Overview
Macarena Tejada López teaches Spanish at the Romance Studies Department since Fall 2021. She completed her Ph.D. in Romance Languages at the University of Oregon and specializes in 20th-21st century Spanish Literature and Culture with a concentration in Masculinity and Fascism Studies. Her dissertation is titled Combatientes fascistas de España: La División Azul a través de los Estudios Culturales, and it examines personal narratives, fiction, and film by and about Spain's Blue Division in the 1940s and 50s through the lenses of masculinity, trauma studies, and the political economy of cinema.
Macarena started teaching English as a Foreign Language in high school in Spain, until she moved to Eugene, OR to purse a MA in Spanish Lit. and a Ph.D. where she has focused on higher education. At Cornell, Macarena teaches Spanish Intermediate, Advanced Writing and Conversation, and her forthcoming FWS on Authoritarianism.
As part of her training as a scholar in Fascism, Macarena has completed coursework in Holocaust Studies and Jewish Life, and she has participated as a fellow in programs at the USHMM, the Holocaust Educational Foundation in Northwestern U, and the Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellows Program in 2018.
Recent Projects
- Connecting language teaching and social justice: A call for diversity, equity, and inclusion (Conference co-organizer) | 2022
- Featured in the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning conference website
- Integrating social justice through the arts in the second language classroom | 2021
- Featured in: Cornell Chronicle and the LRC Podcast (February 2022)
In the news
Publications
- “The Blue Division in Memoir and Fiction” in Herrmann, Gina, and Brenneis, Sarah. (Eds.) Spain, World War II, and the Holocaust: A Critical Companion. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, 2020.
- Online article: “Ángel Sanz Briz: The Francoist Diplomat Who Saved Hungarian Jews.” ALBA Volunteer Magazine (2012) http://www.albavolunteer.org/2012/12/a-spanish- schindler-in-budapest/
- “El judío es el culpable”: The Blue Division in the Collective Imaginary of the Far-Right in Spain”. In production. Accepted for a special issue.