and Latin American fin-de-si猫cle Literature
• Teaching Spanish for Medicine and Human Services: Power Dynamics
• Regeneracionismo and discourses of illness

Scholarly Activity:

Books:

Alicia Mu帽oz S谩nchez y Natalia Santamar铆a Laorden.聽Spanish for Health Care and Human Services: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Intermediate and Advanced Speakers. Cognella, 2022.

Grants, Awards, & Recognition:

2023: (ACTFL).

AAUSC 2020. Language Innovation Award: Finalist in the racial/ social justice category.

2018-2020. Project Investigator of the Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Federal Grant from the Department of Education (USA). 鈥淓nhancing the Certificate of Spanish for Health Care and Human Services Professionals鈥�. Creation of Interdisciplinary Courses, Study Abroad Programs and Local Internships鈥� ($154,794).

2020-2022. Project Investigator of the Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Federal Grant from the Department of Education (USA). 鈥淚mproving cross-cultural communication between patients and human services professionals鈥�. Creation of courses on narrative medicine in cross-cultural contexts, interpretation in human services courses and national and international internships with aphasia centers ($160,488).

2022: Henry Bischoff Excellence in Teaching Award

Journal and Book articles:

• 鈥淗ealth reconfigurations in indianos鈥� narratives. Transatlantic discourses of regeneration and its challenges to fin de si猫cle historiography. A roadmap to dismantling historiographic constructions of Spain at the end of the nineteenth century.鈥� Journal of Romance Studies 25.3. 2025.
• 鈥淟a incorporaci贸n de lenguas y humanidades en programas interdisciplinarios y biling眉es鈥�. [The integration of languages and humanities in interdisciplinary and bilingual programs]. Estudios del Observatorio/Observatory Studies, Journal of Observatorio Cervantes at Harvard University. 087-10. 2023, 41-56.
• Carney, Judith A. 鈥淓l origen africano del cultivo del arroz en聽Las Am茅ricas鈥�. Translated by Natalia Santamar铆a Laorden. Asclepio聽67-1. (2015):聽.
• 鈥淎 Regenerative Decadence or a Decadent Regeneration: Challenges to Darwininan Determinism by French, Spanish and Latin American Writers in the Fin de Si猫cle鈥�. Decadence, Degeneration and the End. Palgrave MacMillan: New York, 2014.
• Review of Carmen Mor谩n Rodr铆guez鈥檚 Figuras y figuraciones femeninas en la obra de Rosa Chacel聽Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. 3 310-311. 2014
• 鈥淢odernismo y regeneracionismo como discursos permeables: Dar铆o, Rod贸 y Unamuno鈥�.聽聽顿别肠颈尘辞苍贸苍颈肠补. 8.1. Winter 2011.
• 鈥淓l papel de la 鈥楢ristocracia Intelectual鈥� en Joaqu铆n Costa y Jos茅 Enrique Rod贸.鈥滾etras Hispanas.聽聽 6 (2). Fall 2009.
• 鈥淒ebates finiseculares entre autores espa帽oles y latinoamericanos sobre el regeneracionismo espa帽ol.鈥澛�Cuadernos Americanos. 132. 2010/2. 159-179.

Recent Conferences

• 鈥淚ncorporating Narrative Medicine in LSP courses focused on Health Care鈥� with Anna Kozan (student). American Council of the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). November, 2023. Chicago.
• 鈥淭he success of the Spanish for Health Care and Human Services Professionals Certificate at Ramapo College of New Jersey鈥�. The Humanities at a Crossroads: How Interdisciplinary Programs Draw Undergraduates to the Humanities. National Humanities Alliance (NHA). October 2023. Indiannapolis.
• 鈥淓l papel del espa帽ol en la logopedia y los trastornos del habla y del lenguaje鈥�. [The role of Spanish in speech therapy and speech disorders]. 2023 Instituto Cervantes Symposium. New Perspectives on Hispanic Cultures: Spanish in/for Science and Technology, June 2023. Harvard University.
• 鈥淓l indiano en la literatura finisecular: Regeneracionismos transatl谩nticos, intrahistorias desintegradas y espejismos de riqueza instant谩nea [The indiano in fin-de-si猫cle literature: transatlantic regeneration, decomposed intrahistorias and a mirage of wealthiness鈥�. Symposium of the Nineteenth-Century Hispanists Network. June, 2023. University College Dublin.
• 鈥淚nnovative Study Abroad Program in Bilbao: Health Care and Human Services in the Basque Country鈥� with Caitlin Ford (student). American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP). June 2023. University of Salamanca.
• 鈥淪panish for Health Care and Human Services: Defying language acquisition and given concepts of culture鈥�. 6th International Symposium on Languages for Specific Purposes. April 2022. University of Chicago.
• Teaching Spanish for Health Care and Human Services: Questioning Epistemologies and Power Dynamics. Fifth International Symposium. Languages for Specific Purposes (ISLSP)/CIBER Business Language Conference. 2020.
• Visiones transatl谩nticas regeneracionistas: Propuestas te贸ricas para la producci贸n literaria espa帽ola finisecular. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. 2019.
• Las 鈥渆cuaciones ideales鈥� de Rafael Altamira: Historiograf铆a, jurisprudencia y positivismo.聽聽Symposium of the Nineteenth-Century Hispanists. 2018.
• Recreaci贸n espacio-temporal de Nueva York en Diario de un poeta reci茅n casado como b煤squeda y deseo de un presente eterno. Brown University Transatlantic Project. 2017.